william pickering

Engineering professional looking to use my education, training, and job experiences in applications of Data Science; Analysis, Analytics, AI, Machine Learning, and Solutioning to help organizations make better decisions.

Airobautiq, LLC (6 months) CTO and Founder

Raleigh, NC (Feb 2023 – Present)

Founded LLC to focus on opportunities in AI, Robotics, Automation, Analytics-IQ.

Assurant (9+ years) Director – Global Engineering and Automation 

York, Pa/Raleigh, NC (Sept 2013 – Feb 2023)

Managed mobile phone forward and reverse logistics factory automation to handle 200K phones per month across sites in Pa, Tx, Tn, UK and Korea.

Bell+Howell (17 years) Manager – Electrical/Control System Engineering

Durham, NC (Sept 1996 – Aug 2013)

Managed Electrical and Embedded Realtime Software and Mechanical controls teams for new product development of postal sorting and mail inserting/production equipment. Technical Advisor for high-speed imaging systems. 2 US Patents.

DMSI-Datacomm Management Science (1 year) Director - Engineering 

Norwalk, Ct (Sept 1995 – Aug 1996)

Director of Hardware Engineering and Lead Engineer in the development and manufacturing of physical port data/voice/MILCOMM switches for the US Navy.

ERSI-Electronic Retailing Systems (4+ years) Director - Engineering 

Darien, Ct/Wilton, Ct (July 1991 – Aug 1995)

Architect and development/design lead for Retail supermarket "cellular" wireless 20,000 node electronic LCD shelf/price labelling system. Price label ASIC design and microcode.

Pitney Bowes (4+ years) Member Technical Staff – Technical Advisor

Norwalk, Ct/Shelton, Ct (June 1987 – June 1991)

Applied Research/New Product Concept Development. Technical advisor for concept electrical prototype designs. Intellectual property patent development. Manage controls team and UL/FCC certifications for flagship product launch. Development team Lead. 5 US Patents.

W.W. Gaertner Research, Inc (4+ years) Sr. Electrical Engineer

Stamford, Ct/Norwalk, Ct (May 1983 – May 1987)

Lead engineer in support of concept design and electrical/embedded controls prototype development for government funded projects; surveillance, avionics cockpit display (Hughes El Segundo, General Dynamics DFW, Sikorski Aircraft, Electric Boat Groton) and hardware assisted database search engines. Secret Clearance. 

Norden Systems- United Technologies (3+ years) Electrical Engineer

Norwalk, Ct (July 1979 – May 1983)

Research and Development of Avionics, Distributed Controls, EMI/EMC/EMP control. Weapons Delivery Sub-System Design. Design engineer for MX Missile Launch Bulk Memory Unit, Dual-Redundant comm network, convert of DEC PDP-11 CPUs to Mil-Spec bit slice emulation. Test engineer for system integration test and live demonstration of airborne target acquisition system and ground base command and control center computers. Secret Clearance.

EDUCATION

Carnegie-Mellon University

Carnegie Institute of Technology

Bachelor of Science – Electrical Engineering

Sept 1975 – May 1979 

Areas of Focus

• Electro-Magnetic, Hydrodynamics and Kinetics Theory
• Cognitive Psychology, Artificial Intelligence