Keith Willis Email & Phone Number

Brisbane City, Qld, Au

Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

• Support the design and development of electronics systems including PCBs, looms and component selection.• Lead the development of system architectures for new robotic systems.• Provide engineering oversight of hardware and software teams.• Ensure the team operates with a level of quality, including code and technical review, approvals, test procedures and version control.• Support software code reviews.• Assist in resource planning by scoping engineering task duration.• Lead test and integration programs of robotic platforms.• Support bid development with work breakdown structures for technical activities.• Identify new and novel technologies.

Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Smarta Industrial is an Engineering startup company specialising in on-tanker control and telemetry systems for transporting Milk and Liquid Natural Gas. I was the principle designer for all of the control, electronics and low-level firmware systems.

Brisbane

I co-founded NetSoft with a colleague and we had 21 successful years of doing business providing IT support and developing software and hardware systems for a diverse range of customers from small businesses to large corporations. My responsibilities included hardware and software design and development as well as client-facing roles such as contract negotiation, Project Management and Training.

Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

I conducted research and developed new commercial products for the clients of Masters and Young. These included GPS triggered commentary systems, assisted reality goggles and automotive power supplies.

Brisbane, Australia

LinkSprite (Australia) is an “Internet of Things” (IoT) startup company. It was created to take advantage of the growing IoT industry and to act as the official Oceania agent for LinkSprite (Wuhan) Co. We developed products based on the LinkSprite single board computers and provide engineering support for our customers who use LinkSprite products. In addition, we ran regular courses for the public in Electronics and Robotics design.

Brisbane

I conducted research and developed new commercial products for uniDap Solutions based on their proprietary database technology. I also provided IT support services for their database and web servers.

Newcastle

I conducted research and developed new commercial products in collaboration with the University. These included the development of a self-exciting processor-controlled flameproof 3-phase alternator for operation in hazardous environments and collaboration on the creation of an innovative 1MW high voltage solid-state Static Compensator.

Sydney

I initially developed a fiber-optic token-ring servo control system that eliminated the expensive global wiring harnesses associated with traditional robotic systems. I then commenced a PhD in Applied Estimation Theory for an airborne passive vision inertial sensing system.

I was responsible for the design of all of the electronics, robotics and firmware for the Anglo-Australian Observatory's 2dF multi-fiber spectroscope instrument. This was widely regarded at the time as the most sophisticated optical astronomical instrument in the world. The design team including myself was a finalist for the 1996 Australian Engineering Excellence award.

Employed as an electronics research design engineer responsible for the design of precision electronic instrumentation used in Physics research. This included the development of a non-linear servo-control system featuring some unique engineering solutions for a vacuum balance gravity experiment measuring variations in the Newtonian gravitational constant over distances on the order of several meters. I was also responsible for the design and complete development of original geophysical instrumentation used in the application of Controlled Source Audio Magneto-Telluric mineral and oil prospecting.

Doctor Of Philosophy (Phd) (Uncompleted), Estimation Theory - Autonomous Air Vehicles, Uncompleted

Activities and Societies: Developed a fiber-optic token-ring servo control system that eliminated the expensive global wiring harnesses.

Acap Certificate, Cpld Design, Pass

Bachelor Of Engineering (B.E.), Electronics

Bachelor of Engineering (Electronic Systems)

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