Phill Smith Email & Phone Number

London, GB

Excited to announce my new role as Chief Technology Officer at Where You At, where we are pioneering the development of advanced indoor navigation and network systems. Our mission is to enhance safety and connectivity for attendees at various venues, by providing state-of-the-art wireless network solutions.With decades of experience in wireless, IoT.

King's Cross, England, GB

Leading RS's Digital Delivery Innovation team, I directed the internal and outsourced development and launch of a groundbreaking business proposition, successfully diversifying our product portfolio to include software, air-time, consultancy, drop-ship and other non-physical offerings. This initiative, which had been anticipated within the group for over a.

King's Cross, England, GB

In this pivotal role, I leveraged my extensive experience across technical disciplines, partnership management, and business strategy to catalyze a remarkable turnaround, boosting company revenue by approximately £100M.Engineering Leadership:Technical Excellence: I established and managed the engineering department, ensuring all products met the highest.

Cambridge, Cambs, GB

• Business Development Manager, working with ecosystem partners to jointly develop IoT Proof of Concept starter kits to increase sales traction for our cloud service (Pelion). This incorporates the reference designs.
• Product Managed the Go-to-Market strategy and deployment from concept to availability for IoT Reference Designs for free download, they remove the common problems and uncertainties faced by OEMs wanting to build IoT.
• Product Managed the Mbed Hall of Fame web page and Design Win tracking strategy used to promote our products as tier-1 grade.
• Product Manager (Scrum Product Owned) the Reference Deployments Programme which resulted in pocket-sized products our sales team could show during prospective customer meetings to demonstrate the full capabilities of.

Cambridge, Cambs, GB

Joined the newly formed IoT Business Unit to ensure we had compelling demos and marketing material at events. Managed in excess of 80 events per year across the globe, we were the business unit that said ‘yes’ to everything, proud to say every one of them went smoothly!Liaised with partners and customers to create and staff demos at global trade.

Cambridge, Cambs, GB

Responsible for all Mali GPU demo creation and delivery, including gaming, video, user interface, and GPU Compute. Developed the strategy of sourcing the very best available demos internally, via ecosystem partners and 3rd parties.Line/Product management of the developer relations team who provide technical advice and feedback to graphics developers in.

Cambridge, England, GB

As part of the research and innovations group I had the opportunity to design and produce an indoor navigation project based on low cost low power devices. Realised Bluetooth lacked mesh networking so invented something called BTLE mesh, later renamed to CSR Mesh and finally Bluetooth Mesh.Developed hardware schematics and PCB (including RF) to allow the.

Cambridge, England, GB

Managed a team bringing up new advanced silicon chips ready for public demonstrations. Technologies such as NFC, Bluetooth Low energy, Software GPS many years before commercial release.Presented ‘the future of wireless’ at trade shows and customer sites to secure early design in.Created NFC, Bluetooth Low Energy and RDS protocol stacks in C# (.NET,.NETCF.

Cambridge, England, GB

Responsible for supporting all tier-1 customers with integrating the latest Wi-Fi chips in to end products with a 100% success rate.Pushed end products through official WiFi Alliance tests from defining a specification to ratification and finally approval.

Recruited a test team in China capable of validating a 3G protocol stack while also supporting legacy product integration at customer sites.Managed all AT Command validation required to get a protocol stack through approvals.Managed a global team of engineers; assigning tasks and motivating to meet deadlines.Produced network deployment maps depicting areas.

Supported customers (LG, TCL, JCT, Kejian, Nintaus, Panda, GSL, and Soutec) at all stages of bringing phones from prototype level through manufacturing and in to mass production.Applied hardware, software, RF and product management knowledge to integrating GSM/GPRS modules in to full featured Palm smart-phone manufactured my Group Sense PDA Limited..

Wrote applications for automated mobile device testing (MFC).Wrote automatic test scripts for each test case specified in 3GPP test documents (in-house script language).Ownership of various components of an MMI including security, polyphonic audio and production test features that was mass produced for the China market. Written in the 'c' language.Designed.

Developed PCMCIA and PDA clip on modules for GSM modems. Similar to todays USB plug in 3G dongles. Designed and built the worlds first USB - GPRS class 12 dongle. Ownership of power management within new cell phone deisgns.Responsible for designing and tuning audio circuitry in GSM devices and overcoming typical TDMA buzzing.

Multiple summer positions at Acorn assisting with testing and debugging personal computers. Feeding back hardware change recommendations to the R&D team.Testing pre released equipment to validate software is stable.

Beng, Electronic Engieering

Bphys(Hons), Physics

A-Level, Maths, Physics, Electronics