Rob Harrison Email & Phone Number

Birmingham, United Kingdom

Alchemy Wireless was established in June 2014 and provides software development services specialising in the wireless communications field. We have a very experienced team (ex-BlackBerry) skilled at cellular 3GPP protocol stack development and testing, including test automation, continuous integration, system validation and performance analysis. We also offer consultancy and development skills to provide general wireless connectivity solutions, especially for IOT, as well as more general real-time embedded development.I am the Managing Director but very much hands-on being involved in the architecture, analysis, design and development of software systems. I also provide consultancy on software development processes, through the whole life cycle from requirements management, design and development methodologies to testing strategies for validation and verification.

Birmingham, United Kingdom

I manage a highly talented team of software and test developers working on the 3G stack used by over 80million BlackBerrys. We have responsibility for the layer 2 and 3 access stratum for 3G and the overall development testing of the multi-mode protocol stack, including interworking with 2G, WiFi and LTE. We also manage call performance analysis of in-field BlackBerry devices.

Birmingham, United Kingdom

Transferred to newly formed Components Division. Responsible for team developing reference 3G stack for J-Phone market. Project Management of 3G UE-RRC software development• Planning and resource allocation; reporting directly to engineering director• System architecture team member. Proposing and analysing impact of change requests on overall system design. • Requirements management (DOORS). Defining and managing process for requirements traceability

Birmingham, United Kingdom

Technical approval for all software development activities carried out by team of RTOS consultants. Offering hands-on consultancy to a wide range of telecoms, defence, aerospace and automotive companies. Areas of speciality SCSI, ATM, IMT2000 Stack, MPLS, VxWorks BSP, drivers and board bring-up.

Birmingham, United Kingdom

Provided consultancy and training on VxWorks RTOS, device driver and BSP development, troubleshooting, board bring-up across a wide range of embedded real-time software markets, including defence, aerospace, industrial control, telecommunications, set-top box, automotive.

Doctor Of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Physical Chemistry

Picosecond Spectroscopy

Bachelor'S Degree, Chemistry, First