Russell Williams is a Leader for software, machine learning, and hardware robotic system development, from startup to scaled business impact at Amazon. Colleagues describe him as "Working with Russell is a joy, and I would eagerly do so again. He has earned my respect in many diverse ways.
As a founder Russell is visionary, finding appropriate applications for game-changing technology. He can work with customers and develop the big picture strategy for a successful product. As a mentor Russell is patient and available, offering broad expertise while encouraging personal growth and exploration. As a co-worker he is highly dependable; he is passionate, diligent, and capable of any work necessary to see a project succeed.", "Russell is an extremely strong engineering leader who I have had the pleasure of working with during his tenure at Microsoft first as Group Manager on the Live Meeting team and later as a consultant on a incubation business inside Microsoft.
Russell is very very smart and technical individual who is easily able to grasp, analyze and go to the depth of complex engineering problems. He can work with executives on a white board at the strategy and concept level and equally with front line developers on the actual code and thus commands intellectual respect at all levels.
He is also passionate, detail oriented and results focused who will find paths through difficult or ambiguous situations that often stymie teams. I have enjoyed working with Russell and would strongly recommend him to any fast moving organization that quickly wants to get results.", and "Russell contracted with our team to program manage development of a suite of mobile phone apps and services. Russell not only provided frank, accurate, and relentless program management that drove development of the products to high quality and kept us on schedule, but also gave us outstanding strategic advice for improving the end to end software design and enriching the product roadmap to better support our business goals. Where the project required a good program manager, I felt very lucky to have Russell on the team as he offered CTO level strategic guidance along with some of the best program management I’ve seen. Russell’s experience in executive roles in start-ups has greatly complemented his many years of experience with Microsoft. Personally, Russell’s a great guy to work with as he’s friendly, objective, data driven, always calm, and yet still passionate about his work. He’s also justifiable confident in his work which isn’t surprising after you see the quality and learn that as a hobby he flies planes that he builds himself. I look forward to working with Russell again one day."
