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Senior Product Design Architect | Principal Engineer | New Product Development | Innovator
Location: Libertyville, Illinois, United States 7 work roles 1 school
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Senior Product Design Architect | Principal Engineer | New Product Development | Innovator
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Libertyville, Illinois, United States

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Bill Groves previously worked as Principal Engineer, Mechanical Architecture and Innovation at Motorola and Distinguished Member Of Technical Staff / Product Architect at Motorola. Bill Groves holds Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Mechanical Engineering from University Of Illinois At Urbana-Champaign.

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Skilled in the art of and enjoy defining product architecture, with always peripheral focus and ability to balance input from the many disciplines involved throughout the product's ideation, creation, and productization cycles. Creation starting with "what-if's" to delivering design realization regularly resulting in competitor disbelief/concern and always based on sound engineering principles. Passionately capable of executing full designs in exhausting detail and thoroughness, with the sense of knowing when designs are optimized per defined requirements. My continual focus is always to lead change, drive innovation, and challenge the status quo.I'm extremely capable of, and oddly enjoy, delivering solutions to challenges thought to be difficult and/or over-challenging.Being well versed in cross departmental/discipline languages, allows me to seamlessly collaborate between the many product design disciplines. Having been in both the limelight and the background, I'm also now uniquely satisfied working behind the scenes, with the goal of making others "shine".Mastery of:● Cross functional leadership - personality coupled with understanding of multitude disciplines achieves belief/trust● Creative problem solving - ability to think outside the box when required● Design to requirements - focused design limits yield optimized designs● Super-Collaborator - trustworthy relationships are utmost important to maintaining teams's cohesive successes● Commercial awareness - consideration of this tangible requirement allows targeting the optimized design solution● Innovative thinker - evidenced by my past designs, and additionally my honorary title of Master Innovator (25+ U.S. Patent issuance)● Innovative Implementer - focused on innovation with purpose and inclusion in product design solutions● Detail oriented as required - ability to adjust design levels is important for design efficiencies● Untroubled by change - having worked in the ideation space for many years creates an acceptance that change yield betterment● Iterative immunity - understanding that iterations provide improved solutions, it's untroubled acceptance has proven important.

7 roles · 42 years

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Principal Engineer, Mechanical Architecture And Innovation

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Lead Product Architect for the Advanced Innovation and Architecture Team, with focus on, and known reputation for, delivering unmatched product designs inclusive of innovative new concepts. Designs included next generation foldable clamshell smartphone, industry first 5G capable smartphone, and a multitude of both high and low tier smartphones.

2015 - Jul 2020

Distinguished Member Of Technical Staff / Product Architect

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Product Architect for numerous smartphone and tablet devices, including the innovative ecosystem of attachment products which yielded additional functionality.

2012 - 2015 ~3 yrs

Distinguished Member Of Technical Staff / Senior Staff Engineer

Greater Chicago Area

Designed and developed a multitude of cellular phone and tablet devices, many of which are still recognized as iconic products that have significantly impacted/changed people's lives. Additionally, I was honorably selected to design the NFL's new technology communication equipment, of which the headset became synonymous with the NFL coaches and sidelines.

1997 - 2012 ~15 yrs

Senior Staff Engineer

Greater Chicago Area

Our elite small team, created within Motorola to be available across all divisions worldwide, fortunately allowed us to engage in some of the most interesting businesses/projects Motorola considered critical and/or uniquely abnormal. One project of extreme importance to Motorola, was Motorola's Personal Wireless Communicators (PDA), in partnership with.

1992 - 1997 ~5 yrs

Staff Engineer

Greater Chicago Area

As an integral part of the core team, we designed one of the industry's first handheld cellular flip phones, which set the standards and became the foundation for flip phones for many years.

1990 - 1992 ~2 yrs

Senior Engineer

Gte

Greater Chicago Area

Designed telephony central office equipment (switches/base stations) for GTE's vast independent telephone service providers across the U.S., allowing technological enhancement of the central office wire line/wireless systems.

1987 - 1990 ~3 yrs

Mechanical Engineer / Senior Mechanical Engineer

Greater Chicago Area

Mobile communications division designer, focused on the automotive trunked transceiver and accessory component development necessary for mobile radio installed systems. Additionally assisted in design and validation of cellular infrastructure equipment.

1984 - 1987 ~3 yrs
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Bill Groves has worked for Motorola and Gte.

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Bill Groves holds Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Mechanical Engineering from University Of Illinois At Urbana-Champaign.

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