Bill Crawford
Lecturer - Electrical And Electronic Engineering at Forth Valley College
Falkirk, Scotland, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolBill Crawford is a seasoned electrical and electronic engineering lecturer based in Falkirk with over 25 years of teaching and practical engineering experience and nine years of documented professional activity. He combines classroom leadership at Forth Valley College with hands-on industry experience as an electrical project engineer and quality manager, bringing real-world systems design and ISO-focused process improvements into technical education. Bill has supported digital skills development and mentoring, and contributed to open-source documentation for the well-known PyBluez Bluetooth Python extension, improving usability through comprehensive Sphinx-generated docs. His long-term community involvement as a trustee for a local heritage trust underscores a commitment to civic regeneration alongside technical education. Known for bridging applied engineering projects and clear technical communication, he helps students translate theory into installable, commissionable systems.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
HND in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, HND in Electrical and Electronic Engineering at Falkirk College of TechnologyBA, Tertiary Education, BA, Tertiary Education at The University of Stirling
Github Skills (7)
sphinx10
documentation10
python5
rest-api4
api-rest4
restful-api4
api-design4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
pybluez/pybluez
Jul 2019 - Aug 2019
Bluetooth Python extension module
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:15 commits, 14 PRs, 1 push in 29 days
Contributions summary:Bill primarily focused on improving the project's documentation by generating documentation using Sphinx, a popular documentation generator. They created a new documentation folder, added draft API and user guides, and restructured existing documentation files. Additionally, the user fixed docstrings and updated configuration files related to documentation generation, including a batch file for building the documentation and the Sphinx configuration file. Their work aimed to enhance the usability and clarity of the PyBluez library through comprehensive documentation.
bluetoothpython-extension
beadysea/weather
Apr 2018 - Jun 2024
Contributions:10 PRs, 13 pushes, 10 branches in 6 years 3 months
arduinoarduino-unopython3weather-station
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