John Williams
Engineering Consultant at Aston University
Metropolitan Borough of Solihull, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolJohn Williams is an engineering consultant and former academic leader with over 30 years' experience in photonics, microwave photonics, and electronic engineering education. He earned a PhD from Imperial College London for work on mode-locked lasers and went on to help build Aston University's Photonics Research group, pioneering research on dark solitons and in-fibre Bragg grating devices. As Reader and later Head of Department he launched new MSc programmes, introduced distance learning and led the first Level 6 workplace-based degree apprenticeship in embedded systems. He also established microwave photonics research applied to sub-carrier multiplexed signals for femtocell networks and has authored over 130 peer-reviewed papers. From 2020 he drove digital pedagogy across the School of Engineering, setting up a video studio and scaling online assessment and staff training. Since August 2024 he consults part time via Ardenoak, combining hands-on technical expertise with curriculum and industry-focused training.
30 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Physics, PhD, Physics at Imperial College London
Github Skills (30)
docutils10
languagetool10
parser9
reference-implementation9
text-processing9
common-lisp9
latex9
plaintext9
lisp9
lisp-interpreter9
markup8
converting7
idioms7
python7
strings6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
willijar/LENS
Feb 2009 - Jun 2014
Contributions:229 commits in 5 years 4 months
willijar/cl-logsim
Jul 2011 - Apr 2014
Contributions:24 commits in 2 years 8 months
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