Liam Friel is a Managing Director and Industry X specialist with over 15 years guiding organisations to design, develop and launch smart, software-enabled products across automotive, industrial, medical and media sectors. He blends deep embedded-systems roots—from satellite instrumentation and digital TV—to strategic leadership in connected products, platform architecture and distributed engineering at scale. Liam helps clients reimagine products as evolving services, aligning technology selection, engineering structures and business model transformation to drive sustainability, reliability and new revenue streams. He is practised at translating high-level IoT vision into detailed engineering plans and remote collaboration models that maintain innovation across dispersed teams. Beyond consulting, he founded a local CoderDojo chapter and chaired a 450-pupil primary school board, showing a long-term commitment to youth tech education and community leadership.
15 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
M. Eng. Sc, Electronics, M. Eng. Sc, Electronics at University College Dublin
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