| Tim A. Williams, Class of 1976
Tim Arthur Williams received a bachelor’s degree from Michigan Tech in 1976. He earned an MS in 1982, a PhD in 1985 and an MBA in 1991, all from the University of Texas in Austin.
He was employed by the Motorola Semiconductor Sector as a business manager, project leader and senior technical member of groups that developed various telecommunications industry and custom circuits, including voice coder/decoders, transceivers and modems. In 1991, he became the co-founder, chief technical officer, vice president of engineering and vice president of business strategy of Wireless Access, Inc., a start-up company that developed protocols, equipment and single chip ICs for the Narrow Band PCS equipment market. In 1998, he joined a software PBX Voice over IP telephony start-up company, Picazo Communications, where he was the chief technology officer and a member of the advisory board. In 1999, Williams joined another start-up that focused on high-speed LAN technology in the 5GHz band, Atheros Communications in Palo Alto, Calif., as the interim CEO. Since leaving Atheros, he was CEO of JetQue, which provided messaging solutions for the mobile professional, from 2001 to 2003, and he was CEO of SIBEAM, Inc., a semiconductor company which is developing high speed wireless networking ICs, from 2004 to 2006.
Williams is currently the CEO of Beach Technologies, LLC, which is a consulting company providing intellectual property assessments and investment due diligence studies for large multinational companies and venture funds; chairman of Docco Tech, Inc., a company that trains engineers in wireless standards, VoIP and RFID; CEO of BEEcube, Inc., which builds high-speed computing engines based on FPGA logic circuits; and chairman of Digital Schools, Inc., the premier supplier of software tools for the management of K-12 public school districts. He has also been certified as a patent agent at the US Patent and Trademark Office since 2002, and he has been issued 26 US patents in communications, logic circuits, computer algorithms, computer systems, data processing and power management in digital devices.
He was a member of the Motorola Patent Committee for systems and software patents; Motorola’s voting member for the American National Standards Institute committees for voice processing applications and basic rate ISDN and primary rate interfaces; a member of Motorola’s Corporate DSP Technology Steering Committee; a member of Telocator, the industry organization representing one-way and two-way data communications technology in the United States; a member of the Cellular Telephone Industry Association; and a member of the IEEE 802 Standards Committee.
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