Alex Wilson

Retired

Lichfield, England, United Kingdom

About

Retired on 31st March 2023 after nearly 27 years at Wind River. Now enjoying life in our Motorhome, travelling around Europe.

Experience

  • Retirement at Career Break
    Mar 2023 - Present · 3 yrs 5 mos

  • Wind River (26 yrs 11 mos)
    • Director Of Business Development, A&D Market Segment Team
      Jun 2018 - Mar 2023 · 4 yrs 10 mos

      Drive the long term strategy for Wind River around the Aerospace & Defence market segment, with a focus on EMEA and APAC. This includes matket and product strategy, outbound marketing and defining requirements for products including VxWorks, Linux, Linux Secure, embedded virtualization, hypervisor and other safety and security critical systems.

    • Director Market Development
      Feb 2016 - Mar 2023 · 7 yrs 2 mos

      Drive the long term strategy for Wind River around the Industrial, Energy, Medical, and Rail market segment, including requirements for products including VxWorks, Linux, Linux Secure, embedded virtualization, hypervisor and other safety and security critical systems.

    • Director, Aerospace and Defence
      Mar 2010 - Mar 2023 · 13 yrs 1 mo

      Drive the long term strategy for Wind River around the Aerospace and Defence market segment, including requirements for products including VxWorks, VxWorks 653, Linux, Linux Secure, VxWorks MILS, embedded virtualization, hypervisor and other safety and security critical systems.

  • Senior Applications Engineer at Motorola Computer Group
    1991 - 1996 · 5 yrs

    Application Engineer responsible for 68K, 88K and PowerPC VME hardware plus Real Time Operating Systems. Involved in technical aspects of sales cycle in order to make sure Motorola won deals. This invloved demonstrations, presentations, benchmarking, evaluations, liason with RTOS vendors and software engineering. Also responsible for VMEexec RTOS environment - based on pSOS

  • Senior Software Development Engineer at BAE Systems
    Sep 1982 - Apr 1991 · 8 yrs 8 mos

    Part of software development team responsible for software running test equipment for Laser Inertial Reference Systems and Missile Guidance Systems. Involved work in PASCAL and ASsembly language on Z8000 and 68K processors.