Robert Armstrong
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Roger Nichol
I have worked with Rab for over 20 years in various companies and roles. Most recently he work for me at General Dynamics as Technical Manager leading a software team developing LTE stack and baseband software. His expert knowledge and development experience was central to the successful delivery of numerous projects, and to the accuracy of planning and budget estimations. Rab is very much a thought leader, establishing new process where needed to bring quality and consistent on-time and on-budget delivery to developments. His leadership style has always been to lead from the front, inspiring trust and motivating his team. Prior to the acquisition by General Dynamics, Rab was a key Technical Manager at IPWireless, driving innovation in software development and manufacturing test processes. Rab has the drive, determination, technical and business knowledge that will make him successful in whatever he does, and a great asset for whoever he works for.
Steve Foster
Robert Armstrong was my manager at IPWireless where I was employed as a contractor implementing automated testing, where I was mainly focused on the Air Interface Tests. I found Robert to be a very good manager, and I would be happy to work for him in the future.
Roger Nichol
I have worked with Rab for over 20 years in various companies and roles. Most recently he work for me at General Dynamics as Technical Manager leading a software team developing LTE stack and baseband software. His expert knowledge and development experience was central to the successful delivery of numerous projects, and to the accuracy of planning and budget estimations. Rab is very much a thought leader, establishing new process where needed to bring quality and consistent on-time and on-budget delivery to developments. His leadership style has always been to lead from the front, inspiring trust and motivating his team. Prior to the acquisition by General Dynamics, Rab was a key Technical Manager at IPWireless, driving innovation in software development and manufacturing test processes. Rab has the drive, determination, technical and business knowledge that will make him successful in whatever he does, and a great asset for whoever he works for.
Steve Foster
Robert Armstrong was my manager at IPWireless where I was employed as a contractor implementing automated testing, where I was mainly focused on the Air Interface Tests. I found Robert to be a very good manager, and I would be happy to work for him in the future.
Roger Nichol
I have worked with Rab for over 20 years in various companies and roles. Most recently he work for me at General Dynamics as Technical Manager leading a software team developing LTE stack and baseband software. His expert knowledge and development experience was central to the successful delivery of numerous projects, and to the accuracy of planning and budget estimations. Rab is very much a thought leader, establishing new process where needed to bring quality and consistent on-time and on-budget delivery to developments. His leadership style has always been to lead from the front, inspiring trust and motivating his team. Prior to the acquisition by General Dynamics, Rab was a key Technical Manager at IPWireless, driving innovation in software development and manufacturing test processes. Rab has the drive, determination, technical and business knowledge that will make him successful in whatever he does, and a great asset for whoever he works for.
Steve Foster
Robert Armstrong was my manager at IPWireless where I was employed as a contractor implementing automated testing, where I was mainly focused on the Air Interface Tests. I found Robert to be a very good manager, and I would be happy to work for him in the future.
Roger Nichol
I have worked with Rab for over 20 years in various companies and roles. Most recently he work for me at General Dynamics as Technical Manager leading a software team developing LTE stack and baseband software. His expert knowledge and development experience was central to the successful delivery of numerous projects, and to the accuracy of planning and budget estimations. Rab is very much a thought leader, establishing new process where needed to bring quality and consistent on-time and on-budget delivery to developments. His leadership style has always been to lead from the front, inspiring trust and motivating his team. Prior to the acquisition by General Dynamics, Rab was a key Technical Manager at IPWireless, driving innovation in software development and manufacturing test processes. Rab has the drive, determination, technical and business knowledge that will make him successful in whatever he does, and a great asset for whoever he works for.
Steve Foster
Robert Armstrong was my manager at IPWireless where I was employed as a contractor implementing automated testing, where I was mainly focused on the Air Interface Tests. I found Robert to be a very good manager, and I would be happy to work for him in the future.
Credentials
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PRINCE2 Agile® Foundation & Practitioner
AXELOS Global Best PracticeMar, 2021- Oct, 2024
Experience
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Dense Air
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United Kingdom
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Telecommunications
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1 - 100 Employee
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Director Of Engineering
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Apr 2022 - Present
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Veea Inc.
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United States
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Computer Networking Products
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1 - 100 Employee
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Senior Vice President Of Engineering
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Jan 2020 - May 2022
Edge ComputingOversee the definition and implementation of engineering processes to improve quality and on-time deliverables, with a focus on metrics to ensure data based decision making. Collaboration across the organisation with a focus on targeting customer opportunities. Ongoing technical reviews ensuring engineering aligned with product strategy. Management of the UK team.
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Director Of Business Development
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Jun 2018 - Jan 2020
Edge Computing Securing strategic partnerships and developing relationships to achieve customer wins and enhancing VeeaHub app store eco-system. Technical sales support team to work with enterprise customers from engagement to solution rollout and ongoing support.Pre-development process including capturing commercial feature requests through to roadmap scheduling, bridging gap between commercial and operations to smooth out delivery process and better deliver on opportunities. Show less
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Virtuosys
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Australia
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IT Services and IT Consulting
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1 - 100 Employee
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Technical Marketing
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Mar 2017 - Jun 2018
Edge ComputingSeries A+ funding round, updating existing & meeting new investors, led to additional funding and company acquisition.New customer engagement resulted in securing a UK rail rolling stock leasing company as a customer and partner. Organised overhaul of website working with web developer and the marketing agency, to provide clarity to the product offering and improve online presence.
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Software Consultant
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Apr 2016 - Mar 2017
Edge ComputingInvolved across number of aspects of the organisation - company strategic planning, product roadmap, defining requirements, design, software implementation, testing, customer demonstrations and recruitment.
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General Dynamics
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Farming
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Technical Manager
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Jun 2012 - Apr 2016
Long Term Evolution (LTE) Centre of Excellence Introduction and successful adoption of an improved product release process, moving away from legacy release planning to feature driven better aligned to the company’s project funding process. Managing large team successfully delivering and maintaining stack software, platform software, and baseband firmware. Long Term Evolution (LTE) Centre of Excellence Introduction and successful adoption of an improved product release process, moving away from legacy release planning to feature driven better aligned to the company’s project funding process. Managing large team successfully delivering and maintaining stack software, platform software, and baseband firmware.
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IPWireless
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United States
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Wireless Services
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1 - 100 Employee
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Software Technical Manager / Program Manager
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Apr 2004 - Jun 2012
Long Term Evolution (LTE)LTE eNodeB development. Other areas of LTE have included delivery of UE Manufacturing Test solution, UE integration.Secondment to San Diego to review WiMax team’s development practices.Deliver factory test platform removing dependence on unique skills, strengthened the capability to deliver quality solutions for an increased number of product variants, improved yield.Satellite voice and data demonstrator. Program-managed multi-disciplinary team and software lead, delivering on-time to major aerospace contractor fulfilling payment milestones.Proposal for test automation solution to address poor quality deliverables. Formed and managed team, delivering a solution, the results of which were used as a key release gate and on a daily basis for regression and air interface testing. Show less
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Technical Associate
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Apr 2000 - Apr 2004
Manufacture TestImproved test processes and text fixtures.Layer 1 Software Drivers for TD-CDMA Air InterfaceBaseband software drivers.
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Lucent Technologies Bell Labs
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Libraries
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1 - 100 Employee
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Specialist Engineer
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Jun 1998 - Mar 2000
AirLoop programme CDMA low cost subscriber unit.
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Principal Engineer
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Apr 1996 - May 1998
Software team lead covering subscriber unit and supporting software in base station.
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Senior Engineer
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Aug 1995 - Mar 1996
AirLoop Base Station Radio sub-element. Software design and development.
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CLAN Systems
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United Kingdom
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IT Services and IT Consulting
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Development Engineer
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Aug 1991 - Jul 1995
CLAN Systems Ltd was a system house engaged in combined hardware and software design. Core business was laser printer controllers ranging from desktop to high speed printers. CLAN Systems Ltd was a system house engaged in combined hardware and software design. Core business was laser printer controllers ranging from desktop to high speed printers.
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Education
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1987 - 1991
The University of Edinburgh
BEng Upper 2nd, Computer Science & Electronics -
1981 - 1987
George Heriots School, Edinburgh
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