William McDonald
2021 Team Leader at UTS Motorsports Autonomous- Claim this Profile
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UTS Motorsports Autonomous
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Australia
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Automotive
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1 - 100 Employee
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2021 Team Leader
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Feb 2021 - Present
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Now in the prestigious role of 2021 Team Leader, I have the responsibility of leading our team through its yearly goals to completion, developing and maintaining a safe and rewarding team culture, and expanding our connections with industry.
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2020 Software Leader
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Feb 2020 - Feb 2021
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia In 2020 UTS formed its first official Autonomous Motorsports division with a team of brand new engineering students, from undergrads to Masters. Throughout the year we've been researching and learning about what it takes to build and compete with an autonomous race car while using a previous year's UTS Motorsports Electric #FSAE car converted to autonomous. We are now developing our plan to design and build our own car to take to the European competitions in 2022. As the Software Lead I… Show more In 2020 UTS formed its first official Autonomous Motorsports division with a team of brand new engineering students, from undergrads to Masters. Throughout the year we've been researching and learning about what it takes to build and compete with an autonomous race car while using a previous year's UTS Motorsports Electric #FSAE car converted to autonomous. We are now developing our plan to design and build our own car to take to the European competitions in 2022. As the Software Lead I managed a team of 6 other engineers which continued to grow during the year, where we worked with LiDAR, stereo cameras, trained neural network object detection, sensor fusion and actuation control running on #ROS in our development of our first fully autonomous car.
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Cisco
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United States
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Software Development
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700 & Above Employee
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Product Lifecycle Management Specialist
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Mar 2020 - Jul 2021
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia At Cisco, I am in a primary role of logistics, involved in the business critical tasks of integration from Exablaze post-acquisition, managing significant quantities of orders and shipments of products between Cisco sites and contract manufacturers around the world.
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Logistics Officer and Software Engineer
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Nov 2017 - Mar 2020
Wynyard Assist in the development, assembly and testing of Exablaze products, and work with other team members on various projects and tasks as required. Manage logistical operations of sales orders.
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CSIRO
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Australia
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Research Services
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700 & Above Employee
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Research Engineer
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May 2016 - May 2017
Marsfield Developing extensions to the hardware tracking database maintaining all electronic components involved in the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP) Project; Assisting with the ASKAP commissioning effort by way of electronic systems testing, verification and debugging of FPGA firmware, development of embedded software and test scripts; Contributing to the development of new embedded firmware and software on ASKAP and other existing and future CASS projects, including work on… Show more Developing extensions to the hardware tracking database maintaining all electronic components involved in the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP) Project; Assisting with the ASKAP commissioning effort by way of electronic systems testing, verification and debugging of FPGA firmware, development of embedded software and test scripts; Contributing to the development of new embedded firmware and software on ASKAP and other existing and future CASS projects, including work on a new cosmic ray detector. Show less
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Dick Smith Electronics
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Computers and Electronics Manufacturing
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300 - 400 Employee
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Store Manager
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Dec 2009 - May 2016
Top Ryde Working with customers to identify their needs and provide a tailored solution; Providing a range of detail to customers in relation to their questions; Managing the store, supervising those working with me and responding to store incidents.
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Education
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University of Technology Sydney
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Mechatronics, Robotics, and Automation Engineering -
University of Technology Sydney
Master of Engineering - MEng, Robotics -
University of Technology Sydney
Bachelor of Engineering - BE and Bachelor of Science - BSc, Mechatronics, Robotics, and Automation Engineering -
St Pius X Chatswood
HSC, Maths Ext 1, Physics, Chemistry, Engineering Studies and Advanced English