Recruited from school by Hewlett Packard Company, Bill worked at the Corvallis, Oregon division developing the HP-41C Handheld Calculator and contributing to the marketing program for the HP-85 Desktop Calculator.
Leaving Hewlett Packard, Bill worked as an independent consultant and then as a Design Engineer for a small terminal emulation software company. When that company was sold to a Canadian competitor, Bill co-founded Eversys Corporation where he designed and manufactured communications servers and rack mount computer products through 2000.
From 2000 through the present Bill has been designing and manufacturing microcontroller based subsystems for several industrial clients.
While attending M.I.T. Bill built a number of small computers including one of the first personal computers ("Altair 8800"). During this time Bill became adept at mixing the elements of analog and digital computer circuitry to accomplish useful connections of computing power to the physical world for automation and measurement purposes.
Returning to the San Francisco bay area Bill entered the University of California's College of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science on the Berkeley campus and was awarded the degree of Master of Science in Computer Science. Bill specialized in synchronous digital processing while at Berkeley and created an early virtual reality stereo graphics display system as his thesis project for the Master's degree.
After leaving Hewlett Packard in 1980 Bill worked as a consultant and contract engineer completing numerous projects involving system automation. One of these projects was the automation of a medical laboratory blood analysis system (both laboratory commercial products and factory sample production machinery) for International Diagnostic Technology in Santa Clara, California. Bill brought this system from a stalled development state to completion and the company was sold to Schlumberger. Another major project during this time was the automation of an early real estate video system. Bill wrote system code for automatic video camera operation in a roving van. He wrote a corresponding program to automatically operate in-studio video editing machines to condense and document the raw van footage into a single frame format suitable for multiple listing services.
At the end of 1985 Bill joined MasterLink in San Rafael, California as Design Engineer and Assembly Language Programmer. Bill designed several custom circuit boards to support the company's PC Terminal Emulator product and was part of the team developing the emulator software. MasterLink was sold to Computer Logics in Toronto, Ontario in early 1988.
Through the early 1990's Bill developed two more generations of remote access servers ("CAPserver" and "System 8000") for Evergreen Systems. Evergreen System changed its name to "Eversys Corporation" and grew to several million dollars in annual revenues.
Increasing growth of the internet coupled with improved performance of software based remote access methods led to a decline in the competetive position of the Eversys product line during the late 1990's. Bill shrank and closed Eversys Corporation and began developing microcontroller subsystems for industrial customers.
At present, Bill is located just north of Seattle, Washington and is continuing to be active in the application of science to product development by consulting with start up groups, designing subsystems for industrial clients and operating a small manufacturing management company.