Symbol Technologies Names Lee Williams Vice President and General Manager of Mobility Software Division.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers HOLTSVILLE, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 29, 2003 Software Industry Powerhouse Joins from PalmSource to Lead Software Platform Efforts Symbol Technologies, Inc. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :SBL SBL Society of Biblical Literature SBL Symbol Technologies, Inc. (NYSE symbol) SBL Spamhaus Block List SBL Space-Based Laser SBL Securities Borrowing and Lending SBL Supreme Beings of Leisure (band) ), a global leader in enterprise mobility solutions, today announced the appointment of Lee Williams For the football player of the same name see Lee Williams (football player). Lee Williams (born April 3, 1974) is an English actor and former model. Williams was the face of French Connection TV, and has worked as a model for designers such as Vivienne Westwood and as vice president and general manager of the Symbol Mobility Software Division, effective today. Williams takes responsibility for leading the Company's efforts to develop software integration support platforms that will enhance the ability of Symbol software and systems integration partners to deliver mission-critical mobility solutions to their customers. In this role he reports to Todd Hewlin, senior vice president of the Symbol Global Products Group. "Lee brings a strong background in software development and partner integration strategies to the Symbol Global Products Group," said Hewlin. "His experience leading software development efforts that can be leveraged by software and systems integration partners will be invaluable to Symbol as we develop industry-leading enterprise mobility solutions." Williams joins Symbol from PalmSource, Inc., where he was vice president of engineering product development. There he led software engineering teams and key product development activities for Palm operating system operating system (OS) Software that controls the operation of a computer, directs the input and output of data, keeps track of files, and controls the processing of computer programs. platforms and software development kits and stand-alone applications for Palm's nearly 300,000 third-party developers. Prior to PalmSource, Williams was vice president of product development at Be, Inc., where he was responsible for supervising engineering teams and collaborating with original equipment manufacturers to release commercial versions of the Be Operating System and Internet Appliance Also called "information appliance," "smart appliance," and "Web appliance," it is a device specialized for accessing the Web and/or e-mail. Designed for ease of use, it plugs into a telephone jack or LAN connection for Internet hookup. products. Williams earlier served as chief architect and a director for Naviant, a professional services (job) professional services - A department of a supplier providing consultancy and programming manpower for the supplier's products. firm where he led the development of enterprise software products and directed the company's largest systems integration and software development practice. Williams founded DXTC DXTC DirectX Texture Compression DXTC Direct X Texture Compression , a software developer of key software components and applications for data visualization and media streaming technology solutions. Williams holds a bachelor's degree in computer science from the University of California at Berkeley (body, education) University of California at Berkeley - (UCB) See also Berzerkley, BSD. http://berkeley.edu/. Note to British and Commonwealth readers: that's /berk'lee/, not /bark'lee/ as in British Received Pronunciation. . About Symbol Technologies, Inc. Symbol Technologies, Inc. delivers enterprise mobility solutions that enable anywhere, anytime data and voice communication designed to increase productivity, reduce costs and realize competitive advantage. Symbol systems and services integrate rugged mobile computing, advanced data capture, wireless networking and mobility software for the world's leading retailers, transportation and logistics companies and manufacturers as well as government agencies and providers of healthcare, hospitality and security. More information is available at www.symbol.com |
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