Roy's interest in electronics began at the age of 12 with the building of simple radios. A number of home projects including HiFi, tape recorders and remote garage door openers followed over the next few years. He began a Saturday job and vacation job at Parmenter's TV shop in Holloway London in 1962 where he serviced all manner or TVs radios etc, seeing the introduction of 625 lines and colour. This continued until 1969 when he moved to Bishops Stortford.
As an "old school" engineer he has a degree in Elecectrical Engineering from London University QMC so he has expertise in many disciplines such as mechanical and civil engineering, and is equally at home with valves as Petium chips. He joined Nortel Networks (then Standard Telecommunications Laboratories) where he researched into magnetic printing systems, one of the earliest electronic mail networks and credit card authorisation technology, optical systems for aircraft, fibre amplifiers for Cable TV, and interactive TV. A recent project was Europe’s 1st commercial broadband multimedia system based on cable modems running at 10Mbit/s. For this Roy designed a multi-city broadband services network operating in the Cologne area of Northern Germany - INFOCITY.
This led naturally to Power Line where Roy's development team pushed forward the use of Power Line Access technology for which he received a President's award. Roy was Systems Networks Director for Nor.Web who pinoeered Internet over the mains allowing electricity companies to offer broadband using the power cable feeding the home - now a major activity in the USA. Roy subsequently moved on to Radio access technology carrying ATM at 28GHz, where he led an integration team.
Following the new wave of interest worldwide in Power Line, Roy joined Volta Technology as VP of Technology. Great strides were made in Canada but the technology was obscured to a degree by WiFi techniques. After getting bored with retirement for several days Williams IT and TV was created.
Due to involvement with The Roydon Players as treasurer Roy began Williams IT and TV in Roydon, but now operates in most of Essex and Hertfordshire.
So far Williams IT and TV has been ivolved with computer repairs, business networks, TV and DVD repairs, Websites, home automation and high tech central heating systems to mention just a few activities.
