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Short autobiography Dr. Doug Williams leads the project NM2 (New Media, New Millennium) which is part funded by the EU. Doug works for BT, one of the world's leading providers of communications solutions serving customers in Europe, the Americas and Asia Pacific, as a Project Director in the Broadband Applications Research Centre. For the last six years he has taken a special interest in the emergence of convergent forms of media and has built many relationships with the media production industry. Pragmatic, and increasingly thick skinned, Doug is passionate about the responsibility we have to make research relevant and understandable and aligned to the market goals not technical ones. Prior to leading the NM2 project Doug worked for 5 years on the creation of marketable propositions for research outputs first as an Innovation Consultant working with the IP & New Media sales team and then by leading a team of marketing professional in BT's research labs. Before his research career focused on the media, Doug was a leading researcher in optical fibre design, a topic in which he holds a PhD and on which he has published widely. He regards his key skills as 'seeing the big picture' and matching technology-based skills to emergent market opportunities. He is simple, but he isn't stupid.
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