Dr. William Fowlkes works with IP.com, a software and services company that provides innovation solutions for the Intellectual Property and engineering communities.  Prior to that, Dr. Fowlkes worked for the Eastman Kodak Company as an Intellectual Property technology leader supporting Kodak’s patent related activities from IP generation to value extraction.  He is an inventor on 32 U.S. patents.

As the Advanced Development Leader of the New Printing Systems Laboratory, he was responsible for the development of high-quality color electrophotographic printers, inkjet printers and thermal printers at Kodak.

Bill is also a senior member of the IEE and serves as the Treasurer of Region 1 and the WIE Forum and the R1/ R2 Joint Student Activities Conference.  Bill sings and is on the board of the Genesee Valley Orchestra and Chorus.

Bill is a certified practitioner of TRIZ and a Six Sigma Black Belt. He is also an expert at Taguchi Methods for Robust Design, and has taught TRIZ, Robust Design, and applied statistics to hundreds of engineers and scientists; he is also co-author of the textbook Engineering Methods for Robust Product Design, Addison-Wesley Publishing Company.