Cox Software Architects was founded in 2007 to help entrepreneurs define, design, and deliver their technology products and projects more effectively.

Our Principal

William Cox is a leader in smart grid interoperability and in commercial and open source software definition, specification, design, and development. He has the business savvy and deep and practical understanding of software architecture and technologies such as XML, Web services, Service-oriented architectures, eBusiness, Networking and system software to build your own capabilities-—no black box "I'll do it for you" consulting!

Bill is an elected member and past Co-Chair of the Technical Advisory Board of the Organization for Structured Information Systems (OASIS) where he advises the Board and membership of the leading XML and Web services standards organization in the world. He is Co-Chair of the OASIS Energy Interoperation and the OASIS SOA End-to-End Resource Planning [SOA Optimization] Technical Committees.

Bill has developed enterprise product architectures for Bell Labs, Unix System Labs, Novell, and BEA, and has done related work in OASIS, ebXML, the Java Community Process, Object Management Group, and the IEEE, often working the boundaries between technology and business requirements.. He was lead architect for Unix System V Release 4 and of follow-on highly scalable and secure Unix systems, service-oriented architectures and directory APIs for Novell, Web services and XML messaging and transaction systems, and other enterprise software.

He worked with the Electric Power Research Institute on the NIST Smart Grid Interim Roadmap, delivering work on the conceptual model, architectural principles, planning for evolution, and interoperability between facilities, markets, and distribution.

He earned a Ph.D. and M.S. in Computer Sciences from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.