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2024 – NSBE - Distinguished Black Engineer of the Year Award
Golden Torch Award - for making substantial contributions to the area of technology, including R&D and Innovation.
2023 – Education 2.0 Conference - Outstanding Leadership Award
Awarded for continual efforts, tireless passion, and innovative education strategies & tactics to bolster STEM studies to youth in undeserved communities around the globe.
2023 – 3x Champion of Diversity (AT&T)
Awarded for exemplary leadership in building an inclusive culture
National Employee Group Conference, signed by Chairman & CEO
2023 – BACK2BACK - 21st annual American Business Awards® Technology Team of the Year
The American Business Awards is the premier accolade for excellence in U.S. business, honoring organizations of all sizes and industries. My organization has written the book on Robotics Process Automation, redefined the limitlessness of Hyper-Automation & demonstrated a microcosm of what exponentially-resulting-diversity can do.
2023 - D CEO Magazine Innovation Awards - Innovator of the Year
The 2023 program recognizes 68 companies and trailblazers paving the way for the future of innovation in North Texas.
2022 – Tens of millions of automated transactions
Includes a mix of automations such as Desktop Orchestration, Collaboration Capabilities, Robotics Processing, API integrations, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and a host of low-code solutions, that significantly impact:
- Credit Reductions
- Cost Savings
- Cost Avoidance
- New Revenue
- Pass-thru Revenue
2022 CoSign Awards - Executive of the Year
The COSIGN Awards Dinner & Gala is an annual fundraising event hosted by COSIGN Magazine to honor entrepreneurs, executives, and creatives.
2022 - Ones to Watch Award - FUEL Men's Summit
The Ultimate Men’s Summit offers Black men an opportunity to come together to network, share strategies and life experiences that can help elevate their careers and turbo charge their businesses.
2022 - You Can Live Again (YCLA) Innovation Award
You Can Live Again is a US-based organization of people who empower others who have experienced life struggles to find their place and purpose in life. Through the tenure of this organization, they have helped many lives across the US & abroad.
2022 – Tech Mentor solar-robot workshop (Kiriat Ye’arim, Israel)
August 2022 working through several partnerships, we were able to deliver a solar-robot workshop for Kiryat Ye’arim Children’s Village. During this event we met children from all parts of Israel. We have vibrant discussions about the robots, how they work, and also about each child’s aspirations and their future. Each student received a solar-robot. We shared some meaningful gifts, discussed cultures, and had an overall wonderful experience.
2022 – NSBE (National Society of Black Engineers) Outstanding Technical Contribution Award
2022 – This August in Miami, FL the National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE) held their annual Professional Development Conference where David was the recipient of the Outstanding Technical Contribution Award. Other honorees of the evening were Charles Mitchell, the first licensed black engineer in the state of Florida.
2022 – 2x Champion of Diversity Award (AT&T)
Awarded for exemplary leadership in building an inclusive culture
National Employee Group Conference, signed by Chairman & CEO
2022 – Bronze winner - 20th annual American Business Awards® Information Technology Team of the Year
The American Business Awards is the premier accolade for excellence in U.S. business, honoring organizations of all sizes and industries. Through every obstacle, our team of superheroes continue to push forward to deliver new and innovative technology that streamlines processes, improves customer experience, and generates new revenue.
2022 – Tech Mentor solar-robot workshop (Chennai, India)
April 2022 working through several partnerships, we were able to deliver a solar-robot workshop for 110 orphan girls in India. During this event their was a wide-array of culture displayed/shared. All 110 children received a solar-robot, we had some some gifts, great food for everyone, and a significant donation made to the orphanage.
2022 – Elected Board of Director for SPARK! Dallas
SPARK! is creative learning space designed to ignite & fuel the creativity of our youth. We’re excited to welcome AT&T's Assistant Vice President of Automation, David C. Williams to the SPARK! Board of Directors. David has extensive experience scaling new technology, facilitating creative technology-learning experiences , and operating with a customer-first focus to solve universal problems.
2022 – partnering with Nancy Lieberman Charities to create vrDream Courts
Nancy Lieberman Charities has built 100+ beautiful & colorful basketball courts in under-served communities around the US; supporting causes such as Hurricane Sandy reconstruction to Kobe/Gigi Bryant tributes. vrDream Courts provide a level of technology that creates immersive experiences, brings communities together all over the US, and inspires children to believe the future is within reach.
2022 – Dream in Black Winner (AT&T)
Nationwide recognition for 28 employees that showcase an undeniable commitment to service, each other, and a better tomorrow
2021 - Tens of millions of automated transactions
Includes a mix of automations such as Desktop Orchestration, Collaboration Capabilities, Robotics Processing, API integrations, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and a host of low-code solutions, that significantly impact:
- Credit Reductions
- Cost Savings
- Cost Avoidance
- New Revenue
- Pass-thru Revenue
2021 – Deployed Visual IVR across US for multi-national Telecom Operator
Successfully integrated new technology into IVR (Intelligent Voice Routing) platform to automate key tasks and drive digital adoption
2021 – Tech Mentor Tuesday
Once a month we bring an exciting Solar-Robot workshop to students that empowers them to learn about solar energy & intro to robotics. Each workshop covers:
Understanding how solar energy/cells work, Group exercises building solar robots, Basic Engineering/Innovation, & We gift the solar robots to all the students or facility.
More info can be found at dcwTMT.com
2021 Black Engineer of the Year Award STEM Global Competitiveness Conference - Legacy Award
Rodney Adkins Legacy Award recipient. Upon the 2020 COVID-19 outbreak, David quickly ideated & implemented a solution to enable 40,000 call center agents around the world, to work from home securely.
2020 – 51.1M Robotics Process Automated transactions (Total)
Leading one of the largest Robotics Process Automation programs in Telecommunications worldwide with 41M+ automated transactions driving significant cost reductions
- 2020 41.2M automated transactions
- 2019 7.8M automated transactions
- 2018 2.1M automated transactions
- Team comprised of Asian, Asian Indian, Caucasian, Female, Hispanic, Black, LGBT, Native American employees
2020 – 11.6M Twitter Impressions #ourEGthing
Ideated & led the annual Our EG Thing event that spans 24 cities across the US & Europe that builds Diversity & Inclusion awareness and bridges communities
- 2020 #ourEGthing – 11.6M Twitter Imps, 48K employees engaged (post-covid)
- 2019 Our EG Thing – 1.2M Twitter Imps, 900+ new members, 13K+ items donated
- 2018 Our ERG Thing – 1,600+ new Members, 9.4K+ items donated
2020 – Black Men Xcel (Black Enterprise Magazine & FedEx) Summit
Leadership Conference for Top African American male leaders
2019 – CALiBR Program
Prestigious leadership development organization preparing mid-level executives for senior roles
2019 – Dream in Black Winner (AT&T)
Nationwide recognition for 28 employees that showcase an undeniable commitment to service, each other, and a better tomorrow
2019 – General Manager – Accelerated Development Program
(Top 10% of General Manager High Potential Distinction)
2019 – High Potential Distinction
Most recent and 7th distinction in 6 Business Units (Top 10% of General Management Level)
2018 – Invented Credit Decision Engine (CDE)
Ideated, Sponsored, Project-Managed building a decision engine driving significant annual savings
2018 – Mid-Level Management Symposium
Distinguished leadership conference in Washington, DC for rising mid-level executives in Corporate America
2017 – Champion of Diversity Award
Awarded for exemplary leadership in building an inclusive culture
National Employee Group Conference, signed by Chairman & CEO
2017 – PIVOT Magazine cover
Featured with Chief Compliance Officer David Huntley, Senior Executive Vice President
2017 – Black Men Xcel (Black Enterprise Magazine & FedEx) Summit
PGA National - West Palm Beach, FL
Leadership Conference for Top African American male leaders
2015 – Authored Dual Connectivity Wifi Router Patent
For inventing the Dual Connectivity WIFI Router (combining Satellite & LTE) [Patent # 9,882,629]. A more efficient wireless communication network, data uploaded via a LTE & downloaded using satellite devices.
2014 – TEDxAT&T - Innovation Winner
Global company-wide TED Talks competition amongst 100s of participants.
Innovation Category Winner - Multi-factored ubiquitous authentication leveraging wearables, end-user biometrics to secure all online interactions
2014 – Diversity Ambassador
Selected by Diversity Office to deliver informative & inspiring messages about the company's culture of Diversity & Inclusion
2013 – National Employee Group Conference Speaker
Annual event recognizing groups & individuals of their accomplishments to further Diversity & Inclusion; internally & with our communities Largest company annual event.
2012 – One-on-One CX collaboration with Randall Stephenson, Chairman & CEO of AT&T
Selected to facilitate in-depth consultation with Chairman of AT&T. This meeting was a one-on-one 3 hour deep dive of all facets of AT&T Business operations, customer engagements, future opportunities to improve over all customer experience, ranging from billing to outages and sales to strategic network configurations. Selected based on performance. Ranked #1 in organization.