EXECUTIVE SUMMARY:

• Extensive computer industry experience including product development, architecture design, systems engineering, hardware design, automotive and combat vehicles, manned space vehicles, mobile devices, medical device inspection, motion control, controls and automation, web programming, manufacturing systems, communications, compilers, financial software, consulting, sales, and sales support.
• Outstanding verbal skills.
• Professional computer career began at sixteen.
• Experienced in all sizes of companies from very small to Confidential 100.
• Big - picture and hands-on roles.
• Deep technical experience complemented by business savvy, versatile in spanning from technical analysis to idea implantation.
• Very experienced and successful in remote work, globally.

EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Seattle, Washington

Software Development Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Designer of software for orbital engine and vehicle-wide orbital and suborbital software platform.
• Spaceflight company of Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon.
• Here we use Python, C++, C, C#, Python, VMs, and Docker.
• Define and meet human safety goals, research, architect, develop, create unit tests and system tests.
• Employ continuous integration.
• Exploit master spacecraft configuration database.

Confidential, Tallahassee, Florida

Senior Developer

Responsibilities:

• Designer of engineering software for transportation infrastructure around the globe (2,500 governments including the largest cities).
• Specialist in robust, secure parallel processing ( Confidential clustering).
• Latest software version twice as fast, which translates directly into dollars for the company and its customers.
• Python and C++.

Confidential, Auburn Hills, Michigan

Systems Architect

Responsibilities:

• Leading in-depth involvement in automakers' full lines of Infotainment and Telematics architectures, both software and hardware, for major Tier 1's on these billion dollar projects. Chief global customer point of contact for both Architecture and Strategy people. Intimately familiar with the inside players and methods of many USA and European auto companies and Tier 1's; know how they are competing with each other.
• Protocol designer and specification writer. Requested by automaker to write their Ethernet connect spec. Wireless architect: mobile "broadband", local connection with WiFi, Bluetooth, NFC, Over-the-air updates. Influential in vehicle Confidential architecture, existing and future, and vehicle network security. Function strongly as presenting thought leader for the OEMs. Top voice in forming customer strategic response to trends (buying and technology).
• Expert in requirements definition and analysis.
• Meet on security issues with the top two customer architects. (As security tester, successfully penetrated major government and commercial networks.)
• Deep knowledge of both hardware and the software architecture contributes directly to network security solutions.
• Sole Architect and System Requirements manager for North America.
• Moved to Florida Confidential where attorney wife received a strong offer with state government.

Technologies: C++, C, Qt, OpenGL, software design methodologies, CMMI, DOORS, Enterprise Architect UML modeling tool, embedded systems, Open Source, Linux, model-based simulation, MS Project, wired networks, wireless networks, Bluetooth, broadcast entertainment, Ethernet, AVB, CAN, J1939, Autosar, WiFi, NFC, Wireless Broadband, Excel, Issues Tracking (Assembla), Source code and document control (Git).

Confidential, Royal Oak, MI

Embedded Systems Manager

Responsibilities:

• Product Manager, Project Manager and Senior R&D Engineer at Confidential, which supplies advanced battle vehicle simulation to government entities, saving lives and money.
• Managed final test development for next-generation Abrams tank armament.
• In charge of the final test station for the new laser-controlled machine gun atop the Abrams.
• Personally did the software and electronics work, and oversaw all the mechanical. The mechanical brought very difficult problems, which I personally solved.
• This was an advanced project for Confidential . I oversaw the installation of the two systems- the final stage of the assembly line.
• Recordings were taken from real tanks in motion.
• At our test station, we loaded the commander's weapon station onto a flight-simulator motion base, electrically clamped down these 3000 pounds, and then moved the unit vigorously to simulate battle. In order to measure the laser tracking of the guns, this payload can not move even millimeters.
• If the unit passes my test station, it is assumed correct, loaded onto a plane and assembled onto a tank for the first time in Europe.
• Designed and produced high-realism force-feedback embedded steering system for various high-end military vehicle simulators.
• Hundreds of these units are in use today by multiple branches of the Confidential .
• Leader of business-critical missions to Europe. Customers include Confidential, Airbus, Department of Defense.

Technologies used: C#, WPF/Silverlight, .Net, Qt, OpenGL, DirectX, C++, C, electronic design methodologies, Open Source, Linux, Matlab/Simulink clone, model-based simulation, MS Project, advanced motion control motion bases, PLC

Confidential, Lansing, Michigan

Candidate for Michigan State Representative

Responsibilities:

• five managers and sixty-five workers
• Declined excellent offer from prominent local company and worked intensely for national candidates for the 2008 election.
• Performed emergency rescue of down website for presidential candidate, in PHP.

Confidential, Confidential, MI

Software Engineering Manager

Responsibilities:

• Headed the Software Department, plus electronics and systems. Worked on QA high-end inspection machines for automotive, military, and medical applications, using multiple lasers and advanced mathematics, multiple machine vision systems, and electromagnetic induction sensing.
• Shortly after being recruited from Wilcox I discovered that this smallish company was running gravely in the red.
• Confidential business environment was in free-fall.
• Drafted as the primary planner for a best-efforts attempted production problem turnaround.
• This necessitated a company-wide turnaround in entrenched ways, which was not supported by the owning family. In my judgment, this company was therefore no longer savable, and I left.
• Direct reports: five dedicated people plus multiple consultants

Technologies used: C#, Python, Visual C++, C++/CLI, .Net, OpenGL, motion control, PLC, machine vision, metrology, SPC

Confidential, Sunnyvale, CA

Senior Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Worked on machine vision and robotics, inspecting medical and vehicle devices.
• Comfortable with international travel and understand nuances of local cultural expectations.
• Recruited for single-handed invention and complex problem-solving in remote locations, operating in concert with nearly 100 globally distributed software engineers.

Technologies used: C#, Python, Visual C++ 2005, C++/CLI, OpenGL, .Net, motion control, PLC, machine vision

Confidential, Troy, MI

Senior Applied Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Consultant in the development of embedded software for microprocessors and microcontrollers.
• Was trained in CMM Level 3, System Life Cycle, and Project Management processes.

Technologies used: C, Visual C++, Windows2000, analog and digital electronics, motion control, video, machine vision, sonar, electric motors, oscilloscope, Palm, Motorola microprocessors/microcontrollers, embedded systems.

Confidential, Ann Arbor, MI

Senior Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Developed embedded software for advanced machine tools for automotive and aerospace factory floor

Technologies used: OrCad, FPGAs/FPLAs, C, Visual C++, Java, Visual Basic, Confidential, Windows 95/98/NT, Microsoft networking, Internet, assembly language, Forth, digital hardware design software, PLC (Allen Bradley/Rockwell), oscilloscope, Object Oriented Design, Object Oriented Programming.