SUMMARY:

Primary skills: embedded systems, device driver, and real - time operating system design. Secondary skills: applications programming using various SQL databases and GUI development packages. Hardware design skills: patent on a hardware solution to a serial port controller design deficiency and have saved a client $30 per system by replacing LSI hardware with software and a few latches.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Languages: C; C++; PASCAL; HTML; most Unix tools. Previous experience with various micro, mini and mainframe assemblers including: Modcomp, ARM, Z80, 68HC11, 68HC08, 680x0, 683xx, PIC, and 80x86; FORTRAN; BASIC; PL/I; JAM.

Databases: C-Tree; Informix SQL (ESQL and 4gl); Gupta SQL Windows; Oracle.

Operating Systems: Versions of UNIX including DG DUX, HPUX, IBM AIX, SCO UNIX and Linux; OS-9; Precise/MQX & MCX, Modcomp MAX; Nucleus; QNX; tron; Windows 3.1; PowerTV; OS21.

Hardware: ARM; AT&T 3B2; DEC VAX; DG Aviion; Hitachi SH-3, SH-4; HP9000; IBM mainframe, PC and RS6000; Intel 80x86; MIPS; Motorola/Freescale iMX, 680x0, 683xx and 68HCxx; Modcomp; MicroChip PIC; PowerPC; Confidential DaVinci, 320C54x and OMAP; Zilog Z-80 and Z-8000.

EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Sterling, VA

Senior Embedded Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Provided research into speeding up UDP/IP stack on a limited speed Xilinx SOC

Confidential, McLean, VA

Senior Device Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Ported telephone modem software to a new customer device.

Confidential, Morrisville, NC

Contract Firmware Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Provided support for Confidential port to a new Confidential Purley based server

Confidential, Oldsmar, FL

Contract Senior Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Provided Linux & device driver support for a custom Linux version in a WiFi router used as an ethernet sniffer.

Confidential, Alpharetta, GA

Contract Senior Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for diagnosing and fixing software problems with 802.15.4 radios used in smart power meters.

Confidential, Boca Raton, FL

Contract Senior Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Added code to u-boot to handle OTP memory to permanently store MAC address.
• Implemented a subset of the Confidential 802.15.4 and 6LoWPAN protocols for a wireless security system gateway under Linux.

Confidential, Sunrise, FL

Contract Senior Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Added code to u-boot to detect hardware types in system.
• Added code to TCP/IP stack to automatically adjust QOS for VoIP calls.
• Diagnosed problems with reset logic triggered by watchdog timer.
• Enhanced logrotate script to provide meaningful results.
• Assisted junior level people to better understand system.

Confidential, Arden, NC

Responsibilities:

• Initial board bring-up including adapting a Confidential scanner driver to Android using NPK and the Android sample plugin. Initial testing on an Intel Confidential -e wireless card, and initial evaluation of a thermal printer interface in preparation for writing a CUPS driver for it.

Confidential, Coppell, TX

Contract Senior Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Designed and implemented a command line interface and register simulator firmware for a new Confidential related chip for head-end control systems.

Confidential, Lake Forest, IL

Contract Senior Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Wrote software for board bring-up, hardware validation of various internal and external devices including the serial ports, power control, and dynamic RAM systems and added ethernet and flash testing facilities to u-boot for factory testing of a new IV Pump wireless interface board.

Confidential, Lewisville, TX

Field Application Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Provided kernel and UI testing and debugging support in bring up of Android 2.3 (Gingerbread) for Confidential and Motorola.

Confidential, Lawrenceville, GA

Contract Field Application Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Supported a customer with Linux builds bringing up an Atom based set top box.

Confidential, Dallas, TX

Field Application Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Benchmarked OMAP4 vs. OMAP3. Supported customer porting QNX to OMAP4.

Confidential, Vienna, VA

Contract Senior Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Designed Virtual File System (VFS) for very large (> Exabyte) database.
• Implemented API to access the tables in the VFS.

Confidential, Austin, TX

Contract Senior Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Contributed to the design of a new Linux based controller for Confidential 's latest video conferencing system.
• Supported Google Android 1.5.

Confidential, Germantown, Maryland

Contract Senior Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Implemented several test methods for a new hand-held telephone-line test product.

Confidential, King of Prussia, Pennsylvania

Contract Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Modified SPI driver to implement multiple serial ports over SPI.

Confidential, Vienna, Virginia

Contract Senior Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Designed and implemented test code for a Software Defined Radio (SDR).
• Modified a socket based communication package to control data flow between three ARM processors.

Confidential, Lisle, Illinois

Contract Senior Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Added several Linux drivers and library support routines for Confidential 's Quad OC3 port Advanced Mezzanine Card.

Confidential, McLean, Virginia

Contract Senior Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Brought up 2.6.15 kernel and modified u-boot on Freescale evaluation board.
• Ported DSP driver code from LynxOS to Linux.