Senior Firmware Engineer Resume

SUMMARY

Looking to contribute to a team in Houston or Austin Texas in the area of Embedded/Firmware Software Development in where I can share my knowledge in automation, control, data collection, process improvements, and product enhancement while I continue growing my technical and people skills.
Excellent balance between technical and people skills.
Over 20 years of experience in product and technology development, leading and development hardware, software, manufacturing tools and new technology commercialization and integration.
Capable of leading projects and programs of multiple product over the product life cycle timeline.
Worked on both Operation and R&D environment
Capable of working without direct supervision and with either local or remote teams.
Firmware development using ARM processors using TI Sitara AM572X Dual ARM Cortex A15
Fluent in C/C++ and C# programing
Fluent in Linux Shell Programing and Administration
Developed modules with RS232, RS422/RS485, USB, and Network Sockets.
Worked with I2c and SPI embedded serial interfaces.
Experience with ThreadX Real Time OS using Green Hill Development environment.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Senior Firmware Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

Developed firmware support for Molecular Analysis new products.
Worked with TI Sitara AM 572X processor with Dual Arm Cortex A15 cores running TI Arago Linux distribution.
Worked with heaters PID loop, PWM, sensors, L6470 stepper motor controller, USB and TCP - IP Sockets communication with PC host.
Worked with PIC24 and PIC8 MCUs to develop controls for stepped motor controller, heaters, and fluidics modules. Used interfaces RS232, RS422/RS448, I2C, and SPI.
Develop back end libraries for Windows PC in C++ and C# for interfacing with ARM and PIC processors.

Automation Control/Firmware Development Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

Develop driver support for variety of hardware blocks and interfaces using HP Inkjet Firmware Architecture for new ASIC using ARM11 processor and TreadX OS in the development of R&D test prototypes.
Coding in C/C++, modified printer platform firmware to accept new developed Ink Technology Cartridges.
Experience with ThreadX Real Time OS using Green Hill Development environment.
Strong experience with embedded C/C++ complex structures, adapter registers, memory pointers, linked list, multithreading process synchronization with semaphores, queues, and direct memory/bits manipulation.
Added firmware modules to support multiple hardware subsystem network communication using TCP-IP sockets by sending synchronized commands between master and slave subsystem.

Senior Manufacturing Automation Lead

Confidential

Responsibilities:

Lead Firmware/Software automation and control operation Engineering staff resulting in a successful and continued increase of up-time and decrease of cycle time.