SUMMARY:

• Electrical Engineer with twenty years experience developing real - time embedded systems.
• Consistent performance translating system requirements and performance specifications into efficient component designs.
• A proven history of delivering robust, modular, scalable software on schedule and finding innovative solutions to challenging problems, often doing what others said could not be done.
• Experienced in collaborating with hardware engineers, production personnel, human factors designers and customer service for designing, developing and troubleshooting systems, optimizing performance and ensuring on time project completion.
• Resolved two major downtime issues significantly improving client productivity
• Augustine: Fully automated all daily and regression testing saving months of man hours
• Integrated SW product on 3 vendor platforms & completed Limited User Testing
• Booz Allen: Developed first ever algorithm to geolocate Confidential signals
• Reduced acquisition times 60% increasing system capability and target capacity
• Northrup: Completely redesigned entire inter-processor communication system on AWAC aircraft eliminating all message delays and increasing data accuracy to 100%
• Motorola: Obtained first ever 100% FCC SAR compliance for Confidential RF power control code
• Increased display throughput 40% with Confidential layout and software design change
• Resolved Confidential hardware production issue that was preventing product release
• Increased battery life 20% with innovative Battery Charger Module design
• ITT: Developed first algorithm to track and spoof two deadly signals with 100% success
• Fully automated all formal regression testing including remotely configuring system under test and all lab equipment, saving months of man hours

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Languages: C/C++, Ada, VHDL, Assembly, Perl, Python, C/Linux scripting, make, HTML

Methodologies: Agile, Lean, Objected Oriented, Rapid, RUP, Spiral, Waterfall, Structured

Standards: SEI CMMI Level 5, ISO 9000/9001, Six Sigma, DO-178B, DoD 2167a/2168, 498

OSs: Windows, Mac, Linux, Unix, AIX, Solaris, VxWorks, pSOS, OSE, OS9, LinuxRT

SWE Tools: Rational Rose, Apex, UML, MatLab, Code Composer, Code Warrior, Eclipse

Config Mgmt: ClearCase/Quest, DOORs, VSS, PVCS Tracker, DDTS, CVS, Subversion

Protocols: Confidential, CDMA2000, UMTS, HSPA, EvDO, EDGE, GPRS, Confidential, GSM, TDMA, GPS, IEEE488, OSI, TCP/IP, UDP, HTTP, FrameRelay, SONET/STS, Confidential /AAL, PSTN, ISDN, B-ISDN, LAN, WAN, PCI/cPCI, SPI, Ethernet, RS-232 RS-422/485 FDDI, HDLC, S-records, Mil-Std-5150, JTAG, JTIDS, SRW, JTRS, CNRS/EPLRS

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Design Engineer

Confidential, Holmdel, NJ

Environment: VHDL, Windows 2007, Virtex 5 SXT FPGAs, MatLab, Model Sim

Responsibilities:

• Redesign Voltage Current Monitor product to modernize and add built-in signal analysis
• Compiled customer feedback, identified current industry needs to in corporate into design
• Identified and quantified relevant signal analysis to build in to the new design
• Redesign AutoDeGauss machine and cables to improve operating range and overall efficiency
• Identified cause of inefficiency and proposed solution, proposed more efficient cable design
• Performed shaft voltage testing to determine source of stray voltages or other system problems
• Managed service team to degauss gas pipelines for Spectra Energy AIM project encompassing 10 different sites. Overcame complications completing job on time preventing extended outage

Senior Software Engineer

Confidential, Princeton, NJ

Environment: C/C++, Windows 7, Linux, ARM Cortex M3

Responsibilities:

• Performed independent software requirements verification and software performance testing

Senior Software Engineer

Confidential, Wilton, CT

Environment: C/C++, Sun Sparcs, Solaris, Linux, ClearCase, AIR, Code Collaborator

Responsibilities:

• Performed software change requests and bug fixes on NXE software with 40 million lines of code
• Resolved two of the top five system downtime issues significantly increasing client productivity

Software Integration and Test Lead

Confidential, Eatontown, NJ

Environment: C/C++, Ada, Linux, Windows, Intel Atom 510/520, Subversion, Doors, Bugzilla, VMWare

Responsibilities:

• Set up and manage software integration lab (SIL), all computers, test equipment and networks
• Inventory and manage all vendor and military equipment including CNRS/EPLRS radios
• Manage all software-hardware integration activities for three vendor hardware platforms
• Define all test activities and manage all test personnel to evaluate each vendor’s platform
• Coordinate all government and vendor interoperability testing with existing or new govt products
• Successfully completed all Army Demonstration Testing (DT) and Limited User Testing ( Confidential )
• Created comprehensive test plans to verify system requirements and assess system performance
• Provided accurate test result comparison by ensuring consistent test procedures
• Provided accurate status of system completeness and performance to management
• Provided traceability to software and performance requirement documents using DOORs
• Created linux scripts to automate software installation and testing
• Eliminated operator installation errors and reduced daily SW installation times by 90%
• Completely automated regression testing allowing it to be run unmanned overnight
• Created wired TCP/IP network to simulate CNRS radios which could not be left unattended
• Created automated tests and simulations with the Army Electronic Proving Ground’s (RICS)2 tool
• Simulated additional systems and operator actions to fully exercise system loading and limits
• Created and implemented software configuration management process with Subversion
• Created and implemented software change process control system using Bugzilla
• Provided effective coordination of changes with developers, customers and 3 HW vendors
• Accurately documented software capabilities in each release for the government and vendors

Senior Software Engineer

Confidential, Clifton, NJ

Environment: C/C++, MHAL, Linux, TI6416, Code Composer, Green Hills Multi, Tortoise CVS, Doors

Responsibilities:

• Ported SRW DSP code to Boeing GMR radios and tested compatibility with Confidential SLICE radios

Senior Firmware Engineer

Confidential, Eatontown, NJ

Environment: VHDL, C/C++, MatLab, Windows, Linux, Virtex 2/4 FPGAs, ModelSim, VSS

Responsibilities:

• Design & develop Confidential applications to geolocate commercial & military communication systems
• Field test prototype and production systems in the lab and in rural, suburban and urban settings
• Reduced acquisition times up to 60% with design changes and component optimizations
• Made geolocating complex digital signals like Confidential and Confidential possible
• Increased overall system capability and simultaneous target capacity
• Utilized my prior Confidential experience and innovative design ideas to successfully develop algorithm to geolocate Confidential signals, thought to be beyond our product’s capability
• Utilized my Boy Scout & mechanical skills to build platforms & rigs to perform field testing

Senior Software Engineer

Confidential, Baltimore, MD

Environment: Ada95, Mac OSX, Solaris 2.8, Dy4 SVME/DMV-181 (PPC7410), Rational Apex 4.4

Responsibilities:

• Successfully designed & developed Ethernet based TCP/IP inter-processor messaging system
• Increased data rate 300% eliminating all delayed messages, reduced memory usage 50%
• Proposed new message creation protocol, improved data accuracy to 100%
• Successfully designed & developed Data Destruct function to quickly and securely destroy all memory contents of the entire Single Cabinet system and all attached hardware and hard drives

Senior Software Engineer

Confidential, Annapolis Junction, MD

Environment: C/C++, Linux, NT, Arm 946ES, CodeWarrior, Axd, ModelSim, VSS, Pvcs Tracker, Doors

Responsibilities:

• Developed UML model for 37 Crypto Equipment Applications, coded & tested several of them
• Performed hardware verification of Sierra II crypto emulation hardware with NSA test vectors

Senior Software Engineer

Confidential, Camden, NJ

Environment: C, Unix, NT, Motorola 68340 & 68302, CVS, Rational ClearCase/ClearQuest

Responsibilities:

• Setup eight station lab to perform comprehensive software maintenance
• Competed all SW maintenance successfully resolving all known issues
• Created ClearCase configuration management procedures and trained all personnel
• Created ClearCase software build procedures, reducing build time 90% from 5 days to 4 hours

Firmware Design Engineer

Confidential, Princeton, NJ

Environment: C/C++, Linux, PowerPC 8240, ClearCase

Responsibilities:

• Developed driver and API for Conexant CN8236 Service SAR for Confidential / Confidential protocol conversions

Senior Software Engineer

Confidential, Piscataway, NJ

Environment: C/C++, Unix, Windows, MCore CPU, multi-site/multi-platform ClearCase & DDTS

Responsibilities:

• Developed single software driver for 7 Confidential models making a platform software build possible
• Lead cross-functional team that resolved Confidential production issues ensuring on-time product release
• Developed innovative Confidential RF power control code and calibration technique for first ever 100% compliance with FCC SAR limits, ensuring FCC approval of all current and future Confidential products
• Proposed Confidential design changes to increase throughput rate by 40%, designs implemented
• Proposed Battery Charger Module design that increased battery life 20%, design implemented
• Maintained ClearCase repository for local development team, performed on-demand software builds eliminating software build delays of hours or days from Schaumburg, Illinois parent site