SUMMARY:

• Very Familiar with PC hardware, including BIOS and Graphics. In past I have build my own PC's buying separate hardware parts ( Case, Power Supply, Mother Board, Graphics Card, Memory, CDROM, CPU, Fan with heat Sink, Hard Drive etc.) and putting it all together and then installing OS and all required drivers for the hardware components and finally installing all the desired application programs. Have performed Windows 10 upgrades an new installations.
• I have previously also installed and setup my own hosting server for my services websites, but decided to go with a paid hosting for service reliability and more secure backups.
• Most of my career has been dedicated at testing, troubleshooting, validating and debugging PC hardware, including BIOS and Graphics, audio devices.
• Extensive experience in graphics, display and media quality, validation and debug.
• Lots of customer support experience for embedded and non - embedded devices.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Languages/Scripting: C, C++, Java,Visual Basic, HTML, JavaScript, Python, Unix/Dos Scripts.

Operating Systems: Windows CE (Embedded Standard 7 & Embedded Standard 2009), multiple Linux flavors, Windows (7, 8 and 10).

Applications/Tools: MS Office, Visual Studio, Photoshop, Pro Tools, PAVE, GPUView, PowerSpy, DispDiag, WinDBG, iGfxRegistryManager, Bugzilla.

Hardware: PC components as well as Many flavors of AMD and INTEL Graphics.

Other Spoken Languages: Fluent in Spanish.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Santa Clara, CA

Website development / Marketing

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed market need, Designed and Managed development of Event Planner Platform ( Confidential ) with tools to better serve event clients and increase productivity for event planners.
• Designed, developed, debugged and brought to life a complete solution for party service directory website ( Confidential ) using WordPress and Geotheme along with PHP, HTML and CSS.
• Created website logos and marketing material using Photoshop.
• Performed different types of marketing techniques to enroll Service Providers to website, including Facebook paid advertizing as well as Google AdWords Pay Per Click.
• Hands-on experience building, analyzing and optimizing campaigns with PPC.
• Experience with Google Search Console to optimize visibility of websites.
• Applied SEO techniques and added Google Analytics to website, to monitor and track growth.
• Knowledge of Google SEO guidelines and recent changes to Google's algorithms.
• Used different tools for ranking and web analysis, such as: Google Web Master, SEO Centro, Alexa, userexp, WooRank, Moz and PageRank Checker.

Confidential, Santa Clara, CA

Senior Graphics Applications/Validation/Debug Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Led customer relationship & worked directly with top tear customers in resolving all their graphics and Display issues and also Video, Audio, USB and BIOS issues.
• Worked on Graphics driver validation and very familiar with full graphics driver validation cycle.
• Received a Department Recognition Award for analysis and remediation of bugs missed by our internal validation cycle and later caught by external customers. The graphics driver validation cycle became more efficient with my newly added tests, adding greater bug capture coverage.
• Created a graphics display training for customers. This training covered Intel's display graphics features and best-known method for Validation. Then traveled to Taiwan to perform the training presentation to customers.
• Performed different types of bug reports and validation reports for management.
• Performed debug for Media and Display components using C, C++ and Intel's graphics tools.
• Participated in a yearlong Intel driven leadership program named "Blueprint". This leadership program taught a vast number of leadership techniques such as findings one's own strengths and methods to grow your network. We were encouraged to be more than individual contributors, to expand one's knowledge of the company's vision and its products and to lead others to accomplish such vision.

Confidential, Santa Clara, CA

Applications Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Provided customer Support in the Embedded Systems Industry with a focus on Media Centric products, responding to a wide range of issues including Graphics, Audio and Video. Utilized GPU and CPU tools such as GPU Clock, AMD System Monitor and EDID to identify and resolve problems.
• Created Linux pre-installed environments with multimedia demos, such as using UVD decode engine in GPU with hardware acceleration to free up CPU cycles while playing 1080p videos under and using our XVBA video acceleration driver. This was for customers to easily evaluate AMD GPU and CPU products.
• Wrote 'build process' and software setup documentation along with FAQs to aid customers use AMDs CPU and GPU hardware.
• Componentized our XP drivers for Windows XP embedded and helped Customers with Drivers and Build issues related to our WinCE BSPs.
• Implemented graphics driver changes with support for New TFT Panels by adding new resolution timings to the AMD Legacy Geode LX Windows CE graphics driver
• Created and Provided WinCE Hands-On trainings for FAEs in different parts of the Country.
• Ran Graphics Benchmarks and wrote reports for competitive market analysis.

Software/Build Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the Software Media releases, which included release notes and final packaging.
• Created automated build scripts for testing daily check-ins to VSS and Perforce databases.
• Installed, setup and configured Window 2000 and 2003 Streaming Media Servers.
• Migrated the VSS Database source trees to Perforce Database.
• Ported a Multimedia Player written in C from Win32 to WinCE and Linux.
• Tested WM9, MPEG2, MP3 and WMA files against new codec's modifications in ongoing basis.
• Built test matrix for validation cycle and continued adding improvements as new test where found.

Confidential, Santa Clara, CA

Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Maintained Video/Audio drivers and applications on an x86 Geode Processor Set-Top Box.
• Created applications demos in C to show National’s capability to display Graphics and Video.
• Develop MSTV WinCE software packages and wrote batch files to automate installation.
• Build VOD streaming applications with Sigma and Trimedia mpeg decoders in WinCE and Linux.
• Wrote UNIX shell scripts/utilities in order to perform QA testing of software and firmware.
• Documented Installation Procedures and Product Usage for Confidential ’ Customers.

Confidential, Santa Clara, CA

Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Build Utilities for the DVI5000, a WinCE - Based DVB Digital Cable Set-Top Box.
• Develop Applications using Confidential s Published APIs for the DVI5000.
• Gain Insight with Service Acquisition APIs developed in C and wrote stress tests for all API s.