CAREER OBJECTIVE

To pursue a career in electrical and computer engineering that will enhance, expand and challenge my education and work experience. My interests lie in software development, user interface design, rich client interfaces and low - level, embedded, development including hardware control and feedback control systems.

EXPERIENCE - References available upon request

Confidential

• Lead software architect for Cadillac CUE reconfigurable instrument cluster. Upon joining I organized a lose group of software developers into the current software architecture group, developed processes for change control, issue resolution, and recovered several features that were in trouble. Some of my key accomplishments in this position include:
• Implemented the sound over MOST Linux driver I2S and application layer code to use same driver to stream audio sounds over a MOST network. This feature was in trouble of missing model year 2013 delivery. I completed the crucial driver work just under three months to begin turning around a troubled program.
• I work with a distributed group of developers around the world to drive customer requirements into a finished product. The instrument cluster consists of software/hardware that communicates on a CAN, LIN, and MOST bus. The Cadillac CUE cluster is the largest cluster program in the world.
• My technical skills that are being utilized are C/C, GDB to analyze crash dumps, U-Boot, iMX5/ARM, VectorCANOE Optolyzer suite CAN/LIN and MOST simulations respectively.
• My management skills to develop a process to assess and deal with change control, new feature integration, use case review, and chair daily architecture meetings to keep project deliveries on track on time.

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• Lead Wireless WiFi Architect for the Ford Sync Program was added to my list of roles responsibilities. Also maintaining Lead role as Infrastructure Architect for SYNC program. Added role entails responsibility for the in-vehicle Ford SYNC module's WiFi capabilities. Responsible for establishing WiFi metrics, performance specifications, and WiFi roaming capabilities. Some of my accomplishments leading to the awarding of this position include:
• Designed provisioning software downloads system such that vehicles with SYNC modules could be programmed over WiFi on the assembly line. System is being implemented globally. Software is called AMP Automated Module Provisioning .
• Authored design specifications both functional and non-functional requirements for combined AMP software and WiFi infrastructure. On this project I was the lead engineer responsible for FMEA Failure Mode Effects Analysis and threat modeling of this system.
• As a lead architect on SYNC, helped develop the software system specifications and use cases for back-end integration to Ford's automobile build planning system.
• Designed test cases and test methodology for WiFi roaming and WiFi through-put acceptance criteria used to drive vendor designs chipset acceptance/modifications and kernel level drivers.
• Diagnostic Software written in C to translate ISO14229 over ISO15765, MOST, and OSEK-VDX Network Management

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• Lead Infrastructure Architect for the Ford Sync program. Sync is Ford's in-vehicle technology package providing customers hands-free cell phone operation, music synchronization with most Bluetooth devices, and other various Ford services such as vehicle diagnostics, 911 assist, and turn by turn directions to name a few. Responsible for the enterprise design, integration, and security of the hosting infrastructure to support the Sync web site, integration with other backend Ford applications as well as integrations with Ford partners. My responsibilities and some achievements:
• Designed a messaging solution for SYNC GEN2 using open source software as a POC Proof Of Concept supporting three million connected vehicles allowing push messaging. POC used to cost compare against products in the commercial telecom space. POC beat out all competing products to date and is currently on short list.
• Designed hosted environment consisting of VMWare ESX Server running Windows 2003, IIS v6. Design goals included HA High Availability and DR Disaster Recovery scenarios at web/application tier and database tier.
• Designed/Resolved Akami solution to off-load high traffic aspects using Akami technology.
• Improved corporate standard usage of Cisco's CSM to detect application faults for better fail over scenarios.
• Worked to deliver a proof of concept using Microsoft Exchange 2007 Unified Messaging to, in part, highlight SYNC 's voice interoperability capabilities.
• Performance analysis. Used tools such as Mercury Load Runner, SoapUI, and custom .NET/C coding to stub out performance bottlenecks to isolate problem areas.
• Developed a Single Sign On solution incorporated by the SYNC web site and Ford external partners at a time when Ford had no corporate standard for SSO Single Sign On . I'm also part of discussions to evaluate SSO solutions using OpenID, WS Federation, and SAML technologies. I've written technology papers on the PROs and CONs of each as they are compared to help drive corporate standardization. This SSO solution is part of the SyncMyRide.com web site and written in C .

Confidential

• System's Design Architect. Responsible for the design of enterprise computing solutions within Ford Motor's Enterprise Integration Engineering group. I develop and manage solutions and their roll out with global visibility to provide offerings to various divisions within Ford Motor. My core responsibilities include:
• Product owner and lead designer for the Ford Motor PERL scripting language with Oracle DBD support.
• Developed web crawlers in PERL to inventory and profile running systems.
• Solution architect for PERL's DBD::DBI Oracle stack on Linux and Solaris. Senior level Level-3 responsible for escalations beyond trivial issue resolution related to PERL and Oracle DBD driver. Required me to closely work with software development teams and other engineers to resolve technical implementation/coding issues.
• Component owner for Host On Demand HOD . HOD is an IBM product for terminal emulation. As component owner I lead the engineering and documentation effort for global desktop replacement of a fat client tool. As component owner, I touched every Ford desktop world wide and many types of server hardware from mainframes to Linux hosts. As owner of this product, I also developed extensions to the software in Java.

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• Systems engineer responsible for installation and configuration of a wide array of Storage Area Network SAN and Network Attached Storage NAS solutions. My responsibilities included Project Management, final design implementation, working with customers to meet timeline requirements, updating project plans, action items, and risk registers. Some of my related customer success stories/accomplishments:
• Project Manager for EMC2, Inc. Managed the installation of EMC Control Center and the installation of EMC's Symmetrix for two locations within General Motors. Plano, TX and GM Tech Center in Troy, MI

Project Plan Development

• Chaired Meetings, initiated data and information gathering to form time lines for project plans.
• Resource allocation with management and scheduled various staged roll-outs.
• Maintained meeting minutes, action items, and risk registers.

Final design implementation duties and on-site engineering at customer locations with the following products:

• Cisco SAN switch configuration zoning. 9509 9516 switches .
• EMC OnCourse and Signiant Mobilize data replication.
• EMC Clariion Configuration. Configured RAID groups and Storage Groups.
• EMC PowerPath software installation and configuration on Win2K, Solaris, AIX, and Netware.
• General TCP/IP protocol troubleshooting/consulting: mostly SMTP and DNS.

Confidential

• Systems engineer responsible with lead engineering responsibilities on various projects. Some of these responsibilities included management of personnel, overseeing final design specifications, working with customers to determine best fit software packages for the project, and research and design duties.
• Some of my related customer success stories/accomplishments:
• Developed POC Proof Of Concept code under Linux in C/C for a Firewire video recorder. Custom developed drivers for various Firewire cards to move audio/video and camera control signaling to camera attached to Linux based embedded controller.
• Developed in C/C a network multicast application for multicasting the audio/video image onto a TCP/IP based network over WiFi or Ethernet.

Lead engineer for a custom IT inventory system within the company.

• Developed POC Proof Of Concept code for Microsoft Windows in C/C for the inventory of IT infrastructure. Solution was capable of collecting SNMP traffic, had GUI Win32 screen for user input connected to PostgreSQL database.
• Lead engineer consultant to TranTech, Inc. and U.S. Government Defense Agency., Washington, D.C.
• .This project is known as the VIMS Visual Information Management System project.
• Sun Solaris 9.0 Installation Configuration specifications. Obtained Solaris certification .
• Several supporting utilities written in PERL and BASH scripting on Solaris.
• EMC2 Centera CAS Content Addressable Storage specification, installation, and configuration
• VIMS Customer acceptance test plan developed.
• VIMS replication via T3 circuit design.
• Cisco IOS switch programming for fail-over and VTP.

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• Designed the facilities 100 Gigabit Ethernet collapsed backbone specifications.
• Developed the specification documentation pertaining to equipment and equipment configuration.
• Designed a proposed protocol specification as a guide line for data network.
• Worked with other engineers to develop specifications for an audio video multicast specification required by this project.
• Worked with other engineers to develop specifications for a control system specification required by this project.
• Wireless Security System Design and Implementation
• Implemented a wireless security system for the company's access points.
• Used ReefEdge security devices to implement wireless security policies.
• ReefEdge acceptance testing for encryption 3DES, AES and authentication Kerberos, NTLM, RADIUS .

Confidential

Managed the company's various web, email, ftp, and DNS servers. Also responsible for all Cisco router configurations. I maintained a lead engineering role to the company's IT consulting business where I managed and worked with crews to implement and consult the company's customer base on various networking solutions. Solutions including Netware 5.x and 6.x networks, Windows 2000 networks, and Linux networks. I am also involved with the company's marketing and business development efforts. Some of my IT related customer success stories/accomplishments:

C/C Software Development

• Design/Developed ERP-PRO. An accounting and MRP Material Resource Planning system using client/server technology.
• Developed a PostgreSQL interface library to replace an open source solution we relied upon initially.
• Software was marketed and sold as the company's flag-ship product.
• C/C Software Development
• Design/Developed EDI-PRO. A EDI system for Windows capable of transmitting, receiving, and working with ANSI X12 formatted data. Also developed the modem interface and RS232 communications library.
• Software originally used a Paradox database and later migrated to PostgreSQL using open source library.
• EDI-PRO was later consumed as a module within ERP-PRO.

C/C Software Development

• Design/Developed FileStor application. FileStor became a commercial product under another company's label. This software traced various automobile information for companies responsible for transferring vehicles from assembly line to dealer parking lots. Software interface with scanners and 3rd party scanning software such as Canofile.
• The 2nd iteration of the software included the development of a TWAIN library I was responsible for. I also incorporated a 3rd party library from LeadTools for greater image format support and manipulations.
• C/C Software Development
• Design/Developed Northcomm Site Management System application. This began as a custom software engagement for a software system that handled Inventory control, electronic calibration for deployed electronics in the satellite communications industry, and also prepared field work orders.
• A 2nd version of the software included a document management module that was later added to ERP-PRO to give it similar capabilities that included drag-n-drop documents and linking documents with on-screen metadata. Documents could be of any formation such as MS-Word, MS-Excel, JPEG, TIFF, etc
• Software used PostgreSQL for database backend.
• Scripting: BASH/PERL
• Design/Developed Pozicom EMail consisting of open source software Postfix replaced Sendmail, Cyrus, ClamAV, and SpamAssassin. PostgreSQL used to maintain Postfix and Cyrus user accounts and system behaviors.
• Developed several custom scripts in PERL to deal with user management and reporting.
• Wrote custom RC scripts to handle start-up and shut-down of the email system.
• Scripting: BASH, PERL, SED/AWK
• Design/Developed Pozix SBS Small Business Server consisting of custom compiled versions of Linux Kernel, Samba, OpenLDAP, PERL, PostgreSQL, OpenSLP, and CUPs.
• Wrote several scripts in BASH to build all source code, prompt for settings such as Samba Domain/Workgroup name, LDAP backup scripts, user management, and startup/shutdown RC scripts.

Confidential

• Worked my way up to the role of Director of Communications where I was responsible for the design, implementation and maintenance of a 400-node wide area network. I manage a three-person Network Administration team. I also maintain PC workstations at the hardware and software level. This involves software troubleshooting and coding in C, C, and Assembler for custom applications. Other responsibilities include maintaining a Nortel phone network, EDI development and implementation, MFG/PRO, by QAD, Inc., modifications and integration, call center software development and support. My accomplishments include:
• Developed GUI training application for in house training tracking on various company SOPs to a DBIV format. Software was validated. C/C skills utilized.
• Support an order-entry sales application written in C utilizing a DBIV format. Worked with other developers to enhance and add features.
• Support and design Progress database/applications to maintain the company's accounting system.
• Translate EDI data into their appropriate documents 810, 844, etc. with GUI application. C/C skills utilized. Experience with Sterling Commerce Gentran EDI package prior to phasing it out.
• Developed an employee time-bank system, which interfaced with a Ceridian, and ADP payroll system This Windows GUI application was an add-on to ADP's Payroll for Windows application that calculated time on an accrual basis as well as employee time off. C/C and database skills utilized.
• Developed an RS232 interface application in C/C under SCO Unix and later ported to Linux for reading data off the SMDR port of a Siemens ROLM 9200 phone switch. Data was collected and analyzed to look for call fraud and to perform CDR Call Detail Reports to managers.
• Migrated the 400 node wide-area network enterprise to a Windows NT 4.0/Netware 5.0 platform utilizing NT-Domains with roaming profiles and single sign-ons. Single sign-ons established NT and Novell server authentications. MCSE and Novell skills utilized. Upgrade was from a Netware 4.x environment. Unix/Novell NFS also part of this upgrade.
• Consulted/Configured Installed a wide-area network supporting multiple protocols over several routers utilizing a mix of T1 and ISDN connections. This involved installing and configuring Adtran TSU CSU/DSU equipment that also handles PBX and RS232 connectivity. Cisco IOS and general telecom skills utilized.

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• Designed and Installed a PIX firewall and full Internet connectivity for the company. Web: GOTOBUTTON BM 1 and Email: GOTOBUTTON BM 2 employee ferndalelabs.com. Cisco IOS, PIX firewall, and Unix skills utilized. Also configured WWW, FTP, SendMail, and Telnet applications with Linux based servers.
• Migrated FDDI backbone to a collapsed backbone supporting V-LANs for various bandwidth intensive applications. Migration involved moving from Cabletron to Cisco Catalyst equipment. Cisco IOS skills utilized.
• Migrated the enterprise to MFG/PRO, by QAD. I over saw the implementation and validation of this software. I also supervised the work of an outside consulting team, which I hired to help with validation efforts. Progress database, C/C, Unix, and written SOP skills utilized.
• Initiated, managed completed a Y2K program for the entire enterprise two months ahead of schedule.
• Phased out of a Siemens/Rolm phone switch in favor of a Nortel - Meridian option 51 switch. I also installed and configured Nortel-CallPilot and Nortel-Symposium to support a new 40 person call center utilizing unified messaging and caller-id screen pops.

Confidential

• Contract Systems Engineer responsible for developing end user applications in C C as well as consulting services. Some of my accomplishments are as follows:
• Helped developed proprietary database format to secure sensitive data being transmitted over various mediums. C/C skills utilized.
• Implemented a web server to help support over-seas customers on custom applications. HTML, CGI, Apache web server, Unix, and C/C skills utilized.
• Developed an accounting module for current in-house application. Module was capable of logging data to proprietary database in a multi-user environment where 2 to 3 transactions per second were the general load. C/C skills utilized.
• Developed client/server paging application with Borland's C Builder and WinSock libraries to communicate between applications. Application works with AirTouch paging equipment for alphanumeric pagers. C/C and network skills utilized.

Confidential

Development engineer responsible for the design and testing of automobile antenna and transmission-line impedance matching filters using the Smith Chart and spectral analysis of a Hewlett Packard network spectrum analyzer. Wound own coils, baluns and transformers to obtain an acceptable match for production. Wrote PC programs in C and Clipper to calculate and store data from spectral analyzers.

• COMPUTER EXPERIENCE
• Hardware: 7 years of experience upgrading 80286 - Pentiums for memory, hard-drives, and general, overall, PC troubleshooting and upgrading.
• Operating Systems: MS DOS 6 years
• High degree of Memory optimization knowledge
• MS Windows for Workgroups 3.11 6 Years
• MS Windows '95/NT4.0/NT3.51 5 Years
• MS Windows 2000/2003/2008 AD 16 Years
• SCO UNIX 6 Years
• AT T UNIX 2 Years
• Sun Solaris 8,9 Certified 8 Years
• Linux 12 Years
• Cisco IOS 16 Years
• Cisco SAN-OS < 1 Year
• Languages: BASIC 5 Years
• ASSEMBLER Specialized Motorola 6502 7 Years
• FORTRAN 77 2 Years
• C C 16 32 Bit 16 Years
• Java 1.0, 1.1 7 Years
• PERL 5 Years
• .NET/C 3 Years
• Unix Shell Bourn 12 Years
• CGI C/PERL/PHP Apache Web Servers 7 Years
• MS-DOS Batch, VBS, and Windows Scripting Host 9 Years, 3 Year, 3 Year respectively
• Hayes Modem Command Set 8 Years
• Networks: TCP/IP Related Protocols Networking 16 Years
• Novell NetWare 3.x/4.12/5.1 IPX/SPX 6 Years
• CAT3, CAT5 Network Cabling Testing 6 Years
• Shiva LanRovers Routers 5 Years
• CISCO Routers Catalyst IOS v.10-12 5 Years
• Cabletron HUBs RMON, SNMP 6 Years
• NAS Technologies 10 Years
• SAN Technologies EMC2 Cisco 95xx equipment 1 Year
• Databases: Clipper 1 Year
• DBIV 3 Years
• Delphi 1.x - 2.0 1 Year
• Paradox 3 Years
• Progress v.6,7,8 2 Years
• PostgreSQL 7.1 Current 11 Years
• Oracle 9i current 5 Years
• MS-SQL-200x 6 Years
• IDEs or CASE Tools: Borland C/C 3.x - 5.02
• Borland C Builder Enterprise 1,3,4,5,6,2006 13 Years
• Borland TASM 6 Years
• Unix C GNU C 16 Years
• Other:
• Apache Web Server from source 10 Years
• SendMail Email System from source 6 Years
• Postfix Email from source 5 Years
• Secure Shell from source 10 Years
• Linux Firewalls/VPNs 10 Years
• Cisco PIX Firewalls 3 Years
• Raptor Firewalls 2 Years
• Bind or DNS named from source 16 Years
• Samba from source 12 Years
• PIC ATMega MCUs 2 Years

EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES

Sigma Pi Fraternity - Alumnus involved in coordinating the brotherhood for the successful recruitment of new members. Member of a softball team, enjoy rowing, motorcycling and own car repairs/tinkering.