EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

Extensive computer industry experience including management, product development, solutions design, architecture design, systems engineering, hardware design, motion control, controls and automation, manufacturing systems, legal systems, communications, business software, compilers, financial software, consulting, sales, and sales support. Outstanding verbal skills. Professional computer career began at sixteen. Experienced in all sizes of companies from very small to Fortune 100. Big - picture and hands-on roles. Deep technical experience complemented by business savvy.

TECHNICAL CREDENTIALS

Oracle Enterprise Manager Presales Champion

Oracle Technology Support Champion

Continuing Education Courses:

CMM Overview

Computer-Assisted Project Management

Project Management Startup and Planning

Project Management Execution and Closedown

Matlab with Simulink

OSEK Embedded Operating System Standard

Programming Windows CE

Software Engineering Process Workshop

Borland Delphi.

Self-taught:

IBM mainframe architecture (System Z) and microcode design

IBM AS/400 family, RPG

Middleware, DB2/SQL

IBM communications and system programming

VM

UNIX, Linux

Technologies used include Java/J2EE/Java EE, Eclipse, Oracle, Sun, BMC, SAP, IBM Tivoli, HP OpenView, Saas, SOA, ITIL, Six Sigma.

Article published in 2005 by Elsevier Press.

EXPERIENCE

Auburn Hills, MI

Architect, and System Requirements Engineer, for electronic modules with firmware, on Windows CE and Linux platforms, for Maserati, Chrysler, and Fiat. Crisis go-to guy, including representing company to Chrysler Director-level.

Report to Director

Technologies used: C++, C, software design methodologies, CMMI, DOORS, Enterprise Architect UML modeling tool, embedded systems, Open Source, Linux, model-based simulation, MS Project

Royal Oak, MI

Product Manager, Project Manager and SeniorR & D Engineerat Realtime Technologies, which supplies advanced battle vehicle simulation to government entities, saving lives and money.

Manage final test development for next-generation Abrams tank armament.

Leader of business-critical missions to Europe. Customers include General Dynamics, Airbus, Department of Defense.

Designed and produced high-realism force-feedback steering system for various high-end military vehicle simulators.

Report to President

Direct reports: two contractors, one part-time assistant

Technologies used: C#, .Net, C++, C, electronic design methodologies, Open Source, Linux, Matlab/Simulink clone, model-based simulation, MS Project, advanced motion control motion bases, PLC

Lansing, Michigan

Won endorsement of Detroit News, County Executive L. Brooks Patterson, and numerous business and political leaders. Placed second in Primary, with 2,674 votes, in a campaign much-complimented by experts. Person-to-person selling, speaking and speechwriting, media appearances, strategy, fundraising, finance reports. Now have many government contacts.

Direct reports: five managers and sixty-five workers

Commerce, Michigan

Campaign Worker

Declined good written offer from Altair Engineering and worked intensely for national candidates for the 2008 election.

Metro Detroit, MI

Software Engineering Manager

Headed the Software Department, plus electronics and systems. Worked on QA high-end inspection machines for automotive, military, and medical applications, using multiple lasers and advanced mathematics, multiple machine vision systems, and electromagnetic induction sensing.

Shortly after being recruited from Wilcox I discovered that this smallish company was running gravely in the red.

Drafted as the primary planner for a best-efforts attempted production problem turnaround. This necessitated a company-wide turnaround in entrenched ways, which was not supported by management. In my judgment, this company was therefore no longer savable, and I left.

Direct reports: five dedicated people plus multiple consultants

Technologies used: C#, Python, Visual C++, C++/CLI, .Net, motion control, PLC, machine vision, metrology, SPC

Confidential

Wixom, MI (HQs Sunnyvale, CA and London)

Senior Software Engineer

Worked on machine vision and robotics. Co-developer of world-dominant QA metrology software product, running on PCs and connecting to UNIX and mainframes. Often must reverse engineer with equipment from competing companies providing no technical data. Business troubleshooter, crisis go-to guy, trainer. Have been sent to Belgium, England, Germany, Netherlands, Denmark, Brazil, Italy, and Czech Republic. Comfortable with international travel and understand nuances of local cultural expectations. Received the highest review ratings.

Recruited for single-handed invention and complex problem-solving in remote locations, operating in concert with nearly 100 globally distributed software engineers.

Technologies used: C#, Python, Visual C++ 2005, C++/CLI, .Net, motion control, PLC, machine vision

Confidential

Troy, MI

Senior Applied Specialist

Consultant in the development of embedded software for microprocessors and microcontrollers. EDS develops and supports PC, UNIX, embedded and mainframe software systems. Developed software for mobile computers for manufacturers\' materials tracking. Identified tremendous but ill-exploited market opportunity for EDS (Palm software). Obtained consensus with EDS director of wireless offerings as to respective group responsibilities. Appointed myself Palm OS champion and trainer, developed training program, lobbied for recruits. Resulting contingent of Palm people is to be supplied to EDS Business Development people. Mentoring responsibilities for new recruits and junior people so as to increase their deploy-ability and ROI. Was asked for ideas for effective show demos. Conceived EDS-created Miniature Automatic Guided Vehicle (MAGV) as crowd-drawer. Won high management approval. Designed the vehicle, lead the project using 10 people. Was offered mostly people sitting on the bench and second hand equipment. Because of my career record, was given wide latitude to run as I saw necessary to get done pronto. Also wrote the main software. Project went from initial idea to working unit in 8 weeks. Prepared presentation and gave talk to higher management and EDS marketing consultants. Device consistently draws crowds, as intended. Invited to follow this success with further projects of my conception. Three more simultaneous projects about to begin under my technical lead; also won the services of a dedicated project manager.

Was trained in CMM Level 3, System Life Cycle, and Project Management processes and mathematical modeling software.

Direct reports: nine people

Technologies used: C, Visual C++, Windows2000, analog and digital electronics, motion control, video, machine vision, sonar, electric motors, oscilloscope, Palm, Motorola microprocessors/microcontrollers, embedded systems.

Confidential

Ann Arbor, MI

Senior Software Engineer

Developed embedded software for advanced machine tools for automotive and aerospace factory floor. Evaluated, specified and designed-in digital signal processors (DSPs). Designed digital electronics for high speed processing. Specified computer and network equipment. Participated in new product creation process in both concept and execution. PC and UNIX platforms.

Attempted to buy company when it got into financial trouble; was one of two final bidders. Personally prepared turnaround strategy, located interested businessmen investors with confidence in me, negotiated plan with existing management, held ongoing discussions with investment bankers, lawyers, international accountants, and stockholders.

Technologies used: OrCad, FPGAs/FPLAs, C, Visual C++, Java, Visual Basic, Delphi, Windows 95/98/NT, Microsoft networking, Internet, assembly language, Forth, digital hardware design software, PLC (Allen Bradley/Rockwell), oscilloscope, Object Oriented Design, Object Oriented Programming.

Confidential

Dearborn Heights, MI

Owner

Projects included writing manufacturing inspection software and law office automation software. Performed all project management and design personally. Recruited for customer.

Example project: Was invited to tour and make suggestions to an advanced tool and die shop. After networking their PCs and CNC machines, I dramatically increased speed of a critical CNC machine. Then wrote software that brought the measurement data from their CMM machine back into their CAD/CAM system, thereby closing the manufacturing loop and allowing better Q.A. and quality documentation for their customers.

Technologies used: C, Visual C++, Watcom C/C++, Visual Basic, c-tree ISAM, Windows 95, Microsoft networking, Internet, assembly language.

Confidential

Ann Arbor, MI

Director of R & D

Supporting and enhancing the company\'s Privilege case management software, and managing and troubleshooting the networks of computers of Future Law and its customers. Negotiated >10% ownership of the company. The product was essentially a specialized office automation program for attorneys.

Technologies used: C and Visual C++, Visual Basic, SQL, FoxPro, c-tree, Local Area Networks, Windows, Windows NT, DOS, DOS extenders, Intel x86, assembler, network administration.

Independent Research

This period was dedicated to research (at my own expense) in topics including natural and artificial intelligence, neural networks, and adaptive systems. Also contributed on UNIX to a start-up company based in Ann Arbor.

Technologies used: C and C++, CSS neural network software, artificial intelligence methods, graphical programming.

Confidential

Detroit, MI

Senior Systems Analyst 9

Was a developer and support engineer of Fruehauf\'s nationwide mainframe and minicomputer network. Much of the work was in circumnavigating existing bugs and deficiencies.

Technologies used: COBOL, HVS, GCOS-6, LANs, WANs, structured methods, Oracle.

Confidential

Ann Arbor, MI

Owner and Manager 8

Managed the construction of a complete C compiler for the Motorola 68000 microprocessor, and of the automatic compiler generation system that was used to develop it. One result was one of the few practical running systems for automatically producing both the parsing and object code-generating halves of a compiler.

Personally designed and constructed a new minicomputer central processor from concept through instruction set design, micro-architecture design, logic design, microcoding, debug, and programming. The entire machine fit on a 12 inch by 7 inch circuit card, and could run high-level language programs faster than a VAX 780. The machine was covered in depth in the cover story of Mini Micro Systems magazine.

Wrote the business plan, arranged a private placement for funding from a stockbroker, a lawyer, and others.

During same period co-founded ARK Research in San Diego, CA, a semi-spin-off of QMS, to make and sell printer hardware. Won over investment banker. Participated in the business plan writing and fundraising, was subject to due diligence. $1.5 million was raised while giving up only 15% of the company using complex R & D partnership with tax benefits to investors. This required my personal credibility since I was the sole technical partner (VP R & D) of the company. Turned over operation of the company to the other two partners and the investment banker and focused on Advanced Computing Technologies.

Technologies used: Pascal, microcode, OS/2, logic analyzer, assembly language.

Confidential

Mobile, AL

Systems Engineer 3

Devised software to refine plotter-quality fonts into laser-quality fonts, thereby producing instant typefaces for free. Wrote diagnostic software and circuit design software. Designed 2 seventy-chip circuit cards in 2 weeks.

Created, with three peers, the first moderate cost, intelligent laser printer controller, and QMS\'s first laser printer product. Because microprocessors were then too slow, this required special accelerating hardware which I designed. The first character was printed less than 24 hours after the hardware and software components were first integrated, due to nearly bug-free work. A prototype was demonstrated in only 13 weeks after the decision to enter the market. (QMS became a world leader in laser printers, traded on NYSE, and was bought by Konica Minolta). My work can be seen here

Was instrumental in correcting design flaws in many communications products based on IBM Bisync, System\\34, 327x, and NCR Common Trunk.

Technologies used: Real-time embedded systems, Pascal, VMS, Motorola 680x0 microprocessors, assembly language, 327x, WANs, laser diodes.

Confidential, Ann Arbor (2 yrs.)

Wrote business software for RCA Music, in FORTRAN, etc. Programmed communications system.

Technologies: IBM System 3x/AS/400, assembly language, RPG, BiSync (BSC), WANs (private networks).

Confidential, Ann Arbor (2 yrs.)

Wrote compiler software for IBM system (a complete floating-point library), in assembler, etc.

Confidential, Brokerage Division, New York City (1/2 yr.)

Wrote and maintained stock-picking software using live Standard and Poor\'s mainframe database, in FORTRAN.

PERSONALASSETS AND EXPERIENCES

Verbal skills equal to technical skills.

Proven in team situations.

Adept with customers.

Managed, hired, fired employees, accountants, lawyers.

Received in-person counsel from Bill Gates.

Studied Economics, Psychology.

Co-wrote two business plans that successfully raised money.

Featured as the lead engineer at investor presentation- raised 1.5 million.

Provided key language that closed R & D partnership contract.

Deposed twice, performed well.

Worked on Wall Street writing stock-picking software.

Designed and built entire minicomputer CPU.

Personal work on cover of industry magazine.

Quoted in Mechanical Engineering magazine.

Experience in over two dozen computer languages.

Knowledgeable in compiler construction.

Knowledgeable in operating system construction.

Knowledgeable in communications programming.

Handheld device programming experience.

Embedded systems programming and electronics experience.

Key member of a successful save-the-IPO engineering team.

Network manager at two companies.

Wrote software and designed electronics for aerospace machine tools.

Wrote diagnostic software.

Other Promotions experience:

Presenter at NCC.

Presented at COMDEX. Oversaw entire booth design.

Special additions to team:

Strong at solving tricky problems.

Require little technical support.

Personal interests:

Creating value, games of strategy, philosophy, neuroscience, technology.