EXPERIENCE SUMMARY:

• Over 30 years programming
• Over 20 years hardware oriented programming
• Over 30 years full life cycle development
• Over 15 years realtime and driver development
• Over 13 years telephony systems development
• Over 10 years C, C++, C++11, C++/CLI, Visual C++, gcc
• Over 10 years Object Oriented development
• Over 10 years test system development
• Over 7 years embedded development on 6 different projects
• Over 5 years UNIX Shell, Python and PERL scripting development
• 3 years Medical Device development and testing
• 1 year Ethernet with TCP and UDP

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• Visual C++, STL, Templates, C++/CLI .Net 2.0, C, QTP, VBScript, LabVIEW
• Python, PERL, XML and schema, Unix Shell Scripting, DOS Scripting
• Pascal, Ada, Assembly (10 very different computers)
• XML, XML Schema
• C++, C++11, C++/CLR .Net, Ada, Object Pascal
• STL, Templates
• Authored article about Object Pascal
• Object Oriented Design (UML)
• Windows (Visual C++, Visual C, Borland, HP VEE, WinCE)
• CENTOS Linux, Solaris UNIX, HP UX, LynxOS Real - time OS
• Parasoft
• Robot
• Subversion, Mercurial, Git
• DSEE(Apollo), CMS(DEC)
• Extensive Hardware Design Verification
• Embedded Firmware
• Test Stand Development
• Computer Interface Design

EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Plano, Texas

Technical Writer

Responsibilities:

• Developed automated generation for Embedded Cellphone application.
• Based on existing Doxygen comments using breathe and Sphinx to generate clickable documentation.
• Introduced to Agile project management.

Confidential, Erie, Pennsylvania

Embedded Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Worked for the Legacy Locomotive development project.
• This code controls the AC4400 Locomotives made in the 1980s and 1990s.
• It uses an embedded firmware multiprocessor system running Intel 80186s programmed in Assembly Language and Pascal.
• The code is compiled on HP UX and Sun Solaris computers.

Confidential, Rolling Meadows, Illinois

Embedded Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Worked in the Litening Pod development group.
• First project was developing a manufacturing test program for an upgraded embedded computer that adds features to the existing pod using I2L.
• This was programmed in embedded C.
• Next worked on a software test program for a sensor from Selex supporting the fly off for the F16C Confidential.
• The pods interfaces to the F15C using 1553 and controls the sensor using serial 422.
• Tested some functions used in Bolt, a unifying GUI for various Confidential testing and configuration programs.
• Wrote a Robot script to test some Pod software.
• The Pod used I2C for communication.

Confidential, Irving, Texas

C++ Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Added application features high speed OCR mail sorting C++ software.
• The two major projected were DoD for can incoming package system for the Confidential and one for the La Poste postal system used in France.
• My efforts were directed by a very knowledgable lead.
• Pioneered the use of wxWidgets user interface for an in house utility written in C++11.
• Adding features and fixing bugs in next generation software.
• Also updated the xml and schemas that controlled the use of these features.
• This work uses Visual Studio C++ and subversion.

Confidential, Richardson, Texas

C++ Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Update C++ Object Oriented User Interface for Video Slot Machines.
• Refactoring, adding features and fixing bugs in next generation software.
• Also updated the xml and schemas that controlled the use of these features.
• This work uses Visual Studio C++ and subversion.
• The system used UART based serial for communication.

Confidential, Salt Lake City, Utah

Embedded C++ Software Verification Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Developed C++ Object Oriented automated regression unit tests for the Linux based realtime software used in the next generation X-Ray system detector for the Operating Theater.
• These tests were implemented using the C++ Object Oriented Parasoft test framework and DOORS requirements framework.

Confidential, Fort Worth, Texas

C++ Programmer

Responsibilities:

• On contract, trained on Point of Sale Front of House portion of system.
• Fixed defects in existing Aloha Restaurant Point of Sale system using Visual C++ 2010 for next release.

Confidential, Plano, Texas

Senior Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Refactored an embedded C application for the Apollo Far Field Module using MSP430.
• Developed Software Test for that embedded application using Object Oriented Visual C++.
• Developed Performance measurement tests for Rapid Programmer 3.4 validation using VBScript/QTP.
• Developed a LabVIEW app to simulate and display 16 electrode traces.
• Developed performance measurement of Rapid Programmer (WinCE PDA) using QTP.
• Developed document classification application using XML and Python.
• Developed tests for realtime kernel for Implantable Pulse Generator.

Confidential, Richardson, Texas

Embedded Linux Programmer

Responsibilities:

• Developed a realtime embedded kernel driver in C for an FPGA based hyperspectral multi camera system, which did realtime image manipulation and merging of different cameras for use in UAVs and HumVees.
• The host and target systems used the CentOS Linux distribution. Defined the development toolchain.
• Developed the initial version of the multi-threaded Object Oriented C++ management application using Boost threads and designed with UML.
• This application used mutex and Boost threads for inter thread communication.
• This distributed system communicated using TCP/IP Boost sockets for inter computer communication.
• Administered and maintained the development system.
• Developed the command line programs used in design verification.
• Contributed to the definition of the FPGA interface.

Confidential, Irving, Texas

Microsoft C++/CLI .Net 2.0 Programmer

Responsibilities:

• Developed an Object Oriented user interface that displayed the data from documents processed on a high speed document transport with included interactive animation of the user input.
• This program is used to define the settings for document classification.
• Developed human understandable summery report Used Microsoft Visual C++ 2005.

Confidential, Austin, Texas

C++ Programmer

Responsibilities:

• Maintained library routines in Confidential 's System Software group that supported the design verification, manufacturing test, chip set and board level diagnostics.
• Developed a Program Versioning system, extended interrupt counting feature.
• The target systems executed on a proprietary Linux OS.
• This work included developing Objected Oriented C++ classes and function templates.

Confidential, Allen, Texas

C++ MFC Programmer

Responsibilities:

• Developed the filter computation engine for a four channel mixed signal ASIC, Confidential Pro using Microsoft Visual C++ MFC 2003.
• This program computes filter coefficients from user selected parameters.
• It supports Parks-McClennan, several Confidential inc and user defined filters.
• Each channel has an A to D front end with a programmable digital filter.
• Developed the Object Oriented user interface for 20 different filter types with a multi level class hierarchy.
• The program targeted Windows XP PC.
• Developed code to drive prototype boards that communicated using the SPI protocol. Included Built In Test (BIT) support .
• The chips used SPI for communication.
• Tested the computations using routines written in PERL.