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Lexington, Kentucky, United States

Centennial, CO, US

Developed Windows USB-CTAP2 HID emulation device driver for Dapple Security password-less security platform.

Santa Barbara, CA, US

As a Sr. Principal Engineer in the Advanced Technologies R&D group, I am responsible for investigating, prototyping and integrating new wireless and audio concealment technologies into our products.

Beaverton, Oregon, US

Responsible for designing and implementing of embedded software and firmware, including PCIe and XDMA device drivers and kernel modifications for Linux and FreeRTOS for our miniaturized ARM M-7 and Xylinx FPGA based ultrasound technology.

Beaverton, Oregon, US

Conducting and overseeing research, development, and design of engineering projects and proof-of-concepts, including WiFi-6/WiFi-6e, protocol stacks, RTOS and embedded Linux kernels & drivers, modeling, platform evaluation and migration, evaluating new technologies, etc..

Beaverton, Oregon, US

Reporting to the V.P. of Software Development, I am responsible for the design and development of our 2nd generation wireless audio framework and evaluation kits – offered across a number of platforms. Responsibilities include creation and oversight of budgets, vendor contract negotiation and oversight, as well as corporate-wide project schedule and.

Beaverton, Oregon, US

Primary responsibility is to design, implement and troubleshoot embedded software and Linux device drivers under CentOS running on new, specialized, complex, low-quantity multi-processor hardware. I personally designed and implemented the memory management and event handler systems for the new hardware, as well as writing a Fuzzy Stress Test system that.

Kista, SE

Responsible for technical aspects of all projects, as well as strategic planning, project execution and management of program and technical managers over numerous software projects for a number of high profile accounts, including Medical Device and POS companies, comprised of over 60 engineers from the U.S. and Romania. I have personally designed and.

Lake Forest, IL, US

Reporting to the V.P. of Software Development, I am responsible for software design and development of multiple, complex, concurrent medical device and medication management system projects, project and technical leads, and engineers for all infusion and enterprise system platforms across all of Hospira, including Symbiq, Plum, PCA, and GemStar infusion.

BSP/device-driver/OS Manager – responsible for design and development of PCI, PCI-Express, SPI, SDIO and USB-based Linux, Windows-XP, Vista and Windows-Mobile WiMax and WiFi modem/network (including NDIS) device drivers, as well as the Subscriber Station Platform (SSP) Bus-Agnostic Modem driver for ARM9-based ASICs. Linux drivers conforming to Open-Source.

Designed and developed the Automated Design Validation and Test (ADVT) system. ADVT is a C#.NET-based client-server GUI application, used to test EEC DC, AC, and load products in various configurations, utilizing GPIB, serial, USB, and TCP/IP socket interfaces to pass SCPI commands to various test measurement equipment. The ADVT system provided an IDE.

Developed and maintained Windows WDM function and filter drivers for USB-based devices, including modems, file-systems and camera interfaces, as well as associated firmware for CBPx CDMA ARM-7 core.

Completed development of the CS50 Telemetry Firmware using the IAR Embedded Workbench, including GSM (cellular) and landline modem drivers and task management under the COS-II OS. Wrote Serial Peripheral Interface (SPI) bus driver to interface a Motorola 68HC(7)05H12 to an A/D converter taking temperature and pressure-readings from analog device attached.

Fixed and enhanced Timex Trainer InstallShield installation script and USB communication problems.

Lead Minolta team in co-development with Peerless of 1st VxWorks-based laser printer; PPC 603 based with QP1800 co-processors. Led Minolta team in their first “wholly internally developed” laser printer based upon QP+401. Developed caching, memory management systems & VxWorks BSPs for the QP+401, QP+405 (PPC-based), and MIPS32 based products. Implemented.

Designed & co-developed Tropospheric Emissions Spectrometer (TES) Diagnostics System, comprised of a NT-base Visual C++ GUI connected to VxWorks VME-Bus based equipment via a TCP/IP socket. Developed MOUT System’s Workstation Command & Monitoring GUI using Visual C++/MFC.

Developed Windows-NDIS driver to intercept & modifying IP-packets moving between the TCP/IP protocol stack and network interface cards – providing dynamic routing capabilities to Internet Service Providers.

Developed Windows-NT device-drivers for Bancomm GPS, and DSP-RDDM/TDEM Satellite Comm. cards for the Combat Escape & Rescue Satellite System. Developed associated installation software & procedures.

Developed Solaris device drivers, and Windows-95 VxD for Rockwell 16-bit sound card.

Developed Windows-95 Infrared device driver. Created generalized communication Visual C++ object classes/APIs utilizing for serial, ECP, Bi-directional, and network communications for Toshiba’s Laptop Connection bundled software. Adapted Z-Modem protocol & data compression schemes.

Developed Visual C++ GUI applications in support of their Multi-platformed RAS Administration and Security System. Ported these applications to UNIX/Motif platforms.

Developed socket-based TCP/IP communications libraries under Borland C/C++ and Microsoft Visual C++ for the following Dongell products: DOS (TSR), Windows (DLL), Windows-S (32-bit), Windows-95, and Windows-NT. Wrote a variation of the DES encryption/decryption, SHA and MD5 hash algorithms.

Developed Object Oriented Report Generation System for the APS III heart monitoring/diagnostic product, specialized cardiogram and HP LaserJet printer drivers for Windows 3.11 and NT, including an interactive Report Formatter, HP PCL and Postscript PDL generators, and specialized cardiogram printer driver.

Co-developed version 4 of Ascom-Timeplex’s Network Management System  including X-Windows GUI, SNMP API-layer under HP-OpenView, and the Sybase & Ingress databases on Sun SPARC workstations.

Oversaw network communication system design of General Instruments DigiCipher II Satellite Encoder System, AKA DigiNet. Developed message protocol between 68EN360 kernel processors, the Uplink Control System, and the Encoder Monitor Controller. Modified/maintained MPEG Decoder Module in EMC.

Developed audio, network and SCSI (Host Bus Adapter and target) drivers for Solaris 2.1 and 2.4

Ported Locus' PCIMAC (AppleTalk Protocol Stack) product to Solaris 2.4. This included converting all stream drivers from the 802-layer to the ASP-layer, under the Solaris DDI/DDK.

Designed and managed development of Worldwide Stock Market Data Feed Test Software on IBM RS6000 running AIX; leading a team of 4 software engineers.

Atlanta, Georgia, US

Developed system & test software as well as test plans for release 2.04 and 2.05 of NCR's SNA LU6.2 and Token Ring Product to support up to 4096 logical links and LU6.2 sessions.

Designed printing system interface between Xerox high-speed printers & IBM mainframes, producing IPDS print documents via a SCSI device. Wrote API and SCSI device driver. Designed specialized communication between network printers and Sun & VAX/VMS platforms, utilizing C, C++, NFS, Oracle, & DBVista, TCP/IP, XNS, & Ethernet, as well as UNIX IPC facilities..

Co-designed & managed the development of PacTel Network Management System (NMS). Designed/developed communication/network layers. NMS components include: Informix database, Wingz reporting capabilities, X-Windows GUI, network distributed architecture on SUN SPARC platforms. The system accommodated SPARC, MACINTOSH, and DOS workstations, employing a common.

Redesigned the UNIX-based Mortgage Credit Data Acquisition system utilizing Shared Memory & Message Queue IPC facilities & utility functions, SNA LU6.2 & SNA LU2.0 interface with the Credit Reporting Centers. Redesigned/developed asynchronous protocol drivers providing contingency backup facilities.

Developed steady state rocket thruster test data reduction & analysis system, comprised of a SunView X-Windows based GUI, data upload/conversion software, mathematical calculations & transducer-unit conversion. Wrote driver for Kodak (WORM) Optical disk for UNIX System V.

Developed, installed & supported communication protocol drivers, for the following protocols: SNA/SDLC (3270, LU2.0), Bi sync, X.25/HDLC (LAP D), RS 232C, RS 422A, RS 423A.

Developed Text to phonetic conversion software for their "Mugshot Retrieval" system.

MIS/Project Manager/System Administrator. Co designed & managed development of: Telecommunication Rate Database system, Call Analysis product, which analyzed & graphically displayed calling patterns, Enhanced Rate Generation System, version 1.2 & 2.0 Callmonitor call accounting software & User Manual.

Randolph AFB, TX, US

Database manager. Received SAC IG's Outstanding Performers Award in 1982 & 1983. Systems Analyst for Accounting, Procurement, and Airplane Maintenance/Inventory Control systems.

Doctorate, Computer Science

Doctor Of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Electrical, Electronics And Computer Engineering

Doctor Of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Mathematics

Master'S Degree, Computer Science

B.S., Electrical Engineering

B.S., Computer Science