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Greater Chicago Area

Chicago, Illinois

• Developed Embedded software for the Motorola Mods accessories. Managed Mods user trial, and over the air updates.
• Architected and developed drivers for moving GPIO control from Micro Controller to secondary chip
• Mined Google Big Query data to identify primary consumer use cases. Insights used to make product roadmap decisions
• Developed new reports to quantify and measure action taken on soft feedback provided in user trials

Chicago, IL

• Managed hardware / software integration for Moto 360 line of smart watches. Served as technical interface to internal user trial, marketing, and external customer support. Reviewed marketing material for technical.
• Launched Motorola’s first ever Android Wear smart watches, first and second generation Moto 360, exceeding customer satisfaction and product return expectations.
• Discerned actual bugs from user complaints, providing corrective measures and collecting data.
• Developed testing plans for validating new features, capturing bugs upon discovery and providing first level analysis.
• Combined unique insight from consumer feedback and technical expertise to make design input on future generation products, developing workable solutions for customer pain points.

Libertyville, IL

• Reviewed products shipping with open source software (OSS).
• Advised legal team on interpretation of open source licenses, ensuring compliance.
• Created license bill of materials (BOM) for all files used in product software, meeting license publication and attribution requirements.
• Analyzed software linkage relationships, avoiding improper linkage with copy-left licenses and preventing legal exposure of proprietary software.
• Reviewed usage of new OSS packages and 3rd-party software, approving integration into main code base.

Arlington Heights, IL

• Developed embedded DSP software for transceivers implementing WiMax, LTE and GSM standards. Served as release coordinator in charge of source control management.
• Created 2-stage boot program on first revision silicon and avoided hardware redesign by working around limitations of chip unknown in initial design phase.
• Redesigned on-radio test program and replaced VxWorks OS, saving $1 per radio in license fees on product that shipped over 1M units.
• Wrote code to interact with FPGAs, selecting and loading images at run time and developing drivers to control FPGA inputs / registers.
• Developed test tools (C) and test scripts, simulating higher level software, running full system tests of transceiver hardware, and allowing full system testing at earlier stage of development.
• Created and updated documents for user guides, component test, and system guidelines and participated in reviews of those documents and documents written by other team members, confirming appropriate resources.