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Highland Park, California

President - Optimist Youth Home & Family ServicesOptimist Youth Homes & Family Services provides culturally sensitive, comprehensive treatment, specialized education and support services to abused, neglected or at-risk children, youth and their families, to promote stability within families and communities.We are committed to giving all children the chance at a bright future which they so rightly deserve. In combining therapy, education and a nurturing residential living environment, we provide the specialized care and unbounded love and understanding needed by each and every child. And through life skills training, we aim to help young people overcome the negative experiences of their youth in order to lead meaningful, independent adult lives. At Optimist, futures begin here, starting with a home, a family and hope.Optimist Youth Homes & Family Services’ core program is a 24-hour residential-care facility for 97 boys in five dormitories and three independent living units. The agency also operates two group homes that care for six boys each and two group homes for six girls each, a Foster Family & Adoption Agency with 70 children in foster homes, a non-public high school, a charter school and a variety of mental health programs, most of which are community-based.

Embedded printing software, including PostScript intelligence, in production printer products.Kyocera Technology Development, Inc. is a subsidiary of Kyocera Mita America and employs high-technology professionals in disciplines including software and hardware engineering, quality assurance, technical communications, product marketing, IT and administration.Kyocera Technology Development develops printing hardware and software that drives the Kyocera Mita family of office printers and multi-function digitial copiers sold worldwide under the Kyocera, Copystar and EcoPro brands.

Overall development and customization of PostScript for Xerox Freeflow Document Scan and MakeReady products and production printers.

Staff Software Engineer – Peerless SystemsOverall development and customization of PostScript language for embedded processors in printing systems.• Complete responsibility for top quality, timely deliverable of PostScript integrated into an embedded proprietary system.• Target processors include several Intel I960, IBM PPC 400, 600, and 700 series, and Peerless QP401.• UNIX Sun Solaris systems and tools used for source development, compilation, and archiving software.• Senior staff consistently advised of development issues, analysis of product performance metrics across all company product lines with comparisons to competitive products.• Wrote definitions, specifications, and negotiated with clients regarding PostScript features and operations. Products produced include monochrome laser printers with 4-26 ppm, color laser printers in the 6-8ppm, and multifunction devices with multiple input sources, various imaging capabilities and resolutions, and output finishers including punches, staplers, and sorters.• Recipient of many awards for exceptional performance, development of world class products, and developed the Postscript interpreter for a color printer designated ‘color printer of the year’ by an industry periodical publication.

Field Support Liaison Manager – Xerox Corp.3rd level support engineer, Senior Product Engineer – Xerox Corp.Development and customization of PostScript for Xerox Freeflow Document Scan and MakeReady products and production printers.Software development of Diagnostics interfaces and protocols, Fault and Exception handling, and user interfaces for a software development organization.Simulation tools and systems for early support and development of printer hardware and software protocol, shortening the development cycle. Black box testing user interfaces and printer throughput.User documentation, test plans, Software skills: ‘C’/C++, Intel assembly, MTOS target Operating System, PC development station, Sun workstations, printers, Ethernet, file and print servers.Primary liaison to third party vendors as well as co-development efforts between two major corporations, resulting in a high quality product. Developed white box testing tools.Contract definitions, and technical support. Designed and implemented automated keyboard interrupt drivers for consistent repetitive testing, eliminating human error. Created conversion utilities for many word processing systems, to convert user files to other word processing formats.Technical leadership for portions of the “Memorywriter” typewriter project, development of a business graphics software package , and ancillary support to the word processing development effort.Developed/converted word processing package to operate in computer offset printing environments.

Software development of Diagnostics interfaces and protocols, Fault and Exception handling, and user interfaces for a software development organization.Defined and designed functions and processes allowing new software employees to be productive quickly, resulting in more rapid software development.Completed test projects on time or ahead of schedule in R&D environment.Developed simulation tools and systems for early support and development of printer hardware and software protocol, shortening the development cycle. Black box testing user interfaces and printer throughput.Provided user documentation, test plans, and monitored test results.Software skills: 'C'/C++, Intel assembly, MTOS target Operating System, PC development station, Sun workstations, printers, Ethernet, file and print servers.

Primary liaison to third party vendors as well as co-development efforts between two major corporations, resulting in a high quality product. Developed white box testing tools.Provided contract definitions and functional specification updates, technical support and training as well as contract administration on projects, demonstrating range of managerial ability.Ensured resolution of all issues and problems, reported status of project deliverables and performed analysis of products for future product insight.Designed and implemented automated keyboard interrupt drivers for consistent repetitive testing, eliminating human error. Resulted in highly error free product testing.Created conversion utilities for many word processing systems, to convert user files to other word processing formats.Software skills: 'C', Intel assembly, Pascal, PC development, Sun workstations, RS232 / RS422.

DEVELOPMENT PROBLEM RESOLUTION3rd level support engineer, working field and customer issues for inclusion by development team in maintenance releases.Responsible for all QA, integration and support of field reported problems, ensuring recreation, development resolution, and subsequent integration for product maintenance releases.

Provided technical leadership for portions of the "Memorywriter" typewriter project, development of a business graphics software package for the 820-II personal computer, and ancillary support to the word processing development effort.Trained and provided technical support for team members, planned and supervised integration of all package elements, and provided support to quality assurance and product test groups.Developed/converted word processing package to operate in computer offset printing environments.Software skills: Pascal, Intel assembly, PC development station, VT100 terminals, DEC host.

Senior Systems Engineer – Untied Technology Corp. MostekTechnical leader for several engineering development projects, providing scoping, functional specifications, feasibility studies and support, resulting in product being launched.• Converted software sources of in-circuit emulators (ICE) to operate in different operating systems.• Software skills: ‘C’, Pascal, Intel and 68000 assembly, PC development, STD bus, IEEE488 / GPIB.

Recognition EquipmentTeam member in design, implementation and installation of real time, multi-processor, item processing banking system for major New York banks.Developed report generation programs and majority of user interface applications providing in depth analysis of daily and monthly check processing requirements and patterns.Taught banking sort patterns, enabling client to custom program for their needs.

Senior Systems Analyst – Recognition EquipmentTeam member in design, implementation and installation of real time, multi-processor, item processing banking system for major New York banks.• Developed report generation programs and majority of user interface applications providing in depth analysis of daily and monthly check processing requirements and patterns.• Taught banking sort patterns, enabling client to custom program for their needs.Senior Field Engineer – Recognition EquipmentTechnical support to regional and local site personnel, assuring 24 hour operations. Responsible for preventative maintenance and repair by designing and installing engineering changes on mini-computers, and system peripherals, keeping customer equipment operational and state of the art.

Recognition EquipmentTechnical support to regional and local site personnel, assuring 24 hour operations. Responsible for preventative maintenance and repair by designing and installing engineering changes on mini-computers, and system peripherals, keeping customer equipment operational and state of the art.6/24/2009 Page 1 of 2

Bachelor Of Science (Bs)

Bachelor Of Science (Bs)

A. S.

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