* Designed, developed, optimized, tested, and maintained firmware, including device drivers and interrupt handlers, for digital image capture head hardware consisting of custom ASICs, timing generators, and CCD & CMOS image sensor devices. * Designed and developed customer-public APIs and device drivers for image capture and lens focus, aperture, and zoom control within an embedded digital camera operating environment. * Assisted with the design and development of a multi-threaded image capture control system.* Debugged proprietary image capture hardware from first power-up.

* Pioneered the development and use of real-time embedded multi-threaded task schedulers and firmware in general at Digisonix.* Designed, developed, optimized, tested, and maintained firmware, including device drivers and interrupt handlers, for numerous adaptive DSP-based active sound & vibration cancellation (ASVC) products. This firmware interfaced with various TI DSP microprocessors & associated on-chip peripherals (communications ports, DMA, timers) as well as on-board A/D and D/A converters, programmable analog gain controls, LED displays, various user controls (switches & buttons), digital I/O, various I C peripherals, non-volatile memories, FPGAs, PALs, UARTs, and RS-232 & RS-485 tranceivers. * Authored and implemented proprietary serial communications protocols for controller networking, general communications, debugging, and remote monitoring via modems. * Designed and implemented proprietary high speed message queue based inter-processor communications firmware for multi-processor TMS320c40 based controllers. * Assisted in the design and debugging of numerous prototype and production hardware platforms for automotive, avionics, semiconductor clean-room, HVAC, and industrial ASVC applications from first power-up thru production. * Designed, developed, and maintained customizable graphical user interfaces, in the form of C-like