Bruce Ricker Email & Phone Number

Plano, TX, US

As a Team Lead reporting directly to the Director of Research and Development, Bruce looks forward to leading a very talented team leveraging his vast mentoring and software development experience. Together they will migrate the software product pallette of Wasp, System ID and Informatics Holdings, Inc. toward a unified web architecture.

Plano, Texas, US

Designentscheidungen auf hoher Ebene treffen und technische Standards durchsetzen, einschließlich Algorithmus Leistung und Tools. Praktische Mitwirkung bei der Vermeidung und Lösung technischer Probleme. Entwicklungsteams führen. Code-Reviews Durchführen. Versions-, Release- und IBS-Management.

As a Software Architect and Engineer Bruce is Sole Proprietor of his own IT consulting firm.Continuing 16 years of consulting and engineering, mainly for repeat-customers in the highly demanding arena of world renowned German Engineering proves just how satisfied BrucesGerman customers have been with his work for almost two decades.Loyalty and dedication.

Munich, DE

PMC - HTML5 + MVC ASP.Net + Razor + SignalR + W2K8 + HPUX OPC / UA Server interfaceBruce was a key visionary, forward thinker and change agent behind this user interface innovation project. Bruce used scientific methodology to investigate technology alternatives laying the foundation for the architecture. Bruce motivated other architects with the.

Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, DE

PMC - click optimization + W2K8 porting - workflow integrationUsing and extending SOA services, Bruce introduced customer specific workflow aspects into several PMC Services as a subcontractor for Siemens AG.Another innovation was to introduce scalability into several PMC communication subsystems thus doubling the PLC capacity of the system. Bruce also.

Rüsselsheim Am Main, DE

Visual Information Management (VIM)Visual information management (VIM) is an N-tier system for the de-centralized creation of animated 2D vector graphics, integration and animation of graphics using real time production data and distributing these animated graphics and multimedia to various embedded display panels and screens.Bruce helped conceive this.

As a Software Architect/Engineer Bruce was joint owner and sole operator of his own IT consulting firm. 16 years of consulting and engineering, mainly for repeat-customers in the highly demanding arena of world renowned German Engineering proves just how satisfied his customers have been with his work for almost two decades.Keep reading for a few more.

Ingolstadt, Bayern, DE

OTX Integration into SIDIS ProBruce leveraged prior experience in similar products, his expertise in compiler construction and experience creating software development platforms to add this innovation to the Siemens SIDIS Pro product line.Bruce introduced a new style of coding, introducing team members to C# generics. Bruce used C# generics to solve.

Forchheim, DE

This project had multiple dimensions of challenges because a primary goal was to move the responsibility of development of major software components from Vienna Austria to a new team of developers in Bangalore India as well as a team in Slovakia.Bruce was a key player in the introduction of SCRUM to all teams involved. Bruce used effective communication to.

Auburn Hills, MI, US

PMC - click protocolTo fortify PMCs market position and continue Daimlers march to standardisation on PMC, Siemens needed to demonstrate the flexibility and expandability of this SOA Architecture by adding support for Rockwell PLCs. Siemens A&D called on Bruce once again as a respected expert on communication protocols.Bruce expanded PMCs communication.

Bruce jumped at the opportunity to join this innovative, fast paced internet technology startup. Bruce was a driving force behind the development of a cross-platform SVG viewer with a thread-safe DOM and innovative multi-threaded rendering pipelines for the embedded market. The company also had plans for and started on the prototype for an innovative web.

Ingolstadt, Bayern, DE

ECOS/SIDIS ProBruces unparalleled reputation within Siemens A&D for solving the toughest problems got him passed along to other Siemens departments and projects who were having difficulty with problems and needed a hand.The first problem was a memory leak which caused a periodic server fault. The first two weeks of profiling showed that the leak was.

GVN/RSFully automated document publishing system - documents are imported automatically from the document management system, processed, converted to PDF format and distributed according to a configurable set of rules.Bruce drove the entire life cycle of this document conversion and messaging system. Innovations included several reusable software components.

Munich, DE

SIDIS EnterpriseHaving established his reputation for excellence in Software Engineering Bruce was once again called upon to implement the most pivotal component in SIDIS Enterprise, the Service Programming subsystem.The Service Programming subsystem.is the development environment used by BMW to develop vehicle test software much like OTX Studio by.

Munich, DE

RTL LightWithin weeks Bruce had this prototype GPS Application running on an embedded handheld. This was many many years before Google web services and the like made apps like this trivial. Bruce used Embedded C++ code to render custom maps provided by the customer. Bruce wrote generic conversion and calibration code and a GPS NMEA hardware driver to.

Auburn Hills, MI, US

PMC2Siemens AG won a innovation contest sponsored by Daimler Chrysler for the next generation production monitoring and control system. After two years and half a dozen prototypes, Siemens called on Bruce when it was time to get the ball rolling and get things done. Bruce introduced many innovations like a hybrid in/out Service Oriented Architecture in.

Wolfsburg, Niedersachsen, DE

PMC - VKOM, pd_gen, GUI, toolbox platformThis was the first major user interface modernization to Siemens Production Monitoring and Control system PMC.Already highly regarded as an expert in multi-threading, shared memory and dozens of other technologies on the Microsoft platform, Bruce developed VKOM, an innovative shared memory communication subsystem.

Wolfsburg, Niedersachsen, DE

ANDONHaving distinguished himself among his peers and gaining the trust and respect of superiors, Bruce was the last engineer in his first project for this Siemens A&D department. That also meant he was there when the next project got started. This started a pattern, a chain of projects where one project followed the next and so on. The projects, the.

Mladá Boleslav, CZ

ANDONis a system to notify management, maintenance, and other workers of a quality or process problem. The ANDON Server used live data from customer systems like PMON to control signal lights on several different types of signboard and mirror this board state on connected PCs.Bruce leveraged years of experience programming on Win16 and Win32 to distinguish.

Project Shutdownwas a requirements engineering audit. Siemens builds power plants in three phases, marketing, engineering and maintenance phases. This Audit was to measure data transfer efficiency between the phases.The auditing work left lots of free time between the interviews so Bruce took the initiative and helped peers with numerous little projects.

DocManDocument Management System for accountants and the German Income Tax Consulting industry. This object oriented system had several layers of clean encapsulated interfaces and controls so that the vast majority of the source code was used in other Syntax products. Bruces areas of responsibility included: implementation of the document management system.

Organizational ProgrammerImplemented office automation C/Clipper database apps for DOS. Implemented Oracle/Unix reports in C, PL/SQL, awk as well as three major innovations described below.The first innovation which quickly set Bruce apart from his peers was the creation of Mouse and Graphics drivers for the DOS with Novell system Clipper and creating the.

Arlington, Virginia, US

• MANPAD Crew Chief
• Top Secret clearance.
• Instructed subordinates on equipment maintenance and use.Awards
• Army Commendation Medal, Seven Army Achievement Medals, Good Conduct Medal, NCOTC medal. Five promotions in four years.

Bachelor'S Degree, Computer Science

Education record