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Software engineer with broad experience in the full life-cycle of electronic systems. Strong focus on real-time embedded systems, embedded controls, video processing, and wireless communications. - Expert in architecting, designing, and implementing embedded, real-time software in C and C++. - Expert in a multitude of processors, microcontrollers, and DSPs, including ARM, Altera NIOS-II, most TI DSPs (especially C6000 series and DaVinci), TI MSP430, embedded i86, Microchip PIC, Atmel, and others. - Expert in a variety of real-time operating systems (RTOS), including uC/OS-II, FreeRTOS, SYS/BIOS, Nucleus Plus, and QNX. Also highly experienced in developing real-time systems on bare metal (no RTOS). - Expert in interfacing to all kinds of peripheral devices, including custom, one-of-a-kind hardware implemented in FPGA logic. - Experienced in board bring-up and troubleshooting. Extensive experience with oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, and other lab tools. Experience designing and building rapid-prototype circuit boards for lab use. - Expert in a variety of integrated development environments (IDE), including Eclipse, CodeComposer, SDS SingleStep, KEIL, Microchip, and CodeWarrior. Also highly experienced in bare-bones, command-line driven tools (makefiles and various scripting languages) in DOS, Linux, and Unix environments. - Experienced with a variety of source control and issue tracking tools, including Visual Source Safe, JIRA, Tortoise/SVN, Telelogic Synergy, Clearcase/Clearquest. - Experienced in a number of applications areas, including video processing, TCP/IP networking, wireless system design, and protocol design. - Experienced with both agile and CMMI development processes. Experienced with CMMI-3 and CMMI-5 processes. - Experienced with MATLAB, Visual Basic, Visual C++, LabWindows, and DOORS. - Excellent communications and presentation skills.