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Full stack development of enterprise web apps in C# Blazor.

Las Cruces, Nm

Founder and President of this privately held company. Middle Switch Software creates computer vision based products such as Strike Seeker, Precision Training Systems for bowling training centers and the Adveyesor suite of visual customer tracking and reporting software. Middle Switch Software also offers custom software development services to a variety of industries.

Socorro, New Mexico, United States

Lead engineer of a team developing radio telescope digitization and DSP instrumentation. Developed a distributed AI test and advanced diagnostics framework with a cloud back end in Go using REST and websockets. Created the web UI front end using Vue/Javascript/HTML/CSS.

Greater Milwaukee Area

AisleAware LLC contracted software development for a small medical startup company pursuing automated EEG analysis. Used Matlab scripts integrated with custom C# .NET modules to run tests and prepare detailed HTML reports.

Sun Prairie, Wi

Windows C# .NET development of the Windows host side of an interventional medical EEG device. Designed software architecture and fully implemented it. Created the TCP/IP link and protocol for controlling an embedded device. Prepared the UI design and implemented complex custom UI controls such as real time interactive waveform displays in WinForms and WPF. Created a Java/C# device emulator for development and testing. Implementing NI LabVIEW instrumentation for hardware V&V.

Rockford, Illinois Area

Project manager for a team of over 60 local and offshore software and test engineers developing embedded software for airliner electrical power distribution systems under DO-178B/C standards.* Maintain schedule and budget, handle supplier management for multiple outsourcing companies, report to upper management, interface with the international customer, and focus on process improvement.

Vernon Hills, Il

Software department manager and Software test group manager responsible for leading 30+ engineers, managers, and team leads.Manager of software engineering activities at local and satellite locations across the USA. Performed quality management and departmental duties. Concurrently created, hired and managed a new software test group as the interim test group manager.* Defined the management structure of the software and test groups and directly supervised a core team of project managers, technical leaders and testers.* Provided regular ongoing training and mentoring to core group members focusing on leadership, process improvement, and communications skills.* Authored the software standard operating procedures that are compliant with FDA guieldine, ISO and IEC 62304 international medical software development standards. Coordinated roll-out of the quality management system to project teams and trained project managers, technical leaders and team members.

Vernon Hills, Il

Manager of several concurrent software projects. Created, staffed and developed several teams for a series of new projects. Mentored and supervised a subordinate software project manager in addition to my own project teams.* Managed a real-time X-ray image processor project. Hired the team and oversaw maintenance and enhancement of an embedded software and hardware processor. Oversaw the design of the next generation architecture for the replacement device.* Managed a project to design and implement a GUI and processing back end for an interactive medical device. The design and processing software was done by a local team and the GUI was implemented by an overseas team. The project was completed successfully.* Managed an X-ray C-arm CT reconstructor software project. Hired the team and oversaw integrating GPUs and multi-core CPUs into the design. Defined the architecture and led the development team through successful production.* Hired a software engineer and oversaw an ongoing project to investigate new computing technologies, perform studies and generate reports of results and recommendations. Several advances were accepted for production or planned for future use to improve performance and reduce costs.* Managed a project to design and implement an MRI image reconstruction processor. Hired the team and oversaw all aspects of the project including feasibility studies, proposals, project planning, requirements analysis, architecture definition, implementation, testing and release of software.

Lincolnshire, Il

Software department manager for two of the three divisions of the company and responsible for the software development for numerous deliveries of industrial and security products. Provided leadership for the team, implemented solid engineering processes, and addressed the technical deficiencies of the existing products.* Grew the department size from 10 to 25 software engineers and test engineers.* Responsible for all management duties including team organization, hiring, performance reviews, promotions, project management, and quality auditing.* Reorganized the software group into efficient product based teams.* Identified existing deficiencies in the product and directed teams to implement numerous architectural, user interface and stability improvements.* Implemented and enforced software engineering processes, including documenting procedures and the creation and maintenance of engineering documents.* Created a software test team for improving software quality before shipment and for decreasing response time to reported problems.* Designed new user GUI for the product and directed the initial implementation.* Interacted with multiple customers to gather requirements, solicit product feedback, give demonstrations and resolve problems.

Lincolnshire, Il

Created a high performance and low cost reconstructor for Toshiba, a major worldwide maker of medical imaging devices. Hired and managed an entirely new team for this project. This product was delivered on time and on budget. Only one software defect had been reported in over a year after shipments to hospitals began.* Performed overall project management of a PC-based CT reconstructor subsystem from initial design and development through verification and integration at the customer site.* Hired, trained and managed a team of 9 software engineers.* Gathered requirements from the customer, evaluated available technologies and designed the software architecture which was a multithreaded, scalable, highly optimized software solution.* Designed the development and testing environment.Oversaw a team of software engineers creating the next generation reconstructor for an advanced medical scanner for Toshiba.* Performed C programming for PC, for SGI, and for PowerPC (VxWorks) platforms.* Performed technical project management of the next-generation CT reconstructor system project from initial design and development through testing, debugging, integrations at the customer site, and continued maintenance.* Managed and gave technical direction to a team of 10 software engineers.* Gathered requirements from the customer, evaluated new technologies and designed the embedded software architecture for the reconstructor subsystem.* Worked closely with hardware engineers during design phase of the hardware architecture for the next-generation CT reconstructor system.* Designed the development and testing environment for all software engineers to use, including coding of many tools to help the team to work at peak efficiency.

Lincolnshire, Il

This project created the reconstructor subsystem of a medical CT scanner for Toshiba. After starting as a software engineer I was promoted and became the technical leader.* Performed C and assembler programming for Analog Devices SHARC DSPs.* Oversaw design, coding, testing and integration of reconstruction software subsystem running on 190 DSPs for a flagship medical CT scanner.* Provided software support to hardware engineers for low-level debugging of in-house designed reconstructor board hardware.* Debugged, maintained, and enhanced proprietary kernel for SHARC DSPs.* Participated in many on-site overseas software integrations at the customer site.* Worked with team members to achieve critical deadlines under intense pressure.

Lincolnshire, Il

In this position I worked on enhancing the industrial scanner software to include new core features, including the first commercially available volume CT scanning mode.* Performed C programming on SCO UNIX platform.* Enhanced existing scanning software to perform volume CT scanning.* Designed and coded an application to create STL polygon models of 3D CT data and refine the triangle mesh to reduce file size while maintaining data integrity.* Implemented and maintained several graphical control panels using X/Motif.

Education record

Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation “Master of Technology” certification (May 2012). Selected as one of only twelve managers worldwide.

Master Of Science (M.S.), Physics, 3.5/4.0

Studies focused on theoretical cosmology. I programmed numerical simulations of expansion of the universe on a massively parallel.

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Physics, 3.6/4.0

Studies focused on theoretical astrophysics.