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Santa Clara, Ca, Us

Boston, Massachusetts, Us

• Team Lead for Visualization Tools Team. Provided planning and tracking for team tasks as well as status reporting and estimation. Guiding team through redesign of visualization tool used for on-car and off-car software engineering activities. Rolled out use of gtest based unit tests by providing training sessions for autonomy engineers. Rolled out use of gmock to address the need for adding testing to legacy software which resisted traditional unit tests. • Provided Systems Engineering Support for Mapping, Safety and Autonomy Projects.

Dublin, Ie

Created architecture for HD mapping at scale for autonomous vehicles based on Open Source tools, databases and data models. Reduced input work-hours to develop and update map tools. Open source tool allowed map editors the ability to contribute to the software base and automate their tools. Enabled map data interchange with multiple vendors, municipalities, and public data sources. This interchange capability accelerated map creation, improved quality and reduced time to release new maps.

San Francisco, California, Us

Systems and software engineering for Full autonomy Ground Vehicle system. User interface design and analysis for Level 5 Autonomy passenger vehicles. Provided analysis of alternatives for mapping, RESTful services for map data used for web visualization tools. Management of 100TB NAS storage systems in an enterprise production environment. Software updates for python-celery work based system for processing of large scale map and vehicle log data. Management of Petabyte scale storage of map and GIS data.

Pittsburgh, Pa, Us

• Software Architect for the UPMC Telemedicine project. Responsible for the architectural design of a HIPAA compliant Telemedicine system capable of handling sixty simultaneous physician consults between Physicians and Patients at home. I am responsible for the design and architecture elements of the high availability system that allow for business continuity under heavy loading as well as system and data center outages. • Implemented key performance updates to the video chat client that reduced patient bandwidth requirements by half. • Conducted bandwidth and processing utilization measurements to ensure that production releases met key performance parameters.• Prototyped the implementation of a new video streaming system that will allow physician Telemedicine consults on mobile devices.

Mclean, Virginia, Us

• Technical and professional leadership of a team developing robot automation software for unmanned ground vehicles. • Developed and maintained legacy software for QinetiQ Dragon Runner lightweight unmanned ground vehicles and their associated payloads and operator control units. Development was targeted at Atmel AVR embedded 8-bit processors and Texas Instruments OMAP-3 ARM Cortex-8 based mobile processors. Conducted full life cycle development from software requirements through design, implementation, testing, integration and release for production. Operator Interface was developed in QT Open Source framework and integrated with OMAP embedded Linux. • Developed software product roadmaps for small ground vehicles, operator control systems, and autonomy systems.• Updated and improved software development processes and procedures. Instituted a new software release process that aligned the software release with the existing engineering change control system. • Software design and development for the Next Generation Hand Controller. This system contained a Texas Instruments OMAP-3 arm based processor running a light weight Linux OS. • Developed Cellular Data Communications system for long-range control of ground robots. System utilized the open source “Robot Operating System”(ROS) from Willow Garage and OMAP-4 processors to demonstrate the use of cellular/tablet hardware to replace costly data and video radios used in traditional small ground vehicles. System was capable of control and feedback over continental ranges. The use of ARM based processors brought laptop processing capability to light robots with low power consumption and low heat dissipation. • Technical

Olathe, Ks, Us

• Developed, integrated, and tested GPS based navigation applications for Consumer Automotive Personal Navigation Devices. Developed user interface and map display upgrades in C/C++ for an ARM based system. Used In-Circuit-Emulators to debug multi-threaded applications running proprietary and Linux based operating systems. Conducted stability testing with script based automated testing. Developed PC based emulation enhancements to simulate more than one thousand user inputs per second to discover latent defects in code being prepared for deliver in mass produced consumer devices.

Mclean, Va, Us

• Team Lead for Modeling, Simulation, War Gaming, and Analysis software development. Provided on-site client support at system integration and testing events. Provided on-site technical assistance and support during exercise events. Interacted with customer staff to ensure smooth handoff of software products to government support teams. Team developed software tools for After Action Reporting, Virtual War Gaming, and Simulation Event Injection in support of the National Simulation Center and the Battle Command Training Center. Products are developed in C++ and Java for the Linux platform and Visual Studio for Windows. Utilized PostgreSQL and MySQL RDBMS systems. All software products operate in systems classified at the Secret Level. • Implemented web based map imagery server. Utilized open source MapServer, GDAL tools and Apache web server. Developed methods to optimize server performance by utilizing pre-rendered imagery coverage, and caching of imagery tiles. • Implemented updated software processes to improve quality, reliability, schedule performance and cost. Process improvements include automated unit testing, configuration management from development through delivery, continuous integration, and nightly build-and-smoke testing. • Technical

• As the Software Development Manager for the EP-3E C3-ISR reconnaissance aircraft I provided oversight and software sub-contractor coordination t. Tasking required monitoring of developers at various levels of capability and maturity as they progressed through the full software life cycle development process.• Implemented a software risk assessment system to identify potentially risky processes and procedures at sub-contractors. Assessment results were used to implement corrective measures to improve quality and predictability of the products delivered by the software sub-contractors.• Participated in all major milestone reviews as the software development authority for the Prime Contractor for two planned product improvement spirals for the EP-3 platform. Coordinated software integration, test, and system test activities at the Top-Secret/SCI security level.

At RTSC I was a Software Program Manager and a Project Engineer. I worked on the V-22 Mission Planning System, the CH-53E Mission Planning System, Hand Held Safety Calculator implementing the NATO Ballistic Kernel, Weapon Datalink Pods, and the DDG-1000 Project.

Developed LIDAR interface software to connect to a Sick Laser Range Scanner to a USB-RS-422 high speed serial interface. Developed calibration techniques to align LIDAR systems to vehicle coordinate system. Tested and integrated LIDAR road and obsticle detection system with Autonomous Vehicle Control system. Indy Robot Racing was "Virtual Venture" where local Software, Robotics, and Automation Professionals traded work on the DARPA Grand Challenge project for an equity stake in the potential company.

IndyFSBO is the business I started, grew, sold off, went back to work for, got laid off from, sued, and finally resurrected again. Along the way the name changed to HomeYeah.com, ePropertyDirect, and then back to HomeYeah. Over the years my business helped almost 2500 families sell their home with little or no real estate commission cost.

Developed the boot loader and FLASH memory interface for the F/A-18 Interference Blanker Unit in Ada on the 80386ex. Developed lock control software for Best Lock (now Stanley) in C for the Atmel AVR 8-bit micro-controller. Newport Systems was started by John Newport Ph.D. Dr. Newport had formerly worked for the Naval Air Warfare Center in Indianapolis, IN.

Developed a PC based robot controller for use in shipyard welding applications. Utilized Rational Rose to code generate an Object Oriented robot control system in C++. Developed Object Oriented robot programming language.Cybo Robots went into chapter 11 in 1999, was renamed iRobotics and eventually closed their doors. Possibly the last industrial robot developer in North America.

Logicon, which is now part of Northrup Grumman, provided engineering staff to supliment the Naval Air Ware Center-Aircraft Division (NAWC-AD) facility in Indianapolis, IN. That Facility is now operated by Raytheon Technical Services Company (RTSC) after being the target of a BRAC closure. I developed software for the F/A-18 Maintenance Data Processing System. This system was developed in Ada, utilized a MOTIF user interface and an Oracle database for the back end. I also Developed the system and sub-system level requirements for the Swiss and Finnish Air Force's maintenance data processing system. These systems were entirely new developments from the ground up utilizing Oracle's database replication technology.

Greenbelt, Md, Us

Software designer and developer for the Space Station Flight Telelrobotic Servicer Test Bed. The test bed was a 7 DOF teleoperated system with Force Reflection. All software was developed in Ada for the 80386 processor. I developed forward and inverse kinematics for both master controller and remote manipulator systems. Although this program was canceled by NASA in 1991, the unit test oriented software development approach yielded a library of code that continues to be used in systems from satellites to later robotic programs. This was a tremendous learning experience for me. I worked closely with Stephe Leake, one of the greatest minds I have yet to encounter in the field of Software or Robotics. As the software development world continues to improve its practices and procedures, I continuously encounter some new element of Agile or Extreme programming and say, "We used to do that at GSFC, in 1990".

Master Of Science, Mechanical Engineering

Bachelor Of Science, Mechanical Engineering