Danny N. Email & Phone Number

United States

Fort Collins, Colorado Area

North Hollywood, Ca

Create, modify, and control the details and sound quality of music and audio. • Operate equipment to record, mix and edit sound for music recordings and live events. • Use a variety of electronic equipment and techniques to create polished recorded sound.• Work closely with producers and performers to achieve desired sound for audio and musical recordings.

Van Nuys, Ca

Create and perform live laser art displays and visualizations to music. Provide electronic and optical support for laser projection, MIDI programming, DMX 512, audio, and multimedia systems.Laser Technician on David Gilmour's “Rattle That Lock Tour” 2016 at the Hollywood Bowl. Lasers during the song "Comfortably Numb"Maintain and operate demonstration studio with lasers, video projector, lighting board, audio systems, remote effects modules, fiber optic cables, electronics, scanners, and computers.Proposal & Installation of laser entertainment system into Denver Museum of Nature & Science. Also the performer of the live laser showsCreated and preformed live original custom laser show for Sony and Columbia Records' 2010 premier of The Orb's “Metallic Spheres” album featuring David Gilmour of Pink Floyd, which included an impromptu live jam performance with Alex Paterson after the album premier."Metallic Spheres laser show Laser Technician on Linkin Park's “A Thousand Suns” 2010 album premier put on by Sony and Warner Bros.Created framework for converting MIDI to DMX for automated operation of Laser ProjectorCustom programming and choreography of laser show effects to music as advanced user of Pangolin’s LaserShowDesigner 2000, LivePro, MIDI-OX and Laser Images ChoreoGraphic’s software.

Calabasas, Ca

Responsible for certification testing and evaluation of software encoders/decoders and audio post processing functions for professional audio, home consumer, automotive, PC, broadcast, and gaming.• Support the development of new technologies/products, ensuring all major bugs are identified, and properly validate bug fixes on Windows, Mac X and Linux operating systems.• Programming in Visual Basic, C/C++ and shell scripting for Mac OS X and BASH for Linux.• Exceeded expectations in assisting development for Certification Automation Tools (CAT), by demonstrating a design solution for a “Front End”, allowing flexible entry of test cases into an Excel workbook with cells mapped for XML export along with VBA and XSLT programming to produce configuration files needed by the CAT to locate and operate on digital audio test streams for audio analysis, plotting and reporting. Reported time savings is months of testing into hours.• Worked closely with software engineers to develop “Sync and Trim” tools, for automating the alignment of reference audio streams with DUT resultant audio streams, by adding tones to PCM source audio.• Automated joining process of multiple digital streams of different bit rates and frame sizes into one joined test stream of segments through the creation of batch files utilizing command prompt functions and in-house DTS executable tools.

Calabasas, Ca

Provide test support for milestones per new product development schedules. Design hardware, and program firmware for new product assembly line test fixtures. Provide assistance to Manufacturing (both domestic and overseas, including travel to China), to maintain and troubleshoot fixtures, products and manufacturing systems.• Developed Automated Test set to measure 2.4 GHz wireless products, including automation of RF power readings of DUT through cc2400 chip's SPI interface, into LabVIEW for evaluation of pass fail criteria.• Develop Automated Test Software applications and DLL's for Manufacturing Operators. Coding in LabVIEW 8.2 & Test Stand 3.5, as well as, C/C++, batch file command prompt functions, and Auto-It.• DLL design to test product interface of embedded system through USB API and sealing secure memory after programming encrypted keys from secure Server over TCP/IP protocol.• Read schematics and documents, to repair RF/Analog/Digital circuity to component level• Test fixture design (hardware and firmware), schematic entry, and PCB layout of electronic projects using PADS logic schematic capture and PADS layout software.• Assist Design Engineers and Technicians with qualification testing, including work with Audio Precision test equipment, communicating with a diversity of individuals, and quickly evaluating situations.• Technical documentation and development of Test Plans from early product conception to start of mass production runs, using PC operating skills for word processing, spreadsheets, CAD and Web programs.• Provide sustaining test fixture and technical support to manufacturing throughout product life cycle.• Author detail oriented procedures with step by step instructions for using lab measurement equipment (multimeter, power supply, oscilloscope) to obtain functional test data• Use of basic soldering skills for both through hole and SMD components.

Chatsworth, Ca

Design, program, modify, test, and install machine vision systems.• Design, build and program micro-controller, ( including circuit design, PCB creation and coding in PBASIC), to find UPC bar codes from an EAN-13 scanner and return them to UPC codes before sending to master controller. • On site integration and installation of a Web based security system to existing security system. Included Win2000 server with fingerprint and motion detection software, fingerprint scanners, cameras, videophones, and infrared motion detectors

Valencia, Ca

Directly responsible for the assembly and measurement of optical systems designed by optical engineers or acquired from competitors and customers.• Design of Engineering Relational Database Prototype with Microsoft Access and Visual Basic, for Life Test, arc lamp assembly, lumens measurements, and test equipment calibration.• Programming of Automated Dual Parabolic Mirror Scanning station using LabVIEW 7.1 and Physik Instrumente’s (PI) C-843 DC-Motor Controller Card via PI’s GCS.DLL API.

Sun Valley, Ca

Perform software programming and hardware testing for automation of fluid dispensing machines.• Programed in Visual Basic 6, to interface with a MuTech Video Card to capture video frames for machine vision with a GUI application for high speed manufacturing.• Maintained database of software documentation, bugs and fixes.

Denver, Co

Research, design and development of Web based HTTP 1.1 compliant applications for digital media content delivery from Solaris, NT, and Linux servers to browsers on Win and Mac clients. • Automation Test Engineer responsible for creating test scripts, for Internet software products.• Build automation testware, for the Web features of QuarkXPress 5.0, testing on machines with different operating systems simultaneously, and having ability to update defect records in bug tracking system.• Write source code and repair bugs in Java, C++, C, JavaScript, HTML, XML, and XSLT. • Authored code using JNI for an interface between Java Web server and third party C API to convert stored digital documents to HTML pages.• Lead efforts to isolate a memory leak in a distributed computing system.• Assist with lab setup and server maintenance, shell scripting, and system load testing.• Debug session management and multi-threaded programs.* Find and record application defects in the tracking database (Segue Silk Radar).

Aurora, Co

Responsible for design, set-up, and supervising of a production electronics-testing laboratory supporting over two-dozen RF, digital, analog, and power products for satellite test and control systems supporting several programs simultaneously involving international and global telecommunications satellite networks.• Extensive experience with measurements using test equipment. (e.g., Oscilloscope, Power Meters, Function Generators, Logic Analyzers, Spectrum Analyzers, etc.)• Programming in C, C++, Assembly for 680XX, 680X, and 808X Microprocessors, HP-VEE, LabVIEW, HP-BASIC, Java, Visual Basic, and HTML languages (Some UNIX experience)• Lead testing of the Integrated Telemetry and Command Unit for several years; included PLL, A/D, D/A, Tone, PCM, PSK, Peak Detecting, LPF, HPF, BPF, Sample and Hold, and Frame Synchronizing circuits.• Resolved circuit performance problem by creating test bed to exercise expensive A/D Conversion chip performance, prior to assembly in receiver PCB, resulting in the discovery of a bad lot of chips from vendor. • Travel internationally as technical expert supporting test and debug of satellite test and ground station equipment including the training of customer personnel.• Responsible Engineering Authority for HS-376 Satellite Simulator, finding and repairing root cause of long term problem in unit’s firmware, which eluded many others for nearly ten years.• Test, debug and repair embedded firmware for TI DSP and Motorola 68332 micro-controller in circuit emulators.

Computer Science

Advanced Web Programming with Perl and Java Advanced Data Structures implemented with Java

Computer Science

Java Programming for C programmers - Introductory course to Java programming. C programming C++ programming for C programmers.

Bseet, Electronic Engineering

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