David Garnett Email & Phone Number

Santee, Ca, Us

San Diego, California (Ca), Us

ACCOMPLISHMENTSFirmware architect and sole developer for a FinTech device embedded in a smartcard with severe power constraints and with an SoC that was extremely memory constrained ... instrumental in hardware troubleshooting for functionality and efficiency of many troublesome hardware interfaces ... several prototypes were successfully tested in retail stores. Architect, Build 0 firmware team lead, and integration team lead for a system development project that engaged our team's services when the project was already 6 months behind schedule and over budget ... the project was completed by the original schedule deadline and within the original project budget. Firmware architect, sole developer, and subcontractor team lead for a Network Attached Storage product ... the OS was Linux and included, among other components, an SMB component, an NTFS component and a DLNA server component ... the product was successfully launched within schedule and within budget after leading the OMB in Taiwan through diagnostic tests and production tests on the pilot production line. Architect, Build 0 Software Team Lead, and Integration Team Lead for a system development project that included several hundred DSP processors, 5 processor boards, 5 large scale vector display processing boards, and 10 GPIB plotters ... the project was completed on time and within budget. See my attached resume for more detail

SKILLSNatural leader ... practiced presentation speaker ... adept at contributing to customer and marketing meetings which frequently include offshore teams ... expert at translating customer and marketing requirements into engineering functional and performance requirements ... 'C' language expert ... limited C++ ... IDE and toolchain expert ... Waterfall and Agile methodologies ... Real-Time Operating System (RTOS) expert ... bare-metal firmware ... ARM SoCs ... SPI, I2C, CAN, and other serial device communication ... Linux kernel build expert, including use of all Yocto features ... Linux device tree ... Linux drivers ... Near-Field Communication (NFC) protocols, development, and integration ... system integration expert ... defect tracking systems, including Jira, Clearquest, and BugZilla ... Git and Github ... networking including many TCP/IP protocols See my attached resume for more detail

Mountain View, Ca, Us

I am developing firmware for Google SoCs.

Fremont, Ca, Us

Developed Windows Forms applications to support Lam Research R&D

Greenwich, Ct, Us

Contract firmware architect and/or developer for several companies - details will be provided on request

Plastc was creating a unique payment device, the PlastcCard … Key technical challenges included Severe power and current consumption constraints based on 7mAH battery … Severe memory constraints (256KB Flash, 32KB RAM) … Implemented as bare-metal application, then ported FreeRTOS to the Cypress PSoC4 SoC soon after that … Hardware/Firmware components: ARM Cortex-M0, Bare-Metal and FreeRTOS, Bluetooth Low Energy, AES & ECC encryption, SHA authentication, A4WP/PMA wireless charging, E-Ink display, capacitive touch, magnetic stripe emulation, contact and contactless EMV … Developed a BLE Custom Profile using the Cypress PSoC Creator BLE Component GUI and the Bluetooth SIG Bluetooth Design System.

Greenwich, Ct, Us

Contract firmware architect and/or developer for several companies - details will be provided on request

San Jose, Ca, Us

July 2007 through July 2010 … Firmware Architect for WD’s Linux based second-generation Networked Attached Storage … this second-generation NAS product went on to have more than $50 million in sales …Participated in every phase of the project including concept design, requirements development, hardware, and firmware design, firmware development, board bring-up on every prototype and the production board, and spent 3 weeks at the ODM in Taiwan helping them bring up the pilot production line and verified the production diagnostic program and production program executed without issues

Greenwich, Ct, Us

Contract firmware architect and/or developer for several companies - details will be provided on request

Burnaby, Bc, Ca

Field Applications Engineer … Solved complex customer problems, provided systems engineering to match Spectrum solutions with customer requirements … customer training … system installation … system integration … frequent customer presentations … Rational Rose, Visio, Zeligsoft Component Enabler, Wind River Systems Tornado and VxWorks, Xilinx tools, and JTRS SCA.

San Diego, California, Us

Team lead and architect. Responsible for tasking, scheduling, work product reviews, providing team status updates to the program and technical management, and customer personnel … Joint Tactical Radio System (JTRS) Software Communications Architecture (SCA) Waveform Software Architect – Responsible for all design to support and integrate waveform software with the SCA … utilized Rational Rose and Spectrum Signal Processing SDR-3000 development platform.

Greenwich, Ct, Us

Contracted with Varatouch, Movidis, Vytek, and SAIC … Linux, RTOS, and bare-metal firmware development - details will be provided on request

Greenwich, Ct, Us

Titan Linkabit ... June 2001 through October 2001 … Updated prototype AES encryption software to be suitable for a real-time embedded system… collaborated with experts in the new encryption standard and the prototype software used to implement the new standard … developed the Linux driver for a proprietary dual-port memory component.Nokia Mobile Phones … November 2000 through May 2001 … Developed a Windows 2000 NDIS 5.0 compatible WAN NIC miniport driver for an Ethernet NIC card that implemented the PPPoE protocol.Wireless Knowledge ... January 2000 through October 2000 … Developed Win 2K/NT service that implemented a distributed SNMP agent to monitor and report the performance of any number of servers in an enterprise setting. Integrated a proxy RADIUS server into a system that sits in an enterprise DMZ for secure access to servers.

Ms, Engineering Science

Ba, Engineering Science, Control Theory, Circuit Theory, Computer Science