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Kelowna, BC, Canada

Beyond Aerospace provides fully integrated C5ISR solutions to support human-machine teaming and autonomous systems for environmental monitoring, public safety and defense applications. Our Ares™ Networks platform is designed for mission-critical and security-critical systems operating in remote, adversarial environments.

British Columbia, Canada

EchoWerk provides comprehensive research and development services including consultation, project management, requirements analysis, architecture definition, hardware and software design and implementation, integration and test, as well as assistance with certification and transitioning into production.Our engineering team has a wealth of experience.

Kelowna, BC Canada

Multi-role electronic engineer, architect and lead hardware engineer in developing SKYTRAC’s avionics products for Iridium satellite communications, automated flight following, and FDM/FOQA flight data acquisition and FDR data recording.Full development cycle from architecture and requirements definition, through design, implementation, prototyping and.

Boca Raton, FL USA

Developed a broadband underwater acoustic modem for shallow water operation with Florida Atlantic University as academic partner on an Office of Naval Research grant (STTR Phases I & II).Developed embedded microprocessor hardware & software for an underwater acoustic navigation and positioning system.Developed an embedded Ethernet sonar data acquisition.

Mountain View, CA USA

Developed and maintained the debugger and JTAG drivers for Triscend’s TA7 Configurable System on Chip (CSoC) toolchain (ARM7TDMI core).Integrated Triscend’s drivers with 3rd-party GUIs and JTAG servers.Developed and maintained boot firmware for Triscend’s TA7 CSoC devices and embedded firmware drivers for Triscend’s “FastChip” software development suite.

Port Coquitlam, BC Canada

Developed and maintained embedded hardware and software to create Mesotech’s digital telemetry scanning sonar product line, including definition and development of the Mesotech digital telemetry standard.Architected and developed all embedded DSP imaging firmware for Mesotech’s SM2000 first multibeam sonar, and managed and guided the development for its.

Richmond, BC Canada

Team lead to develop DSP software for an airborne Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) system. This included analysis and mapping of the SAR algorithm to custom DSP hardware and software modules, designing the high level DSP software architecture, and hands-on assembler programming to speed up critical algorithms.Developed embedded microprocessor hardware &.

Durban, Natal, South Africa

Developed a passive multibeam sonar with auto-tracking capability for a submarine sonar suite. This included feasibility study, critical timing and performance analysis, requirements definition, mapping system blocks and algorithms to parallel processing software & hardware modules. Developed an underwater acoustic signature simulator subsystem for a.

Antarctica

Responsible for Rhodes University Antarctic program. Duties included collection and analysis of ionospheric data, maintaining and repairing scientific electronic equipment, and performing general Antarctic base duties.