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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 developing embedded systems for challenging markets in air, on land, and in water. Our capabilities include single and multi-processor architectures, hybrid analog/digital designs, embedded satellite communication, sensor interfaces, data acquisition and signal processing, low noise power supplies, and EMC certification.( www.echowerk.com )

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 test, to certification and transfer to production.Products: ISAT-200A, DAL-200, CHM-200, DSAT-300, EuroAvionics EuroNav RN7 Satcom Module, SDL-350, ADT-200, Iridium Certus.Avionics interfaces: ARINC 429, ARINC 717, Cockpit Audio, RS-485/422/232, various analog sensor inputs, discrete I/O.Avionics certifications: DO-160, ED-155Satcom: Multi-constellation GNSS, Iridium.

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 and control interface, a compact FLASH based (headless) Windows XP Embedded systems for embedded processor modules, and a wide variety of analog and hybrid PCBs for EdgeTech’s sonar systems.Played key role in creating EdgeTech's first rugged portable topside unit. Debugged and improved Florida Atlantic University’s underwater acoustic modem software.

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, including drivers for the TA7 proprietary on-chip breakpoint units.Developed embedded TA7 firmware for demonstrating and testing Triscend development kits.

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 custom video overlay hardware.

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 & software and managed a team to upgrade the data recording subsystem for another airborne SAR.

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 tactical submarine simulator/trainer system. This included analysis and synthesis of underwater acoustic signatures, mapping functional system blocks to parallel processing hardware & software modules.Both projects involved hands-on development of embedded DSP hardware & software.

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.