• Firmware manager of five firmware architecture development engineers and six firmware verification engineers, reporting directly to the Director of Product Development.• Responsible for evaluation of firmware development for next generation hardware. Responsible for designing, implementing, and delivery of the therapeutic embedded firmware for next generation cardiac implantable devices.• Responsible for oversight and development of cyber-security remediation for ICD and pacemaker products.• Contributor and owner to various field investigations and (CAPA) Correction and Preventive Action initiatives.

• Firmware architecture team manager of six senior-level software engineers, reporting directly to the Director of Product Development.• Responsible for firmware development evaluation for next generation hardware. Responsible for designing, implementing, and delivery of the therapeutic embedded firmware for next generation cardiac implantable devices.• Technical firmware architecture team leader for spinal cord and dorsal root ganglion neurostimulation products.• Technical firmware architecture team leader for several cardiac products.• Designer and developer for numerous embedded firmware component services in cardiac and neurostimulation products.• Responsible for oversight and development of cyber-security remediation for ICD and pacemaker products.• Contributor to various field investigations and Correction and Preventative Action initiatives.• Consistent high performer in performance rankings for Abbott software engineers.• Abbott CAPA process certified.

• Unisys is a worldwide information technology services and solutions company that develops and markets enterprise-level hardware, software, solutions, and services.• Unisys HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) Architect and Lead. Responsible for support, development and management of Windows HAL team.• Primary architect and developer of software workarounds for ASIC problems. Responsible for saving Unisys millions of dollars by avoiding re-spinning ASICs and schedule delays.• Lead engineer responsible for “first boot” of Windows Datacenter on first-generation Unisys servers. Unisys servers have included IA32, x64 and IA64 based systems.• Virtual Machine MCP I/O team technical lead. Responsible for prioritizing work tasks, mentorship and managerial decisions of VMMCP I/O team.• Lead engineer responsible for architecture and development of VMMCP I/O driver architecture on Windows to support Plug and Play.• Project lead for improving x86 and IA64 VMMCP I/O performance. Accomplished in improving x86 performance by 40%. Accomplished in improving IA64 performance by 80%.• Consistently performed in the top 5% performance rankings for Unisys software engineers.

Compaq develops and markets hardware, software, solutions, and services including industry-leading enterprise computer solutions, fault-tolerant business-critical solutions, networking and communication products, commercial desktop and portable products and consumer PCs. • Contributing developer to Microsoft’s Alpha HAL Win64 project.• Developed and designed hardware error collection and detection software for various Alpha platforms. Development consisted of code implementation in Alpha BIOS firmware, HAL, device driver and service.• Contributing developer of Alpha processor BIOS firmware and HAL DMA map register re-architecture project.• Direct Responsible Individual (DRI) engineer for technical delivery of product to market for Windows NT on the Compaq’s EV6 Alpha Server ES40 platform.• Debugged and ported IHV device drivers of various hardware devices (e.g., storage and network adapters) to Alpha Windows NT 4.0/2000.• Developed UHAL (User-level HAL) for IHV vendors. Distributed on Windows 2000 DDK.• Primary contributing member of Sustaining Engineering. Technically and administratively supported ~20+ platforms and tools in regards to the Alpha BIOS firmware and HALs. Subsequently, promoted to technical leader of Sustaining Engineering.

• Polaris Communications, Inc. designs, develops, and markets channel interfaces and gateways offering high-speed connectivity to IBM and plug compatible mainframes.• Designed, developed, documented and technically supported Polaris Windows NT 3.51/4.0, DOS and UNIX software packages. The software packages include device and NDIS drivers, DLL’s, console and GUI applications.• Designed, developed, documented and technically supported Polaris Windows NT 3.51/4.0 Ethernet and FDDI network adapter drivers.• Designed, developed, documented and technically supported ‘Fast Forward’ magnetic tape emulation software package. Performance reached 94% of ESCON theoretical speed.• Designed, developed, documented and technically supported Polaris SNA Server Windows NT 3.51/4.0 device driver. Top selling Polaris software and is distributed on Microsoft’s Windows NT 3.51 SNA Server.• Developed and designed Polaris “loop-back” board currently used by the Polaris Manufacturing Department to test Polaris UNIX hardware