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Valencia, California, Us

True position implemented a target location system which utilized multiple technologies to triangulate on a location. Low frequency, ATSC broadcasts and GSP signals were used. I implemented GPS data collection, correlation, and manipulation prior to sending the data for processing. A maximum of fourteen satellites were tracked at any time, monitoring speed, distance, SNR, atmospheric interference and satellite health. A third party device implemented the satellite communication protocol in which I handle through UART communication in a loadable Linux module. The most important information collected from the satellite was the one second pulse (PPS) which allowed synchronization and determination of location. Loss of the PPS triggered a PLL timer implemented in a FPGA with a NIOS operating system, which I controlled. Git source control Eclipse IDE for Linux, Eclipse Altera FPGA development environment.

Intel supplied cell phones for re-branding. Part of Intel's service is to supply metric data collected for GSM, GPRS, 3g, and LTE communication standards. In addition to collecting and reporting the metric data I mentored a junior engineer, oversaw the design of IPC data transfer between processor cores and reviewed all designs. Additionally I work on frequency cross talk mitigation where a controlling thread would monitor active processes for interference; for example audio playback may be influenced by the charging ckt or the data transfer rate between cores. If a offending process was detected, the execution frequency of the offending process would be adjusted to avoid harmonic interference.

Chicago, Illinois, Us

Motorola manufactured DOCSIS 3.0 cable modems for home and business use. The modems were based on Broadcom's 3383 dual core product line. The controlling processor ran ECOS for system initialization and device interfacing while Linux was used as a application processor. I implemented stack optimization, interrupts, start-up sequencing, IPC, amc6821 fan controller, secondary (failure recovery) Linux OS start-up, Linux POSIX applications, USB driver, factory test SNMP MIP implementation and bit banging an SMbus (fan controller)serial port driver. I interfaced between Motorola's Bangalore application team and Motorola's California application team while maintaining the integrity of the base design. I reviewed designs, tested and designed hardware upgrades and insured compliance to manufacturing requirements. I also set-up a shared cross compiler tool chain for all three teams to use. Linux work implemented in C/ASM ECOS worked implemented in C++

The division of AMETEK I contracted to manufactured airplane flight consoles. I joined AMETEK to diagnose and fix a product which passed all procedural tests and failed when install. I re-designed all sensor data collection interrupts for engine and fuel temperature, engine torque, flaps, engine speed, etc., I implemented new sensor op-amps, redesigned and implemented ARINC 429 data reporting modules. The project was under FAA supervision, and was DO178B Life safety class A classified. The controlling processor was TI-DSP C/C++ with a Eclipse IDE. DO178B Life safety class A , ARINC 429

Coopersburg, Pa, Us

Implementation of automated lighting/environmental control system. Designed and implemented sections of devices (switches, shades, power links), processor control, communication protocols (physical->network & BACNet), interrupt systems. Debugged and re-designed hardware. The designs were implemented utilizing GNU tools, on Motorola Coldfire and HC08 micro-controllers, uCOS internals. Tools, such as monitoring devices, were implemented in C#. Directed offshore resources.

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Designed and implemented an interactive interface allowing consumers to request additional information on currently displayed advertised content. The advertisements were broadcasted over standard digital television signals and consumer controlled the content through their remote controls. Design was based on MPEG DVB specification and additional content was encoded in the Closed Captioning (EIA-708) bit stream. The design was visualized using UML and coded in C++.

Founded corporation Building Integrated Systems (BIS) that supplies design, programming and installation services for the security systems, building automation, Smart Homes, or Intelligent Building technologies market. Services were supplied to the residential and commercial sectors. BIS integrated security (DSC, Honeywell, ONQ, HAI), HVAC, audio video and computer networks with controllers (ONQ, Vantage, Élan) allowing the customer to monitor or control their building from anywhere in the world. Secondary goal to determine real world applications of consumer electronics in effort to define new products.

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Designed and implemented PIC micro (in C and assembler) to receive multiple IR protocols and communicate with multiple devices (Game pads, remotes, keyboards). Implemented “Two Way TV” in STB. Wrote PowerTV OS drivers and APIs for Ethernet, I2C NVM, MMU, DMA caching, and user input (in C/C++). Designed and implemented interrupt handling (C/assembler) OS internals(UML/C++), and architecture changes to handle small packet communication. Ported DOCSIS from domestic STB to European STB. Implemented routing in the STB so that the residential Ethernet could utilize DOCSIS. Ported and debugged DOCSIS HW and SW including FEC, A/D, D/A, tuner, transmitter, symbol rate (QAM and QPSK) and start-up communication for Euro-DOCSIS protocol.Design and implementation of control software for Set Top Boxes in the Asian and European market. Network protocol-SNMP, DOCSIS, Ethernet; MPEG-2 A/V and compression. Sequence, State, Collaboration and Activity Diagrams (UML) were used to model and assembler C/C++ were used to implement the designs.