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GoAhead was acquired by Oracle in 2011.- Continued work on GoAhead legacy products- Development lead work in other acquired Tekelec Telecommunications products, focusing on quality and stability improvement, reducing support loads and improving reputation.- Development lead work on automating deployment/maintenance of containerized network environments with Ansible, Terraform, and Kubernetes. Targeting OpenStack and Bare-Metal.

Development Lead for embedded-device automated internet-based patching service:- Initial architecture and design proposal (research, slide-ware)- Travel as technical expert with sales/marketing and business personnel to potential customers and partners to present concept and field questions- Gather feedback for development from customers, customer issues, and internal testing, focusing development efforts on increasing tools and procedures to improve quality, prevent future field issues, and improve diagnostics should such occur.Development-lead for Self-Reliant 9000 (internet-based-service port of Self Reliant telecommunications HA platform):- Develop base architecture in concert with Self Reliant architecture team- Design, lead development of prototype- Delivery and demonstration of prototype on potential-customer hardwareDevelopment-lead for SelfReliant 7500 (Telecommunications HA platform):- Lead of various development sub-teams (DB, Availability-Managment (HA), Cluster Management). - Coordinate with Architecture team on requirements, architecture.- Participate in design, development, maintenance phases.- Work with Program-management and Quality-Assurence to create schedule, prioritize issues and features.- Travel to customer sites to support adaptation, diagnose, and resolve critical issues.

Development Manager:- Manager of development team- Lead architecture and design reviews- Participated in budgeting, scheduling, and planning, with upper-level management- Employee feedback and reviews

Bring-up of Windows CE on prototype hardware platforms for disperate customers- Development of device drivers (video, audio, touch, USB, etc) from chip-specs and hardware design (spec and schematic)- Drivers written in C and assembly (x86, MIPS, PowerPC)- Debugging of drivers, hardware, and OSDevelopment-lead of Special-Projects team- Unusual hardware adaptations for Windows CE (targets and drivers)- Architecture proposal to customer, design, and development of secure encrypted file-system- XML parsing and DOM generation to match Win32 spec- Investigation and prototyping on initial Smart Card for Windows OS- Investigation and prototyping of Windows NT Embedded; comparison to CE on known reference boards- Coordination on all projects with Program-Management for scheduling; QA for testing and issue resolution; customer for requirements, questions, and issues encountered; and management for budgeting, scheduling and resource requests.

Feature development and support for Windows-based TN3270 terminal emulator- Specialized in the ethernet and token-ring network drivers- TSR logic for the drivers- Critical issue customer support and resolution (debugging, reproducing, fixing, production of patches)- EBCDIC <-> ASCII translation

Development on Replay/Repartee corporate & hospitality voice-mail systems. - Member of Critical-Problem-Resolution team to address time-critical customer issues- Developed TCP/IP stack, HTML browser for new UI- Developed automated patch distribution system

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Physics & Mathematics

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Computer Science

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