Grant Oconnor Email & Phone Number

Houston, Tx, Us

Houston, Texas, Us

OpenBMC integration development and testing for next generation Proliant platforms. Develop services, device drivers and kernel including OpenBMC to BIOS (KCS like), systemd DBus services for physical I/O control (Dbus sensors, x86 power control, phosphor-pid and phosphor fan control, etc), and IOP kernel. Mostly C99, C++17 and some Python with DBus middleware communication. Manage DevOps CI/CD for all Security Plane and OpenBMC development including static analysis, security vulnerability analysis (Coverity), and custom unit testing.

Houston, Texas, Us

Software Dev/DevOPs for HPE Integrated Lights Out (iLO) with direct contribution to the HPE Redfish RESTful interface tool and HPE's branch of DMTF Redfish RESTful API/Library supporting HP Rest and Redfish for HPE baseboard management controllers (Out of Band Management). Primary development language in Python with additional resources for on system driver communication in C++. Responsible for CI, Static Analysis, Unit and Functional Testing using a combination of Jenkins, DroneCI, and Ansible. Extensive exposure to a variety of BMC's/Out of Band Management implementing Redfish standards such as Dell iDrac, Supermicro IM and OpenBMC.

Houston, Texas, Us

Provisioning Systems Developer for driving edge-as-a-service (EaaS) and converged edge-as-a-service (CEaaS) platforms within HPE Edgeline and Proliant Products as hyperconverged infrastructure. Create methods to orchestrate provisioning of servers using containers to configure BMC, system firmware and deploy an OS through container driven imaging for fast, headless, automated deployment.

Flight planning at air national guard reserve base near Bergstrom Airfield, Austin, TX. Process local and cross-country flight clearances, check accuracy of flight plans and coordinate flight operations, maintain aircraft flight logs on incoming/outgoing flights and individual flight records, alert/advise airfield emergency crews as well as interpret and post weather reports.

Independent freelance developer for web development, IoT projects and a few robotic systems.Web development projects include HTML5, Bootstrap, NodeJS for 3 websites (2 commercial and1 personal). Webmaster for an additional commercial/e-commerce website using WordPress and Elementor. Developed multiple small scale IoT projects including:● Smart Irrigation “Droplet” System - uses an Arduino with custom circuit board(designed, built and constructed “in- house”. ) interfacing with a Django management andautomation system with MySQL, Python and PHP backend/transaction server.● Climate Control Thermostat - uses an Arduino with custom circuit board (designed,built and constructed “in-house”.) Web interface is in development with plans to use Angular Dashboard with Python backend for calculations and sqlite for storage.● Home Automation, Surveillance and Multimedia System - uses OpenHAB controllingmultiple lighting equipment, garage doors, cameras, motion/IR sensors and multimediasystems. Currently switching from OpenHAB to Home Assistant.● Surveillance System - Dual Camera system using NodeJS build of Shinobi Video.● Robotic Testing of LIDAR, Sonar and SLAM using Arduino and RaspPi running ROS.

Kongsberg, Buskerud, No

Senior Field Service Engineer with 4+ years of marine automation experience. Extensive embedded programming of Programmable Logic Controller (PLC) and Single Board Computer (SBC) hardware using in-house Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) management software and complex control logic for vessel process control, machinery, safety and power management systems. Extensive networking systems experience with remote data management, histograms and data analytics. Team lead in experimental deployment of GIS vessel mapping and analytics design and deployment. Extensive virtual machine experience using vSphere and VirtualBox hypervisors. Challenging working environments requiring highly complex solutions on operational, mission critical systems.

Houston, Texas, Us

Part of a small software development team building flight planning and global information systems visualization software. C++ and Python core development with visualization middleware including Cairo and GMT. Required advanced knowledge in cartography, weather, and aviation concepts and systems. Development platform exclusively in Linux (Gentoo/RH6). Strict Agile development cycle.

College Station, Tx, Us

University IT and computer hardware/software technician. Duties included management of university staff and student accounts, networking systems administration, computer diagnostics, computer hardware repair, operating system repair, system software installation/repair and viral, spyware infection removal.

College Station, Tx, Us

Design assistant to Robotics graduate team to create the first dynamically walking bipedal robotics using canonical functions (AMBER). Designed and facilitated fabrication of knee and ankle joints for Amber I and Amber II through a combination of precision CNC machining and rapid prototyping.