Gregory Ross Email & Phone Number

Indianapolis, Indiana, United States

Currently a senior lead firmware engineer focused on new and exciting product development efforts! Primary job responsibilities include:- Leading a global firmware team focused on building re-usable platform assets to communicate with a variety of external systems (mobile phone applications, cloud-based applications, etc.).- Interfacing with other engineering and business groups within Allegion to collaborate on platform development efforts.

Indianapolis, Indiana, United States

Previously lead firmware engineer for a global firmware team working on the development of Schlage Mobile Access Credentials. Responsibilities included participating in early proof of concepts, managing firmware project schedules, writing embedded firmware, and working with an interdisciplinary team of firmware, software, and systems engineers. The team's deliveries were successfully integrated into a wide range of Allegion products (Schlage Control, MTB credential readers, NDEB/LEB wireless locks, and more).Previously lead firmware engineer responsible for final product launch activities for the NDEB/LEB wireless lock and MTB credential reader. Activities included supporting design reviews, coordinating with manufacturing facilities in regards to programming and validation of product, and supporting launch activities of Schlage Mobile Access enabled products in 2020.

Carmel, In

Previously lead technical firmware engineer, and later lead firmware engineer, for the award-winning Von Duprin RU/RM exit device solution for perimeter school security. Responsibilities included participating in the definition of product requirements, creation of unique solutions to enhance product quality, and leading design efforts for large portions of the RU/RM firmware architecture.Led a firmware team responsible for developing and sustaining all embedded software contained within the Schlage NDE wireless lock, and completed transfer of firmware development to the product sustaining and support team.

Carmel, In

Embedded firmware development for commercial Schlage electronic locks.Contributions include development, testing, and implementation of communication protocols between the Schlage NDE wireless lock and Allegion's ENGAGE Gateway. Continual engagement with internal development teams and third party vendors contributing to the ENGAGE Gateway to improve system reliability, performance, and power efficiency.Range of work experiences include modifications and bug fixes to the embedded operating system provided by external vendor, implementation of bare-metal device drivers and flash storage drivers, development of over-the-air firmware update capabilities, and contributions to design and testing of communication protocols used in the Schlage NDE wireless lock.Experienced with ARM Cortex M4 and ARM Cortex M0+ processors. Familiar with PIC16 and PIC32MX range of Microchip processors.

Champaign, Il

- Authored Parboil GPGPU histogram benchmark.- Research into highly atomic, yet massively parallel, algorithms

Champaign, Il

- Led team of 15 graduate and undergraduate teaching assistants that are responsible for writing, grading, proctoring, and teaching with class sizes exceeding 250 students.- Wrote project statements and authored solution code to a significant number of ASM and C class problems covering subjects ranging from introductory programming to game development and low level C-to-ASM conversion / compilation. - Authored several Linux backend tools utilizing C and Python to streamline project grading.

Milpitas, Ca

Optimized existing CUDA wafer inspection software with performance gains up to 65%. Also authored a beta version of CUDA rendering software for the Reflection Electron Beam Lithography (REBL) project. Competing SSE and AVX versions of the rendering software were developed as part of an engineering survey to evaluate performance, numerical stability, and cost tradeoffs of various computer architectures being considered for use in REBL.

Urbana-Champaign, Illinois Area

Authored OpenCL version of Nuvixa’s real time background subtraction software targeted for deployment on a future AMD Fusion processor. Image processing kernel execution times were improved by a factor of 7-15X over previous implementations. Multi-threading optimizations were also introduced to improve execution times by an additional 50% which led to a successful CES 2011 demonstration of the software.

West Lafayette, In

- Authored exam and project material, provided guidance on student final projects, taught lab sections, and assisted with course administration with class sizes no larger than 60 students.- Managed backend project grading software utilizing Perl, Python, and ModelSim.

Indianapolis, In

Co-Op Software Engineer- Wrote a multithreaded Java management tool using an SNMP backend and Swing GUI frontend to oversee media distribution equipment for the Multi-Family Home v3 (MFH3) project.- Created a C network monitoring tool designed to run on MFH3 servers capable of detecting unauthorized access into distribution network.- Enhanced the MFH3 server configuration boot-up code to eliminate some common forms of boot failure.Co-Op Hardware and Firmware Engineer- Developed USB/I2C bridge firmware for an Intel 8051 microprocessor enabling developers to control RF tuners on prototype set-top boxes from a Windows PC.- Performed root-cause failure analysis on dead prototype set-top boxes, identified leading modes of failure, and repaired prototypes when possible.

Masters Of Science, Computer Engineering

Masters thesis focus on high performance computing on massively parallel processors, specifically involving taking advantage of low-level.

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Electrical Engineering

Activities and Societies: Tau Beta Pi member / chapter president / national convention delegate, Eta Kappa Nu member, Purdue Industry.