Jake Kirk Email & Phone Number

Hampstead, NH, US

Mettawa, Illinois, US

Senior Software Design Engineer at Navico / Brunswick on the Sonar Team. Navico is a specialist marine electronics company providing navigation, marine instruments, entertainment, safety, security and fish finding equipment to both the recreational and commercial marine sectors. I enjoy working with an international team in a diverse software environment.

North Billerica, MA, US

• Team member participating in the design, development and installation of systems that upon the inevitable occurrence of GPS or GNSS failure, signal jamming or lack of availability; provide a fail-over mitigation for.
• Responsible for the design, development and system integration of touch interfaces in front of multiple TCP/IP NMEA 0183 data streaming PNT and HTTP devices. Ten unique real-time devices; some commercial and others.
• Designed and developed a Windows Service to monitor and control an eLoran NL40 transmitter via an SNMP to NMEA multi-threaded “signals and slots” bridge using Visual Studio, C++, Windows SDK system calls, Net-SNMP and.
• Ported a C C95 ANSI escape code console engineering utility (The Original GUI!) to Windows 10 and a more recent version of C++.
• Ported and updated legacy Twisted Python HTTP Server and HTML twisted.web.template code for specifying and creating “heatmap” coverage maps to the latest release of Python and Twisted Python using Visual Code.

Nashua, NH, US

• Supported GSSI's GPR (Ground Penetrating Radar) products SIR-30® and Lifelocator™ which have applications in concrete, object & void detection, drill-safe, bridge, road & rail road ballast inspection, non-destructive.
• Created simultaneous releases of software for Windows and Android using C++, Java, JNI, Win32 and Qt.
• Moved software for Wi-Fi connected devices from an Ad-hoc to Access Point based network.
• Design, maintain and enhanced multiple releases of real-time / soft real-time control system software for Android (4.4 - 6.0) & WES7 (Windows Embedded Standard 7) using the following software tools: Visual Studio, Qt.
• Provide developer integration support for customers using SDK’s for GPR data acquisition and collection, assisting them with the integration of GPR into their own products and systems, helping them be successful.
• Designed, implemented, tested and refactored SDK, UX, system and program logic, algorithms and interfaces for system components & nonstandard devices using Win32, DCOM, C/C++, Qt, C#, Python, Java and XML.

Hudson, New Hampshire, US

* “Advanced Sapphire Furnace” software development using C++, C#, Siemens PLC S7 & WinCC flexible automation & control software on a Siemens WinAC controller running IntervalZero RTX RTOS on an Embedded Windows platform with touch screen support.* Integrated new sensors (pyrometers, thermocouples), software features and enhancements for R&D process control.

Lübeck, Schleswig-Holstein, DE

* Senior member on a cross functional team of 10 (5 US & 5 in GER) that developed a reusable software framework on embedded Windows XP to support next generation patient monitoring and ventilation devices.* Windows application development, low-level user interface design and UI platform implementation, MFC, Win32, STL, ActiveX, GDI+, XML, Visual Studio.

* Design & development of AssureTec’s AssureID Professional imaging software: GUI applications – WinForms, System Services and SDK’s (.Net & COM). AssureID authenticates personal identification documents (Passports & Driver’s Licenses) capturing biographic and security data from the document. * Responsible for: developer support relations, integration of.

Manchester, NH, US

Prototyping, architecture/requirements development, documentation and unit test development for a multi-threaded Win32 hybrid/browser application that interfaces to a bank of 11 “intelligent” embedded medical device pumps that measure, mix and route fluids. iBOT (self-balancing wheel chair) User Control Panel (UCP). Configuration of redesigned UCP test.

Designed, implemented and integrated; "LotusDiscovery/1.0", a multi-threaded web spider/crawler for the Lotus Knowledge Discovery Server (Domino web server). LDS analyzed and identified relationships between documents and people in an organization in an effort to capture and share expertise. Required knowledge and configuration of Web Servers (Domino.

Implemented two projects: - Changed NuMega’s customized MFC/framework classes to support new features in JCheck 2.0, a Java VM thread analyzer (part of DevPartner Studio 6.5).- Worked on a prototype distributed development analysis tool requiring knowledge of STL, COM, IWebBrowser2 & IHTMLDocument2 (hybrid clients).

Karachi, Pakistan, PK

UI features where added to enhance a project management tool, used ActiveX controls from RogueWave - Stingray (Tree) and SoftwareFX (Chart).

Developed initial UI/database prototype of an Occupational Health Medicine application in Visual Basic for a Fortune 500 Company. Prototype was then used to develop a client application in Visual C++ 6.0, MFC, COM, FarPoint Technologies Spread(sheet) and Input Pro. Developed COM business logic objects based upon ATL 3.0, ADO 2.0 (SQL) and MSXML. Assisted.

Re-engineered Liberty Mutual client application code from an Apple Macintosh platform using Symantec Think C and Sybase SequeLink to MS Windows C++, RogueWave - Stingray Objective Grid, ODBC and MFC using a Dynamic CRecordSet. This conversion resolved Platform, Year 2000 Date and thick client SQL design issues.

US

Worked off-site to complete project remotely:- Refactored & Ported Win 16 "C" DLL source code to Win 32. The new integrated DLL provided WorkFlow, Database and File Compression (PKWARE) utility services in Word '97 VBA Visual Basic for Applications. This Project was completed sixty-five percent under budget.

- Developed N-Tier Java Client and Server that simplified generation of aircraft flight track noise contours.- Used RMI (Remote Method Invocation), StingRay’s Objective Blend 1.2 widgets and ‘awt’ 1.1.4 on the Client. Server used JNI (Java Native Interface) to execute legacy (difficult to use) grid contour creation utilities.- Accessed data store via Java.

Bscs, Computer Science - High Honors

Hands-On Virtual Training: Building An Embedded Application With Qt, Yocto Poky, Raspberry Pi And A 7" Hdmi Touchscreen

Seminar And Workshops

Visual Studio Live 2011

El244 Embedded Microsystems 68Hc11

90.301, Cybered: “Nutshell” Java Programming.

Cs300F - Advanced Ms Windows Programming Using Mfc.

Cs565 - Object Oriented Programming With C++