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Palo Alto, California, US

Los Gatos, CA, US

Input Device ArchitectMulti-Architecture micro-controller firmware (ARM, AVR)Designed/Implemented DSL for programmable keyboards (KLL to C)Implemented the first mass market USB NKRO keyboard with Windows/Linux/Mac support without a custom driver or user configurationDesigned firmware flashing stations for manufacturing in ChinaSchematic designCommunity.

Palo Alto, CA, US

(Acquired by Broadcom)

Palo Alto, CA, US

Sunnyvale, CA, US

(Acquired by VMware)Maintain/develop build systems (Makefiles, Docker, Python, Golang, C, C++, Protobuf, meson, ninja)Primary owner/maintainer of the Datrium custom Linux distro (uses squashfs, with a custom Python init system)KVM DVX hyperdriver maintainerLinux kernel co-maintainer (Datrium maintains kernel bug-fixes for specialized hardware)3rd-party.

Designed/Implemented then deployed at customer site a real-time 10 G Ethernet stats and trace recording box for collecting anonymous network statsDesigned/Implemented custom IP processing stacks layer 1 to 7 (Ethernet, IP, TCP, RCPv2, NFSv3)Performance qualification of FPGA + x86 based passive network analyzersDesigned/Implemented/Maintained CIT stack for.

Fixed bugs and issues regarding automated build systemMaintained SGE build clusterDiagnosed build problems remotelyAdvised on future automated build optionsPython, Bash

Unified FPGA Team Linux toolsDeveloped FPGA SLES 11.2 Linux Appliance for testing, cluster usage, and development using kiwiSetup SGE build cluster for Quartus and Questa ModelSim using custom tool chain built in Python and BashQuartus and ModelSim parallelization investigation for SGE build clusterDeveloped TWDP Tx measurement procedure for 8.5 Gbps Fibre.

Sunnyvale, CA, US

Designed and Implemented build and job scripts for high performance build servers (FPGA)Implemented remote function call unit testing via Python through RS-232 with hooks to SMBus and CAN protocol analyzers/testersWorked on firmware for an automotive grade battery management system (CAN, LIN, SMBus, Maxim 17830, dsPIC33)Played a critical role in designing.

Sunnyvale, CA, US

Regression and ATP test framework implementation for FibreChannel test equipment projectExample driver and implementation of Android on embedded devices (Gumstix)Adviser for Linux issues (driver, package management, and hardware issues for the FibreChannel test device)Designed an FPGA flash read/write/erase tool, in Bash, for initial feature testingC, C++.

Suwa, Nagano, JP

­ Firmware test tool for a bank marketed multi-function device (wxWidgets) ­ USB and Com port scanner/MICR/MSRW drivers for Windows XP and Linux ­ Multi-threaded image verification library (using Epson developed algorithms), performs Quality Assurance on manufactured devices ­ Basic CLI menu framework (including test script library) for use in VT100.

­ Internationalization work for the Asus EeePC Linux OS and Linux OEM Solutions, worked on the initial multi- language support of the 25 supported languages ­ GUI design and execution ­ Linux OEM Solution projects, led the dynamic branding and wizard creation projects ­ Worked a great deal with QT3, QT4, KDE3 and GTK ­ C, C++, Perl, Python (with GTK) and.

Internationalization work for the Asus EeePC Linux OS, mainly French and GermanSome internationalization work for the Polish Xandros Server productWorked with KDE, Qt3 and Qt4

Thunder Bay, Ontario, CA

­ Direct technical support line to over 3000 health care individuals in North Western Ontario ­ Repair, deploy and inventory computational item to specific user bases at multiple hospitals, clinics and other medical facilities ­ Dealing with mission critical health care computational software through both phone and interpersonal meetings