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Anaheim, Ca, Us

Design and implement Linux based embedded software for USB, video and audio extension products for Military, Universities and other large-scale customers.RTOS design and development for USB extension products.Design code for both Linux kernel and application layers. Assist hardware engineering teams with new board bring-up and support.Kernel driver development multi-gig high-speed copper and fiber networking (MAC/MDIO/PHY), and other various kernel requirements.Userland coding in C,C++, BASH and other various languages and scripting.

Working on new project to accelerate virtual machine (VM) environment. Designing new Hypervisor Reflecting Copier code to support additional inexpensive system memory using a Xilinx PCIe gen3 board. Working with KVM, Xen and QEMU mostly all Linux kernel development.

Palo Alto, Ca, Us

Short-term consulting contract to help HP determine, implement and test various workarounds for printer discovery, rediscovery and connections issues with Microsoft’s WSD (Web Services for Devices) printer port implementation for IP (WLAN) based printers. Worked with PSDr (HP’s Printer/Scan Doctor software package) source to create additional command-line executables to configure and reassign printer port from WSD to a non-WSD (IPv6 Link Local) TCP port. Wrote white-paper detailing issue, workarounds and implementation details for which I was hired.

Round Rock, Texas, Us

Principal Software Engineer. Design and develop software for industry leader in storage technology. Agile (Scrum) development methodology. Extensive Linux and Cygwin experiences for both software and automation development.

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

Worked on UEFI/BIOS development for next generation high-end servers and support legacy products in field.

San Diego, Ca, Us

Wrote Linux kernel drivers and user-space source for hardware related devices for the Android and ChromeOS operating systems.Also focused on debugging interfaces to monitor master and slave traffic across the high speed interconnected fabric. wrote software to display any bottlenecks in the memory master and slave devices.Wrote Android (Gingerbread. Honeycomb, Ice cream and Jelly Bean) kernel-level source and background system daemons for Qualcomm's current and future Android chipsets. This included SoC encryption/decryption & very reliable random numbers to increase Android's state of entropy for solid authentication for secure accesses.My secure system-level work exists in over 100 million Samsung Galaxy S[3-8] phones.

Worked to help IBM BMC hardware team implement a baseboard micro controller for X-series servers.

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

Wrote BIOS (UEFI) for X-series server products. Implemented iSCSI configuration to BIOS settings and out-of-band configuration of BIOS settings from command line utilities.

Wrote software for current and new digital video recorders for police and transit. Worked closely with hardware, micro controllers and embedded Linux.

Wrote Windows XP PCI device drivers for video capture cards for use at broadcast stations to compress real time 1080p raw camera output utilizing the WDM driver model. Each card had 10x TI PCI video DSP processors. Wrote library to properly enumerate and order DSPs. Enrolled my drivers with Microsoft device driver verification process.

Santa Clara, California, Us

Worked with design team to write NDIS 5.x/6.0 drivers for Intel's new 802.11a/b/g/n WLAN PCI/Cardbus devices. Also wrote 32-bit DOS tools to test previous ASIC's.

Dallas, Tx, Us

Hardware bring up, test software development for WiFi 802 11a/b/g ASIC and SoC, including firmware and device driver development.

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

Developed advanced workstation and server images for large customers. Installed complex IAX Unix configurations for small to medium sized servers.

Wrote high speed, 128-port communication drivers in x86 assembly for Pick operating systems.

Wrote several games for PC, Apple ][ and Commodore 64. This included chess, checkers and backgammon plus several fun and interactive children learning games.