Karl Walters Email & Phone Number

Temecula, California, United States

Greater San Diego Area

 Program Manager for Upgrades to Page Wide Press Managed the design, delivery and support of the cut sheet writing system test beds for IPG which filled critical needs for several strategic programs under extremely tight timelines Developed and maintained a annual resource plan of record and budget for a department of fifteen engineers spanning multiple sites  Developed a partnership with HP’s Bangalore Research Hub to transition engineering responsibilities for software development Initiated and fostered the use of Agile development methodologies into the software development process including continuous integration, test driven and automated testing  Delivered numerous tools and a comprehensive support strategy to address product development needs for divisions in Ireland, Singapore, Israel and Spain  Project Management sponsorship for Signal Processing Capability Domain to improve knowledge and skill sets across the engineering section  Pioneered development of inline print quality measurement systems for first two iterations of the commercial web press that resulted in eleven invention disclosures Initiated placement of the second pilot of the Digital Oasis print center into a public high school in support of new business creation

Greater San Diego Area

  Technical lead for the scanner based application to automate print quality inspection which included over 300 installations worldwide  Designed and delivered numerous qualified machine vision algorithms using C++ and Matlab to measure critical Thermal Ink Jet performance metrics  Extended capabilities for a high resolution machine vision workcell to improve pattern matching, auto focus, and image uniformity correction  Architected and developed an extensible and flexible multi-threaded machine vision software application utilized for a variety of inspection tools

Greater San Diego Area

  Developed C++ application to perform image enhancement and restoration for the first generation digital camera  Successfully delivered image quality for second generation Digital Camera (C-20) in which sales far exceeded production quota and numerous awards were granted for price and performance

Temecula, Ca

 Developed key components in C++ for the Factor Floor Software Suite allowing technicians to build and debug industrial control applications on embedded control processors. Product won Microsoft’s Technology Innovation Award and is currently deployed worldwide.  Firmware changes to improve speed for downloading control programs.

Greater San Diego Area

 Led a fifteen member software development team in the development of components of the Digital Imagery Workstation Suite for Tomahawk Missile Mission Planning. Application for this state of the art subsystem was hosted on a distributed system including custom HW. Responsible for all phases of the software development cycle including requirements specification, design, implementation, HW diagnostics, test plan, and deployment.

Msee, Signal Processing

Master's Thesis : A Machine Vision System for High Accuracy Two Dimensional Measurement

Bsee, Bachelor Science Electrical Engineering