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London, GB

Broomfield, CO, US

Reston, Virginia, US

Herndon, Virginia, US

Technical point of contact with program customer including presentations, report and documentation writing.Scrum master for four different projects involving up to 8 software engineers.Project topics included embedded cellular protocol development, single board computer (SBC) operating system enhancements, product-specific modem device driver (C++).

Herndon, Virginia, US

Developed software and configuration changes to allow a GSM UE transceiver to function in a basestation mode.Developed software for a system utilizing a PIC microcontroller and Ublox GPS module.Developed cellular protocol stack modifications required for stability and security.Performed binary analysis with Ida.Supported development of a LTE eNodeB based.

Developed firmware for a SAS-2 (Serial Attached SCSI) expander product to support SMP (Serial Management Protocol) commands including Zoning.Supported testing of an embedded, multi-protocol, Storage Area Networking device. Tasks included: development and execution of tests targeting SAS (Serial Attached SCSI) Discovery Process, development of C test.

Boulder, Colorado, US

• Implemented software in a HC08 microcontroller for a NiMH battery charger. Identified required design changes to the Spectralink manufactured batteries. Provided test software and support to manufacturing and test of.
• Provided extensive support to development of VIEW (Voice Interoperability for Enterprise Wireless) certification program. VIEW is a testing and validation program which examines the packet level (layer 2) interactions.

Lowell, MA, US

• Formerly Conexant Systems and Rockwell SemiconductorSenior Staff Engineer
• Designed and developed a high-speed PCB used to test a SONET Ring MAC device (a.k.a. RAC100). The MAC controller implemented an OC-192 version of Cisco’s Spatial Reuse Protocol.
• Responsible for schematic capture, component selection, supervision of PCB routing, configuration and test software, board bring-up, integration of board support package (BSP) for VxWorks, PCB rework.
• Completed performance tests of various interfaces on the RAC100 including board level signal verification.Software Engineer
• Developed embedded software used to configure SAR (segmentation and reassembly) devices. Focused on enhancement and maintenance of a software library (referred to as servCat) used to translate traffic shaping.
• Designed, implemented and tested algorithms to imitate floating point computations using 32-bit fixed point computations (for servCat).

• Staff Engineer (Secret clearance).
• Principal engineer responsible for test and integration of a prototype ASIC known as the Communication Signal Processor (CSP). Developed embedded, real-time software in C, C40 assembly, and a proprietary assembly.
• Provided system engineering and analysis to verify the role of the CSP in the Advanced Secure Digital Radio (ASDR).
• Developed assembly language software to evaluate a programmable DSP core included in the CSP. Developed real-time software to perform modulation and demodulation of analog waveforms (AM, FM, SSB) and digital waveforms.
• Provided system engineering, analysis, and software support to the development of GPS receiver implemented in an all-digital radio. Developed an understanding of GPS receivers and GPS implementation tailored to unique.

• Performed scientific data analysis and visualization to support a variety of projects. This included running and modifying existing simulations and models, post-processing and presentation of data, and developing user.
• Conducted simulation and analysis of the effects of dust clouds (generated by simulated nuclear weapon detonation) on airborne strategic assets. Developed complex algorithms to parse text data files. The resulting.
• Developed a working knowledge of various sensor and surveillance technologies used in fields such as atmospheric research and satellite-based surveillance.
• Provided programming and computational support to a paper on Hopkinson bar measurements including post processing of the resulting data using C and postscript programs.

• Participated in design, development and application of large-scale discrete event simulations to evaluate support concepts for maintaining operational availability of satellite systems. Developed and implemented new.
• Both models involved orbital mechanics, reliability, structured system design, discrete event simulation, statistical analysis, and object oriented design. All software developed in Ada.

Ma, Science And Religion

Bachelors, Physics