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Naperville, IL, US

Tinley Park, IL, US

Working for a small company in a variety of software rolesPerform real time monitoring of a machine producing cartons for the packaging automation industry. A 53 microsecond timer is used to read bar codes, check sensor status, and extrude glue onto cartons. Technologies used include: C++, embedded Yocto linux, Xenomai real time kernel, Qt widgets, GUI.

Toronto, ON, CA

Lead Software Engineer for the C version of the Ultra Performance API (UPA) and C++ version of the Robust Foundation API (RFA). The UPA and RFA APIs are used internally and by customers to communicate with Elektron and the Thomson Reuters Enterprise Platform for Real Time to access and distribute OMM data. Added the shared memory transport to the UPA API.

Norcross, GA, US

Software engineer on a globally distributed team developing financial software for the credit card industry with a code base of 2 million lines. Main focuses are multi-threaded C++ development and Database performance.Refactored and added performance measurements to the mutex APIs and libraries used the by the application. Added checks for deadlock.

Alameda, CA, US

• Managed a globally distributed team testing the Workbench product. Wind River Systems is a manufacturer of VxWorks and Linux operating systems and tools for embedded systems. Responsible for overall testing performed.
• Planned testing for 4 major releases and several patch releases resulting in on time delivery
• Direct/indirect management of employees at sites in California, Austria, and France.
• Management of a team of 16 offshore testing contractors from Pune, India resulting in a 5 times improvement in the number of defects submitted
• Improved infrastructure, methodologies, and processes used by the test team to plan, execute, and report on the results of testing.
• Pioneered methods to analyze, plan, and track testing for all requirements in a release.

Alameda, CA, US

• Managed a team of 10 engineers developing a modular multithreaded custom debug server that was 600,000 lines of C++ at completion. The team was part of the globally distributed Wind River Workbench project utilizing.
• Developed a 2 year long project plan and successfully delivered on time
• Negotiated requirements for each release with marketing, program management, and other engineering leads.
• Defined and tracked feature development plans and task lists along with the associated schedules for the team utilizing Microsoft Project.
• Provided guidance and set policies/processes for development which included high level designs, peer reviews, coding standards, source code control using Rational Clearcase, nightly builds, defect resolution, and.
• Interfaced and coordinated with other development teams in France, Austria, and multiple US locations.

US

Served as a member of an engineering team developing a low cost Cellular Switching System. Specific duties included development of a statistics reporting system and an Informix database utilized by all facets of the switch.

Managed eight employees in the areas of system testing, problem/defect tracking, tool development, technical documentation, source code tracking, and release project management. Managed the budget, conducted team member performance reviews, hired new engineers, and established incentive goals. Leadership of the Management Information Services Area: As the.

Lead Engineer on a project utilizing computer telephony integration (CTI) to distribute incoming calls across a number of ACDs. Specific duties included high level design and implementation of virtual routing application (VRA). Communication between processes was accomplished using TCP/IP sockets and CSTA formatted messages.

Minneapolis, MN, US

Served as a contract developer for various companies including Baxter Healthcare, AT&T Bell Labs, Honeywell Environmental systems, and Rockwell Switching Systems

Designed and implemented a user interface for a radar tracking system utilizing Visual Basic. A radar image had to be constructed by users by entering data about objects within the radar’s range using latitude and longitude coordinates.

Assisted in the software development of a color control system for a printing press. The system used video imaging techniques to compare the same image that was printed at different times during the press run to determine color quality, and preset the press before running a job. This involved software applications to preset the press, windows graphing.

Deerfield, Illinois, US

Designed and implemented large portions of the user interface for a UNIX server controlling a hospital drug dispensing system. The system was written in C with the user interface using UNIX Curses and ETI packages. Embedded SQL was utilized to update and access an Informix database containing information about patients and drugs.In addition, developed.

Designed and constructed set of tools to aid in the automated testing of a telephone switching system. A set of tools written in C, YACC and LEX generated input for a software package running on an IBM PC called Autotester. This interfaced with a set of routines running on the telephone switch written in C++.

Murray Hill, NJ, US

Responsible for new features and the maintenance of C software generation systems for the INTEL 8086, MC68000, MC68020, and AT&T 3B20 Duplex platforms. The tools included compiler, link editor, optimizer, and assembler.Designed and implemented a set of tools for replacing code, data, and symbolic information in COFF object files destined for MC68000 and.

Murray Hill, NJ, US

Constructed the user interface for an environmental control system. The system used a Honeywell Level 6 minicomputer and was written in assembly language.

Chicago, Illinois, US

Provided systems and network support for a group of DEC-10 and PDP-11 computers.