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Austin, Texas

Multichannel digital audio networking and distribution solutions for live music and other applications.

Austin, Texas Area

Hands-on people and technical management of embedded server management firmware development:• Led team that developed industry-leading, blade server embedded chassis manager. - Industry-leading power and cooling management. - World-class 1-to-many (288) server management across multiple chassis - Cutting edge I/O fabric flexibility and management - PowerPC host processor running embedded Linux.• Managed individual contributors and a first-line manager (total team size = 20)• Provided technical direction; engaged in critical technical problems and discussions• Advocated for the most positive customer experience - Usability studies documented a transition from worst-in-class to best-in-class.• Provided status and progress updates to executives• Use of Agile/Scrum methodology yielded much more accurate implementation of requirements.• Led ongoing process improvement forum to empower team to evoke change.• Led university intern recruiting programs

Austin, Texas Area

Led the technical team responsible for sound, lighting, and projection for a remote video venue of the Hill Country Bible Church in the Steiner Ranch community.Responsible for running sound, lighting, and projection systems during church services; and training and scheduling others to do so, as well.Responsible for setting up, troubleshooting, repairing, expanding and improving sound, lighting and projection systems.

Austin, Texas Area

Sound technician in large church venue.FOH mix, monitor mix, stage props.Attended training seminars for EQ, mic placement, sound reinforcement.

Austin, Texas Area

Hands-on people and technical management of diagnostics software development group:• Second-line manager for 6 teams, 32 people. Linux, Windows, and pre-OS developers of C, C++, and assembly code for testing CPU and chipset designs and wafers, and platform designs. - Linux kernel development - Pre-boot diagnostics, run from instruction cache - Post-boot diagnostics, run on a modified Linux kernel (32- and 64-bit) - Burn-in diagnostics - System stress tests, run on Windows - Chipset functional and stress tests• Team was instrumental in proving new 64-bit x86 CPU architecture and reference platforms.• Led the Bug Discovery Task Force: cross-functional initiative to hasten silicon bug detection

Austin, Texas Area

Managed 10 developers of diagnostic software. Employee performance management, budget management, project management, technical leadership.Architected new systems for automation of PC production and testing:• Worked with industry leaders, such as Intel and DiagSoft, to develop standards for API’s and messaging systems for diagnostic software.• Led development of automation software for IA-64 (Itanium) computers, leveraging Intel’s Extensible Firmware Interface (EFI) shell environment using DHCP and TCP/IP networking protocols.• Redesigned manufacturing process monitoring services to optimize performance. Multithreaded Windows NT service written in C++, communicated to an SQL database using Open Database Connectivity (ODBC) API’s.Led team of programmers developing diagnostic software for use by Dell's customers, design engineers, and manufacturing engineers:- Created/tracked development schedules and resource allocation, provided technical leadership, acted as focal point of diagnostics development, developed diagnostic software.

Benton Harbor, Michigan Area

Managed software developers in the Diagnostics Development group:- Created and tracked development schedules and resource allocation, salary planning, managing budgets, performed annual performance appraisals, and performed software releases.- Developed diagnostics software.- Developed user interfacesPerformed preparation and internal auditing for ISO 9001 certification.

Greater San Diego Area

Designed digital and analog hardware and firmware for a digital radio telephone emulator based on the Texas Instruments TMS32020 Digital Signal Processor.Designed the Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) protection circuit and the chassis electrical layout for a radio multiplexer.Designed, built, and tested a test fixture for the digital I/O Interface card in a satellite communications radio.Developed a program, which was adopted for company-wide use, which automatically sets users' terminal parameters upon logging into one of the main frame systems.Developed a program which interfaces FORTRAN programs with the DEC-20 system command parser to allow programmers to write FORTRAN programs which are user friendly.Hardware Lead for an airborn military command post communications system. Customer point-of-contact for hardware related issues. Performed all hardware upgrade designs, all field support troubleshooting, all firmware configuration control, all maintenance of hardware documentation (schematics, wirelists, repair logs), development of test fixtures and test software.