Mark Simpson Email & Phone Number

An experienced Engineering leader with a demonstrated history of hands-on experience. Skilled in Technical leadership, Embedded Software, Distributed Edge Devices, Linux, full-stack(pc/cloud) development, Communication Protocols, Team Building, CI/CD, and Change Management. Strong data-driven leader and software professional with a Bachelor of Science in Electrical and Electronics Engineering.Skills - Technical- 16+ years leading global firmware/software engineering teams.- 22+ years experience in firmware/software design, implementation, debugging, testing and maintenance.- Extensive knowledge in building/refocusing local and remote teams to be agile and most effective.- Extensive knowledge in firmware/software systems and their integration with the hardware.- Large-scale real-time embedded system experience. Multiprocessing architectures, multithreading processes, memory management, inter-process, inter-device, and device-cloud communications.- Extensive knowledge of continuous integration, continuous delivery (CI/CD).- Extensive knowledge of communication protocols.- Programming languages: C/C++, GoLang, English- Scripting languages: Bash, Lua, JavaScript, Python.- Operating systems: Linux (Embedded & Desktop), Windows, and QNX.Skills - Personal- Servant Leader, always putting team members first.- Strong data-driven leadership.- Strong verbal, written, and presentation communication skills.- Work and lead collaboratively in a team environment.- Extremely detail-oriented with the ability to focus on the task at hand and not get distracted.- Have a keen sense of doing things right the first time and producing quality results. Also not afraid to fail fast.- Take on big projects, break them up into smaller components, and bring each component back together to create a great final product.- Systematic, take the lead in stressful situations.

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  Stellenbosch University

  Electrical And Electronics Engineering