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Beaverton, OR, US

Santa Clara, California, US

Developing embedded firmware ingredients for Intel SOC components and chipsets.

Santa Clara, California, US

Designer for OEM and volume market dual socket server products using state of the art Intel multicore CPUs and chipsets.

Software and Embedded Microcontroller Design for making joysticks and controls used on industrial machines and construction equipment such as earth moving machines.

Provided product design and development to various companies doing both embedded systems electronics design and embedded system firmware development.

Product development for a laser based stroke marking system used to write marks and "best before" date codes on products being packaged on a production line. Involved in system architecture, product specifications, design and software development.

Performing architectural design and detailed hardware development for a second generation video conferencing system for video communications in an office environment over ISDN phone lines. Heavy emphasis on Motorola 68332 embedded development including FPGA gate arrays, video circuits, audio DSP subsystem, and ISDN telecom interfaces. The system design was.

St. Paul, Minnesota, US

Performed architectural design for a new pacemaker programmer product to provide state of the art user interface for medical personnel to program and monitor the activity of an implanted pacemaker.

Designed a bootable CDROM system on PC based platform for launching Windows based LAN server installation software.

Performing product development services for various client firms. Broad range of hardware and software products produced. Embedded systems, motion control systems, laser control systems, Windows software, telecommunication products and PCDOS software products like XTree and XTreeLink are included in the many projects performed.

Worked on PC platform software products including XTreeGOLD, a file management package with ZIP capabilities, XTree Link, a machine to machine file transfer package, and XTNET, a Netware file management package. The work was DOS based development using assembly language and C language coding.

Chief Engineer designing integrated work station computer unit aimed at front office secretarial office automation market. Product development included all phases from microprocessor electronics development, chassis design, packaging, diagnostics and production considerations.

Principle Engineer supporting operating system implementations, design of 68000 microprocessor computer boards, design of new microprocessor controller boards, disk controllers and production engineering for the firm's integrated workstation computer unit.

Project Engineer to develop new multiple microprocessor central console for energy management system that supported an in-house designed real time operating system. Key design attributes were fault tolerance, multi-way communications links to satalite spaves, and error correcting memory.

Senior Engineer working with systems engineering group to develop a low end unitized small business microcomputer system. Also supported design of medium scale products and developed factory board and system level test capabilities.

Electrical Engineer within equipment design group to design interface modules for air and sea launch cruise missile navigation systems. Also designed I/O simulators and software development systems for cruise missile computers.

Electrical Engineer with R&D group designing high performance non volatile mass storage memory systems technology under Navy IR&D programs. Also developed a concept and equipment to perform environmental parameter control for integrated circuits undergoing electrical test.