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Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States

Software Systems Engineer working with a team from GE Aviation (Grand Rapids) on avionics platform software development.• Responsible for software high and low level requirements development and management, including software problem analysis and resolution.

Muskegon, Mi

Lead Project Engineer for the software development of an electronic transmission control module (TCM).• Responsible for day-to-day project technical execution and software requirements management of the TCM, including management of an off-site software development team.• Manage project issues and action items as well as generate project schedules, task breakdowns, resource spreads, statements of work, and material estimates.• Conduct technical interchange meetings with development team, vehicle OEM (BAE Systems), and end customer (U. S. Army – TACOM/TARDEC).• Develop and present material in various reviews (PDR, CDR, SRR, TRR) with vehicle OEM and end customer.• Interface with many organizations within the company, including program management, engineering, quality, finance, purchasing, and shipping/receiving.Lead System Engineer integrating the TCM (Xilinx FPGA/Microblaze 32-bit softcore processor) into end vehicle propulsion systems.• Develop and maintain specific test plans to perform design engineering data gathering efforts in addition to final qualification testing.• Perform formal and informal requirements based testing of the TCM in a system integration lab (SIL) as well as end vehicle applications.• Collect and analyze test data to verify functionality and provide traceability to software requirements. Use Vector CANape and CANalyzer tools to monitor and capture data relevant to TCM performance to diagnose/resolve any non-conformance with development team.• Prepare test reports detailing the results for company and end customer management.• Support generation and management of the software technical data package (requirements, design, test plans, test reports, and version description) and responsible for final software and documentation release to the end customer.• Provide engineering and production test SIL support for various propulsion systems. Travel to vehicle OEM and government sites to support vehicle testing/troubleshooting as needed.

Muskegon, Mi

Software Engineer in an R&D group of an electrical engineering organization developing hybrid-electric drive technology for manned military ground vehicles.• Helped integrate a next generation system control computer into a series hybrid-electric demonstration vehicle. Verified the vehicle’s startup/shutdown procedures and automotive performance. Identified software issues and coordinated corrective actions with the control computer vendor. • Learned the vehicle CAN bus network communication protocol (physical layer). Used Vector CANalyzer tool to analyze the performance of the vehicle control system.

Grand Rapids, Mi

Systems Engineer in an organization focused on driving the company to become a tier one avionics systems integrator for military and commercial aircraft.• Wrote a system development plan to guide the requirements management (DOORS), design, implementation, and verification of an avionics computing platform (PowerPC 7457/Wind River AE653).• Developed the high-level system requirements for an avionics computing platform. Participated in and/or lead peer reviews of project requirements and design documents.Lead System Engineer for the Built-In Test (BIT) function determining the overall health of the hardware of an avionics computing platform (PowerPC 7457/Wind River AE653).• Regularly communicated with the customer (Boeing), keeping them apprised of the BIT design and implementation progress.• Wrote requirements, test software (C), and test procedures to integrate the BIT function into the system.• Performed requirements based testing to verify BIT performance and provide traceability to requirements. Wrote problem reports for any issues found during testing (Dimensions).• Provided level of effort and timelines to complete various phases of the BIT function integration and assigned work tasks to two engineers under my supervision.• Participated in and/or lead peer reviews of project requirements, design description documents, and source code design.

Holland, Mi

Lead Software Engineer of a team developing an enhancement to an automotive telematics system (Renesas SH4 32-bit microcontroller/QNX Neutrino, Bluetooth). The application retrieved the contacts from a cell phone and provided hands-free access to the information.• Wrote the software architecture description document, helped plan the development timeline, and defined the system requirements for the feature.• Developed the test plan and performed the software integration testing for the application.Lead Software Engineer of a team developing an automotive telematics prototype system (Intel X-Scale 32-bit microcontroller, Motorola 68HC08 8-bit microcontroller, J1850 Network Bus) demonstrating an off-board navigation application, and a voice memo recorder.• Defined the “black box” requirements for the system, developed the software architecture and the inter-process communication (IPC) protocol for the application module, the message protocol defining the data flow between the application and user interface modules, and coded various application software (C) components.• Participated in the software integration testing for the system.• Developed a phone manager software (C) component as a feature enhancement for the system that allowed a user to place a phone call to an entry from a contact list.Software Engineer for a systems engineering organization• Developed models (I-Logix’s Statemate Magnum) capturing the application software behavior for various overhead console systems. The systems supported features including compass heading, outside temperature, universal garage door opener, trip computer, and user personalization.

Livonia, Mi

Systems Engineer in an embedded software development organization writing the software for an automotive interior control system (Motorola 68HC12 16-bit microcontroller).• Developed the system initialization strategies, supported the use of an in-house non-preemptive kernel, and coded (C) the system low power (sleep) algorithms.

Northville, Mi

Principal Software Engineer of a team developing an AMLCD test system (Motorola Coldfire 5206 32-bit microcontroller/ pSOS OS). • Wrote software requirements and IPC documents for the test system. Used an Arnewsh SBC5206 evaluation system to develop application code (C) prior to prototype hardware availability.Software Engineer for an electrical engineering organization.• Maintained the software (C) applications for several PC-based (MS-DOS) AMLCD test systems.• Developed test scripts (DLLs) for a custom PC-based automated test platform that manipulated the display under test and collected and scored the results.• Developed additional software (C) applications to support two new PC-based (MS-DOS) AMLCD test systems. Wrote an I2C master software (C) device driver that communicated to a Philips PCF8584 I2C bus controller on the test systems to program data to serial EEPROMs used on the AMLCDs.• Developed a user interface (C) for the test systems that simplified their use in a production AMLCD test environment.• Wrote an MS-DOS (x86 assembly) terminate and stay resident (TSR) program that extended the capability of a test system application. The TSR program installed itself and remained dormant until a special key sequence was issued. When activated it provided an image-panning feature to the test system. Maintained other TSR programs that modified the function of a Chips and Technologies 65535 video controller.• Provided production test floor support for various AMLCD systems.Electrical Engineer for an electrical engineering organization.• Maintained and enhanced the software (C) application for a PC-based (MS-DOS) AMLCD test system. Added a logical to physical EEPROM address mapping structure and an I2C master software (C) driver (bit bang) to the test system to program data to serial EEPROMs used on the AMLCDs.

Roseville, Mn

Senior Electrical Engineer for an embedded control hardware and software development organization.• Designed the data path and data flow state machine control portion of a Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) that managed a custom serial I/O port for a next generation embedded controller. Used Quicklogic's schematic capture and simulation tools to enter and verify the design. • Designed, built, and tested an AT-Bus interface card for a PC-based (x86) emulator system used in the software development phase of a first generation embedded controller. Placed the system control design on four Altera Programmable Logic Devices (PLD) using the Schema schematic capture tool.• Provided system (hardware/software) troubleshooting support for a first generation embedded controller as it was integrated into a mainframe computer system.• Analyzed token ring LAN frames (logical link control and transport layers) to troubleshoot system errors between the controller and a mainframe computer system.• Designed and tested a hardware change to the controller that added a system reset control circuit for an attached mainframe computer system. Placed the reset control design on a Programmable Array Logic (PAL) integrated circuit device.• Developed the controller software (68010 and 68020 assembly) that provided a system hardware diagnostic function for an attached mainframe computer system. Took responsibility to maintain and enhance existing software components (68010 and 68020 assembly) for the controller.Test Engineer for a mainframe computer test engineering organization.• Tested and troubleshot Z-80 8-bit microprocessor based electronic control modules to component level failures.

B.S.E.E (Computer Engineering Option), Electrical And Electronics Engineering

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B.S.C.S., Computer Science

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