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Renton, Wa, Us

Kent, Wa, Us

Kent, Wa, Us

London, Gb

Chief engineer and cost account manager for countermeasures test systems. Created modular hardware and software architecture to recuce system maintenance cost. Designed and built a multi-threaded C++ application for Linux to simulate several aircraft Line Replaceable Units and MIL-STD-1553 buses to automatically verify software requirements. Created a new Linux kernel device driver to reduce the test system’s input latency. Developed a separate Linux kernel driver for an internally-manufactured PCI device.

London, Gb

Provided hardware and software integration support for Internal Research and Development programs. Maintained computer vision software written in C/C++ and CUDA. Created Verilog FPGA software code for a rapid-prototype driver’s vision system to fuse video from three separate infrared imagers on a single display. Served as lead engineer for board bring-up and troubleshooting.

London, Gb

Responsible for the design and manufacture of cable assemblies and custom fabricated parts, including circuit cards, to support environmental and functional testing of avionics products. Created new automated test software using C++ and Qt to support large-scale manufacturing of products in development.

London, Gb

Created software, including custom-built exception processing and memory management, for an aircraft mission computer using MIPS As- sembly and C. Developed board support package including multiple device drivers for the mission computer’s new single board computer. Provided technical assistance to and technical oversight of subcontractors. Performed analysis for and formal execution of hardware functional qual- ification test of the mission computer. Lead the execution of the mission computer’s function configuration audit and physical configuration audit.

Worked with a team of electrical engineering undergraduate students to create a web-based information storehouse and interactive map of telecommunication infrastructure. Job duties included configuring and administrating server hardware and designing and maintaining a spatial database and a software abstraction layer to support the map application. Underlying technologies included PHP, Linux, Apache, PostgreSQL and PostGIS.

Austin, Tx, Us

Responsible for advising ECE students on policy and coursework and training new staff members. Worked with the department's IT group to make several improvements for the Undergraduate Advising staff, including installing a department wide instant messaging server to improve communication between advisers.

Santa Clara, California, Us

Assisted AMD's performance lab team in validating and benchmarking the virtualization extensions on their new desktop and server products. Solely responsible for producing data from desktop platforms. Job duties included hardware debugging, test bench design and implementation, and supporting other teams using our software and data.

Responsible for posting all content, administering mailing lists, and handling team data. Created several PHP applications, utilized MySQL relational databases, and crafted an easy to navigate, standards compliant web site to ease team administration.

Contracted to network 50 nodes in a health care facility with a new building going up. Responsible for decision on and purchase of new equipment and material, designing topology, installing and testing the physical network, and connecting to existing network via a fiber run.