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San Diego, CA

San Diego, CA

• Responsible for development and maintenance of medical infusion pump fluid delivery, sensor monitoring, and user interface subsystems. Work with system engineers to transform product requirements into software and.
• ThreadX. Hierarchical state machine driven software development atop ThreadX RTOS (Quantum LeapsTM).
• A/D Converters & GPIO Devices. Developed sampling software and filtering algorithms for pressure sensors, and ultrasonic air in fluid detection devices.
• Motor Control. Enhanced Allegro stepper motor control software for a peristaltic pumping mechanism, with encoder monitoring.
• Robot FrameworkTM. Developed test automation scripting software.

Poway, CA

• Responsible for maintaining satellite flight software and development of test scripts for earth, sun, and thermal sensors.
• Flight Software: Working under VxWorks 6.3 Workbench made modifications to guidance and navigation algorithms.
• Sensor Testing. Using a scripting language similar to the Bourne shell, developed scripts to stimulate spacecraft sensors and monitor output.

• Responsible for RFID reader product development. Worked with digital and RF engineers, and manufacturing department.
• Software Development Infrastructure: Set up the engineering department's first version control system. Researched and set up a corporate issue-tracking system for monitoring software and hardware bugs.
• Product Development: Ported Linux kernel and boot loader to proprietary ARM9 single board computer. Designed and developed loadable kernel modules for an embedded Linux RFID reader. Interfaced to a digital FPGA.
• Corporate Infrastructure: Pioneered the company's first internal web site, and first comprehensive software backup and recovery system. Implemented mirrored version control repositories, and replicated SQL databases..

San Diego, CA

• Responsible for Firmware Over The Air (FOTA) feature development: Acted as customer interface to Alltel Wireless for requirements definition and acceptance testing. Supervised a distributed team of engineers (Russia.
• Feature Prototyping: Lead a team of R&D engineers to develop a proof of concept prototype. Traveled to Alltel Wireless to perform live over the air product demonstrations.
• Product Development: Assumed responsibilities of senior manager upon his resignation. Rallied upper management and a team of engineers to incorporate feature into a deliverable product. Interfaced to customer for.
• Customer Acceptance: Participated in change control board to evaluate and prioritize trouble reports. Responded to customer concerns. Coordinated development and test engineers to resolve errors on time for scheduled.

• Responsible for design and development of cdma2000 cellular software, and administration of base station simulator test systems.
• Software Development: Implemented cdma2000 features in base station simulator software. Added support for supplemental, and dedicated control channels. Implemented mobile station authentication, encryption, and voice.
• System Administration: Responsible for maintaining a company-wide network of 100 base station simulators. Performed QNX O/S installation, network configuration, and licensing. Created tool to provide 7/24 monitoring of.

Developed VxWorks and pSOS board support packages and applications software.