Phillip Johnston Email & Phone Number

San Francisco, Ca, Us

We advise companies buildilng embedded systems and their supporting infrastructure. Our firm specializes in firmware architecture, new system bringup, improving development processes, product development strategy, and manufacturing strategy.Our Mission:We seek to partner with companies that want to produce quality products. We aim to share modern development techniques and best practices so that everyone can benefit from our learnings. We create systems and automate best practices to help us produce exceptional work.What We've Accomplished: • Shipping a combined total of 21 products • Combined support of over 100 manufacturing builds in China • Experience in defense, consumer electronics, robotics, automotive, and manufacturing • Building 10+ open-source libraries for use on embedded projects • Authoring over 150 articles on embedded systems and software developmentEngineering and Consulting Services:• Software architecture• Product development strategy• Manufacturing strategy• Software development process improvements• Memory optimization• Power optimization• Debugging tricky problems

- Employee #12, 2nd firmware hire, series A- Responsible for chip evaluation and RTOS selection (ThreadX)- Bring-up of build tools, build system, SOC, and device drivers. - Defined & supported manufacturing testing from proto through PVT- Responsible for camera driver & device-side video streaming APIs. Managed ISP chip vendor.- Wrote USB EHCI host stack- Optimized memory usage for performance improvements across USB and camera driver stacks- Gave lectures on system architecture and C++ techniques- Trained firmware interns

Cupertino, California, Us

− Manage NPI factory test and calibration lines from prototype development to mass production.− Implemented multiple improvements to factory and test processes.− Frequently brief executives on program status and readiness for hardware builds.− Managed two iPhone programs simultaneously (involving significant travel to China). Complex, high-volume, cross-functional, tight schedules.

Cupertino, California, Us

− Rapid bring-up of software for multiple new products, components, and tests for use on production lines.− Managed priorities, deadlines, and requirements. Managed CM resources for development efforts.− Worked extensively with cross-functional teams to specify requirements and debug factory issues.

Atlanta, Georgia, Us

− Lead developer on multi-system embedded project for U.S. Army REF (<1 yr from start to deployment) − Awards for cross-functional coordination, exceeding customer expectations, distinguished performance.− Research, development, and testing of a platform-independent API for the U.S. Navy.− Developer for MIL-STD-1553 bus monitoring software. Interfaced with multiple EW/Avionics systems. − Led formal testing. Coordinated testing support and resolved hardware scheduling conflicts.