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Poway

Poway, CA

Created, designed, and implemented perl scripts to process bioinformatics data files (PDB and Dali) and to process the results of related programs (CE and Sequoia). Languages: Perl

Senior Software Engineer. Contributed to all areas of product's firmware and software. Fixed problems with proprietary wireless protocol to allow reliable firmware downloads. Rewrote download firmware to use onboard SEEPROM. Redesigned and rewrote Linux-based software to improve reliability and add automated testing. Wrote customer-facing web app to allow.

Designed and implemented a software downloader for a NAND flash-based television and a client scheduler for the downloader.

Debugged firmware for a new OCAP Linux-based cable set-top box. Finding and fixing bugs in low-level hardware interface layer. Languages: C, Perl, MIPS32 Assembly

Upgraded existing build system to make it more efficient. Created resource and performance monitoring systems. Enhanced and maintained several subsystems, including two-way communications and code download. Created and implemented a system for the automated testing of the product. Also created a system to allow developers to unit test files in the legacy.

Created and supported software product to allow developers to use testing tools while debugging under simulation instead of requiring the use of target hardware. Enhanced the functionality of an automated testing tool with low-level communication routines. Languages: C++, Python

Implemented website using an XML application server (AxKit). Designed and implmemented content administration system for company website. Created website in PHP on a Linux platform. Developed test applications for Embassy Trusted Client API. Test applications written in Tcl and C. Built and administered network of Linux and Windows 2000 platforms..

. Designed, implemented and tested functionality which provided real-time code upgrade of a satellite TV set-top box without interruption to the end user. Performed code reduction effort to remove dead code from product using Perl scripts. Languages: C, Perl

. Designed, implemented and tested messaging and control protocol for High Availability processing for redundant cards in satellite telephone gateways. In charge of maintenance of command and data messaging system in gateways, including change control and configuration management. Wrote scripts to generate Interface Control Document web pages for this.

. Designed and implemented user interface features on X-windows voice switch GUI for air traffic controllers. Participated in OOAD requirements analysis, design, and testing. Built a Tcl/Tk application simulator. Set up a system to build application on NT that included a facility to detect build errors and automatically alert developers. Languages: C++

. Implemented channel selection algorithm used to determine user authorization for a satellite set-top box. Algorithm extracted authorization information from Entitlement Management Messages (EMM) in an MPEG2 Packetized Elementary Stream. Designed, implemented and documented build management system for set-top firmware. Languages: C, Perl

Designed and implemented low-level HW to SW interface classes for embedded diagnostic processors for a large-scale parallel computer. Provided C++ and embedded systems technical support for the group. Designed, implemented and documented build management system using Make and Perl for a group of about 20 engineers. Performed requirement analysis and.

Embedded development in C and 80186 assembly for speech recognition device. Designed and implemented control firmware for custom board. Designed and implemented firmware to transfer speech data from the custom board to a backend processor. Languages: C, asm86

Bs, Chemistry

Bs, Electrical Engineering