Robert Harding Email & Phone Number

Hopkinton, Massachusetts, United States

• Wrote firmware for BMC enclosure management for multi-drive enclosures• Developed control mechanisms for new drive sled hardware design for Isilon and Data Domain high end storage systems• Wrote new design for fan control feedback loop temperature control systems• Delivered quality embedded firmware running on Microsemi SAS Expander SXP chips for enclosure management for HA (high availability) large scale storage solutions• Created new control code for counter rotating fan packs for more efficient air flow• Designed and created SES protocol library to interface with new NVMe multi drive system over out-of-the-box PCIe connectivity, using new NVMe-MI technology• Debugged interface between SAS Expander and in-house FPGA controlling PWM fans and LEDs• Debugged other real-time problems with I2C bus communication for drive management, fan control, reading/writing EEPROMs, and LED control

• Write drivers to monitor and control satellite communication devices• Configure Linux operating systems for our Mercury G3 Element Manager• Write Windows service that maintains all of our driver builds and created web sites for our driver library access

Grew and sold perennials in greenhouse retail environment

Implemented and managed firmware for image storage and delivery to rendering devicesDesigned and implemented data flow and app management for HP Color LaserJet 1500 printerDesigned and implemented photo print app for Lexmark Home All-In-One Printer SeriesDesigned and implemented copy app for Ricoh Bizworks series laser print/scan/copy/fax machinesDeveloped caching strategies for performance improvements for Page Description Languages Postscript and PCLDesigned and implemented PCIe driver for ARM-based Quatro SoCDesigned, implemented, and maintained RTOS debugging tools for task interaction problems, ISR issues, and performanceUsed LeCroy analyzers and simulators to debug new Quatro SoC'sCreated subsystems that managed data flow, buffer storage, and concurrent processor/coprocessor activity for compression codecs (e.g., JBIG, JPEG, TIFF, PNG)Wrote data-stream parsers for PostScript, PCL, OakRaster, and other PDLsDesigned and implemented best-fit algorithms for multi-image photo printingIdentified low-level functions in PDLs as performance issues and rewrote as assembly routinesPorted Postscript, PCL, and other Multi-Function Peripheral apps to many RTOS's (e.g., pSOS, VxWorks, Embedded Linux, Windows CE, in-house proprietary OS) on many platforms (e.g., ARM, PowerPC, 68K, x86, Quatro, XipChip

Designed, created, and maintained all software for a successful start-up commodities trading firmCreated market-analysis algorithms to identify buy and sell points for in-house commodities traders

Led QA team that tested and debugged Page Description Languages (PostScript and PCL)Created test suites using popular printing applications to measure performance and identify problem areasCreated networking labs to insure against incompatibility when connecting new devices

Tested accounting software running on Macintosh computersDuring code porting to DOS systems, created terminate stay resident routines that mimicked multi-tasking on early, small systems