Robert Lipe Email & Phone Number

Creator and lead developer of GPSBabel, an open source, cross platform, project with > 40M direct downloads. It has grown from a code base in C into a C++ tool using Qt and a Qt user interface. I provide builds and support for MacOS and Windows and source releases for the others. It's the leading tool to convert data files with location between formats or between those files and devices like Garmin or data loggers, such as for competetive parasailing or geotagging photographs.It is included in many other tools like Google Earth, Geocaching Swiss Army Knife (GSAK), HoudahGeo, Quantum GIS, GPSVisualizer, Appareo Systems' Flight Playback, and many others. It's included in the master repos for Debian/Ubuntu, RedHat, MacPorts, Homebrew, and others.

Seattle, Wa, Us

For many years, I've helped customers/users get answers in the growing world of GPS technology. I keep bullies and spammers in check.

Mountain View, Ca, Us

I'm part of an amazing team working on a high profile product (over 1Bn downloads) and still personally delivering features that are used by many millions of people. I maintained the Linux version for several years, added many of the Pro/EC features such as regionation in 5.2, implemented DD MM.MMM support for GPS users and MGRS for military use, and GPX/Pocket Query drag and drop for Pocket Queries before moving to mobile. My long-term focus has been improving the cross-platform code reuse, automating builds and tests, and better using the Qt toolkit, all while converting user feedback into code.In the mobile group since 2010, I've worked to increase code sharing between iOS and Android, implemented Tours, asynchronous KML fetching/parsing, and implemented a better Search on mobile devices. I implemented the Material Design UI for Android Earth, as well as being the one that ported it to AARCH (64-bit ARM), MIPS, MIPS64, and x86-64 and served as the launch lead since 2013. I was the contact between the Android group for developing features in new OS releases where Earth was frequently an early adopter of those feature. I added AARCH, MIPS, and X86-64, Material Design, app indexing and was frequently using unreleased mobile devices and daily OS builds.I've long been a champion for our users. For example, in 2015, I was part of a small team that went to Porto Velho, Brazil. We developed courseware and trained people from 30 villages to build cultural maps of their homes; map their holy and burial lands, interview elders on why features were so named, map their protected hardwood forests (and compare the current boundaries via historical imagery) and preserve this publicly or privately. They now identify vehicles involved in illegal harvesting by collecting timestamped, geolocated photographs from the Android devices we trained them. Translated article: https://goo.gl/9T8Ov0 I've received many internal awards for code refactoring and leadership.

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I was lead developer of a multi company (Intel, HP, Adaptec, Compaq, IBM, SCO, others) effort to deliver a cross-platform device driver infrastructure. We delivered reference implementation allowing single networking and device drivers to work on Linux, UnixWare, OpenServer, and FreeBSD. I later lead groups developing a USB stack using that infrastructure and ran the base drivers (console, serial, parallel, boot, etc.) in the SVR5 kernel.

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Hopkins, Minnesota, Us

I worked remotely for Digi after they bought Arnet in '92. I lead the development of several MIPS and '186 designs. I worked closely with our hardware team and OS vendors to produce high-performance communication systems ranging from TCP IP terminal servers to switched 56K SDLC products. I was the central contact working with vendors like Cygnus on tool chain (compiler, linker, debugger, etc.) issues and focused on producing a core embedded OS and protocol stack that worked across a wide variety of products, culminating in a system-on-a-chip style design that we simulated from gate-level through wafer production. I handled a lot of the infrastructure issues such as introducing shared source code management and helped with the on-boarding of new acquisitions.I was heavily involved in the lowest levels of the software, using logic analyzers and simulators to bring up designs far enough to get to main() from data sheets and prototype hardware.During this time, I was co-inventor on two patents:http://www.google.com/patents/US6629164http://www.google.com/patents/US6643717

I developed firmware and device drivers for Arnet's multi-port serial products, expanding the award-winning SmartPort line to a (then leading) 32 ports per ISA slot. My work with SCO let Arnet ship one of the first multi-processor enhanced device drivers for the MPX product. I worked with 80186 firmware and my background in electronics made me comfortable debugging problems with scopes and analyzers.