Ryan Vansickle Email & Phone Number

Hood River, Oregon, United States

As continuous improvement happens at Trillium so does the improvement of scope and description of my job title. Here goes the with the current description:-)Manage software development, build, quality, and release processes. Work closely with software team and other engineering disciplines to produce high quality software that meets customer and business needs and requirements to satisfy company strategic goals.Oh yeah and I get the chance to be an individual contributor in between :-)

Hood River, Oregon, United States

I now work to develop, document, and implement software development processes and team workflows to improve performance and communication of our team members. I believe that by establishing development cadences, team collaboration, and focused creativity we can deliver the best in class products and support for our customers.Oh yeah I still do software engineering too!

Hood River

I design, develop, and integrate software solutions for Trillium Engineering. I work with a variety of embedded, desktop, and server environmentsProjects:HD25/HD50/Custom Retract Control Software: Firmware written for TI MSP430 micro-controller to handle serial communications, discreet I/O, and motor controlCAN Streaming Data Communications Protocol Implementation: Implemented the streaming data communication layer over CAN with abstraction layers for SocketCAN, sysTec CAN Proprietary Windows Drivers, and TI TMS320/TI-RTOS. AlGi Robot System Software: Alignment Gimbal (AlGi) software design and implementation. Designed and Implemented QT UI software to manage and control the IMU alignment process for the Trillium AlGi Robot. This robot automates and parallelizes what was an imprecise, manual, and serialized production step. The AlGi Robot helps Trillium deliver sub 1 degree geolocation accuracy.Trillium Mission Computer: Evaluation of various Intel Atom ComE SOM modules and testing for use in our Mapper Gimbal application. Linux dev system setup and image creation. MSATA vs uSD usability and performance evaluation for operating system/application storage. Filesystem performance testing for image capture/storage to external device. GigE camera interface software integration support. Implementation of MissCoAngel daemon application, and the corresponding web frontend. Snoopy Gimbal: HTML5 web frontend, websockets realtime gimbal interface, OpenCV image processing and autofocus algorithms, USB3 camera interface software with 10 FPS high resolution (18MP) still frame capture. Mission computer, Gimbal, Skylink, and Web Frontend integrations and communication. Multi Spectral Imaging: General IT Duties: Jenkins build server management, AWS infrastructure guy, Jira/Fisheye/Confluence admin, email troubleshooter, XCP-NG management, backend support for company network. multi-site network management.

Hood River

Scan Eagle Block 2.0 Project:I worked with a small team to deliver an unmanned aircraft system. I delivered board layer abstraction software targeting an Intel Atom based ComE module, hardware in the loop simulator build out, aircraft system integration, distributed I/O system, and other various nuts and bolts for the project.Our team successfully delivered software and hardware that culminated in the successful first flight of the prototype aircraft system. This success enabled further spiral developments for the system.Multicore processor and hypervisor abstraction research project:I researched the capabilities and potential for using a multicore Intel Atom processor and a Type 1 hypervisor to provide secure and robust virtual machine environments to reduce hardware costs and system complexity for unmanned systems. The goal of the research was to determine if Flight Management Computers and Payload Management Computers could be condensed into a single hardware set and utilize the system architecture and virtualization technology to maintain safety, data and system integrity, and reduce cost. This project culminated in a demonstration of the virtualized partitions running on target hardware to outline the capabilities and technical limitations of the selected hardware/software combination.

Beaverton Oregon/The Columbia Gorge

Project based work.Embedded Electric Fence Controller: April 2014 - June 2014 - Nuttx RTOS BSP development - STM32F4 MCU - Fence Controller - Data Logging and Communications ControlsAutomata Processor Tools: Aug 2013 - April 2014 - QA for AP Workbench/Simulator developer tools. - Team tools deployment and management (Jenkins, SVN, Mantis, Testlink) - Rackspace server instance management - Port APWorkbench and APSimCore from Windows to Linux - Windows, Ubuntu, Debian, Red Hat installer/package creationEmbedded Linux: March 2013 - June 2013 - Embedded system builds for Xilinx 7000 SoC - Port Atheros ath6kl wireless drivers to Zedboard platform - Wifi testing platform developmentUnmanned Aerial Vehicle System May 2012 - March 2013 -Hardware-In-Loop Simulator implementation -Autopilot Driver for Piccolo Autopilot -Avionics Software Hardware integration and Development -Aircraft System IntegrationPlatform Projects on Android: March 2011 - May 2012-Color correction hooks for graphics drivers-Android Browser --WebGL implementation --HTML5 2D Canvas hardware accelerationHTML5/Javascript: Nov 2011 - Jan 2012 -Initial design work on paper airplane demo shown at CES http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDjQVX7ytuM

Portland, Oregon Area

Nouvola was a start up in the cloud computing industry. Their flagship product called Divecloud helped developers and companies determine if web applications can scale to meet projected demand. We launched from a concept to an MVP product in the summer and early fall of 2013. Then steadily improved the feature sets, usability, and marketability of the product.

Roles:Team leadershipBudget acquisition and managementSystem design & implementationKey contributor to development/system integration of the RQ-21A systemProjects:Hardware in the Loop (HIL) Simulator design. Air Vehicle and Ground Control Station software integration. . HIL subsystem designs -variable attenuator -simulation system boot -network abstraction -simulated PPS generator

QA Engineer responsible for software testing and test case development for the Integrator UAV system. -Develop and implement product integration processes to help achieve organizational CMMI compliance goals. -Integrated software into several prototype aircraft, designed integration test cases, and executed the test plans.

-Lead engineer for DDR2 QA software flows.-Design and implement QA memory test programs for DDR2 and DDR3 memory components. -Component failure analysis and test coverage implementations.-Implemented a distributed concurrent compile method for software builds.-Implemented a software change management system for our group by customizing a Mantis installation. Fall '07

Logan, Utah

Responsibilities:- Satellite ground station software/system engineer.- Team LeaderMy team designed a ground station to track LEO satellite movement and position throughout it's orbit. The design controlled tracking antennas which handled command and control as well as data communications with the satellite using amateur and commercial frequency bands. We designed a system using Debian Linux and other open source amateur radio and satellite tracking packages integrated with antenna control hardware, distributed compute centers, RF hardware, and sensors to implement a system prototype. The Groudstation Team: -Extended NTP server code to utilize custom GPS sensor unit -Implemented distributed PPS timing solution -Implemented conceptual design of C2 link and produced final design documentation -Improved the high speed data downlink design -Presented designs in PDR and CDR design reviews

Logan, Utah

Re-constructed and adapted a testing satellite for a new mission. Our team updated the core technology and communications systems of a small satellite used for chamber testing and design analysis.

Logan, Utah

Dr. Chris Winstead hired me to analyze, debug, and develop a Gnu Scientific Library (GSL) based modeling program as part of a university research project. I located and removed performance bottlenecks in the original proof of concept application.

Logan, Utah

Provided consultation on computer lab softwareComputer network debugging and installationNew computer lab roll out, and software/system image management.IIS/asp/asp.net web application development

Phoenix, Arizona Area

-- I ported MIDP 2.0 graphics libraries based on a QT implementation from Windows to Linux.-- I modified the Linux port to run in embedded Linux environments. The Sharp Zaurus was a main target device.-- I performed J2ME profile Java Virtual Machine (JVM) performance testing and analysis-- optimized build process by optimizing sections of perl and ant build scripts

Bsce

Networking Certificate