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Fairlee, Vermont

- Provided US Army with vendor leverage by supplying engineering services for low-cost head-trauma acceleration recording and reporting device. Responsible for device firmware and Windows management software, independent schematic verification, new board bring-up and hardware/software interface troubleshooting.- Step-in replacement for departing hardware engineer on Bluetooth headset for use by fully masked first responders.- SCADA firmware for an award-winning web-based solar panel inverter monitoring network.- Quick addition of Bluetooth command line shell for Shimmer-based personal health device.- Data integration of test area led to win for company to improve state DOT’s street database.- Elevated company’s in-house capability by producing and conducting GIS training.- Improved safety and situational awareness in the cockpit with software for Android phone (moving map display) and AM335x Starter Kit (message display) linked via Bluetooth to ADS-B receiver.

Lebanon, New Hampshire

- Standardized contract statements of work and ETL processes for standard and custom data products used in RDBMS.- Quickly established company’s leadership in supplying and maintaining data for ArcSDE by giving conference talks and demonstrations, producing clear and comprehensive user (DBA) reference material, and direct engineering support.- In five years, integrated with key account data license contracts worth $12 million annual (20% of company revenue) and generating $1.5 million in direct revenue.

Various Employers And Locations

June 1992 through August 1995Self-employed Software DeveloperFairlee, VT- Enabled company to distribute a fully illustrated health newsletter with animation and sound on floppy disk by developing a full-featured, flexible layout PDL interpreter for MS-DOS (pre-HTML).- Shortened dispatch and follow up times by providing automatic pager dispatch capability to supermarket maintenance work order software.- Improved a company’s customer relationships and software development process by developing, vetting, and implementing software issue resolution process. April 1990 through June 1992Senior Software EngineerNew England DigitalLebanon, NH- Member of technical team migrating from proprietary, bit-sliced platform to a microprocessor-based platform for multi-track audio, direct-to-disk recording and post-production workstations.1986 through 1990Software EngineerFenwalAshland, MA- Brought industrial network capability to single-loop processor controller.- Using half the budgeted time and expense, lead team bringing set point profiler from concept to market.1985 to 1986Research EngineerCI HayesCranston, RI- Cut set up time by up to 50% and practically eliminated wasteful test loads by developing an expert system for vacuum carburizing.1984 to 1985Software EngineerTADCOMiddletown, RI- Helped US Navy achieve vendor independence by converting Trident CCS ATE TPS hardware and software for UYK-7 CCA from LSI11 platform to Z80 platform.1979 through 1983Staff MemberUniversity of Rhode IslandUniversity of Virginia- Enhanced and modernized lecture demonstrations and laboratory exercises by designing, building and programming microprocessor-based devices.- Improved and standardized student preparation for laboratory exercises by producing a series of videos.