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Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand

Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand

• Clever First Aid, a smart first aid system, utilizing cutting edge IoT technology, to take the pain away from managing and monitoring first aid compliance and reduce the paper trail by recording incidents automatically.
• Working with microcontrollers, Raspberry Pi, Linux, Python, C, Confluence, git, Jira, TinyML
• Responsible for building the custom Linux image used to run the Clever First Aid Station.
• Integrated an image compression solution into First Aid Stations, reducing cellular data usage by almost 50% across the fleet.
• Kept the production system, used to transform a raw base image into a First Aid Station with an identity, running, making sure kits come off "the line".
• Prototyped a TinyML solution for the next generation First Aid Station that performs object detection to ensure a photograph of the user is captured and uploaded for insertion into the automated incident report.

Christchurch New Zealand

• Farmote Systems is an agritech startup building a world first IoT pasture monitoring system that takes the guesswork out of pasture and grazing management on dairy farms. The role was responsible for setting up the.
• Utilised technical expertise and experience to define and setup firmware development best practices. Advised business on firmware development issues.
• Designed, developed and tested embedded firmware for a LoRa WAN IoT pasture measurement probe. Optimised power usage of solar charged battery powered device while still extracting maximum performance from the large.
• Devised, implemented, tested and executed device calibration and commissioning procedures. Scope of work was not limited to firmware, but also encompassed the design and build of PC software in.NET & C# and physical.

Christchurch, New Zealand

• For more than 50 years Stanbury has been delivering motive power solutions around the world, earning a name synonymous with reliable, quality battery chargers and accessories. The role encompasses software development.
• Identified improvements to engineering practices to achieve better outcomes; developed and refined company standard operating procedures.
• Directed effort on projects to develop Stanbury charger accessories, required significant co-ordination with outside entities.
• Designed and developed applications used to support Stanbury products, help Stanbury and their clients save money and do business more effectively. The spectrum of applications include a system to wirelessly control.
• Championed efforts to introduce a product road map for the company’s product portfolio and helped define the roadmap.
• Introduced agile project management into the organisation, based around a Kanbaan board, with daily standups, leading to better managed work, increased visibility into ongoing work and project prioritisation cognizant.

Christchurch, New Zealand

• Tait works with a broad range of local and international clients to create, support and unify the critical communication solutions they depend on to do their jobs. The role was responsible for leading a team of.
• Discharged the duties of Scrum Master, Technical Lead, Line Manager, Proxy Product Owner and Release–meister for a team of 6 Embedded Software Engineers from early development, through to commercial release and.
• As Proxy Product Owner and Technical Lead, was the team’s first point of contact for requirements clarifications and resident guide for architectural and coding issues.
• Acted as SCRUM Master with a servant-leader approach; as part of serving the team acted as a guardian of the SCRUM process, ran all SCRUM related meetings, maintained SCRUM artefacts, removed impediments and took.
• Undertook Line Management responsibilities including recruitment, retention, personal development, performance management, performance appraisals, administration of leave and time sheets and other HR-related activities.
• Stepped into the role of Agile Project Manager for a cross functional team who were adding encryption capability to the Tait DMR product portfolio when all project managers in Tait were committed to other projects..

Cape Town, South Africa

• Cobham Satcom Cape Town, designs and manufactures Inmarsat satcom antennas and systems. The role was within a team of 5-10 engineers who developed real time embedded software for an airborne Satellite Data Unit that.
• Had responsibility for the development, maintenance and testing of software modules including: steering control loops for keeping the actively steered antenna pointed at the satellite, ARINC 429 navigation data.
• Used the IBM Rational Rhapsody UML modelling tool to generate C++ code compiled with Green Hills MULTI to run on Green Hills INTEGRITY RTOS. Tool chain included RCS for source code version control, TestTrack Pro for.
• Was part of a team that practised SCRUM and test driven development.
• Uncovered a major bug in ARINC429 sub system VHDL implementation.
• Represented the interests of software as a member of the three man architecture team.

Cape Town, South Africa

• ViaMedia is one of South Africa's top Wireless Service Application Providers, having won numerous industry awards. The role provided leadership to and managed a growing software engineering team (10+) who developed.
• Was responsible for building and maintaining a high performance team; recruitment of staff, performance reviews, employee development coaching, team building and technical mentoring.
• Worked closely with the executive team to define product direction and coordinated software deliveries to meet business needs.
• Fulfilled Application Architect and Enterprise Architect roles. Responsible for the overall Service Oriented Architecture used in mobile services platform rewrite project. Wrote specifications for new features and.
• Was responsible for full software life cycle. Enforced, and created as needed, software engineering processes, practices and operations to ensure reproducible, high quality development whilst keeping costs and.
• Conceived and built the generic application framework which enabled rapid development of new applications.

Cape Town, South Africa

• Flextronics provides design & manufacturing services to help companies produce electronic products. The role was a fixed term contract, developing embedded software for the Sagem RT2000 GSM based desk phone aimed at.
• Was responsible for software design and implementation of the data services (modem capability), supplementary GSM services (barring, AoC, call hold, call waiting, CLIP, CLIR), boot loader supporting upgrade via signed.
• Documented and reviewed designs according to company procedures.
• Participated in design reviews and assisted in writing of high level product requirements documentation using Microsoft Office products.
• Developed black box test cases for an ADSL 2+ DSLAM in Python with access to target hardware via SWIG and Sun RPC.
• Part of a small remote team based in Cape Town, with the Project Lead based in Johannesburg, I became the de facto local team lead.

Cape Town, South Africa

• QEO Wireless was a wireless communications company developing innovative cellular based products. The role was to develop embedded, real time, multi-threaded code for the award winning QEO Q500 GSM feature phone.
• Developed embedded, real time, multi-threaded code for the award winning QEO Q500 GSM smartphone, details of which can be read on Creamer's Engineering News website.
• Responsible for the telephony application (dialler), USSD application, AT command processing engine that controlled the GSM module and the state machines driving the handset. The Q500 utilised an ARM 9 processor and.
• Applied hardware skills to improve and optimise parts of phone circuitry, required use of test gear like oscilloscope, DMM & logic analyser.
• Another product developed by QEO was a Bluetooth USB cellular modem. Architected and developed the AT command processing engine for the modem, engine ran as a Microsoft Windows service on the.NET framework and was.
• Developed a framework for implementing a wizard type application using C# and employed the framework to implement an extensible troubleshooting wizard that allowed an end user to correct common problems with modem.

San Diego, California, USA

• NICE Systems is a worldwide leader of digital recording solutions for use in contact centres, trading floors, ATC sites, CCTV security installations and government markets. The role was to lead a team of five software.
• Led the team through the full software life cycle of 2 major feature releases, interim service packs and several customer specific versions. The product was a client service software suite implemented in Visual Basic.
• Improved product quality by implementing software engineering practices within the team and documenting them in a team manual, improving release control, refactoring old code to make it more maintainable and improving.
• Introduced automated nightly builds delivering build results to the team by e-mail and improved the speed and efficiency of build process by scripting it.
• Developed a code documentation tool that integrated into the VB IDE, leading to major improvement in the use of and uniformity of commenting.
• Led effort to internationalise software product and developed custom translation tools to speed up the translation task; resulting in sales in new markets (Far East, South America and Europe).

Kempton Park, South Africa

• Denel Aviation develop and maintain aircraft and aircraft systems and manage system integration projects. The role was a short term contract to develop unit test cases for autopilot software modules, undertaken while.
• Performed code inspection on and devised & implemented white box unit test cases for Denel AH-2 Rooivalk helicopter autopilot software modules as part of the DO-178B certification process. Delivered 4 KLOC of C based.
• Code inspection results were delivered as a written report detailing architectural and implementation bugs uncovered, resulting in improved safety and reliability of system after corrective actions were implemented.

Cambridge, United Kingdom

• Denel Aviation develop and maintain aircraft and aircraft systems and manage system integration projects. Marshall Aerospace won a contract to perform heavy maintenance on and upgrade the South African Air Force C-130.
• Coordinated efforts of logistics team based in South Africa and technical design team at Marshal Aerospace in England.
• Reviewed all system designs in order to apply design influence with the aim of ensuring maintainability was not compromised for the sake of technical solution.
• Visited equipment suppliers and served as liaison with design team to obtain information required to perform logistic support analysis.
• Performed logistic support analysis, the result of which was used to develop maintenance procedures, technical documentation, training material, calculate MTBFs and spare part inventory requirements.
• Worked closely with project manager, filling in for him during his absence and assisting in technical and project meetings and reviews. Used Microsoft Office suite to prepare a variety of documents including schedules.

Kempton Park, South Africa

• Denel Aviation develop and maintain aircraft and aircraft systems and manage system integration projects. The role was a software engineer developing a multitude of support and test tools. (http://www.denel.co.za)
• Designed, developed and supported various PC based and embedded real time avionics test tools utilizing C, C++, MFC, OWL, SQL, Win32 API and Windows GDI programming for Windows 3.1, Windows NT and RTKernel RTOS.
• Designed, developed and supported an Autopilot Test Tool used by Flight Test Engineers to monitor and adjust control loops inside the AH-2 Rooivalk attack helicopter autopilot during flight tests. Software was written.
• Designed, developed and supported a mission debriefing system for playback of flight profile data recorded onboard the Atlas Cheetah fighter aircraft during ACM practice sorties.
• Designed and developed a hardware test box for testing autopilot controller unit hardware on the production line.
• Wrote software and hardware documentation to internal and military standards.