Ported multiple support applications to Visual Studio 2022, C++ 14, and to run on 64 bit Windows.Redesigned and implemented more "Windows Like" behavior in the company's flagship product.Updated licensing options to fully support Virtual Machine, Network and Cloud operations.Designed and implemented custom toolpath generation from the user interface to code generation.

Reverse engineered a USB communications protocol.Designed and implemented a communication protocol for two separate hardware devices.Interfaced as a back end engineer with both front end and firmware teams.Eliminated the need for a hardware specific device driver by using a standard Microsoft supplied USB communication stack.Programmed in both Rust and C++.Development tools included Visual Studio 2022, Visual Studio Code, Jira for sprint planning, and Confluence for collaborative documentation.

Started this company with a business partner.Created the company's first revenue generating product, a Computerized Numerical Control editing program in Visual Basic 6.Wrote the company's signature product, Predator Direct Numerical Control (DNC) in C++, using multi-threaded Microsoft Foundation Class (MFC) and Component Object Model (COM) frameworks.Created over 120 communication modules to work with various machine tool communication protocols. These include but are not limited to MODBUS, TCP/IP, Ethernet IP, OLE for Process and Control (OPC) along with reverse engineering protocols for numerous machine tool controls that typically ran over standard RS-232 and/or TCP/IP.Connected data collection modules to Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, and Access using ADODB. Developed a Microsoft VBScript/JScript hosting system to enable customized communication development by third parties.Created licensing modules in C# and .Net to integrate with existing programs.Interfaced directly with programs written in VB, C++, C#, and Delphi.Created a web enabled floating network license management system in C# and .Net.Setup multiple applications and services to use the WiX installation platform.Moved all developers to using GIT for software source code control. Solved complex Windows, Networking, and programming problems for a team of developers.

Started writing graphics device drivers for this DOS based Computer Aided Machining (CAM) program. Ported this entire DOS based program to run under Windows 95 protected mode.Computational Geometry experience includes creating from scratch a Non-Uniform-Rational-B-Spline (NURBS) curve and surfacing module for SURFCAM. This project took approximately 18 months and pushed SURFCAM past all of it's competition at the time.With the implementation of NURBS wrote SURFCAM's Initial Graphics Exchange Specification (IGES) import and export utility. This allowed SURFCAM to import and export files from other CAD/CAM systems.All of the programming for SURFCAM was done remotely from Portland, OR in 8086 assembler and C/C++.

Worked as a general programmer for 4D Graphics. Their product was a DOS based copy of Personal Designer, a Computer Aided Design (CAD) program, that was running on Sun Microsystem workstations.Wrote several graphics device drivers, along with an expanded/extended memory manager in 8086 assembler.Other features completed were in FORTRAN 77 and built into the main Personal Designer program itself. Started developing an interest in curves and surfaces in CAD and developed a small Bezier curve and surface addition to Personal Designer.All programming was done in FORTRAN 77 and 8086 assembler.

While achieving my Bachelor's in Mathematics worked as a Machinist for Sailing Machine/3 Sigma Machine.Worked on journeyman level manual machining tasks.Wrote a Computerized Numerical Control code editor in HP Basic.Manually programmed CNC Milling and Turning machines.Contracted out to several machine shops in the area to program their CNC Milling and Turning machines.