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Kilgore, TX, US

Taoyuan City, TW

Tempe, Arizona, US

• Production test systems for Rockford Fosgate brand of high-end audio amplifiers for cars, off-road, and marine applications.
• Developed and maintained test software using National Instruments LabVIEW for production-line testing of audio amplifiers
• Wrote Oracle PL/SQL queries/functions for retrieving and manipulating data in test database
• Developed in-house tools for qualification and OEM testing of audio amplifiers

Boston, MA, US

• Verification testing of GETS ElectrologIXS Wayside controller (railroad crossing/switching) embedded software
• Utilizing in-house and commercial (Wireshark, PuTTY, MIB browser) software tools for testing
• Creating software Change Requests to document test failures and update test procedures

Provide inventory database support for e-commerce business.

Develop test requirements and software test sequences using Lab-Windows/CVI and TestStand for testing and validating aircraft transponders.

Kalamazoo, MI, US

Test Engineer developing software using LabVIEW and TestStand for controlling production-line equipment for testing and validating medical products.

Charlotte, North Carolina, US

Developed automated test programs using National Instruments TestStand for circuit boards in NASA's Orion Crew Module.

Reston, Virginia, US

• Developed and maintained SharePoint websites, workflows, & wiki’s
• Developed software to transfer text and file data from a satellite phone to a Bluetooth-connected handheld computer, and software for programming an attached GPS device and displaying/forwarding the data. C/C++ on UNIX.
• Antenna testing programmed in LabVIEW
• Created LabVIEW program to automate performance tests and adjust radio parameters reducing test time by 50%
• Developed and maintained an iDEN radio tester, and designed a Windows replacement
• Developed software in C for controlling RF synthesizers, and computer control of a radio tester

Irvine, CA, US

Developed software to control a spectrometer for a production LED screening and characterizing tester; including parameter entry, calibration, and saving of scan data

• Developed and maintained software for production line testing of disk drive components and assemblies, with expertise in actuator, preamp, disk surface, and flex-lead testing
• Enhanced code to create a program capable of testing multiple types of devices, rather than using single device, hard-coded parameters; including easy addition of new devices, switching between devices by reading.
• Provided support for the production line operations and transition of test equipment from the pilot line to full production

• Developed specifications and code for the debug and maintenance of the hardware and software of an array disk controller
• Created software tools and wrote procedures to support the development process
• Restructured and enhanced existing code to move it to a new platform

• Developed and maintained software for medical instruments for patient monitoring, designed to read arterial blood oxygen saturation, inspired and expired gases, and respiration and pulse rates
• Analyzed data taken in clinical environments for calibration on the instruments
• Applications used an in-house developed real-time, multi-tasking operating system
• Supported the transition of OEM software and hardware to other manufacturers

• Developed and maintained software for controlling pneumatic-tube material handling systems employing multiple processors
• Developed skills in real-time, interrupt driven, multi-tasking operating systems and floppy-disk interfacing

• Developed a cross-assembler for a custom processor using PL/1