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Phoenix, AZ, US

Woods Hole, Massachusetts, United States

• Contractor to government client, to work with them in developing a spatial model to help forecast MidAtlantic Sea Scallop growth. The model is based on the Miller-Notingham Growth Model and includes work by Dr. Debora.
• Fortran
• Python
• MATLAB/Octave

Carlsbad, CA

Developing embedded firmware for Test & Training Instrumentation.Flexible and secure military test range systems are necessary to integrate new aircraft and weapons technology into a complex training scenarios that can include aircraft of different nations and generations.Rockwell Collins test and training instrumentation solutions meet critical Department.

Greater San Diego Area

Technical Team Lead, Receiver FirmwarePut together a firmware team to develop Cellular Receiver Features in support of Transceiver SOC designs. Mentored new hires in firmware bring up, unit test, hardware simulations, and debug capabilities. Agile development methods are employed.

Chandler, AZ

• Intel acquired Wireless Semiconductor Product Group in July 2013Firmware Engineer / Embedded Firmware Engineer IVMixed signal design of cell phone transceiver with an emphasis on firmware development. Focused primarily.
• Improved data structure design to simplify coding and ease maintenance.
• Demonstrated that object oriented design can be applied to embedded C applications.
• Worked with other senior engineers to develop coding standards and process.
• Mentored junior engineers on algorithm development and coding efficiencies.
• Wrote a white paper that described the use of fixed point number representation.

Tempe, AZ

Goodyear, AZ

Software Engineer, StaffResearches, designs, develops, and verifies signal and image collection systems, and defines and develops processing computer algorithms. Performs requirements analysis, sub-system architectures, and integrates new signal and image processing software algorithms into processing system. Designs, develops and analyzes systems and.

Avondale, AZ

• Senior Systems EngineerTechnical responsibility for all software development and design in support of media scanners and card readers. Managerial responsibilities for team development and hiring.
• Defined software configuration management process.
• Defined software release management process.
• Moved image formation from host API into embedded scanner firmware resulting in a greater consistency, repeatability of resulting image.
• Software languages include: C/C++/C# and assembler.
• Software environments include Linux, Windows, GNU, and Visual Studio, Analog Device VDSP++.

• Working with team to develop processes that make sense rather than to satisfy a check mark on a process list. Involved in all areas of software development; requirements gathering/ analysis/ management, code.
• Improved both development time by 50% and accuracy by 100% of FPGA designs by making bit compatible test vectors via Matlab. The application was to model the front end of a digital receiver. Output was variable width.
• Streamlined device testing from 1 week to 5 hours by utilizing Visual Basic Applications in Excel to automate test procedures. Design includes automated control of lab test equipment, i.e. spectrum analyzer, DMM, and.
• Use of design specific language, Cryptol, thus cutting debug time in half.
• Applied Object Oriented Design techniques to assembler software design.
• Implemented new algorithm ahead of schedule and below budget with full documentation.DSP Software EngineerWorked in the DSP Group developing digital signal processing algorithms for vocoding and echo cancellation..

Round Lake, IL

Engineering Specialist: Technical Lead of software teams, both here and in Japan, in the development of software for medical infusion pumps. Improved the software development process to meet FDA guidelines. Real-time, embedded applications written in C.European Patent #92114994.4 – Air in line detection – “Sampling method in infusion pump.

Master Of Business Administration (Mba), High Tech

Education record

Master Of Science In Computer Science (Mscs), Numerical Analysis

Bachelor Of Science In Electrical Engineering (Bsee), Digital Design