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Lake Forest, Ca 92630

Manage the development and testing of customized In Flight Entertainment Systems for airline customers.

Vista, CA

• A global supplier of HF/VHF communications equipment and radios for Military and Public Safety markets.Managed 17 engineers made up of a Windows team and an embedded software team in the development of a new generation.
• Led development of both products from early design through recent released to production.
• Developed a suite of Windows C#,.NET applications for Radio configuration, file transfer, email and chat across the radio network.
• Radio OOD embedded software in C++/C supports analog and digital voice, data, Automatic Link Establishment (ALE) protocol, TCP/IP, SNMP, and voice and data waveforms on ColdFire and DSP processors.
• Led system requirements definition, architecture, and design efforts, and managed all task assignments.
• Performed technical and metrics based project management, developed schedules and managed cost.

Huntington Beach, CA

• Delta Launch Systems – Delta family of launch vehicles used by NASA and USAF to place satellites in space.Leadership of a team of 10 software engineers who developed and enhanced a variety of applications which.
• Applications included: high availability client-server database application for monitoring and control on multi-processor UNIX and Windows servers, embedded safety critical launch control applications, and a real time.
• Performed technical and project management, managed schedules to meet launch dates and budgets.
• Streamlined the software development and QA test processes while insuring ISO and CMMI compatibility
• Led conversion to IBMs ClearCase source control and ClearQuest change management tools.

• A leader in Solid State Disk (SSD) and File Caching products for SAN and enterprise data storage.Responsibilities included direct management of software and hardware engineering activities, including hands-on.
• Primary project was the development of an enterprise level Storage Resource Management application providing a variety of SAN management functions through real-time monitoring and data collection. This product was.
• Led development of a new generation SSD Storage devices. This real-time OOD firmware design utilized PowerPC 440XP, VxWorks, UML, C/C++.
• Led software requirement specification, architecture, and design meetings.
• Oversaw the evaluation and adoption of new technologies.
• Performed all project management; creating project plans, schedules, and budgets.

Foothill Ranch, CA

• A startup developing RAID products based on FibreSlice, a system on a chip, multi processor RAID controller chipset with embedded Fibre Channel interfaces.Responsible for direct leadership of two software projects, all.
• The first project encompassed the high level RAID set configuration, and management functionality. This software was an OOD C++ design utilizing Rational Rose UML and ran on real time Linux. The second effort.
• Led the software architecture, and detail design, worked closely with the LSI design team for several months developing the architecture, partitioning functionality and designing interfaces.
• Established phased software development process and setup code management system.
• Spearheaded the adoption of OOD, C++, and UML in software design and coding.
• Developed project design documentation, project plans, schedules and budget.

Irvine CA

• The industry leader in providing pre-boot firmware (BIOS) and system software for PC platforms.Responsible for development and project management of branded Windows applications. Department consisted of two managers.
• BIOS Developers Studio – A Windows based BIOS Firmware Development Environment modeled on Visual Studio that used a database to track component dependencies, and automate configuration and build of the BIOS image..
• System Management Applications – Developed and shipped several Phoenix branded Windows applications including; a BIOS upgrade, power management, and battery management for laptop systems.
• All development was OOD in C++ using Visual Studio, MFC, and COM/DCOM.
• Participated in cross functional review and improvement of development and code management system.

Irvine, CA

• A leading provider of Local Area Networking (LAN) products including PC network adapters, LSI, and software for 10/100 Ethernet, Token Ring, ATM, & ADSL. The entire division was purchased from Western Digital in.
• Development of Windows applications for configuration, diagnostics, and SNMP agents, Windows NDIS Novell, and UNIX LAN device drivers for a family of over 20 LAN products.
• Led the architecture and design of new technology products including; PC applications, LAN adapters for Ethernet, and an ADSL modem.
• Created and managed project plans and schedules for a large number of concurrent projects.
• Championed the creation of a phased lifecycle software development process that received ISO 9001 certification. Set up source code management and software release systems.
• Participated in strategic product planning, as well as OEM customer presentations and support..

• Manager of Software Engineering – Western Digital Communications Systems Division 1990 to 1991
• Managed department of 5 engineers responsible for development and support of LAN drivers and PC utilities for Western Digital’s family of Ethernet, and Token Ring adapters. Principal Software Engineer - Western Digital.
• Developed Novell NetWare and NDIS drivers for Ethernet, Token Ring and SCSI LAN adapters.