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Reston, VA, US

Arlington, Virginia, US

Find vulnerable targets and how they can be exploited.

Basking Ridge, New Jersey, US

Red and blue cyber security work on multiple platforms. Vulnerability research. DARPA hard problems.

Reston, Virginia, US

Low level and security software primarily red. Vulnerability research on embedded systems. Multiple platforms: mobile, server, desktop, and mobile. Ground up design and implementation of novel approach to design, develop, land demonstrate cyber tools. Value was proven by ease of developing a tool for a new client program.

La Hulpe, Wallonia, BE

I Improved security aspects of the foundational software improving the logging of security events and other security enhancements. Integrated Apache ActiveMQ Message broker into the Swift OMS/ODK messaging. Wrote code in C++ and Java. Wrote configuration scripts in Perl, KSH and AWK. Primary Platforms are Red Hat Enterprise Linux and HP/UX on Itanium with.

Wrote git hooks and Python unit testing code to improve the development environment infrastructure for embedded web development and training code on that system. Brought on only for last two months of the project.

Herndon, Virginia, US

Wrote embedded software in a satellite internet Device drivers and application software in C/C++ Wrote robust re-entrant Linux kernel modules to handle management of thousands of hits on a SPI and I2C bus per second in a rational manner. Power PPC communications processor with CPLD and FPGA connections as well as discrete DVB-S devices for IP traffic..

Bethesda, MD, US

I work on the database of all genetic information. I'm creating a virtual file system and virtual database that can run on several platforms. Handling large amounts of submitted data (up to hundreds of terabytes per submission) we can load numerous file formats into a standard database format that can be used for genetic alignments.We also create a toolkit.

Las Vegas, Nevada, US

Software and systems engineering for casino associated equipment. Projects included a new networked device to read and write data to ICBS (Intelligent Cash Boxes), a virtual back of house server project for the same system and a hand held portable device for updating bill acceptors. Designed the XML based protocol for communications between devices and a.

Las Vegas, NV, US

All aspects of design and development for table gaming associated equipment. Patents applied for work on new game designs. Project lead on embedded software for card recognition devices used in card shufflers and shoes. Worked with EE and FPGA engineers including use of schematics and Verilog source to understand the hardware. Systems engineering for a new.

Franklin, TN, US

Design and coding of all aspects of Class II Bingo based Player Terminals. Patents applied for work on new game designs. From an engineering perspective I oversaw third party top box and reel controller development. Development of technicians programs to set up and test reels and reel controllers. Started initial development in house of a new top box and.

Research, requirement, architecture and design work done on a new generation of multi-user slot machines simulating casino table games. Work on this effort was done using Microsoft tools. Performed design and coding work on SAS (Slot Accounting System) code for existing multi-player slot machines – upgrading a flawed and limited version to supporting SAS.

Las Vegas, NV, US

Architected and designed for a refactoring/redesign effort for a video slot machine. Particular areas hit were host communications, optimization and hardware interface. Created an architecture for extensible and flexible game to host communications. Designed host interfaces for SAS (Slot Accounting System) including version 6 and for a proprietary host.

US

Continuing engineering for an SNMP proxy agent running on Pentium II processors in a cPCI chassis running Tornado/VxWorks. This is the same product I worked on for Spike Broadband Systems a year earlier; my work the previous year earned me a call back for two contract positions worked semi-concurrently. Designer and developer of an SNMP proxy agent for.

Senior development engineer and network administrator. Team lead in engineering. Project engineer designing and developing software in C for a switched as opposed to routed IP. Project lead on a port to Intel IXP1200 of this software in C and microcode. This port used embedded Blue Cat Linux Project lead on a remote access to Linux routers running this.

Project leader, and principal developer for an SNMP proxy agent for hub radios for wireless broadband networking. This proxy agent was built using Tornado/VxWorks as the base O/S, Rapid Control for the user interfaces and Envoy for the SNMP agent. This system provided an FTP server and HTTP server as well as the SNMP agent. Primarily developed in C and.

Designed and implemented a discrete Fourier Transform (DFT/FFT) algorithm for spectral analysis of a telecom analog signal to determine settings for internal amplifiers and filters. Improved the filtering of echo by dramatically optimizing the code so as to afford the time to triple the length of filtering. Used an Analog Devices DSP chip coded in.

Designed and implemented an API to allow VxWorks tasks to access memory across a RACEway interface. Selected PMC modules capable of providing RACEway to the VME SBC. Designed and implemented software driver for the PXB chip on the PMC option card. Developed on Sparc Solaris using Tornado system. Work in C/C++. Performed some Unix system administration.

Reston, VA, US

Performed system and network administration of a TCP/IP, X.25, and Frame Relay network for the Veterans Administration. I and two other engineers came into a failing contract and turned it around to the complete satisfaction of the end client. My role was primarily the Unix administration and C programming with other work in FORTRAN. Did program.

Used a C/BSD Unix development system to write device drivers for a net attached NFS storage system. The platform was a PC running a proprietary system and RAID drives and numerous network interfaces. In particular developed a beta version of a driver for the 3Com PCI gigabit Ethernet card. Administered the BSD system and wrote scripts as necessary. Left.

Designed and implemented a link layer protocol for a satellite communications network. Protocol required the ability to guarantee delivery with retries as needed. My protocol used less than one fifth the overhead bits of an earlier generation allowing substantial throughput increase across the slow and expensive satellite links. Development was done on a.

Based on successful prior experience at Genicom, I was asked to return to update the RS-232 serial and Centronics parallel port device drivers for a newer generation of Intel 80186 processor. Developed on VAX/VMS systems Left when contract completed.

Embedded DSP and CISC programming for AT&T/Lucent Technologies DACS II and DACS II ISX cross connect switches. Technical lead, designer and implementer of WE 1611 DSP code to handle sub-rate multiplexing and multipoint junctions. My architecture and design for an object-oriented architecture allowed the DSP card to far exceed expectations. A previous.

Mclean, Virginia, US

Worked on the analysis phase of a military communications project. Systems analysis and high-level design of an EEPROM based mass storage device. Analysis and design work on inter-module communications protocols. Installed, configured and administered a Sparc Solaris and SunOS network. Installed applications on the Solaris systems and wrote shell scripts.

Integrated the Spectra Debugger package on proprietary hardware using existing operating systems (off the shelf and proprietary). Wrote the software drivers for Motorola 68360 SIM and shared memory protocols. Also embedded the X-RAY debugger into the same product. Coding in C/C++ and assembly using Solaris development platform. Wrote Unix programs and.

Integrated and updated software for a highway sign reflectance application. The platform was a PC mounted in a van with a strobe, reflectometer and range finder in a through the roof periscope. Although I was hired only as a one day engineer expected to fix a simple "assembly language defect" I assessed the actual state of the project. My role changed from.

Dulles, VA, US

Designed, coded and tested the initial power up firmware and error recovery software for a flight computer based on multiple MC 68302 microprocessors. Interfaced with the hardware designer on hardware design issues. Embedded X-Ray monitor and debugger into the flight computer. Recoded CRC-16 into assembly algorithm with new execution times half that of the.

Helped integrate the standard Bonding protocol into an existing inverse multiplexer. Interfaced an embedded 80186and an Analog Devices DSP. I took product requirements from Patapsco and led a team of two engineers in bringing this project to completion to the complete satisfaction of the client. Used C and Assembly using a Windows development platform.

administration and configuration. Designed and implemented the Frame Relay link management protocols for LMI and ANSI Annex D protocols. Designed and implemented software to route between multiple circuit and packet protocols. Established version control and module management systems using PVCS tools with a network oriented approach for software engineers..

Debugged and enhanced real-time process control and data collection systems using networks of embedded systems and DEC VAX and PDP mini-computers. Worked on operating system kernel, floating point translation between VAX and 80387, and numerical processing issues. Systems included the D/3 distributed control system, S/3 supervisory control and data.

Designed and wrote embedded software for telecommunications test equipment. Designed and implemented software for T1 and E1 clock jitter analysis. Coded link layer of numerous communications protocols. Set up a configuration management system under HP/UX and SunOs. For a workstation based environment. Led and taught an in-house seminar in C++. Administered.

Gaithersburg, Maryland, US

Wrote PC based software for numerical spectral analysis and drivers for a spectrum analyzer. Work included graphics, database and statistical analysis. Did customer support and applications engineering. Interfaced between an Israeli engineering team and American customers. Administered MS DOS, Windows and Concurrent DOS computers.

Designed, coded and tested embedded firmware for printers. Wrote an enhanced memory management system for an embedded OS (MTOS). Designed and coded ANSI, IBM, IPDS and HP PCL printer emulation protocols. Worked on laser, shuttle and dot matrix printers. Implemented configuration and build control systems. Used embedded Wizard C, which later became Borland.