William Watson Email & Phone Number

I call traditional contra and community dances for a variety of dance gatherings, from a field full of sixth graders to ongoing series of modern urban contras. I teach clearly, and happily work with musicians, organizers, and new dancers. I have composed successful contra dance sequences, including what arguably was "the ooh dance" of 1999.

Hillsboro, Oregon

Portland, Oregon Area

• Write system and firmware specifications, design microcontroller circuits, design and code embedded system firmware in C, debug and bring up FW and HW, select of vendors and components, write ECOs, meet with clients.
• Complete specification, design, & bring-up of small embedded systems, concept through build.

Vancouver, Washington

• Write system and firmware specifications, design microcontroller circuits, design and code embedded system firmware in C, debug and bring up FW and HW, select of vendors and components, write ECOs, meet with clients.
• Complete specification, design, & bring-up of small embedded systems, concept through build.
• Establish source control procedures using SubVersion, train others.

Contractor on an IBM project to build a VERY large computer system with a packet interconnect between processors, boards, and cabinets. Programming of a PowerPC core in C/C++ to manage tests, and in assembler on a Harvard-architecture communications processor, with an emphasis on verification of the communications processor, packet switch, and network..

Corvallis, Oregon Area

• Worked as a generalist on hardware, embedded firmware, and low-level software.
• Embedded real-time programming of bootstrap loader, debugger, diagnostics, and USB firmware update code in C and ARM/XScale assembler using Microsoft Visual Studio, Platform Builder, and Visual Source Safe, JTAG tools.
• Embedded real-time programming of MSP430 in C and assembler for battery management.
• Designed digital and power supply circuits for rugged hand-held computers, created schematics and designed hard and flex circuit boards using ProTel.
• Wrote FPGA code in Verilog and VHDL.
• Assisted with OS bring-up (WinCE and PPC), and device OS and host USB device driver development.

(Compaq merged with Tandem in 1997. See description under Tandem for information.)

Austin, Texas Area

• Key designer / architect of systems that sold over $1B annually
• Inventor of 22 US Patents, coordinated patents for project, with 30+ patents and 20+ inventors.
• Served as a key member of multiple-site architecture and protocol development team that developed a new packet system interconnect (ServerNet®, which became part of InfiniBand) and system maintenance bus.
• Worked with other programmers to develop network discovery protocol, and with contract programmer to debug PCI interface and packet router ASIC designs.
• Conceived of and developed JTAG boundary scan development tools for custom FPGA family.
• Wrote system architectural documents.

Austin, Texas Area

• Wrote embedded real-time code in C and assembler for a dual-processor raster image processor for a high-speed bit-map printer, on both the master Motorola 68020 and slave TI 34010 graphics processors.
• Brought up, debugged, and modified prototype boards, made wire mods, code, and FPGA changes.
• Worked on-site at customer site in Munich for six-week system integration effort.
• Completed internal short course on Process Management Skills (management training)
• Supervised dedicated engineering technician.

Developed firmware and hardware for office telephone systems. Two products shipped:RP244 (Desktop data/phone): Wrote device driver / interrupt service routines that met tight real-time response requirements in 68000 assembler and interface routines in C. Co-developed coding standards for project. Acted as the hardware representative to the cross-functional.