EXPERIENCE SUMMARY

Contract programmer that is expert at getting quick results in software for both embedded microprocessors/computers and Linux and Windows applications. Strong in design and documentation. Experience in 3D graphics and web applications.

REAL TIME EMBEDDED SOFTWARE AND HARDWARE: Motorola Coldfire 5272, 68000, Z80, bit-slice processors, firmware, SCSI. controllers, communications controllers, Chipcon RF, timers, clocks, DMA controllers, cryptography, a variety of peripheral chips and real-time multitasking operating systems. Designed system and board level architectures. Emulators, logic analyzers, NetBurner development kit.

OPERATING SYSTEMS DEVICE DRIVERS: Created device service routines, debug packages, and shell interface. Generated and modified operating systems such as VRTX. Designed and implemented disk controller and file system. SCSI interface to disk and tape drives. Windows device drivers using Visual C++.

COMMUNICATIONS: Internet TCP socket programming, client and server socket applications. SNMP, SMTP, .NET Remoting, CIGI, POP3 e-mail, HDLC, asynchronous communications.

OPERATING SYSTEMS: Windows, Linux, Windows 2003 Server, UNIX, uC/OS, VRTX real-time multitasking operating system, MS-DOS.

LANGUAGES / DEVELOPMENT ENVIRONMENT: C#, C++, C, ASP (Active Server Page) in C#. Microsoft Visual C++ (VC++), Basic, 68000 and Z80 assembly language, HTML Web pages, Visual Studio, Eclipse.

DATABASES and DATABASE API’s: SQL Server, PostgreSQL, Access, ADO.Net.

API's, Libraries, Frameworks, Environments: .Net, Qt, Microsoft Windows, Win32, Microsoft Foundation Class (MFC), Microsoft Office automation.

GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE, 3D GRAPHICS: OpenSceneGraph (Open Scene Graph, OSG), Qt, Microsoft Windows, OpenGL (Open GL), Direct3D (Directx 3D), Open Inventor, Ogre, and Irrlich 3D graphics package. Wrote firmware and microcode for graphics display processors.

PROJECT MANAGEMENT: Managed product life cycle including initial product specification, design, creation of software standards, scheduling of tasks, implementation, testing, customer acceptance, training, and support.

APPLICATIONS: Subversion, Bugzilla, Blender 3D Modeling Application, Doc-To-Help (manual and help file generator), InstallSHIELD (Installation program), Microsoft Project for Windows, Word For Windows, AutoCAD.

WORK HISTORY

Link Simulation, Arlington, Texas, August 2010-February 2011, contractor

Analyzed and documented C/C++ 3D graphics legacy code that generated CIGI messages to drive Link’s proprietary 3D image generators for a military flight simulator. This was in preparation for a future rewrite of this code. This code ran under Linux although during the preparation I wrote a Qt C++ app that ran under Windows.

Via Nova, Dallas, New Product R & D, June 2008–August 2010, Principal at this company

Developed a C++ (for Linux version) and C# (for Windows) 3D graphics application for training purposes. This application provides the user with a virtual reality environment user interface and provides feedback on their actions. Did all aspects of this project and used C++ and C# for the language, PostgreSQL as the database, OpenSceneGraph (Open Scene Graph, OSG) as a 3D API, Blender as the 3D modeling application. Some experience with Direct3D (Directx 3D), Ogre 3D, and Irrlich 3D engines.

ASC Signal (formerly a division of Andrew Corp.), Richardson, Texas, 2007-2008, contractor

Wrote embedded software for the monitor and control of satellite earth stations. The Windows client sides were in VC++ and C#. The Linux server sides were VC++ and C++. Communication on the C# project used SNMP, TCP/IP, FTP, and .NET Remoting. The development systems were Microsoft Visual Studio and Eclipse. My work involved everything from Windows GUI’s to Linux device drivers.

Wavetrix, Richardson, Texas, 2006-2006, contractor

Embedded microprocessor RFID (Radio Frequency ID) project involving wireless communication and remote sensoring systems. Microprocessors would communicate with each other using a Chipcon Zigbee wireless communications chip. Wrote C++ device drivers and other microprocessor code. Also developed a test PC application controlling these microprocessors over a TCP Internet connection. The development system was a NetBurner Motorola Coldfire 5272 with uC/OS RTOS.

AMCI, Dallas, Texas, 2000-2005, contractor

Client-server application in VC++. Used Internet socket communications to communicate from client to server. Designed the database on the client and server. Data access was by ADO with a SQL Server database. A few ASP (Active Server Page) web apps were written in C#.

WORK HISTORY HIGHLIGHTS

TEXAS INSTRUMENTS: (4 years software engineer employee) Created and maintained microcode and test applications for a 3D graphics processor utilizing bit-slice processors in a pipeline architecture in a team environment. Wrote assembly language for another 3D graphics processor based on microprocessors. These processors would traverse a 3D scene that was prepared by a user application, do transformations, rasterizations and do picking of elements in the 3D scene.

SHOWCO / VARI-LITE: (10 years software contractor) Designed and wrote software implementing HDLC over a 1 Megabit/Second communications link. Designed and wrote disk controller S/W, file system, and SCSI interface to a disk and tape drive. Interface routines for UART, timers, clock, DMA, floppy controllers, hard drive controller, communications controllers. Hardware diagnostic systems. TTY based Unix-like Shell interface with interface routines, and command processors. Configuration and programming for VRTX real-time multitasking operating system. Wrote device drivers and tasks using interprocessor communication. System maintenance of Unix O/S. Routines for operator to test hardware.

DOCUTEL: (1 year contract programmer) Embedded C device drivers and test routines for ATM machines in a UNIX environment.

DATOTEK: (2 year contract developer) Led effort to develop Z80 assembly language in a UNIX development environment which interfaced with custom hardware for encrypting data over phone lines. This involved using the DES encryption standard and interfacing with the NSA (National Security Agency) over the export of this equipment.

JOB TITLES: Systems engineer, systems programmer, application developer, architect, firmware engineer, embedded programmer, firmware programmer and embedded engineer.

CLEARANCE: Have Security Clearance

EDUCATION

B.S. Computer Science U.T. Dallas Honors: Graduated Cum Laude.

Graduate work towards M.S. in Computer Science at S.M.U.

Work toward a B.S. Mechanical Engineering U.T. Arlington