embedded_systems_resume.htm

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<UL>
  <LI>Working with the founders to land first round funding. 
  <LI>Wrote/Ported 1394 driver for the Philips PDI1394L40 link chip using the TI 
  Phy, running on an embedded ColdFire. 
  <LI>Ported customer specific asynchronous protocol . 
  <LI>Finished port of PPCBoot allow for loading a kernel from an ATA hard disk. 

  <LI>Creating new business opportunities with new customers. 
</LI></UL><STRONG>1999 - 2001<BR>QRise, Inc., Sacramento, 
California</STRONG><BR>Director of Engineering 
<P>MP3 recorder/player </P>
<UL>
  <LI>Worked with customers and venture capitol firms and helped create product 
  definition. 
  <LI>Created project schedules and software road maps. 
  <LI>Brought this product to market in under one year with a team of only two 
  software engineers. 
  <LI>Developed from scratch: OS, IDE driver, ATA/ATAPI Layer, CDR layer, HD 
  layer, FAT12/16 File system, ISO 9660 fileystem, USB Driver on host, USB 
  driver for Macintosh. 
  <LI>Worked closely with the hardware engineers to qualify and enhance custom 
  ASIC. 
  <LI>Wrote specifications for various components, including, OS overview, OS 
  Task Switching, USB low level protocol, ISO 9660 file system and FAT12/16 file 
  system. </LI></UL><STRONG>1999<BR>QRise, Inc., Cupertino, 
California</STRONG><BR>Software Consultant 
<UL>
  <LI>Designed, implemented and ported a real time operating system for an 
  embedded product using the ARM Thumb processor. 
  <LI>Components include, overall Simulation environment, memory manager, timer 
  manager, context switcher, scheduler, profiler and driver model. 
</LI></UL><STRONG>1998 - 1999<BR>Vertec Corporation., Palo Alto, 
California</STRONG><BR>Software Manager 
<P>Software Products Group<BR>Toast and Jam, CD recording software for the 
Macintosh. </P>
<UL>
  <LI>Expanded the Macintosh software team by hiring full time and consultant 
  engineers. 
  <LI>Dealt directly with customer and licensees to ensure timely delivery of 
  needed features. 
  <LI>Responsible for project management, scheduling, motivating a team of 
  design and QA engineers. 
  <LI>In conjunction with Marketing, helped in design, feature selection and 
  implementation. 
  <LI>Worked with Graphic Artists and marketing on interface design. 
</LI></UL><STRONG>1997 - 1998<BR>Pears Computer, Palo Alto, 
California</STRONG><BR>Software Manager 
<P>Core OS Group<BR>MacOS X </P>
<UL>
  <LI>Created a strong highly productive team from within and outside of Apple. 
  <LI>Designed and implemented all hardware support for Macintosh and Intel CPU. 

  <LI>Responsible for project management, scheduling, motivating a team of ten. 
  <LI>Worked with many areas within the company to resolve issues and provide 
  long and short term planning. 
  <LI>Consistently ahead of schedule and over delivered, on hardware and new API 
  designs. 
  <LI>Continued to remain technically active as manager by implementing needed 
  drivers. </LI></UL><STRONG>1996-1997<BR>Copper Networks, Inc. Mt View, 
California</STRONG><BR>Director of Software/Founder 
<P>Cobalt Cube </P>
<UL>
  <LI>Established the software engineering department by building a strong team 
  of engineers in under three months. 
  <LI>Provided input on business plans, market trend reports and strategies. 
  <LI>Help develop partnerships with Venture capital firms in order to secure 
  funding. 
  <LI>Responsible for hiring, scheduling, development tools and project 
  management. 
  <LI>Implemented cross design environment, including GNU C, binutils and libc 
  on Intel and PowerPC. 
  <LI>Ported LINUX kernel to custom MIPS based hardware and had apache running 
  in less than five months. </LI></UL><STRONG>1996-1997<BR>Sofisticated Digital 
Design, Santa Clara, California</STRONG><BR>Firmware Consultant 
<P>Integrated Point of Sale Server </P>
<P>Designed and coded all diagnostics and board bring up code for the second 
generation RIM, using an MC68360. Tests include RAM, ROM, FLASH, Serial and 
Ethernet. </P><STRONG>1994 - 1996<BR>Pears Computer, Palo Alto, 
California</STRONG><BR>Software Manager 
<P>New Media Group </P>Pippin Power Player 
<UL>
  <LI>Software manager for the development of a PowerPC 603 based low cost, high 
  performance home entertainment Macintosh. 
  <LI>Responsible for a team of nine engineers, including hiring, task 
  scheduling, setting up and managing project source control, coordinating 
  releases to SQA, and interfacing to OEM's in Japan. 
  <LI>Worked closely with hardware team to debug and qualify custom memory 
  controller and video ASIC's. 
  <LI>Tasks included writing native drivers for new ASICs, adding new 
  functionality and optimizing existing code to work in a low memory 
  environment. 
  <LI>Accelerated schedule, first hardware to Golden Master release in less than 
  seven months. </LI></UL>PowerPC Upgrade Card 
<UL>
  <LI>Assisted with hardware design, boot code and debugging for PowerPC 601 
  processor direct upgrade card. 
  <LI>Added to and enhanced existing boot code in PPC assembly to support new 
  hardware. This included dynamic memory sizing, ADB control, sound, and well as 
  dynamic level 2 cache sizing and detection of an auxiliary processor. 
</LI></UL>Tenderfoot, Point of Sale Client 
<UL>
  <LI>Sole engineer for a mini Macintosh based on a Motorola 68331 
  microcontroller. Due to RAM and ROM restrictions a complete redesign existing 
  ROM code had to be implemented. Written almost exclusively in C this product 
  has a similar API to that of a Macintosh. Modules redesigned include; 
  Debugger, with break, trace and disassembly, Real-time blocking operating 
  kernel, Memory Management, Serial controller routines, LocalTalk 
  implementation, ADB and real-time clock interfaces, Graphic LCD drawing and 
  control routines. 
  <LI>Designed Macintosh based simulator allowing code to be written and 
  debugged on any Macintosh before actually having to program embedded ROMs. 
  <LI>Custom designed and implemented a blocking multitasking kernel with Name 
  binding, and low RAM overhead. 
  <LI>Completely rewrote Localtalk from the LLAP, DDP, NBP, ZIP and AARP in ANSI 
  C and optimized the stack to work with the kernel. 
  <LI>Wrote the driver for Rockwell's 9624 data pump to handle Bell 212 and V.22 
  bis communications connections using both synchronous and asynchronous calls. 
  <LI>Implemented an ANSI compatible file system to used with the battery backed 
  RAM. 
  <LI>Using the Think Class Library wrote a graphical network management 
  application which displays the icons of all found devices. Clicking on the 
  icon will display a list of files on the device, and clicking on the file will 
  download it to the application. </LI></UL><STRONG>1993 - 1994<BR>ACDS, Santa 
Clara, California</STRONG><BR>Firmware Consultant 
<P>Integrated Point of Sale Server </P>
<UL>
  <LI>Designed operating system for a real time multiport communications device 
  using 2 MC68302 processors. The system included a multitasking kernel, dynamic 
  memory management, and serial drivers. 
  <LI>Constructed Macintosh based simulation application by writing compatible 
  drivers. This allowed complete testing on multiple platforms as well as source 
  level debugging in Think C for high level code. 
  <LI>Developed Macintosh application to configure, test and download code image 
  to the device. 
  <LI>Ported previously designed low level debugger to handle trace, 
  breakpoints, disassembly, stack crawl, code downloading and FLASH programming. 
  </LI></UL><STRONG>1992 - 1994<BR>Amanta Technologies, Santa Clara, 
California</STRONG><BR>Software Engineer 
<P>AmantaView Network Management </P>
<UL>
  <LI>Team member for SNMP IP based network management software (AmantaView). 
  <LI>Responsible for GUI design, implementation, low level communication and 
  quality assurance. 
  <LI>Designed and implemented C++ class libraries to replace and enhance 
  existing structured code. 
  <LI>Worked closely with other engineers in the design process of new mibs. 
  </LI></UL><STRONG>1992<BR>Global Networks Comm, Mt. View, 
California</STRONG><BR>Firmware Engineer 
<P>OneWorld Server </P>
<UL>
  <LI>Designed and implemented systems software for a stand alone 68302 based 
  communications device. Modules include memory management, object based I/O 
  control, and real time multitasking using Motorola's EDX Kernel. 
  <LI>Developed and ported various Apple specific protocols including DDP, ADSP, 
  PAP, and ATP for use in multiple port data exchange. 
  <LI>Responsible for hardware design, component selection and pricing and 
  layout placement. </LI></UL><STRONG>1991 - 1992<BR>Barallon Computer, Inc., 
Sommerville, California</STRONG><BR>Firmware Engineer 
<P>Localtalk Ethernet Router </P>
<UL>
  <LI>Primarily responsible for designing and implementing an automated 
  production test fixture for the new network router products. This included 
  hardware/software and controlling Macintosh application. 
  <LI>Designed burn-in diagnostics capable of locating faults with RAM, ROM, 
  PALS and interrupts. Software was also able to display memory and alter memory 
  as well as download new code and reprogram FLASH device for production code 
  programming. 
  <LI>Was asked to help form a separate test department after completing 
  assignment with such thoroughness. </LI></UL><STRONG>1990 - 1991<BR>MNCC, Santa 
Clara, California</STRONG><BR>Design Engineer 
<P>T1 Echo Canceler </P>
<UL>
  <LI>Primarily responsible for firmware of a 68302 based controller for a T1 
  echo canceler. 
  <LI>Designed operating system using Motorola's EDX kernel for ROM, RAM, 
  NoVRAM, alarms, and five serial communications ports. 
  <LI>Developed protocol for communication and implemented for both 8051 and 
  68302. </LI></UL><STRONG>1987-1990<BR>STT, Coppland, New 
Jersey</STRONG><BR>Senior Design Engineer 
<P>KepTrol and MassTrol </P>
<UL>
  <LI>Responsible for programming design through production of industrial 
  instrumentation products, often under rigid deadlines. Designed and enhanced 
  hardware and software for firm's most profitable lines; two self contained 
  industrial flow computers with analog and digital inputs and outputs. 
  <LI>Developed formal proposal based on specific needs of firm's outside 
  clients. Estimated time, features and specifications of custom products. 
  <LI>Worked directly with customers from the design phase through final 
  release. 
  <LI>Utilized skills in software engineering to develop a menu driven 
  multitasking operating system with RS232 communications and smart parsing for 
  external control. 
  <LI>Checked and debugged final product. Provided operational information to 
  quality control and production. </LI></UL><STRONG>1985-1987<BR>Stockton College, 
Stockton, New York</STRONG><BR>Research Designer for the Chairman of the Physics 
Department 
<P>Visual Automated Data Gathering Device </P>
<UL>
  <LI>Independently designed, constructed and operated an interface that 
  digitized composite video signals from a CCTV camera. The system was capable 
  of calculating the time dependence versus position of several independent 
  objects in real time. 
  <LI>Developed and implemented all controlling software in Z-80 and 6502 
  Assembly Language and Basic. </LI></UL><STRONG>Education</STRONG> 
<P>Stockton College, Stockton, New York Bachelor of Arts. May 1987<BR>Dual 
Majors: Physics, Computing; Minor: Mathematics</P>
<P>Cornell University, Stockton, New York<BR>Course work in electrical 
engineering under the Stockton College/Cornell exchange program</P>
<P>Santa Cruz Extension, Santa Clara, California (1992)<BR>Object Oriented 
Design.</P>
<P>Apple Developer University, Cupertino, California (1994)<BR>PowerPC Boot 
Camp.</P>
<P>Motorola Technical Training, San Jose, California (1995)<BR>PowerPC 
Architecture.</P>
<P>Apple, Cupertino, California (1994-1998)<BR>Various management, scheduling, 
and employee relations classes.</P><STRONG>Personal</STRONG> 
<P>Almost every job I've had has