Profile

• Proven engineer whose successes range from keeping a multi-million dollar project on time to managing a company's premier product release
• Dedicated, conscientious team player with outstanding leadership and communication skills
• Technical expertise in Real-time, Embedded, Middleware, Networking, Streaming Media, and Video Conferencing.
• Programming experience in C, C++, Java, SQL, Javascript, AJAX, Haskell, Ocaml, Scheme, Perl, Python, assembly, PHP, and shell.
• Experience with MacOS, DOS, Windows, multiple Unix variants, and common office applications.

Experience

Senior Engineering Specialist - Aclara Technologies, Hazelwood, MO May 2006 - Present

• Ported link-layer protocol stack to Linux and DSP/Bios
• Wrote UART driver for DSP/Bios
• Became resident Linux expert for new Linux-based board release
  • Took on all release management responsibilities including design, development, and testing of a reliable, reproducable, backed-up build system
  • Designed filesystem layout and system initialization process and selected packages to distribute
  • Designed, Implemented, and tested new drivers in linux - UART, watchdog, LED, 4-segment digital display, Inter-processor communication driver, and more.
  • Fixed critical bugs in upstream Linux kernel
  • Instructed and tutored team-members on all levels of using Linux and memory protected systems in general.

Senior Engineer - Starbak Communications, Waltham, MA October 2001 - May 2006

• Individual Contributor Accomplishments:
  • Designed, implemented, and documented the XMLRPC-based, SQL backed API and middleware for several products, implemented in C.
  • Extensively reworked a code and documentation generator in perl to support the above application.
  • Analyzed Linux's usb-serial driver to identify problem code. Identified and fixed problem areas, implemented associated debugging device driver, all ahead of schedule.
  • Implemented mp3 streaming through Microsoft Media Server Protocol on time.
  • Bug fixes and feature additions for the system console program in shell.
  • Created troubleshooting web page leveraging JavaScript to debug embedded MMS streaming data utilizing Windows Media Player.
  • Improved system build process, written in shell.
• Team Leadership Accomplishments:
  • Managed release cycle of the VCG, at that time the premier product offering - managed five other developers and three testers, delivered on time.
  • Promoted to manage System Integration team - team of three developers including myself
  • Successfully completed several varied tasks:

Intern - Hewlett Packard, Dallas, TX June 2000 - December 2000

• C and C++ programming on embedded, real-time product.
• Responsible for design and implementation of feature additions.
• Responsible for critical path bug-fixes with a hardware team on multi-million dollar Superdome project.
• experience with VxWorks OS and OS-less programming.

Education

The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH

• Computer Science Engineer major, Software/Hardware systems specialty with an overall GPA of 3.0.
• Vice President of the OSU Open Source Software Club .
• Presented on several topics for the OSU Open Source Software Club: L^ATEX2_e, GNU Programming utilities, Ocaml. Organized Open Source Software Awareness Day, Feb 17, 2000.