Objective

To use my low level programming skills developing exciting embedded products; including firmware, operating system, drivers, applications, programmable logic and/or coprocessors.

Education

Bachelor of Electrical Engineering, Cooperative Plan with Honor, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1996

Specializations: Computer Systems and Telecommunications

Skills

· High-level languages: C/C++, Visual Basic, BASIC, HTML, Pascal, and Fortran

· Assembly languages: ARM, M68K DragonBall (68328), MCore, PowerPC, PIC, and X86

· Knowledgeable in issues related to low-power and mobile devices

· Extensive experience in simultaneous cross-platform development

· Expert at debugging embedded systems with little or no emulator support

· System level software (RTOS, drivers, libraries, and test applications) in embedded environment

· High level hardware and software debugging using oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, and simulators

· Low level software debugging using memory dumps and assembly code tracing

· Operating Systems: Palm OS, WinCE/PocketPC, VRTX, Windows 95/98/NT/2000/XP, Unix and Solaris

· Source/Change Control: PVCS, Perforce, Visual SourceSafe, StarTeam, and Clarify

· Programmable Logic: Xilinx, CoolRunner, and other PLDs

· Electrical soldering (including surface mount components)

· Ham radio operator (KB4WEH, Technician Plus)

Professional Experience

Qualcomm, Inc., Cary, North Carolina

CDMA Technologies

Staff Engineer - June 2004 to Present

Scientific-Atlanta, Inc., Atlanta, Georgia

Digital Subscriber Networks, Headend Embedded Software Team

Staff Embedded Software Engineer - April 2002 to May 2004

· Developed and maintained firmware for Quadrature Amplitude Modulator series of products

· Wrote code for multitasking multi-processor system mixing ARM and PowerPC.

· Maintained carrier grade reliability.

· Focused on MPEG-2 Systems Layer and PowerKEY Conditional Access System.

· Worked closely with Digital Network Controller System and set top groups.

Ratio DesignLab, Inc. (became AppForge, Inc.), Atlanta, Georgia

High-tech Product Development

Embedded Software Engineer - April 1996 to April 2002

· Developed software and firmware for battery powered handheld mobile devices.

· Implemented 32-bit multitasking embedded real-time operating system (RTOS)

· Written in portable Object-Oriented C (critical portions in assembly).

· Simultaneously supported on ARM, ARM Thumb, StrongARM, Motorola M68K DragonBall, and MCore.

· External modules use position-independent code and data (PIC/PID) for execute in place power savings, flexible configuration, and field upgradability.

· High-speed direct system and inter-module function calling via a COM like interface, implemented in C.

· Wrote numerous device drivers including UART, (IR, RS-232, and RS-485), graphical LCD, coprocessor, touch screen digitizer, and paging and two-way radios.

· Team lead for development of cross-platform GUI controls using C/C++ code shared between Windows and all embedded targets, in the AppForge Piedmont Framework.

· Senior team member in design and development of AppForge Piedmont (a cross-platform COM-like framework for embedded systems) SDK and run time, for Palm OS and Pocket PC.

· Wrote and maintained code in programmable logic devices (CPLD and FPGA) and coprocessors to support zero glue logic and field upgradeable design philosophy.

· Wrote programmable logic elements and boot and OS code for modular Hardware Reference Platform

NASA, Voice and Navigation Aids Section, Kennedy Space Center, Florida

Electrical Engineering Student Trainee (Co-Op) - May 1991 to September 1995 (alternating quarters)

· Prototyping, engineering support, and UNIX programming for U.S. Space Shuttle ground communications systems.

Patent Pending

Methods and systems for providing platform-independent shared software components for mobile devices

United States Patent Application 20030018825, filed 17 July 2001