Experience

EXB Solutions, Inc

• United States
• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Embedded Software Engineer

  • Mar 2021 - Present



Betty Bandit Binary

• Software Architect

  • Oct 2004 - Present

  Founding partner and software architect for the products "Parking Meter Minder" and "AllCalc" sold under the Betty Bandit Binary brand for the SideKick Family of early smartphones. Primary software development was done with NetBeans and JAVA. Founding partner and software architect for the products "Parking Meter Minder" and "AllCalc" sold under the Betty Bandit Binary brand for the SideKick Family of early smartphones. Primary software development was done with NetBeans and JAVA.



Undisclosed

• Embedded System Engineer

  • Nov 2020 - Mar 2021



Freelance

• Independant Aerospace Software & Systems Engineer

  • Jul 2020 - Nov 2020



IData®

• United States
• Aviation & Aerospace
• 1 - 100 Employee

• IData Product Manager

  • Apr 2011 - Jul 2020

  HMI development tool for The Real Thing safety critical command and control systemswidely used in Aerospace & Defense. Customers include B2 Bomber, NASA’s Orionmanned space capsule, and a popular in-flight infotainment system for private jets.Brought in as a recovery specialist when the majority of the current development team quiten masse, leaving trusted college’s jobs in the lurch, I jumped in supporting customers onsecure sites within the first week. Since then I’ve lead the small extremely experienced teamof aerospace software engineers into full recovery of the company into a leader in theindustry. Pioneered the expansion of the IData toolset into private space flight programsdisplacing the much larger entrenched toolset.Provided onsite pre and post sales support for international customers including Patria Plc inFinland, Pilatus Aircraft in Switzerland, and Airbus in Germany.



Green Hills Software

• United States
• Software Development
• 700 & Above Employee

• Senior Field Applications Engineer & Safety Critical Systems Consultant

  • Jul 2001 - Feb 2009

  Primary responsibilities include pre and post sales technical support, technology presentations as well as management of the customer’s success throughout the lifetime of their projects. For many projects this also includes architecture redesign of safety critical systems needing to meet (or a path to meet) FAA DO-178B level A safety certifications. I am also called on as an engineering “paratrooper” where I am dropped into the customer’s lab (often having to use different toolsets targeting a variety of RTOSes) for a number of days to get them past both software and hardware hurdles as well as performance issues so as to ensure the customer can meet their critical milestones and deadlines.Key customers include:• NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory• Hamilton Sundstrand• Northrop Grumman Corporation• ITT• Alliant Techsystems Inc. (ATK)• Boeing• Ecliptic Enterprises• Aerospace Corporation• Medtronic



IPAxess (formerly DataRace)

• Lead NT Driver Developer

  • Feb 2000 - Sep 2000

  Developed and debugged the core functionality of the company’s enterprise scale Voice over IP (VoIP) PBX product called “VocalWare”. • Designed with superior patented VoIP technology and transparent interfacing with the corporate PBX, • Worked extensively on the VocalWare server‘s Windows NT Kernel mode driver written in VC++, Win SDK/DDK and DriverWorks. Worked on the firmware for the custom T1 interface board written in C/C++, for the OSE RTOS. • Transitioned the registry based configuration data to an in-memory, embedded SQL, relational database system.• Designed, developed, and implemented new protocols for configuration of the VoIP stream using the Internet RFCs as a model. • Participated in the two week, on-site beta testing and field fixes of VocalWare at a major department of the Federal Government in Washington, D.C.



Double Helix Development, Inc.

• Founding Partner

  • Jan 1998 - Feb 2000

  Double Helix Development was a consulting practice specializing in rapid application development and wireless applications utilizing Microsoft IIS, ASP, Visual Basic, Access and SQL server. The Double Helix Development Mission is to provide customers with custom solutions to unique software development requirements by engineering robust applications and systems using leading edge, rapid application development tools and open architecture design principles. Customers included:• DELL – Designed and implemented additions to “Product Master”. • USAA – Worked as a senior consultant assisting in the “Off-With-Beta” project which culminated with the formal launch of the USAA web site. The highly complex project involved primarily management of, and coordination with, all of USAA’s lines of business into a single cohesive site.• NORTEL/BayNetworks – Created the “hardware upgrade” web application. Using MS IIS & ASP, allowed customers to look up and order hardware upgrades.