Bill Clery
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Wolfgang Gruen
Bill was always looking at business value, the big picture, the customer and understood how to create a product iteratively. When working with Bill, he was not just moving projects through the finish line, but stayed engaged where needed to ensure customers can enjoy added value. He always was there to answer questions, guide, mentor or seek input and I enjoyed the way Bill was able to change direction quickly when new information was discovered. I have stayed in touch with Bill throughout the years and what always strikes me are the lively discussions whether it is about technology, software development and trends, product quality, customer experience or about management of people. I always have seen Bill as the leader who has the ability to understand complex technical and non-technical systems, help the team brainstorming and to find the most suitable solution.
Kevin Baker
I don't think there's a problem in this world Bill couldn't solve. One of the most intelligent people I've ever known, Bill has that rare ability to think about problems in such a way that he makes finding a solution look effortless. Taking complex issues and finding a way to not only simplify them but also make them more efficient, it was impressive to see. A great supervisor, working under Bill felt almost like a mentorship. Regardless of how heavy a workload he'd be under, he nearly always found time to answer questions from us developers. He'd talk through our solutions to problems and help us work through any roadblocks. It honestly felt like I learned more from working with him than my previous jobs combined. Working with Bill was a hidden perk of the job and I couldn't recommend him enough for any position, do not let the opportunity to work with him pass.
Wolfgang Gruen
Bill was always looking at business value, the big picture, the customer and understood how to create a product iteratively. When working with Bill, he was not just moving projects through the finish line, but stayed engaged where needed to ensure customers can enjoy added value. He always was there to answer questions, guide, mentor or seek input and I enjoyed the way Bill was able to change direction quickly when new information was discovered. I have stayed in touch with Bill throughout the years and what always strikes me are the lively discussions whether it is about technology, software development and trends, product quality, customer experience or about management of people. I always have seen Bill as the leader who has the ability to understand complex technical and non-technical systems, help the team brainstorming and to find the most suitable solution.
Kevin Baker
I don't think there's a problem in this world Bill couldn't solve. One of the most intelligent people I've ever known, Bill has that rare ability to think about problems in such a way that he makes finding a solution look effortless. Taking complex issues and finding a way to not only simplify them but also make them more efficient, it was impressive to see. A great supervisor, working under Bill felt almost like a mentorship. Regardless of how heavy a workload he'd be under, he nearly always found time to answer questions from us developers. He'd talk through our solutions to problems and help us work through any roadblocks. It honestly felt like I learned more from working with him than my previous jobs combined. Working with Bill was a hidden perk of the job and I couldn't recommend him enough for any position, do not let the opportunity to work with him pass.
Wolfgang Gruen
Bill was always looking at business value, the big picture, the customer and understood how to create a product iteratively. When working with Bill, he was not just moving projects through the finish line, but stayed engaged where needed to ensure customers can enjoy added value. He always was there to answer questions, guide, mentor or seek input and I enjoyed the way Bill was able to change direction quickly when new information was discovered. I have stayed in touch with Bill throughout the years and what always strikes me are the lively discussions whether it is about technology, software development and trends, product quality, customer experience or about management of people. I always have seen Bill as the leader who has the ability to understand complex technical and non-technical systems, help the team brainstorming and to find the most suitable solution.
Kevin Baker
I don't think there's a problem in this world Bill couldn't solve. One of the most intelligent people I've ever known, Bill has that rare ability to think about problems in such a way that he makes finding a solution look effortless. Taking complex issues and finding a way to not only simplify them but also make them more efficient, it was impressive to see. A great supervisor, working under Bill felt almost like a mentorship. Regardless of how heavy a workload he'd be under, he nearly always found time to answer questions from us developers. He'd talk through our solutions to problems and help us work through any roadblocks. It honestly felt like I learned more from working with him than my previous jobs combined. Working with Bill was a hidden perk of the job and I couldn't recommend him enough for any position, do not let the opportunity to work with him pass.
Wolfgang Gruen
Bill was always looking at business value, the big picture, the customer and understood how to create a product iteratively. When working with Bill, he was not just moving projects through the finish line, but stayed engaged where needed to ensure customers can enjoy added value. He always was there to answer questions, guide, mentor or seek input and I enjoyed the way Bill was able to change direction quickly when new information was discovered. I have stayed in touch with Bill throughout the years and what always strikes me are the lively discussions whether it is about technology, software development and trends, product quality, customer experience or about management of people. I always have seen Bill as the leader who has the ability to understand complex technical and non-technical systems, help the team brainstorming and to find the most suitable solution.
Kevin Baker
I don't think there's a problem in this world Bill couldn't solve. One of the most intelligent people I've ever known, Bill has that rare ability to think about problems in such a way that he makes finding a solution look effortless. Taking complex issues and finding a way to not only simplify them but also make them more efficient, it was impressive to see. A great supervisor, working under Bill felt almost like a mentorship. Regardless of how heavy a workload he'd be under, he nearly always found time to answer questions from us developers. He'd talk through our solutions to problems and help us work through any roadblocks. It honestly felt like I learned more from working with him than my previous jobs combined. Working with Bill was a hidden perk of the job and I couldn't recommend him enough for any position, do not let the opportunity to work with him pass.
Experience
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Syncopated Engineering, Inc.
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United States
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Software Development
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1 - 100 Employee
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Principal Software Engineer
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Feb 2019 - Present
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Lyceum Business Services, LLC
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Gaithersburg, MD
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V.P. Software Development
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Dec 2003 - Aug 2018
As a co-founder and investor I began with the company in the role of V. P. Operations. Here I built the corporate production environment, purchased servers, contracted the co-lo, managed installations, negotiated Oracle license, and wrote external C++ interfaces. I then took over the software development as V.P. Development. Here I removed non-performing developers, built a skilled team of full-stack developers, mentored, and created a positive team culture. I architected all feature requests, managed developers tasks and oversaw the code control and release process. While managing the above and also supporting live production issues, I maintained daily coding time myself so as to always fully understand the system. Skills: Engineering Management Architectural Design Object-oriented Programming C / C++ Programming C# / ASP.NET HTTP / HTML / CSS JavaScript / DOM REST / JSON XML / XSD / XPATH Oracle Database SQL Source Control Management Protocols IP/UDP/TCP Visual Studio Show less
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Patton, LLC
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United States
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Telecommunications
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1 - 100 Employee
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Chief Engineer, Internet Technologies Group
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Jan 1997 - Jun 2001
I conceived and engineered a 96-port dial-up T1 rackmount internet access device. I built the engineering team and was responsible for all aspects of the product design including mechanical, circuit design (cpu, memory, power conversion, Ethernet, DSP bank), board layout, real-time O/S, application software, and modem DSP code. The Patton manufacturing floor ramped up capabilities and I worked with them to insure product quality and manufacturability. I wrote a preemptive real-time kernel in assembly and C, with custom telemetry, in order to access critical issue data from the field. Ahead of its time, I created an embedded HTML server to support web-based equipment administration. This incorporated an HTML to C-array pre-compiler to allow dynamic web pages to be linked into an embedded image. I worked with Analog Devices Digital Signal Processors, coding telecom tonal detection and integrating V90 modem modules. Skills: Product Definition Engineering Management Circuit Design Low Voltage Power Systems Software Architectural Design C Multi-thread Programming Real-time O/S (pSOS and custom) Network Protocols (IP/TCP/UDP) Routing Protocols (RIP/ICPM) Digital Signal Processing Product Compliance Testing (UL/EU) Show less
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Acterna
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Telecommunications
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1 - 100 Employee
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Software Engineering Consultant
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Oct 1994 - Dec 1996
I designed a telecommunications ATM packet analysis capability for the industry standard TTC Firebert test device. With the novel application of an ADI Digital Signal Processor accessing registers created in a field programmable gate array, I was able to surpass the planned feature set. The circuit also included a DS3 physical interface. Software included the time critical interrupt driven DSP code in addition to upgrading the user interface 'C' software in the main housing. Skills: Circuit Design Telecom interfaces and protocols Digital Signal Processor Coding C Multi-thread Programming Show less
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Orbital Sciences Corporation is now Orbital ATK!
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Defense and Space Manufacturing
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700 & Above Employee
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Software Engineering Consultant
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Jul 1993 - Oct 1994
I worked on the satellite embedded systems for the first Orbcomm launch, becoming a key problem solver. I rewrote the failing interrupt handling mechanism in the platform's central multi-threaded multi-processor real-time kernel. Modeling signals and circuits in MATLAB, I rewrote the radio chirp Digital Signal Process code to receive a -90db ground signal. Skills: Multi-processor Synchonized Communications Multi-threaded Real-time Kernel Digital Signal Processor Coding C Programming Embedded System Debugging Show less
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Pulse Embedded Computer Systems, Inc.
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Rockville, MD
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Electrical Engineer
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Jun 1991 - Jul 1993
I created military standard and industrial rugged custom processor boards for DOD and Railroad use. My work included CPU and peripheral circuit board designs, board layout, and Xilinx FPGA programming. I wrote all BIOS software in assembly and C. Board design conformance to the IEEE-1102.1 conduction cooled, VMEbus and STDbus standards on through-hole and surface mount technology (SMT) boards up to 10 layers MIL-STD-1553 hardware design using the United Technologies BCRTM and SuMMIT protocol chips including test software coding Xilinx 3000 series FPGA implementation of VMEbus interface and high speed MIL-STD-1397 NTDS B/C protocol machine using the XACT tools, simulation of ASIC and worst case timing analysis Re-entrant real-time I/O drivers and board support packages for pSOS and VRTX32 embedded OS, multitasking "DOS like" command shell running under VRTX32 Show less
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J.F. Taylor, Inc
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Defense and Space Manufacturing
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100 - 200 Employee
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Electrical Engineer
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Jul 1987 - Jun 1991
I designed custom embedded microprocessor circuits to test military avionics IIF systems using C, ADA, and assembly software to meet customers’ specifications. C, C++ and assembly programming in real-time and user interface applications targeting the pSOS, VRTX32, MS-DOS and UNIX operating systems using Microtec, GNU, Oasys and Sun compilers Embedded software drivers for MIL-STD-1553, NTDS, SCSI, and RS-232 I/O boards using cross compiler tools on SUN and PC hosts MS Visual C++ and Borland C++ and Visual Basic for Windows applications incorporating graphical user interface and low level ISA communications board programming, program interface to custom DLL for multiple application X.25 packet messaging though COM port, application communications using WinSock DLL Unix / X Windows application developed using TAE graphical tools and CenterPoint C++ compiler HP-BASIC instrument control programming on the HP 9000 series computer using the IEEE-488 interface ADA code development on VAX 8700 and MicroVAX, targeting a VMEbus based 68020 computer system Custom digital board design incorporating 68000, 68302 and Z80 microprocessors operating up to 100 MHz Analog circuit design of signal drivers, transformer coupled transmissions, audio switching, audio filters Analog circuit design of microwave PIN diode drivers Military communications standards, CRT displays and synchro systems utilizing PSpice analog simulation Microwave instrumentation design incorporating attenuator, filter, switching, amplifier and mixer modules for laboratory testing of avionics radios, radar and electronic warfare test equipment covering frequencies up to 34 GHz, design of digital control interface between microwave modules and instrumentation computers Direct customer interface: definition of customer requirements, preliminary system design and proposal writing Show less
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Education
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1983 - 1987
Virginia Tech
Bachelor of Science - BS, Electrical and Electronics Engineering
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