Experience

Cardinal Peak

• United States
• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Senior Embedded Software Engineer

  • Oct 2021 - Present

  Embedded Software using C. Bare-metal and FreeRTOS. ARM Cortex-M4. Linux (WSL) & Windows development environments. Software architecture. Protocol design & protocol stacks. Embedded Software using C. Bare-metal and FreeRTOS. ARM Cortex-M4. Linux (WSL) & Windows development environments. Software architecture. Protocol design & protocol stacks.



NagraStar

• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Principal Architect

  • May 2004 - Apr 2021

  NagraStar is a Joint Venture between Dish Network and Nagra (Kudelski Group) Principal Architect 2016-2021 Senior Architect, 2013-2015 Architect, 2007-2013 Senior Engineer, 2006-2007 Engineer, 2004-2006 Principal Solution Architect for Nagra Conditional Access System (CAS) and Internet of Things (IoT) platform at DISH Network. Architect for Set-Top-Box, System-on-Chip (SoC), and smartcard security projects such as SoC security specifications, security protocols, key management, anti-piracy, and next gen smartcard specifications. On the wireless side, Architect for Narrow Band IoT (NBIoT), Machine to Machine (M2M) communications, and IoT security protocols. Responsibility for managing the company patent portfolio. End-to-end project architecture, including gathering requirements, developing use cases, evaluating technology options, writing specifications & white papers, and proposing new systems, configurations, and deployment plans. Close collaboration with peer architects across multiple organizations and locations. Day-to-day hands-on experience with pay-TV and IoT technologies such as MPEG, DVB, SI/PSI, DVR, VOD, IP streaming, LTE/EPC, and wireless communications. Teacher for “Tech Talk” bi-monthly lecture series. SAFe (Scaled Agile Framework) certified. Show less



ADIC

• Spain
• Civic and Social Organizations
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Firmware Engineer

  • Feb 2002 - Jul 2003

  Designed and coded firmware in C for VxWorks RTOS on the Motorola Coldfire CPU for a new robotic tape library: iSCSI implementation, Ethernet/TCP/IP communications, SNMP agent, Error handling, NVM management / persistent data, and system OO architecture. Full software life cycle including requirements gathering, design, design reviews, coding, debugging, code reviews, and documentation using CASE tools such as CodeWright, MKS, Tornado, and Source Safe in a Windows & Linux development environment. Cross-discipline (electrical, firmware, mechanical, manufacturing, etc) multi-team corporate engineering environment. Show less



The iSpark Group, Inc.

• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Senior Software Engineer

  • Jun 1998 - Jun 2001

  Overall engineering responsibility for BillMax, a web based billing package for Internet Service Providers. Provided front line pre-sales support and conducted product demonstrations at more than a dozen trade shows. Designed and coded approximately 100,000 lines of C source code. Designed a scalable RDBMS architecture using MySQL encompassing 20 tables. Ownership of the software release process including configuration management, coordinating beta testers, creating distribution packages, tracking bug reports, and assigning engineers. Ported MySQL queries to Oracle backend. Ported BillMax source code to multiple OS: FreeBSD, Solaris, RedHat, and BSDi Unix. Show less



Various

• Financial Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Web Site Designer

  • Dec 1995 - Jun 1998

  Contract web design work Contract web design work



Swissbank

• China
• Advertising Services

• Network Administrator

  • Feb 1995 - Oct 1995

  Contract system & network administrator on Wall Street Contract system & network administrator on Wall Street



Qualcomm

• United States
• Telecommunications
• 700 & Above Employee

• Software Engineer

  • Jun 1993 - Oct 1994

  Firmware engineer for CDMA cell phone equipment Firmware engineer for CDMA cell phone equipment



Cogwheel

• United States
• Construction
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Firmware Engineer

  • Mar 1992 - Jun 1993

  IP router firmware IP router firmware