David Adkins
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Jeff Cunningham
I have had the pleasure of working with David directly the last 2 years. David is an excellent engineer and provides great analytic and development skills with excellent communications skills and a professional attitude. David is very team-oriented and blended well with our company along with providing leadership to less experienced members of the team. I highly recommend David as an asset to any company and I will miss having his talents on our team.
David Tutch
I worked with David Adkins for over 13 years and know him as a friend as well. Working with Dave allowed me to learn a great deal about the digitizer products. I found him to be very skilled and intelligent. He was very dedicated to his job function but would always take the time to help out and give advice to others as needed. His patent for High Accuracy Digitizing Systems (#5854449) is a technology I worked with for many years in the production of those digitizing systems. Dave’s talents as a manufacturing engineer, firmware engineer, and finally as engineering manager have always been up to the task and he always goes the extra mile for the success of his employer. I heartily recommend David Adkins for whatever exciting opportunity he chooses to pursue next.
Jeff Cunningham
I have had the pleasure of working with David directly the last 2 years. David is an excellent engineer and provides great analytic and development skills with excellent communications skills and a professional attitude. David is very team-oriented and blended well with our company along with providing leadership to less experienced members of the team. I highly recommend David as an asset to any company and I will miss having his talents on our team.
David Tutch
I worked with David Adkins for over 13 years and know him as a friend as well. Working with Dave allowed me to learn a great deal about the digitizer products. I found him to be very skilled and intelligent. He was very dedicated to his job function but would always take the time to help out and give advice to others as needed. His patent for High Accuracy Digitizing Systems (#5854449) is a technology I worked with for many years in the production of those digitizing systems. Dave’s talents as a manufacturing engineer, firmware engineer, and finally as engineering manager have always been up to the task and he always goes the extra mile for the success of his employer. I heartily recommend David Adkins for whatever exciting opportunity he chooses to pursue next.
Jeff Cunningham
I have had the pleasure of working with David directly the last 2 years. David is an excellent engineer and provides great analytic and development skills with excellent communications skills and a professional attitude. David is very team-oriented and blended well with our company along with providing leadership to less experienced members of the team. I highly recommend David as an asset to any company and I will miss having his talents on our team.
David Tutch
I worked with David Adkins for over 13 years and know him as a friend as well. Working with Dave allowed me to learn a great deal about the digitizer products. I found him to be very skilled and intelligent. He was very dedicated to his job function but would always take the time to help out and give advice to others as needed. His patent for High Accuracy Digitizing Systems (#5854449) is a technology I worked with for many years in the production of those digitizing systems. Dave’s talents as a manufacturing engineer, firmware engineer, and finally as engineering manager have always been up to the task and he always goes the extra mile for the success of his employer. I heartily recommend David Adkins for whatever exciting opportunity he chooses to pursue next.
Jeff Cunningham
I have had the pleasure of working with David directly the last 2 years. David is an excellent engineer and provides great analytic and development skills with excellent communications skills and a professional attitude. David is very team-oriented and blended well with our company along with providing leadership to less experienced members of the team. I highly recommend David as an asset to any company and I will miss having his talents on our team.
David Tutch
I worked with David Adkins for over 13 years and know him as a friend as well. Working with Dave allowed me to learn a great deal about the digitizer products. I found him to be very skilled and intelligent. He was very dedicated to his job function but would always take the time to help out and give advice to others as needed. His patent for High Accuracy Digitizing Systems (#5854449) is a technology I worked with for many years in the production of those digitizing systems. Dave’s talents as a manufacturing engineer, firmware engineer, and finally as engineering manager have always been up to the task and he always goes the extra mile for the success of his employer. I heartily recommend David Adkins for whatever exciting opportunity he chooses to pursue next.
Experience
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echo360 (formerly turning)
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United States
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Software Development
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1 - 100 Employee
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Manufacturing Engineer
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May 2017 - Present
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Student and Contract Firmware Engineer
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Sep 2015 - May 2017
Solidworks Certified Professional - Advanced Drawing Tools Solidworks Certified Professional - Advanced Drawing Tools
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echo360 (formerly turning)
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United States
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Software Development
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1 - 100 Employee
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Sr. Embedded Software Engineer
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Aug 2013 - Feb 2016
Achievements:• Designer, firmware developer and team manager of the Touch Board Plus Wireless Kit. • Responsible for the development of an embedded GUI running under Arch Linux and the Webmin API. GUI developed in Perl, javascript, HTML and CSS. Elements included embedded Wi-Fi and clicker receiver configuration.Responsibilities:• Full cycle software/firmware development including system/software requirements, architecture, specification, analysis, implementation, testing, documentation, and maintenance in a disciplined embedded software engineering environment.• Expected to mentor, transfer knowledge, supervise on an as-needed project basis, more junior staff members.• Work with our vendors and contact manufacturers to troubleshoot and solve problems as needed.
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Manager and Hardware Engineering Developer
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Jul 2012 - Aug 2013
Achievements:• Managed development of the newest generation of GTCO CalComp DrawingBoard Surface-Lit digitizer• Managed development of the Ping RF Clicker for eInstruction Student Response Systems• Managed development of the Cyrillic Pulse RF Clicker for eI Student Response Systems• Managed successful internal and external ISO 9000 auditsResponsibilities:• Responsible for both strategic and tactical leadership/management• Oversee planning, execution, evaluation, and improvement of H/W development activities.• Ensure product quality and reliability is maintained to the highest level.• Ensure that the staff are challenged, motivated, and have ownership in their roles.• Recruiting qualified candidates for vacant staff positions• Continued role as firmware designer, developer and mentor
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Principle Hardware/Software Engineer
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Feb 2001 - Jul 2012
Re-hired to position. eInstruction acquired GTCO CalComp.Developed C and Assembly Language firmware code, under ISO 9000 standards, for a wide variety of products including:- High accuracy digitizer with Atmel USB AT89C5131 microcontroller and HID protocol. The input transducer is based on the Microchip PIC16F676.- ARM based Bluetooth interface module with a customizable RTOS.- Student response IR receiver with USB interface and CDC protocol based on Microchip PIC18F2550 microprocessor.- Student response RF receivers with a USB interface and CDC protocol based on Microchip PIC18F2550 microprocessor and Cypress CYUSBW6935 radio transceiver chip.- Pen input pad, and its RF transceiver, with LCD display that can also be connected via USB. Built around a PIC18F66J50 and a Cypress CYRF6936 DSSS RF transceiver.- Pen input pad with RF transceiver with Graphic LCD touch screen. Based on a PIC24FJGB110. Includes USB 2.0 port and battery charging circuit. Other interfaces included SPI for flash memory and a radio module, interfaced via an RS-232 port, based on the PIC18F67J50.Developed product validation software using Microsoft Visual Basic and C# .NET under Microsoft Visual Studio.
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Senior Software Engineer
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Nov 1999 - Feb 2001
VxWorks Tornado RTOS Board Support Package development and maintenance for LonTalk network products. These products were used for controlling the routing signs and audio passenger information systems on New York City subway trains.- Developed flash memory driver based on the Common Flash Interface (CFI).- Maintenance of Echelon LonTalk networking driver.Configuration and maintenance of General Software BIOS for AMD ElanSC410 x86 based controller card.Developed and maintained production test code.Played a large part in the development of the engineering documentation system.
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GTCO CalComp
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IT Services and IT Consulting
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1 - 100 Employee
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Firmware Engineer to Senior Firmware Engineer
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Jun 1983 - Nov 1999
-Project engineer and firmware developer for an RS-232C to USB 1.1 HID adapter for our digitizer products.- Developed and/or implemented many digitizer techniques including pen tilt correction, dynamic error correction and a high accuracy digitizing system for which I received a patent (#5854449). -Project engineer and firmware developer for an RS-232C to USB 1.1 HID adapter for our digitizer products.- Developed and/or implemented many digitizer techniques including pen tilt correction, dynamic error correction and a high accuracy digitizing system for which I received a patent (#5854449).
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Education
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2015 - 2017
Gateway Community College
Industrial and Product Design -
2015 - 2017
Gateway Community College
Associate of Arts and Sciences (AAS), Industrial and Product Design -
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Gateway Community College
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