Experience

t0.technology

• Canada
• Aviation and Aerospace Component Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Chief Technology Officer

  • Oct 2021 - Present

  Canada



Three-Speed Logic, Inc.

• Owner

  • Mar 2011 - Present

  Vancouver, Canada Area I'm currently the director and chief consultant at Three-Speed Logic, Inc. I provide "whole-system" design expertise in the embedded, instrumentation and aerospace sectors, including: * High-level control and interface using Python and web-based front ends * Network-layer software, including telemetry, readout and control interfaces * A complete Linux-based embedded software stack, * Device interface, including drivers and VHDL, * Custom digital and and analog… Show more I'm currently the director and chief consultant at Three-Speed Logic, Inc. I provide "whole-system" design expertise in the embedded, instrumentation and aerospace sectors, including: * High-level control and interface using Python and web-based front ends * Network-layer software, including telemetry, readout and control interfaces * A complete Linux-based embedded software stack, * Device interface, including drivers and VHDL, * Custom digital and and analog electronics, and * Schematic capture and board layout. I strongly value a breadth of experience, which allows me to choose from a wide variety of best practices to solve a particular problem. I'm currently consulting with a cosmology lab at McGill University, where I manage hardware, firmware, and software stacks for a number of projects. Show less



UrtheCast

• Canada
• Technology, Information and Internet
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Embedded Systems Design Lead

  • Apr 2015 - Jan 2018

  Vancouver, Canada Area Once again, I'm working with a small team on an cutting-edge FPGA design -- instead of looking at space, though, we're *in* space, looking downwards. UrtheCast is an ambitious, talented, and nimble team blazing new trails in Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) earth observation.



Winterland Cosmology Lab, McGill University

• Consultant (Embedded Systems & FPGA Designer)

  • Apr 2007 - Apr 2015

  Montreal, Canada Area Firmware Engineer (VHDL) Driver Development (uClinux, MicroBlaze) Software Management / Version Control Consultant (Subversion, Git) DSP Consultant (MATLAB, Xilinx CoreGen, CIC & FIR filters, noise shaping, Digital Down-Conversion)



University of British Columbia

• Canada
• Health, Wellness & Fitness

• Ph. D Student, System-On-Chip group

  • Sep 2008 - Sep 2009

  High-level/behavioural synthesis and HDL design for next-generation FPGA and FPGA-like devices.



PMC Sierra, Inc.

• Embedded Systems Software Developer

  • Jan 2005 - Aug 2005

  Linux porting and driver development Hardware SMP debugging; API support TCP/IP offload microkernel development



Research In Motion Limited

• Telecommunications

• Embedded Systems Software Developer

  • Apr 2004 - Aug 2004

  Device driver development Ported in-house RTOS to new platform



University of Victoria

• Canada
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• System administrator, GRID testbed

  • Jan 2002 - May 2002

  Protyped GRID computational cluster for physics and astronomy users Represented UVIC at international GLOBUS conference



Praxis Technical Group

• Canada
• E-Learning Providers
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Software Developer

  • 2000 - 2001

  Java / EJB Developer