Experience

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  Telos Federal Systems

  • Lawton, OK

  • Systems Engineer

    • Jun 1999 - Nov 1999
    • Lawton, OK

    At Telos I did systems engineering and ADA software studies to support portable military computers for artillery fire control applications, as a follow-on to my work at Honeywell Defense Communications on portable military computers. I used PC workstations, MSDOS, and HP9000 UP-UX (UNIX) environm...

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  Watkins, Inc.

  • Wichita, KS.

  • Manager of System Design

    • Sep 1989 - Jan 1990
    • Wichita, KS.

    At Watkins I developed software for a company business system based on multiple IBM PCs, specifically an order entry system written in MicroSoft COBOL. I managed myself and 2 other programmers in the development effort.

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  Compro Corporation at Fotomat

  • Tampa and St. Petersburg, Florida

  • Software Engineer

    • Jan 1989 - May 1989
    • Tampa and St. Petersburg, Florida

    Fotomat had me prepare software in 8088 assembler for a distributed point-of-sale terminal system, after which I developed a new credit-checking system in a VAX\VMS environment for their network of film-handling Fotomat Kiosks.

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  Honeywell DCPD

  • Tampa, FL

  • Principal Design Engineer & Senior Systems Engineer

    • Jul 1987 - Sep 1988
    • Tampa, FL

    Honeywell Defense Communications assigned me to design engineering for the SST portable military computer CPU card and their line of military printers. We employed the 80X86 series of microprocessors from INTEL, supported by programmable logic design with standard PALS and ALTERA logic devices. T...

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  Mycro-Tek, Inc.

  • Wichita, KS

  • Project Engineer

    • Jan 1978 - Nov 1986
    • Wichita, KS

    Over two periods of employment I developed designs for two interactive display ad terminals, their supporting Multibus or VME cards, and peripheral controllers for Mycro-Tek proprietary, Multibus, and VME buses. I wrote the primary software for the AdComp display ad terminal, and developed hardwa...

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  AlphaType/Berthold

  • Tampa, FL.

  • Chief Engineer and Group Leader for Systems Architecture

    • Sep 1982 - Jul 1985
    • Tampa, FL.

    As a systems architecture specialist, I developed designs for servo controls, sub-systems for the video graphics engine, and cards and peripheral controllers to support photo typesetter designs. Dr. Peter Krumhaur and I did spline graphics research to implement fast high-resolution typeface for n...

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  ABA Electromechanical Systems,

  • Pinellas Park FL. near Largo and Treasure Island

  • Engineer

    • Nov 1983 - Aug 1984
    • Pinellas Park FL. near Largo and Treasure Island

    At ABA I provided software and hardware support for a missile tracking system based on 3 pedestal-mounted servo-controlled optical telescopes equipped with smart digitizing video trackers for servo feedback and control. The tracking system employed 6809 hardware, using a mode-switched servo with ...

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  Kreonite

  • Wichita, KS.

  • Project Engineer

    • Apr 1982 - Jul 1982
    • Wichita, KS.

    At Kreonite I developed a color scanner interface to a HELL scanner and was involved in studies for developing scanners of alternate architecture to be supported by color graphic workstations.

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  Wichita State University

  • Wichita, KS

  • Graduate Research Assistant

    • Sep 1907 - Dec 1977
    • Wichita, KS

    As a research assistant I prepared data analysis software and developed computer graphics to analyze data taken from a power system data collection unit developed by our sub-contractor Mycro-Tek. In addition, I did research in digital picture processing and optimal edge detection using Fast Fouri...