Experience

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  Edge Autonomy

  • San Luis Obispo County, California, United States

  • Senior Principal Software Engineer

    • Jul 2007 - Present
    • San Luis Obispo County, California, United States

    Develop software and firmware for the control and operation of UAVs (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles).

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  ShuShu Style

  • San Luis Obispo, California Area

  • IT Consultant

    • Jul 2004 - Present
    • San Luis Obispo, California Area

    Part Time Website and system software development and management. Company changed its name in 2009 from Baby Chic Boutique.

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  San Luis Computer Services

  • Owner

    • May 2002 - Present

    eBay software solutions and consulting. Windows and Web Software development and consulting services.

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  Jennings Aeronautics, Inc.

  • San Luis Obispo, CA

  • Senior Principal Software Engineer

    • Jul 2007 - Feb 2022
    • San Luis Obispo, CA

    Develop windows based software used for operation of Unmaned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs). Manage company's computer systems and network. In Jan 2010 Company incorporated and changed name from Jennings Engineering.

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  Jennings Engineering

  • San Luis Obispo

  • Principal Software Engineer

    • Jul 2007 - Dec 2009
    • San Luis Obispo

    Develop windows based software used for operation of Unmaned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs). Manage company's computer systems and network.

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  Central Coast Code Camp

  • Treasurer and Board member

    • Jun 2008 - Sep 2009

    Member of founding Board of Directors for the Central Coast Code Camp. A free 2 day seminar put on by and for Software Developers. The 2008 event was held September 27th and 28th at the Embassy Suites in San Luis Obispo.

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  MyProSeller

  • Principal Software Engineer / Manager of Information Technologies

    • 2004 - Jul 2007

    Developed PHP based web software to facilitate the processing of items to be sold on eBay. Included automated generation of eBay listings.

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  Phacor / Carl Zeiss Surgical

  • Software Engineer and IT Consultant

    • 2003 - 2004

    Implemented a source control solution to comply with FDA requirements for a machine used by doctors to perform cataract surgery.

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  VERITAS Software

  • Senior Software Engineer

    • Oct 1993 - May 2002

    Worked on the NetBackup Professional development team.

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  Seagate Software

  • Senior Software Engineer

    • Oct 1993 - May 1999

    Participated in the development of numerous products in the Microsoft Windows data protection field.

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  Arcada Software

  • Senior Software Engineer

    • Oct 1993 - Mar 1996

    Software development on the commercial release of the "Arcada Backup for Windows 95" product and its follow ons.

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  Quest Development Corporation

  • Senior Software Engineer

    • Oct 1993 - Feb 1994

    Worked on an enterprise backup system based on the tape backup functionality included in Norton Backup V3.0.

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  Digital Equipment Corporation

  • Software Engineering Consultant

    • Jun 1992 - Sep 1993

    Development of software to allow tape backup to Digital InfoServer hardware from Norton Backup V3.0 for Windows.

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  Gateway Systems

  • Software Engineering Consultant

    • Jan 1989 - Sep 1993

    Work included on and off site consulting projects for many outside companies. Based out of Cambridge MA near the Alewife T station.

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  Digital Equipment Corporation

  • Software Engineering Consultant

    • 1990 - 1992

    Worked on software development and training projects related to Digital's Compound Document Architecture (CDA).

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  Microsoft

  • Software Engineering Consultant

    • 1990 - 1991

    Worked on the development of document, image and meta-file converters for the Word for Windows 2.0 release.

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  Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

  • Software Engineering Consultant

    • 1989 - 1989

    Worked on the development of an interactive videodisk based information system.

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  Digital Equipment Corporation

  • Software Engineer Summer Intern

    • Jun 1987 - Sep 1987

    Worked in the PDP-11 Languages group with the BASIC-PLUS RT-11 Compiler development team located at ZKO1-3 in Nashua NH. Tasks included identifying and and reproducing complier bugs and issues.

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  Digital Equipment Corporation

  • Software Engineer Summer Intern

    • Jun 1986 - Sep 1986

    Worked in the PDP-11 Languages group with the COBOL-81 Compiler development team located at ZKO1-3 in Nashua NH. Projects included testing the compiler against govenrment standard test suites and identifing bugs in the complier and in the test suite.