Experience

Avalex Technologies Corp.

• United States
• Defense and Space Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Senior Embedded Software Engineer

  • Aug 2020 - Present



Universal Avionics

• United States
• Aviation and Aerospace Component Manufacturing
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Software Engineering Manager

  • Jan 2020 - Aug 2020

• Principal Software Engineer

  • Apr 2010 - Jan 2020

  Embedded software developer primarily focusing on Synthetic Vision Systems (SVS) and Terrain Avoidance Warning Systems (TAWS/HTAWS) products for avionics (DO-178 certification). Areas of focus include use of the Linux kernel in certified embedded environments, x86 BIOS, bootloaders and OpenGL applications. Current project: http://www.uasc.com/home/shop/avionics/insight



Johnson Outdoors

• United States
• Sporting Goods Manufacturing
• 500 - 600 Employee

• Software Engineering Manager

  • Jun 2006 - Apr 2010

  Software Engineering Manager 2009-2010. Lead 2006-2009. Managed a diverse team of software engineers in Alpharetta, GA and Shanghai, China developing embedded C software for Humminbird and Geonav products. As the leader of the software engineering team, develop and maintain the applications that run in all of the Humminbird & Geonav fishing systems with a personal focus on sonar algorithms and signal processing. Software efforts include an update of the sonar processing algorithms to improve high speed and deep water performance. Added new Side-Imaging processing/features to permit enhanced viewing of objects on the bottom. Implemented a sonar recording & playback feature utilizing the removable SD media. Added 2D image enhancement filtering for side-imaging data to emphasize bottom features.



Barco Federal Systems

• Principal Software Engineer

  • Jun 1998 - Jun 2006

  Senior Project Engineer responsible for the design and development of new system products. Products include the Radar Digital Display System and Rugged Display Station. Responsibilities for these projects include leading the hardware, mechanical and software development teams, supporting sales and marketing of the systems domestically and internationally, and writing software needed for these systems. Software development efforts at Barco include: Developing network based multi-threaded real-time client and server applications and libraries. Writing re-entrant thread-safe hardware drivers for Solaris, Linux and VxWorks in C for VME and PCI based boards. Coding of X11, video mixing, radar display and client/server applications running under VxWorks, Solaris, HP-UX, Linux, Windows 2000/XP.



Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC)

• Defense and Space Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Engineer

  • Sep 1989 - Jun 1998

  Engineer responsible for writing embedded C code for multiple Navy projects: Toroidal Volume Search Sonar and Synthetic Aperture Sonar system: developed code which pre-processes high bandwidth sonar data on embedded Motorola and DEC Alpha VxWorks single board computers to reduce sensor data transmitted to the topside systems. Battle Space Profiler project: ported existing sonar performance model algorithm to C, writing new Linux based X-windows graphics interface and creating Linux drivers for custom system hardware.AN/SQQ-32 mine hunting system: developed signal processing code in C running in parallel on 24 Texas Instruments TMS320C40 processors embedded in a HP TAC4 workstation.Real-time Acoustic Simulator for Passive Sonar system: wrote acoustic simulation software and produced a classified technical report on a simulation issue titled "Broadband Effects of Cavitation in an Acoustic Simulation" (published in the research database at the Defense Technical Information Center).



National Security Agency

• United States
• Defense and Space Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Engineer

  • Jan 1987 - Sep 1989

  Digital design engineer responsible for development of CMOS, ECL and FAST TTL logic designs. Worked on large scale gate array designs and development of system software using C programming language.