PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Pernix & Associates, CA.

Independent Contractor

2008–2015 (multiple contracts)

 

Intel Santa Clara (current) :

Intel America’s Greatest Makers Sr. Mentor for the development of new low power devices with the latest technology from Intel. This Job and others included extensive use of ADB commands with Logcat and other generic tools used in the Android development system to test and debug the system as needed. See below project for Camera 3 development and test.

 

Qualcomm, San Diego, CA

·   Oversaw Ice Cream Sandwich port for all the smart phones and tablets for all customers.

·   Responsible for memory modifications and sensor driver changes.

·   Wifi  quality performance expert inside Qualcomm defect test team.

 

Intersil, Mipitas, CA 

·   Utilized new Linux drivers for isl29011 Light, Proximity, and Camera sensors (Pennwell ISP imaging system) on the new MeeGo OS and Android smartphones.

·   Responsible for providing I2C sensor drivers (NDK/APP) for many different platforms and OS systems including TI pandaBoard, qualcomm snapdragon and Intel Atom pr2.

·   Platforms included the latest Intel Atom based development platform, Qualcomm Snapdragon development platform, and TI Pandaboard platform.

Cisco, Milpitas, CA 

·   Responsible for providing Unix/Linux Video server/switch consulting.

·   Responsible for OpenAL base audio stack system development to allow dynamic event/stream management for emergency based VoIP systems.

 

Huawei

·   Responsible for building special platform code for wifi and Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) to allow smartphone device location information with better resolution, less hot spots, and quicker calculations to allow real time targeting and information about customers shopping decisions.

·   Used Maven(mvn) toolset to provide additional functionality (Bluetooth) to Stanford Content Centric Networking on Android devices.

·   Openfire Junction used with XMPP Servier/Client for JxWhiteboard Android NDK/application functionality.

·   NFC and Wifi Direct used with CCNx, and service Discovery (Avahi, Jmdns, zeroconf, RAT) to directly connect over IP without "infrastructure mode", where the access point acts as a central hub.

·   All Wi-Fi Direct devices able to operate as either a device or an access point. Content instead of host names are use for all this new technology building.

 

Intel, Santa Clara, CA (2010 - 2015)

·   Camera1, Camera2 and Camera3 test/development team using Google CTS, QT/QTS, gdb, cscope and Android Studio on Ubuntu 14.04. I used this build/development and test system to produce Marshmallow release for Intel X86 devices, including Moorfield, Cherrytrail and other new platforms not yet released to the public.

·   Responsible for working on Perl and Python programming for OTF I-Digi Instant wireless Board for Graphic UI and control for use in a green energy product.

·   Worked on Power Management code to reduce power when using GPS based sensor with Linux serial Drivers.

·   Researched using SiRF Wifi devices power mgmt device driver buffering to reduce gps chip and core power drain.

·   Created test suits for use with the Infinion 6160, AT Modem cmds, and Rohde & Schwarz CMU/CMUgo to qualify their 3GPP/WIFI/BT firmware/HW.

·   Worked for the Intel Client development team building customizations of our HW, Linux Kernel and Android system components to create specialized devices for large companies like Dell, Amazon, Motorola and Google.

·   Worked on platform for Android like Smart Phone using Meego OS - Embedded Intel Atom.

·   Worked on developing Viper drivers and test code on new silicon test platforms for next generation Android smart phones

·   Responsible for physical layout corrections made with wire wrap changes on the PCBs.

·   Optimized transport card changes needed for Android and MeeGo.

·   Built CR4 Viper kernel based driver code using Uart/FPGA and DMA I/O power mgmt.

·   Responsible for new Linux project to build Native C++ code, Android Java app for Kernel camera system

·   Responsible for Intel Labs experimentation and platform setup to understand the optimal process to transport live video with RTP over many different parallel transmission media.

·   Built Windows DirectShow Filter Graphs for experimentation of video bitstream communications using H264 with SVC (Scalable Video Coding).

·   Tested, debugged and made Kernel modifications on the necessary source trees to fix issues with integration of new HW and Firmware.

·   Setup, corrected problems in HW/SW, and prepared the base platforms for use in our major TI integration camp here at Intel.

·   Worked with Team members from China and France on MeeGo.

·   Gerrit based Source repo builds to use the new trees for development.

·   Fixed/corrected bugs.

·   Worked with external vendors to integrate their a Voice processing components.

·   Worked at multiple startups, small companies, and maintenance work.

·   Green Energy Company, CA

 

Cell Phone Tower Bridge, CA

Sr. Consulting Engineer

·   Ported platform to MPC8548E Card with TSEC giga Bit Driver.

·   Customer has an 802.16 bridge router that using interrupt driver for mega Bit PPC Ethernet. This code was ported to a new poll based Ethernet driver, new HW and Linux Embedded OS for WiMAX capability.

·   Tool Chain is GNU and BDI debugger used.

 

General Dynamics, Scottsdale, AZ

Sr. Consulting Engineer

11/08–08/09 (contract)

·   Provided a provisioning and platform system architecture Government systems design specification for the 2nd release of the platform.

·   Extensive use of 3GPP Specifications STD-T63-31.102 V5.14.0 (USIM), ETSI TS 102 221 V5.1.0, 3GPP TR 22.944 V6.0.0 was used including a number of closed GD government documents. This specification included local and OTA provisioning.

·   The standard format of the USIM EF found in the InterDigital stack was used with a new CORBA interface to send and receive secure provisioning XML data.

·   The design and code focused on Initialization/startup using local fill ports and Over The Air SIP based secure encapsulated key based XML streams.

·   Much of the code was built to handle special Software Radio based EF DIR WiFi that hold Software Frequency adaptation tables (Dynamic Frequency Profile), DoveTail Multiplex tables and Secure OTA Update key encryption processing.

 

Environment: C++(using C code with name mangling) GNC tools with Visual Studio 6.0,VC++ compiler & debugger, Custom built SIP based simulator,   Describe tool (UML technology), CORBA using Motorola Corba, multi threading.  InterDigital stack and SDL tools.

 

Airvana, CA

Senior Consulting Engineer

06/08–11/08 (contract)

·   Researched, designed, developed, tested and released a new Radio Network Controller (RNC) subsystem for all of Airvana's current and new multi card platforms.

·   This project included two of Airvana's engineers as taking direction from me to complete this project as team leader reporting to management.

·   The ECC subsystem included both bootstrap and run time code to provide the necessary software error correction to find, fix and report error conditions before and loss of service could happen. This involved running on all cards inside the RNC to run HW and SW ECC.

·   Using a CORBA factory on the control card, was able to receive IPC messages from any card to report statistics and alarms to the SNMP Console Manager on the network management station anywhere in the world.

·   Since Call control and Text areas of memory were protected, special call processing and memory controller commands were necessary to scrub these areas of memory while calls were being processed.

·   Built Corba memory control for call processing in platform group working on firmware and software modification to provide full ECC support on a number of Power PC based boards including MPC5674F,MPC750, MPC905, MPC820 with the Falcon and Harrier Memory Controller chip sets. This involves MMU and Memory Controller chip code for Linux and VxWorks.

 

Environment: C, C++, UNIX, Linux, GNU compiler & debugger, Motorola Command line debugger,   Describe tool (UML technology), CORBA Call Processing and SNMP programming.  

 

HP, Cupertino, CA

Sr. Consulting Engineer

02/07–04/08 (contract)

·   Responsible for SSL/TLS Secure printing Network Server/Client development.

·   Components built include the HP-UX based Multi-threaded server (C), the secure client(C, C++ and .net com objects), the HP-UX PCI driver (Kernel C, WSIO and DLPI, ported from Linux), and their main MFG Server to build these system that hold master Crypto keys (C++). TCP on the HP-UX server had to be modified to handle to heavy load necessary for the number of PC clients each PCI based secure card (GreenHills Multi OS) needed to handle.

 

Environment: C++, Greenhill’s MULTI C++ compiler & debugger, Describe tool (UML technology) Linux.

 

Cherry Corp., WI

Senior Consulting Engineer

08/06–06/07 (contract)

·   Responsible for Porting/Building C++ USB based platform keyboard application on Linux and Windows.

·   Extensive usage of Visual Studio 2005/6.0. SUSE 9.2 Linux 2.6 kernel.

·   Responsible for testing for customer.

·   Expert with .NET C#, VS 6.0 & 2005, Wise for Wind.

·   Embedded firmware development on 38K2 MPU.

·   Environment: 38K2 Renesas Technology, C, C++ compiler & debugger, LINUX, PC Sniffer, multi threading, Renesas embedded ICE system and Pod.

 

Motorola Corp., IL

Sr. Consulting Engineer

12/05–08/06 (contract)

·   3GPP Cell Phone R&D Libertyville IL– Program in Perl/C Radio Resource Control & RLC Call setup/drop processing and Analysis. Modification of AI tool to diagnose defects with the Network of User End.

·   In Schomburg IL in the Land Mobile Products Sector - Private Radio Networks Engineering - Contract position involves the development, debug and test of new features of Motorola's new line of Radio Frequency Site Repeaters and routers.

·   Assignment included development using Rational Rose XML, C++, C, Metrowerks Code Warrior debugger, SNMP, ClearDDTS Bug Mgmt system, ClearCase source control system, and PowerPC.

 

Environment: C++, Metro Works Code Worrier C, C++ compiler & debugger, VxWorks, Describe tool (UML technology), Windriver’s Sniff, Beyond compare.

 

Planet Aid, CA

Software Engineer

10/04–05/05 (contract)

·   Developed a portable hand held device used for database info distribution.

 

Ip TelPhone, CA

Software Engineer

09/03–10/04 (FTE)

·   Made changes to Core code in phone used as a test device for VoIP.

 

ACTR, CA

Software Engineer

09/01–07/02 (FTE)

·   Developed a number of new Database systems for a company in Russia.

 

NMS, CA

Software Engineer

10/00–06/01 (contract)

·   Invented the first Cell Phone IP Gateway with SNMP based command and control for a large corporation in Japan, using a UNIX based OS on a Compact PCI based dual redundant platform.

 

Mapletree, CA

Software Engineer

07/00–10/00 (contract)

·   Worked to move platform from strong ARM processor to a MIPS RISC RC32334.

 

EDUCATION

M.S. Computer Science

University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL

 

B.S. Math/Electrical Engineering

Columbia University, New York, NY

 

CERTIFICATIONS

Certified Wind River Tornado Developer

 

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Languages: C, C++, UML, XML, VC/VC++, Perl, Python

Telecoms / Networking: QoS, WiMAX, LTE, 1xEvDO, IMS, CDMA 1xRTT,GSM VoIP, H.323, Call Processing, PSTN, CTI Application, ISDN, ISUP, SS7/6, Software Radio, IVRS, RSVP, PPP, GPRS, MPLS, RTP, OSPF, mgcp, megaco, SIP, NFS, Client/Server socket programming, IPC (Inter   process    communication )  and Multi threading.

Tools: RADVision Protocol stack, OPNET, Sniff, GreenHills MULTI, ClearCase, CVS, and beyond compare.

Protocols: TCP, IP, RLP, UDP/IP, RAT, CCNX,SNMP, SIP (session Initiation protocol), fixed wireless V5.2 Protocols, RTP/RTCP.

Non Stop Computing: Fault Tolerant parallel processing and fault management, Log   management,

Network Management: Configuration Management, BSM   (Base Station manager).

Operating Systems: LINUX/UNIX/netBsd (SunOS, Sun Solaris, SysV, HPUX), Windows, RTOS (VxWorks), LINUX.

GUI: Visual C++ 6.0 and 5.3

Library: STL, SSL, ActiveDirectory, and Ldap