Experience

Senior Product Architect, World Solutions, St. Louis Park, Minnesota

Product design, development and support. Principle product is a console consolidation and automation command center. The product uses a mixture of hardware and software to render and control consoles at remote locations. The product offers some automation and the capability to remotely monitor, control, boot, and shutdown mainframes (e.g. MVS), midrange (e.g. HP-UX, Solaris, Windows, Linux, AS/400), routers (e.g. Cisco), and other console controllable machines. Personally responsible for most new product development. Also served as the technical expert for a patent litigation involving this product.

Consultant, Edwards Lifesciences, Irvine, California

Addition of features to legacy critical care heart monitors. In one instrument, XScale running Linux modified device driver and C++ application code. In another instrument, PowerPC running Nucleus RTOS modified C application code and slave PIC18 assembly code. Responsible, in collaboration with team, for design, documentation, coding, and testing to meet strict medical instrument standards.

Senior Software Engineer, Zodiac Aerospace (formerly IMS Company), Brea, California

Product design, development and support. Principle product is an In-Flight Entertainment System. Built on a Freescale i.MX51 ARM platform with multiple touchscreen display options, the system is designed for seat-back and bulkhead installation and provides music, video, games, menus, books, magazines, and passenger safety and other operations such as attendant call. While redundantly networked, each seat is hot swappable and capable of full autonomous operation. Product is currently flying on a number of commercial airlines.

Senior Software Engineer, Masimo, Irvine, California

Firmware design, development and support. Principle products include noninvasive blood monitoring equipment. Multiple parameters are continuously monitored to a high degree of accuracy without recalibration and under less than optimal patient and environimental conditions. Development of next generation device firmware focussed on wide variability in connectivity and presentation for multiple platforms (e.g. ARM-9 running QNX with Photon graphics).

Engineering Staff, American Arium, Tustin, California

Software research and development. Principle products include hardware assisted debuggers and in-circuit emulators focussing mainly on Intel x86 processors. Development of inline assembler, code and memory displays, toolbars, MDI frameword and most aspects of Microsoft MFC-based GUI.

Senior Staff Engineer, TRW, Digital Media Systems, Redondo Beach, California

Principal investigator on a project to extend a fast text and concept search and query database facility to handle geolocated spatial data such as maps and images.

Development Manager, Enterprise Software Corporation, Marina del Rey, California

Manager of a team of software developers creating a real-time service level guided, automated predictive computer workload manager and scheduler for MVS.

Manager, Expert Systems Group, Mathematical Sciences Department , International Business Machines, Inc., Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York

Responsible for a research team developing new expert system representations and reasoning strategies and demonstrating their effectiveness on real applications. One major application was a workstation-based financial marketing expert system for capacity planning, competitive marketing sensitivity and corresponding financial analyses.

Research Staff Member, International Business Machines, Inc., Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York

Member of a research team which developed a large distributed continuous real-time expert system for the automation of MVS computer operations.

Research Fellow, Department of Computer Science, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey

Collaboration with Chandler Dawson, M.D., Francis Proctor Foundation, San Francisco, California

Development of an ocular herpes virus and bacterial infection consultation system.

Development of a patient ocular triage diagnosis and treatment model for primary healthcare physicians. Handheld PC units were field tested in several hospitals in this country and by World Health Organization field workers in northern Africa.

Collaboration with Robert Galen, M.D., Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio

Development of a system for computer-based interpretation of isoenzyme assays used for the detection of myocardial infarction.

Collaboration with Information Science Group, University of Missouri School of Medicine

Development of a computer rheumatology consultation system.

Research Consultant, International Business Machines, Inc.

Development of computer disk manufacturing fault diagnosis consultation system.

Research Staff, Information Sciences Institute, University of Southern California, Marina del Rey, California

Member of a small team that developed a special purpose operating system for a PDP-11, speech protocols, signal processing software and special hardware for real-time compression and transmission of point-to-point and conferencing speech over the ARPAnet.

Staff, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California

Member of the Mercury Venus Mariner and later the Viking Optical Navigation Teams. Wrote, supported and used portions of the optical navigation analysis software for real-time mission analysis.

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