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Senior Hardware Engineer @ Ex Twitter From October 2014 to November 2017 (3 years 2 months) Phoenix, Arizona Areacarer for family member @ home From November 2017 to May 2018 (7 months) Phoenix, Arizona AreaSr. Operating System Engineer @ VersaLogic Corporation • Responsible for production and support of all BSP for VersaLogic SBCs. Assisted HW Engineering in board bring-up and verification while also supporting the Sustaining group with any software issues from the field. BSPs include WES7, XPe, VxWorks, QNX, a variety of Linux distributions (Debian, Ubuntu, Knoppix) and BIOS debug when necessary. Custom device drivers added to BSPs when necessary; Custom Ethernet drivers written for VxWorks, Linux sysfs driver written for GPIO drivers. Offered engineering services for customers who had no hardware support in older version of VxWorks and required custom drivers. From May 2012 to April 2013 (1 year) Vice President of Engineering and Innovation @ Eberle Design, Inc. Phoenix, Arizona, United StatesSr, Firmware Engineer @ Eberle Design, Inc. From May 2018 to May 2020 (2 years 1 month) Phoenix, Arizona AreaDirector Of Engineering @ EDI Traffic From August 2019 to May 2020 (10 months) Phoenix, Arizona AreaSenior Software Engineer Team Lead @ VersaLogic Corporation • Architected and implemented a suite of API calls and device drivers for customers to be able to interface to the myriad I/O options on the VersaLogic Single Board Computers (SBCs). The API suite was OS agnostic and easily portable between OSes creating a migration path for existing customers to move between old and new boards with a minimum of new SW development. Initial implementation was on Windows 7 and Debian Linux. This development effort resulted in numerous design wins with custom hardware support added for customer I/O, generating substantial revenue. • Developed custom device drivers for Windows and Linux written to support Mini PCIe Analog to Digital Conversion cards. • Created a Windows .NET form GUI application to showcase the capabilities of the various boards, the APIs and the device drivers. (CPU Temp via MSR registers, Analog to Digital Conversion, GPIO, Digital to Analog Conversion and custom SPI expansion bus)• Created Extended Temperature Test automation, using Perl scripts to gather the temperature test results, graphing them to show any anomalous results at a glance. From April 2013 to September 2014 (1 year 6 months) Portland, Oregon AreaStaff SW Engineer @ RadiSys Corporation • USA Engineering Customer Support for the Commercial Business Unit based in China, supporting a variety of x86 COM Express modules (Atom through to Core i7), custom carrier boards and SBCs. This work involved BIOS and device driver support.• Development, support and testing of Rack Mount Server IPMI remote monitoring software and drivers across a range of different server boards. Fully utilized the range of IPMI sensors enable remote monitoring and logging of critical out of range alarms. Effective monitoring of these items and gathering of HDD S.M.A.R.T. data allowed the customer to drastically reduce unscheduled service calls and minimize down time for expensive imaging systems.(MRI systems, CAT scanners, etc.)• Software team lead on a Mobile Intel 945 Express based medical tablet, coordinating development across multiple worldwide sites, and between BIOS and Windows device driver resources. Responsible for design and implementation of H8 Renesas Embedded Controller firmware from scratch based on unique design - board power up sequencing and device driver interface with Intel medical SDK via ASL and ACPI methods.• Software team lead on a custom triple COM Express carrier board, responsible for board bring-up, U-Boot, diagnostics and Linux BSP development for PowerQuicc MPC8548, PLX PCIe 32 port switch with non-transparent bridges between the 3 x86 COM Express modules.• Board bring-up, U-Boot, diagnostics and Linux BSP development for ATCA Switch Control Module. Linux device driver development for configuring backplane access to Fibre Channel Disk Storage Module.• Board bring-up and diagnostics development for a media streaming server solution including memory controller setup up for IBM CPC710.• Port of VxWorks to PowerPC MPC860 for a VoIP solution using DSPs. From February 1999 to April 2012 (13 years 3 months) Portland, Oregon AreaStaff SW Engineer @ IBM • Team lead for the port of X.25 firmware and QLLC(SNA) device drivers from OS/2 to Windows NT and responsible for producing X.25 solutions on Micro-channel, ISA and PCI IBM ARTIC line of co-processors• Responsible for support of X.25 protocol stack used on the IBM ARTIC line of co-processors. ARTIC (A RealTime Interface Co-processor boards were embedded x86 protocol boards design to offload communications protocols from the main PC)• Trained in a variety of disciplines at IBM UK Labs, POS terminal software, CICS, SNA, 3270 terminals and IBM ARTIC co-processors. From September 1987 to January 1999 (11 years 5 months)