Engineer Software

Danny J. Stout

**** ******* **** ****

P.O. Box *498

Quinlan, TX 75474

903-***-**** (h)

214-***-**** (c)

**********@*****.***

A high performance, versatile senior software engineer with over 28 years

experience developing strategies and implementing solutions in companies

undergoing extraordinary growth. Diverse experience in hardware/software

systems development and support, customer service, electronics and

television/video production augmented by the ability to identify and solve

complex business challenges through creative applications of technology.

Unintimidated by change, recognized as a highly motivated, disciplined team

player/builder with excellent communications and interpersonal skills;

demonstrated analytical, planning and organizational skills; and an earned

reputation for integrity, leadership and decision making.

EXPERIENCE

TransCore Inc. Dallas, TX

2000 - 2010

TransCore is the largest global manufacturer of transportation-based RFID

technology with more than 31 million RFID tags and 53,000 readers deployed

worldwide in various transportation applications.

Software Support; Senior Software Engineer III

. Responsible for all aspects of on-call engineering support for production

software, hardware and networking interfaces at designated remote

customer sites.

. Monitored production operations, analyzed and remedied production issues.

Developed proactive processes to pinpoint problems before they became

revenue and/or customer impacting.

. Developed auxiliary Windows environment applications required to support

the production software products.

. Designed and implemented software applications to sustain multiple RFID

reader and reflector devices from various vendors.

. QC/QA and documentation specialist

. Proficient in Linux, UNIX, QNX and Microsoft environments using AWK, SQL,

C, Visual Source Safe, Visual Basic and general Windows Office Tools.

Lucent Technologies, Inc. Carrollton, TX.

1990 - 2000

World's largest voice messaging service provider operating an international

communications network serving business and residential subscribers.

Formerly, Octel Communications Corp. and is currently Avaya.

Senior Software Engineer

. Performed 24hr production application support for the entire voice mail

network serving over 875,000 subscribers.

. Responsible for daily maintenance tasks to rectify voice machine database

update failures and modifications.

. Trained junior engineers in all aspects of the voice mail administration

programs.

. Responsible for generation and maintenance of company level invoice

processing, written in C and interfacing with Informix.

. Developed applications for both executable source code and scripts.

. Providing continuous engineering support for a production environment for

on-line voice machine administration.

. Designed and implemented many auxiliary tools necessary to augment

special customer requests for database information.

Texas Instruments, Inc. Dallas, TX

1987-1990

Texas Instrument's DSEG group in the Radar Division developed guidance

systems for both the U.S. and foreign military. This group is now part of

Raytheon.

Special Guidance System Programmer (HARPOON)

. Designed electronic interfaces and test fixtures for printed circuit

boards of various radar, display and guidance systems. Fixtures and

interfaces were utilized on a custom developed automated test system.

. Analyzed schematics, designed and developed automatic test programs for

active board level tests using special test languages such as ATLAS and

BATL as well as FORTRAN, PASCAL, BASIC AND 'C' on various Texas

Instruments specialized computer systems.

. Wrote automated circuit analysis programs used for fault isolating.

Performed circuit bread-boarding. Utilized micro-processor and mini-

computer system level programming.

. Interfaced with all levels of production, engineering, field, and

military customers under various military contracts.

Software Support Programmer (LANTIRN)

. Provided personal computer support for users within the LANTIRN software

group.

. Supported the group's MicroVAX environments. Proficient in VAX DCL

procedures.

. Performed system backups of same.

Community Video Services, Dallas, TX

1984-1987

Privately owned video production company.

Chief Engineer

Serviced any and all equipment associated with the production of broadcast

quality video

programs. Equipment ranged from commercial one inch video editing systems

to consumer grade

VHS tape duplicating machines. Prime contracting engineer for Xerox

Corporate video.

Teleconference system equipment at the Dallas corporate (Lewisville) site.

Texas Instruments, Inc. Dallas, TX

1975-1984

Electronics Technician

. Designed and developed automatic test programs for the AMTS-960, a custom

designed and developed test system used for inflight radar system board

level tests.

. Designed test fixtures to interface printed circuit boards to the test

system.

Military Service, USAF

1967-1975

SSGT, Honorable Discharge

TECHNICAL SKIILLS SUMMARY

Operating Systems - UNIX, Solaris, Pyramid Unix, QNX, Linux (Redhat, SUSE),

Windows. CICS, IMS, TSO.

Programming/Scripting Languages - C, Visual Basic, Fortran, Pascal, Cobol

HTML, XML, PERL, csh, sh, AWK

Databases - Informix, Ingres, Oracle, DBII

Software/Applications/Tools - ATLAS, BATL, several assembly languages

EDUCATION

University of Texas at Dallas/Richland Community College

1987 - 1992

AWK, Csh, sh, TeraTerm, ProComm, Windows DOS, and other scripting languages

Continuing Education Courses:

C Programming

Visual Basic (Executrain and others)

PERL

References available on request

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