Project Manager Software

CHRISTINE G. TRIPPEL ******@*******.*** 574-***-****( 526 Miami Club

Court ( Mishawaka, IN 46544

SUMMARY

Experienced, innovative software engineer specializing in developing highly

configurable, reusable embedded, real-time and PC applications software for

a wide range of purposes. My methods have resulted in United States and

European patents. While the solutions are best used from the beginning on

new projects, I have also applied these techniques incrementally to improve

the flexibility, performance and reliability of legacy code. I have

designed and developed technical software in a research and development

environment requiring high levels of reliability and accuracy in order to

insure consumer safety and satisfaction. Core competencies:

. Analyzing customer needs and translating them into system requirements.

. Understanding and applying theories and paradigms to software design.

. Working competently in interdisciplinary circumstances to unite computing

technology with customer's environment.

. Learning new technologies to develop innovative solutions to problems in

a timely manner and at low cost.

TECHNICAL EXPERTISE

Languages: C, C#, C++, Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications,

Microsoft Visual Basic , Microsoft Visual C Satellite

Forms, Pascal, Fortran and assembly

Operating Systems: Bayer Multi-Rate Cyclic Executive for Embedded

Systems, Microsoft Windows, Palm OS, UNIX, MSDOS

Software: Visual SourceSafe, DOORS , CodeWright , Merant Tracker, Lotus

Notes, Access, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Adobe Acrobat,

RoboDemo

Development NEC Project Manager Plus, NEC Project Manager, Visual

Studio, CodeWarrior

Environments:

Equipment: Emulator, Oscilloscope

Leadership: Project Management, Interdisciplinary Projects, Chief System

Architect, Complete Software Lifecycle Experience, Systems

and Software Requirements Generation, Customer Focus Groups,

Consultation and Evaluation of Acquired Software Products

Concepts: Multi-Rate Cyclic Executives, State Machine Modeling, Automated

Diagnostics, Failure Analysis, Design and Code Reviews,

Hazard Analysis, User Interface Design, Device Driver Design

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Bayer HealthCare LLC - Mishawaka, IN 1990 - 2009

Staff Research and Development Engineer

. Designed and developed general purpose breadboard system to support the

development of an electrochemical algorithm to detect blood glucose

levels. The general purpose breadboard system consisted of embedded blood

glucose meter software for controlling the chemistry and recording analog-

to-digital measurements and Microsoft Windows Visual C++ meter

configuration and data collection software. The embedded/PC system

allowed for the quick development and verification of new ideas and

seamless translation from research to new products.

. Designed and developed embedded system to measure background currents in

solutions from manufacturer supplier prior to shipment to Bayer for use in

product research and development.

. Worked on design of a "Multi-Rate Cyclic Executive with Interrupt Service

Routines and Deferred Service Routines" to support a general purpose

embedded system software platform for blood glucose measurement consumer

products. Designed to support precision, low-power, low cost portable

instrumentation.

. Project and Technical Software Lead in the design and development of

embedded system and PC data management software for use in medical

environments. Developed in all phases of the software life cycle

(requirements, specification, design, implementation, testing, and

maintenance) on NEC K0 family 8-bit and Texas Instruments TMS370 8-bit

microcontrollers and Windows and Palm Pilot platforms. Evaluated technical

feasibility, general design directions, cost and performance

considerations and project features with respect to business needs.

. Served as core team member and principal technical lead in the

development of new diabetes management products. Key focus on the

definition of product requirements, software architecture, system

integration, validation, risk management and process development. Worked

with multidisciplinary team members to manage the interfaces between

product subsystems to create a high quality, robust product with minimal

problems as product transitioned into production. Coordinated the tasks of

research and development with marketing, manufacturing, packaging and

labeling, customer service, sales and quality assurance departments to

ensure the successful and timely release of embedded and PC data

management software products. Championed efforts to identify and leverage

technical commonality between projects and reuse of parts/architectures to

expedite product development thus minimizing final product costs and

resource requirements.

. Defined SAP data structure to support Project System, Product Software

and Fixture Data.

. Completed training courses in object-oriented software design and

implementation, software engineering, and embedded software development

and testing, human factors, Capability Maturity Model for Software

(CMM), Palm OS programming, Unified Modeling Language (UML ).

Hewlett-Packard - Waltham, MA 1983 - 1989

Software Development Engineer

. Designed and developed data management software in a research and

development laboratory within the Medical Products Group in all phases of

software life cycle on UNIX, MSDOS and Hewlett-Packard operating systems

in numerous languages (e.g., C++, C, Pascal, FORTRAN, BASIC and

assembler).

. Designed and implemented run-time support tools -- a library of object-

oriented "Generic Collection Classes".

. Developed object-oriented data model that interfaces to a standard

relational database; the fundamental objective for the model was to

provide a reliable repository for persistent shared objects by maintaining

data integrity, reliable applications and configurability.

. Produced human-interface support tools for use by applications (e.g.,

graphic printer, video and touch drivers).

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

. "Table-Driven Test Sequence" application pending

. "System, Method and Biosensor Apparatus for Data Communications with a

Personal Data Assistant" US Patent 6,604,050 B2

. "Method and Apparatus for Making Predetermined Events with a Biosensor"

US Patent 5,665,215

AWARDS

. Bayer Diagnostics Leadership Team Standards of Excellence Award for

Ascensia Software Development

. Outstanding Service in support of the process redesign, training and

information reporting of the SAP implementations.

EDUCATION

M.A. Computer Science

Awarded teaching fellowship remitting full tuition plus stipend

Boston University, Boston, MA

B.A. Mathematics

Indiana University, Bloomington, IN

RELATED EXPERIENCES

Indiana University - South Bend, IN 1989

Instructor

Taught undergraduate course in BASIC.

University of Lowell - Lowell, MA 1985 -1987

Instructor

Taught undergraduate courses in Pascal and data structures.

Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center - Hanover, NH 1983-1986

Consultant

Developed data management software for clinical applications.

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