Development Manager

Cesar R. Penafiel

Phone: 201-***-****

Email: *************@*****.***

EXPERIENCE AND Over 17 years of embedded and desktop development.

SKILLS Realtime embedded development under Windows CE, VxWorks,

QNX (Linux like) using C, C++ and assembler.

Considerable low level multithreading and TCP/IP socket

programming.

Experience designing and coding in a dual processor

environment using SPI communications and USB interfaces.

Diverse set of tools and compilers including GNU, POSIX,

and ITRON.

Rabbit, PIC, x86 and SH4 low level microcontroller

programming.

Experience designing digital and analog circuits, custom

bus, debugging with emulators, oscilloscope, logic

probes and packet analyzers.

Driver development and debugging.

Strong background working with test driven development,

unit and system testing and test automation tools.

Experience working in various industries, including a

fault tolerant system for the strictly regulated nuclear

energy monitoring industry.

Web server and web UI development experience with

ASP.NET, C#, JavaScript, PHP and SQL Server.

Entrepreneur and business management experience.

Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.

Entrepreneurship and Software Engineering Experience

3/10 - Present Global Financial Portfolio Management. South and North

America, Eastern and Western Europe. Managing

diversified investment portfolio while volunteering and

studying in over 20 countries.

5/07 - 2/10 Engineerica Systems, Inc. Manager and architect. Buenos

Aires, Argentina.

Opened an offshore development office and managed a

small in-house development and testing team of an online

attendance tracking system using Microsoft .NET

architecture. Developed several modules and headed the

technical direction of the software.

Selected vendors and supervised the hardware

development, assembly and manufacturing process of a

WiFi enabled attendance tracking recording device using

a PIC processor with a USB port, LCD display, keypad and

a magnetic card reader.

04/01 - 4/06 IBM. Embedded Software contract developer. Boca Raton,

Florida.

Embedded via voice porting team. Adapted and maintained

the platform dependent layers of a voice recognition and

speech synthesis embedded software. Windows CE,

QNX/Neutrino (a commercial Linux/Unix like OS), ITRON

and VXWorks.

The two primary ports I was involved with were for the

Honda Voice Navigation which is presently on many Honda

vehicles worldwide and for Pocket PC phone port.

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Created a platform independent test layer using TCP/IP

and serial ports to automate the testing process by

launching tests, gathering results, retrieving them from

devices and automatically generating spreadsheets,

therefore reduced test labor drastically.

Simulated an in-vehicle recording environment in a sound

booth. This involved creating a large audio database and

controlling multiple channel playback and recorders all

automatically which ran 24 hours a days for years.

9/94 - 10/00 Engineerica Systems, Inc. Engineering manager and co-

owner. Winter Park, FL.

Perform various software contracting services as shown

below.

Consulting for Computer Products Inc. Pompano Beach,

Florida.

Software and hardware requirements and development of a

real-time control system to accomplish fail safe

redundancy of controllers on a custom BUS for the

monitoring of turbine and nuclear power plants. Also

development of tools to remotely control a real-time

target communicating via TCP/IP and RS-232 protocols.

Consulting for Cues, Inc. Orlando, Florida.

Design of a PCI bus card video board using a Motorola

68000 microprocessor.

Consulting for Analysis & Technology. Orlando, Florida.

Development of Java applets for on-line shopping, and

on-line order processing.

Consulting for AutoMon, Inc. Winter Park, Florida.

Development of a database and reporting system for the

monitoring of a car fleet.

Consulting for Statistica, Inc. Orlando, Florida.

- Developed software to control a modem for interactive

multimedia kiosks.

Consulting for Credit Card Software. Maitland, Florida.

- Ported an OS/2 application to a cross-platform

environment using the C++ Zinc Application Framework.

Consulting for LORD International. Longwood, Florida.

Developed a front and back end management system for

this medical data bank.

09/94-08/95 Statistica, Inc. Application developer. Orlando,

Florida.

Design and development of an interactive television

system. Prototyping a protocol for one way satellite

data transmissions, OS/2 driver and multimedia

development.

09/93-09/94 Credit Card Software Technologies Group. Computer

Programmer for the TRAMS/AG project. Maitland, FL.

Programmed reports in Cobol and SQL for a Tandem

mainframe.

09/92-09/94 Independent Software Developer and Consultant. Orlando,

FL.

Development of Cafeteria Master, a Clipper based

commercial software package for high school cafeterias

developed for Forest Lake Academy (Apopka, Florida).

Consulting for PC Touch Inc. Orlando, Florida.

Development of Intel Assembly memory resident routines

for the interface of a security system using touch

screens.

01/91-01/92 M.C. Mills Automation, Ltd. Computer programmer / MIS

support. Apopka, Florida.

Novell server maintenance and application programming

for the company and for customers.

EDUCATION University of Central Florida. Orlando, Florida. August,

1994.

Bachelor of Science, Computer Engineering with honors.

Thesis in Structure Based Validation of Expert Systems.

Thesis was presented in the Seventh Florida AI Research

Symposium, Florida AI Research Society, and published

under the title A Methodology for the Validation of

Large Expert Systems.

FOREIGN Native English and Spanish. Teacher of English as a

LANGUAGES foreign language certificate.

Fluent French.

Intermediate Portuguese.

Intermediate B1 level Russian. TERFL (Test of Russian as

a Foreign Language) certificate from the Russian

Ministry of Education and Science.

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