Engineer System

OBJECTIVE Full time position in embedded system firmware development

EDUCATION Columbia University

New York, NY

MS, Computer Engineering GPA 3.0

**** - ****

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Troy, NY

BS, Computer & System Engineering GPA 3.4

2002 - 2006

RELATED Software IDE: Visual Studio.NET, Eclipse, Matlab, Altera Quartus, Maple,

SKILLS PSPICE, Cadence

OS/Architecture Platforms: Linux and Windows OS, RTOS MicroC/OS-II Altera

Nios2, Arm, PowerPC, Pic Microchip, Motorola

HW/SW Language: C, C++, Java, MIPS, I86, VHDL, Verilog

Tools: Logic Analyzer, GCC, GDB, SVN, Git, Clearcase, Clearquest

WORK

EXPERIENCE August 2010 - Present Siemens

Industry, Inc.

Florham Park, NJ

Embedded SW Engineer Technical Lead

Design, develop and implement firmware solutions for fire alarm products in

C/C++/VHDL in the high performance/low latency embedded domain with Real

Time OS.

Supervise FPGA-base embedded system software development and provided

support for system integration.

Do appropriate reporting, planning, design specification and common process

related tasks.

April 2008 - June 2010 Lexmark

International

Lexington, KY

Embedded Firmware Developer

Worked in an embedded system firmware development group that specializes in

ink-jet and laser printers ASIC controllers.

Design, implement, and test Linux device drivers to support various hardware

blocks of the printer ASIC controller.

Develop simulation tools that perform automated tests to improve development

efficiency and product code stability and reliability.

June 2007 - August 2007 Lexmark

International

Lexington, KY

Firmware Engineer Intern

Worked in a firmware development team that specialized in color laser

printer.

Design, implement, and test Linux device drivers to support various hardware

blocks of the printer ASIC controller.

Develop, implement, and test firmware solutions for various printing

services. .

June 2005 - August 2005 University Of

Maryland College Park, MD

Maryland Engineering Research Internship Team (MERIT)

Worked in team of two, supervised by a faculty member, and conducted

research on biological modeling of bat echolocation.

Designed, simulated, and built a testbed to control the altitude of a small

unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) by using a binaural bat echolocation system.

RESEARCH Thomas Mwakibinga and Jeffrey Lee. "Altitude Control of Unmanned Aerial

ACTIVITIES Vehicle using Binaural Bat Echolocation System." Walter Lincoln Hawkins

Graduate Research Conference. Troy, NY. November 2005 Best Poster

Presentation: First Place.

Thomas Mwakibinga and Jeffrey Lee. "Altitude Control of Unmanned Aerial

Vehicle using Binaural Bat Echolocation System." Maryland Engineering

Research Internship Team (MERIT) Program. College Park, MD. August 2005.

MERIT Fair: participant.

Thomas Mwakibinga, Sola Lawal, Sean Perry, Lealon Martin. "Hydrogen-based

Fuel Powered Autonomous Vehicle". GM Undergraduate Research Project. Troy,

NY. January 2006

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