W. JOHN GUINEAU

Phone : 603-***-****

Cell: 603-***-****

abpl3z@r.postjobfree.com

SUMMARY: Self employed, principal-level software consultant. Individual contributor and system architect.

Founder of Coyote Technology Inc., an independent software consulting company since 2002.

Clients include NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, AMGEN and US Army

Corps of Engineers, CRREL. Successfully and seamlessly work on multiple simultaneous projects

covering a wide variety of hardware/software environments.

Over 28 years of experience spanning low-level device drivers and embedded software/hardware

systems, to full multi-user & GUI, distributed applications and operating system internals.

Software and hardware design capabilities. Recognized as providing unique insight into problem

solving, analysis and integration issues. Demonstrated excellent written, verbal and presentati on

skills. Work well independently or in team environment. Demonstrated excellent mentoring and

team leadership abilities. Presenter at project design reviews (PDR, CDR).

Inventor, US patent #5,426,736. Recipient of many individual and group awards throughout entire

career. System architecture and design brought JPL s Jason -1 satellite ground system team to NASA

Software of the Year competition, at which I was also a presenter.

DoD Secret Security Clearance.

Operating Systems: Windows Vista/XP/2000/NT/98/95, Windows CE (PocketPC,) UNIX/Linux, Android, SGI Irix, Sun Solaris,

OpenVMS VAX/Alpha, VxWorks, several other misc. and embedded devices.

Languages: C, C++,C#, Java, Python, Perl, Tcl/Tk, FORTRAN, PASCAL, Unix shell scripti ng, VMS DCL procedures, VAX

MACRO, Atmel AVR, 80x86, Z80, 65xx, 68000, PowerPC, other misc. embedded and assembly languages .

Major Technologies: .Net, Windows Forms, Xilinx FPGA, ISE, EDK, Oracle, Apex, Android, device drivers, JTAG, MFC, JFC, COM,

WIN32 API, Swing, TCP/IP, JNI (Java Native Interface), Java2D/3D, CORBA, RMI, JINI, LDAP, Qt, X

Windows, ODBC, JDBC, MySQL, SQL Server, HTML, Client-Server, Systems Analysis, Object Oriented design,

multithreaded C/C++/Java design on Windows and Unix systems, Command and Control, Distributed

Systems, Microsoft Access, Microsoft Visual Studio, Microsoft eMbedded Visual Studio, Microsoft Visual

SourceSafe, Microsoft FrontPage, Borland JBuilder, Symantec VisualCafe, PVC S, CVS

EXPERIENCE:

2008-Present: Lexington, MA

MIT Lincoln Laboratory:

Independent Software Consultant through Digital Prospectors Corp.

Lead flight software developer for Lunar LaserCom Demonstration (LLCD), gigabit laser-based

communication between Earth and the Moon. NASA Ames/GSFC LADEE satellite, planned to

orbit the moon in 2013.

Responsible for flight software design, development and implementation on BAE RAD750

spaceflight processor avionics platform. Embedded PowerPC development in C, analysis using

MATLAB and other custom applications. VxWorks 6.7 and WindRiver Workbench 3.1, Visual

Studio 2010. GSFC ITOS ground station. Also established engineering/flight testbed and system

test & development infrastructure.

Embedded FPGA development using Xilinx tools and embedded PowerPC processors to prototype

spacecraft instrument and instrument peripheral simulator.

Extensive flight software and vxWorks performance analysis for hard -real time 5KHz pointing and

tracking controller developed in MATLAB Simulink/RTW, Embedded Coder. Automatic flight

code generation via custom C#/.Net including XML databases for command and telemetry.

Use of AGI Satellite Toolkit (STK ) and NAIF (JPL) SPICE toolkit for computing, analyzing and

visualizing spacecraft orbit and Earth ground station geometry and pointing vectors.

2009-Present: Hanover, NH

US Army Corps of Engineers, Cold Regions Research Engineering Lab

Independent Software Consultant

Working directly with scientists to develop an extensive web-based database application for the

National Wetland Plant List (NWPL) update. This is a national effort involving several federal

agencies (EPA, NRCS, FWS, USCOE, BONAP) to produce the next legal definition of the federal

wetland plant list to be used by scientists across the country. Website provides in -depth access to

all botanical data on over 30000 species of plants and photos with extensive query capability. Site

provides the ability for obtaining government and public/private input through several rounds of

voting and post-processing analysis. Consists of an extensive Oracle 11g database with Oracle

Application Express (Apex 4.x) web interface.

2002-2009: Thousand Oaks, CA

AMGEN:

Independent Software Consultant

Projects include a proprietary disease pathway analysis tools, written in C# using Microsoft .Net

Windows Forms framework including a custom C# interface to Matlab compiled M files. Tools

are used to analyze and visualize experimental results leading to the discovery of drug actions and

interactions with small and large molecular agents.

Implemented a suite of data analysis and visualization tools based on a comprehensive framework

developed by Coyote Technology. The tool set has expanded into many o f Amgen s key research

laboratories and is being expanded almost daily. Areas include electrophysiology, immunology,

hematology, proteomics, X-Ray Diffraction, Mass Spectrometry. Microsoft SQL Server, Windows

Forms.

Other projects include reverse engineer and rewrite of Amgen s proteomics platform for analyzing

mass spectrometer data (LCQ/QTOF). This tool is used to discover the molecular structure and

configuration of proteins, amino acids and other large molecule contributors to cellular function

and interactive mechanisms for disease and pharmaceutical research.

2007-2008: Wilmington, MA

Textron Defense Systems:

Software Engineering Consultant

Advanced Solutions Center. Technical Project Lead on numerous government and military

contracts, including various sensor systems, satellite communications, hand -held deployment

systems and acoustic classification and bearing determination. Developed and d emonstrated

MPEG-4 (H.264) Video over low-bandwidth military SDR radio connections. Worked with FCS

UGS (unattended ground sensors), lead on project to investigate early fielding of FCS UGS to

current forces. Implemented Direct3D visualization of acoustic tracking systems.

1998-2007: PASADENA, CA

NASA JET PROPULSION LABORATORY (JPL):

Independent Software Consultant

1. MSAP MULTIMISSION SYSTEM AVIONICS PLATFORM.

MEMBER OF FLIGHT SOFTWARE TEAM.

DEVELOPED DEVICE DRIVERS AND CORE SYSTEM SOFTWARE FOR JPL S NEXT GENERATION

SPACECRAFT AVIONICS PLATFORM UNDER VXWORKS.

BASELINE FLIGHT SOFTWARE FOR MSL ROVER (MARS SCIENCE LAB LAUNCH 2011).

RESPONSIBLE FOR MILSTD 1553B BUS CONTROLLER (BC), REMOTE TERMINAL (RT) AND BUS

MANAGER COMPONENTS OF CORE SPACECRAFT COMMUNICATIONS BUS.

INTERFACE WITH IN-HOUSE PROTOTYPE HARDWARE, INCLUDING FPGA HARDWARE DEBUG

CPCI AND BAE RAD750 SPACEFLIGHT COMPUTER (SFC), MTIF, MSIA.

2. FIDO RESEARCH ROVER AVIONICS

DEVELOPED CUSTOM LINUX KERNEL DISTRIBUTION FOR REAL-TIME ROBOTICS CONTROL.

DEMONSTRATED RESEARCH MARS ROVER ( FIDO ) RUNNING FULLY UNDER LINUX.

SPECIFY AND UPGRADE ROVER AVIONICS TO HIGH-SPEED MOBILE PENTIUM-M EMBEDDED

PLATFORM. BRING UP VXWORKS AND CLARATY ONBOARD SOFTWARE, INCLUDING IEE1394

HIGH SPEED SYNCHRONIZED CAMERAS.

MANY OTHER TASKS.

3. SOFTWARE ARCHITECT FOR JPL S TEAM-X ADVANCED SPACECRAFT & MISSION DESIGN FACILITY

REDESIGNING AND MODERNIZING THE DATA INFRASTRUCTURE TO PROVIDE NASA-WIDE

DISTRIBUTED COLLABORATION, REAL-TIME MONITORING CAPABILITY AND POST-ANALYSIS

OF SPACECRAFT DESIGN STUDIES.

UPGRADE AND MAINTAIN ICEMAKER DISTRIBUTED DESIGN SYSTEM.

4. DARTS/DSHELL, ROAMS MARS ROVER SIMULATOR

SYSTEM ARCHITECT FOR SIMSCAPE, A COMPREHENSIVE FRAMEWORK FOR SURFACE TERRAIN

MODELING, VISUALIZATION AND SIMULATION, ROVER MOBILITY STUDIES.

TERRAIN MODELING AND SIMULATION, RECONSTRUCTION OF MARS YARD FROM LASER

SCANNER DATA, DEVELOPED TOOLS FOR COLLECTION OF DATA AND ANALYSIS, VISUALIZATION

AND PROCESSING.

ONBOARD VXWORKS/CLARATY FIDO ROVER DATA COLLECTION FOR ROAMS

VALIDATION

DESIGNED AND IMPLEMENTED NUMEROUS ARCHITECTURAL AND INFRASTRUCTURE

IMPROVEMENTS & ADVANCEMENTS TO ROVER SIMULATION FRAMEWORK.

IMPLEMENTED COHESIVE C++ BASED API ROAMSIF TO ENCAPSULATE ROAMS

FUNCTIONALITY INTO A SIMPLIFIED, YET POWERFUL PROGRAMMING INTERFACE FOR

CONFIGURING AND RUNNING ROVER SIMULATIONS.

IMPLEMENTED PARAMETERIZED MODEL FOR DEFINING CURRENT AND FUTURE MARS ROVER

VEHICLES

PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS AND TUNING TO OPTIMIZE SYSTEM RESOURCE USAGE.

ARCHITECTURAL AND SYSTEM RESOURCE FOR GROUP

MANY OTHER TASKS.

5. AVIONICS SYSTEM ARCHITECTURE TOOL

HARDWARE SIMULATOR FOR SPACECRAFT AVIONICS COMPONENTS (CPU, BUSSES,

INSTRUMENTS) JPL BUDGETED 2.5 MAN-YEARS, NOT SURE IF PROJECT WAS FEASIBLE. I

COMPLETED AND DEMOED IT IN UNDER 2 MONTHS.

REVERSE-ENGINEERED AND RE-IMPLEMENTED STATEMATE SIMULATION ENGINE FROM UNIX

TO WINDOWS AND WRAPPED AUTO-GENERATED C-LANGUAGE MODEL CODE INTO C++

STANDALONE APPLICATION.

6. JASON-1 SATELLITE PROJECT

SOFTWARE ARCHITECT FOR GROUND COMMAND AND CONTROL SYSTEM - JTCCS.

DESIGNED AND IMPLEMENTED COMMON SOFTWARE SERVICES (CSS) WRITTEN IN

VISUAL C++

i. CROSS-PLATFORM DESIGN PROVIDES ABSTRACTION OF HARDWARE AND OS

ii. IMPLEMENTED ON BOTH OPENVMS ALPHA AND WINDOWS NT/2000/XP.

iii. ENABLED RAPID (

iv. MPLEMENTED A CROSS-PLATFORM JAVA NATIVE INTERFACE (JNI)

v. COGNIZANT ENGINEER (COG-E) FOR JTCCS USER INTERFACE, WRITTEN IN JAVA

vi. ADDITIONAL MAJOR RESPONSIBILITY ASSIGNED AT CRITICAL JUNCTURE

vii. TCP/IP CLIENT/SERVER ARCHITECTURE ALLOWS MANY USERS OF JTCCS

viii. UI CLIENT RUNS UNMODIFIED ON WINDOWS, UNIX/LINUX AND MAC OS X.

ix. INTEGRATED TCL ENGINE INTO THE SERVER TO PROVIDE JPL S FIRST EVER

LIGHTS-OUT AUTOMATION CAPABILITY OF A SPACECRAFT.

DESIGNED AND IMPLEMENTED A HAND-HELD CLIENT IN JAVA FOR WINDOWS CE, WHICH

ENABLED FLYING THE JASON-1 SPACECRAFT FROM A COMPAQ IPAQ ANOTHER FIRST

FOR JPL. THIS WAS BRIEFED IN A SPECIAL SESSION TO DR CHARLES ELACHI, DIRECTOR OF

JPL, AS WELL AS TO SEVERAL OTHER GROUPS WITHIN JPL. VIDEOTAPE OF PRESENTATIONS

SENT TO USAF, AND VOYAGER SPACECRAFT TEAM. DESIGN PRESENTED AT NUMEROUS

EVENTS INCLUDING GSAW.

DESIGNED AND IMPLEMENTED THE EVENT MANAGER PROCESS, WHICH COORDINATES

ALL OTHER SYSTEM PROCESSES AND MONITORS SYSTEM ACTIVITY, PROVIDING SYSTEM

STARTUP, SHUTDOWN AND FAILSAFE OPERATIONS, ALL IN A PLATFORM-INDEPENDENT

MANNER.

UTILIZED VARIOUS CODE ANALYSIS TOOLS (BOUNDSCHECKER, JPROBE) TO MONITOR AND

TUNE RUNTIME C++ AND JAVA CODE.

RECEIVED MERITORIOUS SERVICE AWARD FROM JPL.

RECEIVED SPECIAL THANKS AND RECOGNITION (STAR) AWARD FROM JPL.

RECEIVED SOFTWARE EXCELLENCE TEAM AWARD FROM JPL

RECEIVED 2 SEPARATE CERTIFICATE OF RECOGNITION AWARDS FROM NASA

PRESENTER TEAM RECEIVED HONORABLE MENTION IN NASA SOFTWARE OF THE

YEAR.

7. SHARED NET PROJECT

PROVIDE A RELIABLE, DISTRIBUTED NETWORK INFRASTRUCTURE FOR MILITARY COMBAT

USE. CUSTOMERS INCLUDE US MARINES AND OTHER GOVERNMENT AGENCIES.

MULTITHREADED C++ AND JAVA IN A SOLARIS UNIX ENVIRONMENT

PROVIDED A DETAILED, BROAD ANALYSIS OF CORBA ORBS, INCLUDING PERFORMANCE.

PROVIDED GENERAL ARCHITECTURAL & DESIGN GUIDANCE TO THE TEAM

DEVELOPED A MULTICAST BASED UTILITY, SERVERBEACON WRITTEN IN JAVA, WHICH

FACILITATED NETWORK CONNECTIVITY BETWEEN SERVERS AND CLIENTS IN AD-HOC

NETWORK ENVIRONMENTS.

8. FRAMEWORKS PROJECT

COMPUTER SCIENCE RESEARCH PROJECT FOR DISA (DEFENSE INFORMATION SYSTEMS

AGENCY). GOALS WERE TO DEVISE PLATFORM AND TECHNOLOGY INDEPENDENT

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING INFRASTRUCTURE.

TWO-PERSON TEAM DIRECTLY FUNDED TO PROVIDE INSIGHTS INTO MODERN DISTRIBUTED

COMPUTING CAPABILITIES FOR FUTURE SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT WITHIN DISA AND

RELATED AGENCIES.

DESIGNED AND IMPLEMENTED JAVA-BASED TECHNOLOGY INDEPENDENT LOOKUP AND

DISCOVERY, REQUEST/RESPONSE, PUBLISH & SUBSCRIBE, AND DISTRIBUTED EVENTS.

THE DESIGN ENCAPSULATES JINI, CORBA, RMI AND PURE TCP/IP.

APPLICATIONS CAN CREATE ENTIRE CLIENTS AND SERVERS BASED ON CORBA, RMI OR

PURE TCP/IP SOCKETS WITH A SINGLE LINE OF CODE.

DEVISED XML BASED RPC MECHANISM PRIOR TO THE INTRODUCTION OF SIMILAR

TECHNOLOGIES SUCH AS SOAP USED IN WEB SERVICES.

1996-1998 NASHUA, NH

WHITE PINE SOFTWARE

Senior Software Engineer

DESIGN ENGINEER FOR VIDEO IN CU-SEEME INTERNET VIDEO CONFERENCING PRODUCT.

PROVIDED PRODUCT INTEGRATION OF COMMERCIAL CAMERAS AND CAPTURE DEVICES & DRIVERS.

UTILIZED NUMEGA SOFTICE TO ANALYZE CRASHES IN BETA DRIVERS & HARDWARE.

USED NUMEGA BOUNDSCHECKER TO DISCOVER BOTTLENECKS, MEMORY LEAKS

COMPLETELY REDESIGNED THE VIDEO SUBSYSTEM USING MICROSOFT ACTIVEMOVIE (AKA

DIRECTX) WRITTEN IN C++, USING MFC.

RECOGNIZED BY MICROSOFT FOR SIGNIFICANT CONTRIBUTIONS TO ACTIVEMOVIE 1.0 BETA.

EXTENDED ACTIVEMOVIE 1.0 TO INCLUDE VIDEO CAPTURE/COMPRESSION (NOT AVAILABLE UNTIL

AM 2.0) INCLUDING UNIQUE APPLICATION INTERFACE ACTIVEMOVIE FILTERS WRITTEN IN C++.

INVITED TO INVITATION-ONLY PREVIEW OF AM 2.0 (DIRECTX MEDIA 5.1) AT MICROSOFT

MADE SEVERAL ARCHITECTURAL IMPROVEMENTS TO CU-SEEME, INCLUDING MULTI-THREADING,

TCP/IP NETWORK PACKETIZATION & DE-PACKETIZATION WHICH REDUCED LATENCY AND PACKET

LOSS, GREATLY IMPROVING AUDIO/VIDEO QUALITY OVER SLOW/CONGESTED NETWORKS.

1995-1996 Tewksbury, MA

Avid Technology

Senior Software Engineer

DEVELOP A PROPRIETARY NEXT-GENERATION WINDOWS 95/NT OBJECT ORIENTED MULTIMEDIA

AUTHORING APPLICATION (MACROMEDIA DIRECTOR COMPETITOR) WRITTEN IN C++ USING MFC.

DESIGN/IMPLEMENT COMPLETE GUI OBJECT PROPERTIES SYSTEM INCLUDING FULL MULTILEVEL

UNDO/REDO ARCHITECTURE.

1994-1995 NASHUA, NH

VIRTECH INC.

Systems Software Engineer

DESIGN, DEVELOP AND TEST INDUSTRIAL PROCESS CONTROL APPLICATIONS ON WINDOWS

3.1/95/NT AND VMS, DECWINDOWS (X WINDOWS) PLATFORMS.

REAL-TIME CONTROL APPLICATIONS WRITTEN IN C, VISUAL C++, MFC. REQUIRED DETAILED

KNOWLEDGE OF MFC AND SYSTEM INTERNALS FOR PERFORMANCE OPTIMIZATION.

DIRECT HARDWARE INTERFACING, PID CONTROL, NUMERICAL AND GRAPHICAL DATA ANALYSIS.

DEVELOPED INTERACTIVE DATA PLOTTING AND ON-SCREEN DATA ANALYSIS.

PRODUCTS RANGED FROM CONTROL/ANALYSIS OF ASTM STRENGTH OF MATERIALS TESTERS TO

INDUSTRIAL HEAT/PRESSURE TREATMENT FURNACES ( HIP FURNACE) AND AUTOMOTIVE ENGINE

PARTS ANALYSIS.

DIRECT & ON-SITE INTERFACE FOR CUSTOMER REQUIREMENTS AND APPLICATION PROTOTYPE &

DESIGN, AS WELL AS PRODUCT SUPPORT AND SYSTEM TROUBLE SHOOTING.

1991-1994 NASHUA, NH

DIGITAL EQUIPMENT CORPORATION

Principal Software Engineer- VMS Development group

RECEIVED U.S. PATENT #5,426,736 FOR VMS I/O SUBSYSTEM SOFTWARE PERFORMANCE TUNING

ALGORITHM. ALGORITHM PROVIDED A 300% PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENT FOR SCSI RAID

PATENT INCLUDED ACCURATE MATHEMATICAL MODELING AND ANALYSIS OF I/O SUBSYSTEMS.

DESIGNED AND IMPLEMENTED INDUSTRIES FIRST DEVICE DRIVERS FOR SCSI-2 TAGGED COMMAND

QUEUING ON VAX PORT/CLASS ARCHITECTURE, WRITTEN IN VAX MACRO.

VAX/VMS SYSTEM-LEVEL DEBUGGING USING THE XDELTA SYSTEM DEBUGGER.

EXTENSIVE USE OF ADAPTEC SCSI LOGIC ANALYZER FOR DEBUGGING DEVICE DRIVER CODE.

DEVELOPED DETAILED GRAPHICAL PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT AND ANALYSIS TOOL THAT

GENERATED 3D SURFACE PLOTS OF I/O PERFORMANCE CHARACTERISTICS, WRITTEN IN C.

VAX SCSI PROJECT LEADER IN VMS ENGINEERING, GUIDE FUTURE DIRECTION OF SCSI IN VMS.

SEMINAR SPEAKER AT SEVERAL DECUS (DEC USERS GROUP) SYMPOSIA THROUGHOUT THE

UNITED STATES.

1987-1991 MARLBORO/SHREWSBURY, MA

DIGITAL EQUIPMENT CORPORATION

Sr. Software Engineer, Software Engineer II, Software Engineer I

PROMOTED FROM TECH TO S.W. ENGINEER VIA DIGITAL ENGINEERING REVIEW BOARD (ERB).

ERB PROCESS WAS VERY SELECTIVE AND USED FOR LESS THAN TOP 1% OF DEC EMPLOYEES.

ERB WAS A FULL DAY OF VERBAL AND HANDS-ON, DETAILED QUESTIONING BY 3 PRINCIPLE

ENGINEERS, REQUIRED UNANIMOUS VOTE FOR CONVERSION FROM TECH TO ENGINEER.

PROJECT LEADER/DEVELOPER FOR SCAT (SYSTEM COMPATIBILITY AUTOMATION TOOL) AND

SDT (SCSI DETAIL TESTER) WRITTEN IN C. SDT PROVIDES COMPLETE SCSI-2 LEVEL DEVICE

CONFORMANCE VERIFICATION, AND INCLUDED A FULL CUSTOM SCRIPTING LANGUAGE.

VOTING MEMBER ON DEC SCSI COMMITTEE, NATION-WIDE SCSI STANDARDS BODY.

RESEARCHED AND RECOMMEND GROUP'S SCSI TESTING STRATEGY.

EXTENSIVE USE OF ADAPTEC SCSI LOGIC ANALYZER FOR DEBUGGING SCSI DEVICES/SOFTWARE

ARCHITECT, DESIGN AND CO-DEVELOP ITECS V2 TEST AUTOMATION SYSTEM AND SDT, WRITTEN

IN C ON MICROVAX SYSTEMS, USING DECWINDOWS (X WINDOWS) GUI.

ITECS (INTEGRATED TEST ENVIRONMENT CONTROL SYSTEM) WAS A REVOLUTIONARY AUTOMATION

SYSTEM, INTEGRATING IEEE-488 PROGRAMMABLE POWER SUPPLIES, LARGE ENVIRONMENTAL TEST

CHAMBERS (TEMPERATURE, HUMIDITY) AND SEVERAL DEC MICROVAX SYSTEMS ACROSS DECNET

NETWORK.

ITECS REDUCED 4-5 DAY DISK DEVICE TESTING INTO LESS THAN 8 HOURS!

DESIGNED AND IMPLEMENTED VAXMATE BASED SCSI TAPE AND CDROM DIAGNOSTICS,

WRITTEN IN 80X86 ASSEMBLY. INSTALLED AT VENDOR SITE (HP IN ENGLAND) HP PERSONALLY

EXTENDED MY VISIT IN ENGLAND AFTER I FOUND SIGNIFICANT BUGS IN THEIR SCSI DAT TAPE

FIRMWARE.

TAUGHT THREE VIDEO TAPED SEMINARS: ITECS, INTRODUCTION TO SCSI, USING SCSI.

1984-1987 SHREWSBURY, MA

DIGITAL EQUIPMENT CORPORATION

Electronics Technician II, III, IV

DESIGNED AND DEVELOPED VMDD (VAX/VMS MSCP DISK DIAGNOSTIC), IN VAX MACRO.

DESIGNED AND DEVELOPED ITECS V1 TEST AUTOMATION SOFTWARE, WRITTEN IN ASSEMBLY AND

C ON PDP-11 AND DEC PRO 350 COMPUTERS. ITECS IS STILL IN USE TODAY, LARGELY

UNCHANGED!

MAJOR INDUSTRY DISK VENDORS (E.G. MAXTOR) OFFERED TO BUY THE ITECS SYSTEM FROM DEC.

EVALUATED 3RD PARTY QBUS/SCSI ADAPTERS FOR SCSI AND MSCP COMPLIANCE.

EVALUATED INDUSTRIES FIRST SCSI HARD DISK PROTOTYPES.

1979-1984 OTHER RELATED WORK

ELECTRONICS TECHNICIAN. CALIBRATION, TROUBLESHOOTING AND REPAIR OF SCIENTIFIC DATA

ACQUISITION SYSTEMS. BASCOM-TURNER INSTRUMENTS, EIC LABORATORIES NORWOOD, MA.

REPAIR OF TELEVISION AND STEREO EQUIPMENT AND ALL HOUSEHOLD APPLIANCES (FROM

TOASTERS TO MICROWAVES) ALLIED APPLIANCE, MARLBORO, MA

SIGNIFICANT PERSONAL PROJECTS

HAVE BUILT MANY ELECTRONIC PROJECTS SINCE AGE 7, INCLUDING A TIMEX-SINCLAIR ZX81

COMPUTER, SELF TAUGHT BASIC AND Z80 ASSEMBLY LANGUAGE.

PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARD (PCB) LAYOUT, DESIGN AND FABRICATION EXPERIENCE.

DEVELOPED AN AUTOMOTIVE DIAGNOSTIC (OBD-II) INTERFACE FOR CUSTOM HARDWARE WRITTEN

IN C++/MFC FOR WINDOWS CE ON COMPAQ IPAQ HANDHELD

DESIGNED AND DEVELOPED A WIRELESS, GPS BASED TRACKING DEVICE, INCLUDING PROFESSIONAL

DOUBLE-SIDED CUSTOM PCB. USES OEM GPS AND 2-WAY PAGING MODULES, WITH AN AVR

MICRO CONTROLLER AND CUSTOM FIRMWARE WRITTEN IN C. DEVICE HAS ABILITY TO ADD

ADDITIONAL SENSORS, SUCH AS MEDICAL MONITORING AND ACCELEROMETER/FALL DETECTION.

DESIGNED AND BUILT A 2-AXIS ACCELEROMETER DEVICE FOR SEISMIC MONITORING.

WROTE SYSTEM SOFTWARE EXPANSION ON CARTRIDGE ROM FOR COMMODORE VIC-20 AND C64

MICROSOFT BETA TESTER OF WINDOWS 98, WINDOWS NT4.0, 2000 AND XP

BETA TESTER FOR X-10 CORP (HOME AUTOMATION), BOTH HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE PRODUCTS.

EDUCATION:

1991-2010 Daniel Webster College Nashua, NH

BSSD. (BS, Software Development)

Magna Cum Laude.

1987-1991 WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE WORCESTER, MA

Continued work towards BSCS/Physics.

Admitted as special case part time day student QPA: 3.75/4.0

1983-1987 NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY BOSTON, MA

Earned Associates Degree in Electrical Engineering (ASEE) QPA: 3.8/4.0

1982-1983 GTE Sylvania Technical School Waltham, MA

Honor Graduate of 800hr Computer Electronics Curriculum.

MAINTAINED A GRADE POINT AVERAGE OF (THEORY) 98%, (LABORATORY) 100%.

GRADUATED TOP OF CLASS, RECEIVED SPECIAL LETTER OF RECOMMENDATION (AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST.)

1982 US NAVY MARLBORO, MA

Applied for Nuclear Power program during (then-required) draft registration.

Took ASVAB (Armed Services Vocational Aptitude) test in Boston, MA.

REQUIRED 14/98 POINTS TO PASS, I SCORED 93. THE NAVY INDICATED IT WAS THE 2ND HIGHEST SCORE EVER

ACHIEVED. I COMPLETED THE ALL-DAY TEST IN ABOUT 3/4 OF THE TIME ALLOTTED.

TOOK SPECIAL PHYSICS APTITUDE TEST. REQUIRED 35/47 POINTS TO PASS. I SCORED 43. AGAIN, NAVY

INDICATED IT WAS ONE OF THE HIGHEST SCORES EVER SEEN ON THAT TEST.

DEC Internal Training

VAXWORKS SYSTEMS SEMINAR VAX BLISS-32 PROGRAMMING NEURAL NETWORKS

VAX/VMS INTERNALS & DATA STRUCTURES VAX-11 C PROGRAMMING COMPREHENSIVE OVERVIEW

OF UNIX

VAX/VMS TECHNICAL OVERVIEW MANAGING YOUR MICROVAX DESIGN AND MANUFACTURE

AT 6 SIGMA

INTERNALS OF A VAX/VMS PROCESS STRUCTURED SOFTWARE TESTING SOFTWARE PROJECT

MANAGEMENT

PROBLEM ANALYSIS/DECISION MAKING TIME MANAGEMENT RON LAFLEUR PROJECT

MANAGEMENT

TECH. OVERVIEW OF WINDOWS NT WIN32 PROGRAMMING NEW AGE THINKING

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