Electrical Engineer Active Directory

Joseph Flowers

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

Address: **** ******** *****

City: Raleigh

State: NC

Zip: 27603

Country: USA

Phone: 919-***-****

Skill Level: Experienced

Salary Range: $95,000

Primary Skills/Experience:

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Educational Background:

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Joseph L. Flowers

9924 Huntwyck Drive

Raleigh, North Carolina, USA, 27603-8441 *********@********.***

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Education North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC

.BS degree, Electrical Engineering, 1990.

.Post Graduate Work (3 credit hours) in Electrical Engineering, 1993.

.Post Graduate Work (33 credit hours) in Mathematics, 2000-2006.

.State of North Carolina "Engineer In Training" Certification, Jan. 1991.

.Successfully completed the Performance Leadership Certification course in the Spring 2008

Wayne Community College, Goldsboro, NC

.AAS degree, Electronics Engineering Technology, 1984.

Main Engineering Strengths

Excellent with low and medium frequency electronic circuit design and analysis

Excellent low-level programmer

Excellent with IT servers and systems

Excellent with mathematical modeling of linear and non-linear circuits

Excellent engineering intuition, Intense researcher; avid learner

Focused on quality, automation, speed, robustness, the big and small pictures, scalability, ubiquitous tools and their knowledge base, product potential, optimization

Able to bring all of these skills simultaneously to bear on a problem

Some Areas of Interest

Designing and creating remotely accessible, automated environments using a combination of C/C++/Python/Java, embedded firmware programming, TCP/IP programming, cryptography, Active Directory & SQL programming, and electronic circuit design

Circuit design and analysis

Mathematical modeling

LDAP & Active Directory programming and event capturing

Integrating embedded microcontrollers with servers and IT systems

Integrating IT systems, like Java connectors between Active Directory and SQL databases, or Windows and Linux PAMs.

Linux and Windows low-level programming

Electrical Engineer for Elster Solutions (Creates Electric, Gas, and Water meters & solutions for Utilities throughout the world), Oct. 2008 to Nov. 2012.

Focused on delivering a widely useful, distributed meter inventory and management system (with product implications) for a highly controlled, scalable, and malleable test environment for an entire department. The heart of the automated testing system for the department.

Integrated electric utility meters into Active Directory; Integrated Active Directory with MySQL database using low-level Java programming

Installed, configured, and managed the Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 and MySQL server for this project

Designed and tested an inexpensive electronic circuit that will allow remote (TCP/IP) and full (Optical Probe) access to all parts of a matrix of utility meters for full administrative/manufacturing access as if the meters were local with a focus on 100% automated, remote testing

Wrote a C program using the Elster SDK to read and write data to utility meters using an Optical Probe and C12.18. Wrote Python programs using the Elster SDK to read and write data to utility meters using C12.22 and C12.21 over TCP/IP sockets

Wrote a C program to read & write data to utility meters WITHOUT the SDK for a small/fast footprint - reverse engineering

Designed and tested much of a circuit for a 3-Phase, light-weight, portable, desktop power generator for power meter testing

Ongoing work and study of FreeRTOS programming of Cortex-M3 embedded controllers like Texas Instruments Stellaris LM3S9D92, LM3S8962, LM3S811, and ARM Keil Cortex-M3 embedded controller MCBSTM32C. Hopeful use for automating labs (remote power cycling, hardware input and output sensing and actuation, addressing and signal routing)

Have designed fake power load circuits with phase reversals for utility meter testing

Performed analysis of linear and non-linear meter circuits and modeled them mathematically so that test circuits could be properly and optimally designed, created, and integrated with the meters

In-depth electrical analysis of commonly used transformers for optimum configuration and use in circuits

Designed and built appropriate test fixtures, often after studying meter circuit schematics

Often called on to fix some of the hardest configuration problems for testers and developers

Performed many firmware upgrades, reconfigurations, and programming of the utility meters.

Worked on C12.18, C12.21, & C12.22 connection setups and issues and with various option boards, like Zigbee, external power interrupter circuits/relays, Ethernet, CDMA, Modem, RS-232, etc.

Often verified C12.22 encrypted communication as well as proper inter-meter (LAN) communication

Developer and Consultant (part-time) for JRB Software (Creates a large number of utility programs for managing large diverse IT server systems), Aug. 2008 to present.

Wrote a multithreaded LDAPS/HTTPS/AES Linux daemon in C that captures massive numbers of LDAP events and performs filesystem actions accordingly

Write working code snippets to solve various problems, like AES encryption/decryption

Created several VMware SuSE Linux servers, MS Windows 2008 R2 servers, W7 workstation images

Help with consulting and troubleshooting difficult issues and infusion of new ideas and technologies

Hardware Technology and Programming Skills

Significant programming of Rabbit Semiconductor's RCM3700 Ethernet-enabled embedded controller

Designed and built a complete working FM broadcast radio receiver, including the phase-locked loop (PLL) from scratch with only discrete components like transistors, capacitors, resistors, inductors, a crystal, a varactor, etc. No integrated circuits were employed

Proficient with Oscilloscopes (conventional and modern USB), Digital Multimeters, Capacitance/Inductance meters, linear power amplifier circuits, signal generators, etc.

A lot of C/C++ and back-end JAVA programming to solve specific, practical problems

Systems & Hardware Integration, and Authentication/Authorization customization programming

Network applications and low-level systems programming for Linux, Windows, & Netware

TCP/IP - BSD & Winsock, C & JAVA, multithreaded, thread-safe, client & server programming, USB programming

OpenSSL C and JAVA J2EE programming for encryption and security

OpenLDAP C programming, including LDAPS (LDAP over SSL) and LDAP event capturing and handling

C, C with embedded microcontrollers, JAVA (JDBC, JNDI, JNI extensions written in C, Security/Cryptography, Servlets, etc.), C++, SQL, PHP extensions written in C, Embedded Perl in C network programs, Perl, Bash scripting, Pascal, Basic, Maple, JUnit, Apache Ant, XML, Eclipse, CVS, JDB (The Java Debugger), Apache, Tomcat, InstallShield, NSIS, VMware, SAS 9.1 for regression analysis, mySQL, DB2, Oracle

Microsoft Windows Server, RedHat & SUSE Linux, Novell NetWare

Proficient and comfortable with wide range of network related hardware, including RAID, SCSI, and SATA controllers, BIOS/Firmware updates, microcontrollers, network devices, hardware and software firewalls, NAT, PAT, hubs, switches, 802.11 wireless access points & routers, cabling, etc.

Compilers and Supporting Software

For embedded controller firmware programming: Mentor Sourcery CodeBench, Keil's uVision 4, TI's Code Composer Studio 5, and Rabbit Semiconductor's Dynamic C.

MS Visual C++ v6, MS Platform SDK, MS Windows Driver Device Kit (DDK), MS Visual Studio 2010 & 2012

gcc on RedHat, SUSE Linux, and Solaris Unix

C and assembly language for embedded microcontrollers

Sun's/Oracle's JAVA command-line JDK since v1.1 through JDK 7

Metrowerks CodeWarrior v7.2, MSYS (MinGW - Minimal SYStem), Eclipse, Borland C++ v5.5 command-line compiler

SmartSVN, TortoiseSVN

Director of Information Technology & Consultant, College of Humanities and Social Sciences (CHASS), North Carolina State University (NCSU), 1993 to July 2008.

Integrated embedded microcontrollers with an LDAP-enabled directory by capturing LDAP events and microcontroller interrupts; used TCP/IP socket programming and AES encryption to fuse the two.

Conceived, designed, and created a virtual, fully automated lab environment allowing remote users (students, faculty, and staff) secure and seamless remote access to unused lab computers.

Main core developer of APIs in C, C++, JAVA, and PHP for other developers to use

Created a unique -Pay for Print- C application that allowed seamless printing to Unix printers from Windows computers. Was widely used throughout NCSU. Employed HTTPS, low-level integration into the native Windows printing system, and advanced Windows Registry programming.

Designed and created the integration of SpamAssassin on Linux with a college-wide email system on Netware. Extensions on both platforms were multithreaded socket programs written in C.

Instantly synchronizing credentials across multiple disparate systems at the instant of demand (logon): Developed PHP extensions (written in C) and Java JNI Servlets (written in C++) which allowed user logon against an LDAP-enabled directory or UNIX Kerberos while simultaneously creating or modifying the LDAP objects at the same user logon time.

Designed & developed a DNS synchronization program written in C/C++ which automatically updated Microsoft Windows Server Active Directory DNS records with the NCSU UNIX DNS servers

Designed & developed a secure, high-grade, Public/Private Key encrypted, JAVA, web-based credit card system used by the college for outside donations

Designed and developed a MS Windows 2000/XP logon extension in C which allowed Kerberos and LDAP authentication in student labs and faculty and staff offices

Successfully installed and tested OpenRADIUS, preparing for future development of OpenRADIUS modifications for wireless device authentication services using familiar college LDAP and Kerberos credentials.

Created a Microsoft Windows 98 login interface (GINA) that automatically mounted UNIX AFS filesystem shares; was widely used throughout NCSU

Supervised and defined core service values and philosophies for the IT department

Served approximately 1,341 faculty, administrators, and staff computers and up to 30,000 University students

Managed annual technology budget of more than $800,000

Directed and supervised a staff of 14, consisting of network administrators for Windows Server, Netware, and Linux, computer lab managers, desktop support, web designers/developers, and programmers

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