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NAME: Joel Hough ADDRESS

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PA ZIP: 15068 PHONE: 412-***-**** EMAIL: abptiy@r.postjobfree.com US Citizen

RESUME:

Joel Hough

105 Ridge View Dr.

New Kensington, PA 15068

412-***-****

abptiy@r.postjobfree.com

9/2000

- 4/2001Peak Technical Services, Inc. Pittsburgh, PA

Project Manager/Engineer

For a Hydraulic Press Feed Automation Project, I supervised implementation and

installation of $300,00+ 8-axis electromechanical automatic part feeding

system. This system fed uncured parts into hot presses to be cured. Wrote

process specification for drives and PLC software. Verified that drives,

motors, and gearboxes were specified correctly. Completed design change from a

6K8 motion controller with Digital Servo Drives to a PLC with Digital Servo

Drive/Controllers. Laid out IO for PLC Programmer and Drive Programmer. During

installation made PLC program changes and designed, implemented, and tested

electrical circuitry in the customer's enclosure. The automatic feed system

saves 30% on the cycle time over the manual feed system.

For a Cryogenic Deflashing Automation Project, I designed electrical relay

circuitry and designed, wrote, installed and debugged Omron PLC program to

automate a Cryogenics machine for deflashing of medical grade plastic parts

used in asthma inhalers.

8/2000

- 9/2000CDI Pittsburgh/PA

Embedded Application Engineer

Write responses to Independent Verification and Validation findings. Findings

consist mainly of documentation clarifications.

6/2000

- 8/2000CDI Pittsburgh/PA

PRPS Regression Analyst

Perform regression analysis on Primary Reactor Protection System (PRPS)

software. Analyzed differences in databases and versions of PLM source code for

subsystems. The differences in the databases were analyzed with a Foxpro

message structure difference program on Windows NT and a database difference

program on MS-DOS. The differences were manually analyzed for the necessary

regression testing.

6/2000

- 6/2000CDI Pittsburgh/PA

PERL Regression Script Programmer

For Primary Reactor Protection System (PRPS), wrote a PERL script, which

extracted the subsystem registry file (a list of all the source code for a

release) and the database file names from the Subsystem Software Release Record

for versions A and B of the software. Then, the script retrieved all the source

code files, which changed between the registry versions and all database files,

which changed between versions A and B of the Subsystem Software Release

Record. These files were retrieved from the Source Code Control System (SCCS).

Next, the script performed the difference of all the source code files and

formatted the results and wrote a MS-DOS script to difference some of the

database files. This process used to take about two to three hours. The script

does the task in 10 minutes.

9/1999

- PresentCDI Pittsburgh/PA

Configuration Management Engineer

Used PERL to save 50% of the time used for weekly Configuration Management

tasks. Tasks used to take 1 to 2 days, now takes = to 1 day. These tasks

included merging files to the main branch and writing a release letter listing

the modified files by order of DDTS (Distributed Defect Tracking System)

number. Discussed with Software Developers inadequacies in the Integration

Records for the DDTS. Burn CDs for Software Releases. Track down problems in

building DHG (Data Highway Gateway), Functional Processor 1, Functional

Processor 2, Tester Processor, DMS (Diverse Monitor System), and MMI

executables.

8/1998

- 8/1999CDI Pittsburgh/PA

Database Programmer

DPS Configurator (Oracle embedded SQL C program, with a subprocess program in

Ada95) Project

The Configurator program generates 134 files using embedded SQL on an Oracle

database running on Solaris 2.6 on an Ultrasparc 10. Maintainer of the code

quit, so being the only person on the team with embedded SQL and C experience,

I picked up the program. Used lint to fix type mismatches, tracked down

unclosed file pointers, added functionality for different I/O point types,

added user changeable headers to some of the output files, moved the code from

multiple user directories to one project directory, fixed incorrect link files,

added parameters for specifying database and password to the main program,

consolidated 3 separate programs (eliminating duplicate SQL queries and

improving runtime speed by 30%), helped move project into ClearCase

Configuration Management Control Software, added table for intermediate

floating point variable descriptions, modified views for changes in

functionality, and fixed bugs in the code, and trained successor.

Also, added two-language functionality for the MMI output files by modifying

Oracle tables and C code. For example, XEMACS macros were used to expand the

one language code from:

write_io_type_record (english_language_file_pointer, io_type_record_pointer);

to:

both_languages_fp_io_type_desc_engineering_units(

english_language_file_pointer, local_language_file_pointer,

io_type_record_pointer, &write_io_type_record,

&get_english_language_description, &get_local_language_description,

&get_english_language_engineering_units,

&get_local_language_engineering_units);.

Using function pointers and XEMACS macros saved 50 percent off the original

programming estimate.

9/1997

- 9/1998CDI Pittsburgh/PA

Embedded Application Programmer

Ada83 Embedded Application Code Programming and Integration Testing Project

for DPS

Write and document Ada83 code, which consists primarily of flow, temperature,

pressure alarms, voting, and discrete logic processing. Download code onto

microprocessor board using MBUG on OS-9 running on three divisions with each

division having three Motorola 68040 processors on a VME Bus communicating

between divisions using VMICs reflective memory. Change the signals to test

the code using an Iomega based IO simulator. Check code out and in of

configuration management using ClearCase, and track defects in code using

Distributed Defect Tracking System (DDTS). Occasionally, debug loose cables and

malfunctioning equipment.

9/1997

- 9/1998CDI Pittsburgh/PA

DPS Application Code Team Leader

For 100 Application Components was responsible for categorizing changes in

code as large, medium, or small and project tracking of these changes, which

were distributed to 5 Engineers including myself.

Also, I wrote a multi-color highlighted cross section of the manuals for

training new comers. The manuals consisted of the Level 4 diagrams, which were

diagrams for the entire Diverse Protection System (DPS), Level 5 data flow

diagrams, which consisted of the data flow diagrams on a component basis, the

tables for the point types (digital input, analog input, digital output,

intermediate enumeration, intermediate float, and voting), and the source code.

The point types were highlighted in unique colors and the pages of the diagrams

and manuals with the points for a single component were highlighted. This

helped the people being trained to understand the documentations relationships

to the source code as fast as possible.

4/1997

- PresentCDI Pittsburgh/PA

Software Engineer

For the Nuclear Automation Division of the Westinghouse Electric Company, LLC

client performed several key tasks for the Diverse Protection Systems

Department. These tasks are detailed in the previous work experiences.

4/1997

- 6/1997CDI Pittsburgh/PA

CASE Tool Diagram Editor

Used Software Through Pictures CASE Tool to draw data flow diagrams for

Protection Application specifications. These diagrams broke down the software

into components and were later used to verify that all the correct tags were

used in the software.

2/1997

- 3/1997Management Sciences Assoc. Process Automation Solutions &

Services Div. Pittsburgh, PA

Hardware Engineer

1. Predecessor wrote software for Metrabyte PC Data Acquisition Board was

coded to gather voltage and amperage data for single-phase electricit. I

diagnosed with oscilloscope that voltage from Rogowski coil needed amplifiued

for the data acquistioin board. Went to Radio Shack picked up a basic circuit

book, enclosures, breadboards, power supplies, op-amps, resistors, terminal

strips, and wire. I built enclosures with a circuit for high impedance and a

circuit for gain.

2/1997

- 3/1997Management Sciences Assoc. Process Automation Solutions &

Services Div. Pittsburgh, PA

Programmer

On a high speed data acquisition project Modified the single-phase program to

use three-phase electricity, and optimized the program to run ten percent

faster. This data was analyzed using Longini's patented digital signal

processing to calculate power consumption. Assembled the manual for successor

of the project. Code was written in Microsoft visual C on a Pentium PC running

DOS.

1/1997

- 1/1997Management Sciences Assoc. Process Automation Solutions &

Services Div. Pittsburgh, PA

Systems Architect

I was on the team to upgrade Washington Steel Co.'s VMS MicroVAX 3600 to VMS

Alpha 2100. After the MicroVAX 3600 had been upgraded for memory and the CPU

became the bottleneck. Three team members and myself designed the $250,000 VMS

Alpha 2100 disk mirroring and warm backup architecture for 90 processses and

the Sybase Database Engine.

12/1996

- 12/1996Management Sciences Assoc. Process Automation Solutions &

Services Div. Pittsburgh, PA

Communications Progrmmer

Used DEC's PC socket library and DEC's non-transparent communication software

to make a multi-tasking Asynchronous System Traps (interrupt driven) server

program, which allowed multiple PC's to communicate with 1 ALPHA program

simultaneously. Programs werein in VAX C and Microsoft Visual C on Windows 95.

12/1995

- 3/1997Management Sciences Associates, Process Automation Solutions

& Services Div. Pittsburgh / PA

System Management Group Leader

I was responsible for leading the team on privileges, tuning, and system

management policies for VAXs.

9/1995

- 3/1997Management Sciences Associates, Process Automation Solutions &

Services Div. Pittsburgh, PA

Software Engineer

Designed, Implemented, Debugged and Installed systems in the field. These

projects are detailed below.

9/1995

- 3/1997 Management Sciences Associates, Process Automation Solutions &

Services Div. 9-95 / 3-97 Pittsburgh / PA

Argon, Oxygen, Decarburization (AOD) Model Program

At Washington Steel Co. Client, the PHD metallurgist and the main software

developer for the project quit during the installation, and I offered to

complete the installation. I worked on the following: Differential Equation

Based AOD Model tuning, debugging crashes, adding features, fixing, heat of

formation equations, fixing mass balance equations, fixing silicon / oxidation

equations, fixing of linear program, fixing SQL which left queries open,

designing, implementing and installing code for variable feed rate and real

time monitor model, and defended AOD model against hostile operator. Program

was in FORTRAN and used Sybase SQL running on VMS 7.0.

5/1995

- 5/1995ESA, Inc. contracting for Management Sciences Associates PASS

Div. Evans City

Hardware Troubleshooter

For MicroVAX II to MicroVAX 3100 Upgrade Project added strain relief hoods to

the serial port cables and resoldered some of the loose and the broken

connections.

Analyzed that the ground connection from the line driver modem in the Melt Shop

to the line driver modem in the Chemistry Lab was missing. This resulted in

sporadic loss of data. Ground wire was added and the loss of data no longer

occurred.

5/1995

- 5/1995ESA, Inc. contracting for Management Sciences Associates PASS

Div Evans City, PA

System Manager

For the MicroVAX II to MicroVAX 3100 Upgrade Project, wrote DCL script, which

verified the tape when backing up and instructed the user that too many errors

occurred and that the tape drive needs cleaned or serviced.

Also, used Edit /FDL /script=optimize to optimize the files, because the

chemical anaylsis for one furnace would take ten seconds to write to disk while

the chemical analysis for another furnace would take over one minute to write

to a disk. After optimization, files would be updated in less than ten seconds,

with the ten seconds accounted for in modem communication time.

4/1995

- 5/1995ESA, Inc. contracting for Management Sciences Associates PASS

Div Evans City, PA

Software Engineer

For MicroVAX II to MicroVAX 3100 Upgrade Project,

changed serial ports directly attached to the MicroVAX II to Terminal Server

using system calls in VAX FORTRAN.

9/1994

- 3/1995ESA, Inc. contracting for Communications Firm Evans City, PA

Software Engineer

Remote Monitor Using Modem Project 3-95 / 3-95

Found diffeent ways for remote keyboard driven Monitor Program to be redirected

to the COM port.

GUI Prototype Project 12-94 / 2-95

This project used a modem to remotely run a monitor program using

communications over a modem. Discussed functional requirements with users.

Wrote functional requirements including GUI prototypes built from Zinc Screen

Designer and Snapshot to save and export GUI windows. Reviewed functional

requirements with users. Wrote design description, which include process

control and data flow diagrams. Wrote code using IBM C Set and Green Leaf C++

Communications Library Version 2.00. The OS/2 Presentation Manager GUI

interfering with the Executive Program caused the project to be mothballed near

completion of the first stage to pursue redirecting keyboard input and CRT

output to COM port and eliminating the use of the OS/2 Presentation Manager.

Program was written in C++ on IBM PS/2 Model 70 and IBM Gearbox running OS/2

2.11 and OS/2 Warp.

Separate Monitor and Executive Program Project

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-94 / 11-94

Designed implemented, debugged and tested separating the Monitor Program from

the Executive Program. The Executive Program ran a channel extension system

between an IBM Mainframe and a device. For example, and IBM Mainframe may be

located in Pittsburgh, with the central tape backup in Chicago. The mainframe

would have and IBM Gearbox emulating a tape backup and the central tape backup

would have and IBM Gearbox emulating a mainframe. The two IBM Gearboxes would

send data across a communications link to accomplish the task of backing up the

mainframe to tapes.

The Monitor Program would read the device control blocks from the Executive

Program through global shared memory. These device control blocks were

displayed to the user. The Monitor Program communicated commands to the

Executive Program through Queues and Semaphores.

Initially, creating the Monitor Program executable separate from the Executive

Program executable was easy. Unfortunately, OS/2 returns a different base

address for the same global memory in both programs and the device control

blocks have relationships based on the base address. So obtuse pointer

arithmetic was used to make the Monitor Program look like it had the same base

address as the Executive Program.

8/1994

- 9/1994ESA, Inc. contracting for Westinghouse Evans City, PA

Embedded Programmer

On High Integrity Control System (HICS) Cubicles Project

Team Leader assigned development of cubicles to 6 programmers. Toward the end

of the project programmers were moving from this project to another project.

Two Test Procedure Writers (see previous project) were assigned to this

project. At this point in the project the programmers were making Functional

Change Requests (fixing bugs and making small changes). Team Leader assigned

sets of Functional Change Request to a programmer. The programmers found the

code to make the Functional Change Request, reserved the code, made the

changes, replaced the code, and unreserved the code. Also, if changes to the

I/O databases were needed the programmer found the database fields which needed

changed, reserved the database, changed the data base, and rebuilt the I/O

buffers with Datamaster. The programmer burnt the EPROMS and the EEPROMS for

the cubicle. Last, the programmer put the changes in the Composite Block

Diagrams for the procedure writer. The Composite Block Diagrams were data flow

diagrams of the analog and discrete signals associated with the cubicle.

3/1993

- 9/1994ESA, Inc contracting for Westinghouse Evans CityTest Engineer

For Test Procedure Project on High Integrity Control System, the Team Leader

assigned cubicles to each test engineer. The test engineer would write test

procedures for statically testing all of the I/O and dynamically testing

responses of dynamic elements. These elements were illustrated in the Composite

Block Diagrams. These elements included PID controllers, lag filters, lead/lag

filters, rate/lag filters, sequencers, and automatic and manual modes of

control stations. The programmers issued the Composite Block Diagrams to the

procedure writer. The procedure writer wrote procedures which tested the

functions in the Composite Block Diagrams. Initially, I was assigned the

Pressuriser Level Control Cubicle. As the project slowed down and fewer and

fewer procedure writers were necessary, I was assigned the Steam Generator

Level and the Rod Control Cubicles. Another procedure writer picked up the

work, when I was dismissed.

3/1993

- 4/1993ESA, Inc. contracting for Westinghouse Evans City, PA

Test Automation Engineer

For the Automation of Dynamic Data Analysis Project, Lotus graphs were used to

model and check the dynamic elements. The Lotus graph models for the lag filter

was completed before I arrived on the project. The graph models included

tolerances for the measured responses. I automated the Lotus Graphs by using

Lotus Macros and Foxpro. 8 Graphs a day were graphed manually. Once automated

upto 132 graphs were done in one day. Also, I used the Software Design

Description document to model the PID controller, the lead/lag filters, the

rate/lag filters and the ramps for the manual mode of control.

3/1993

- 7/1994ESA, Inc for a Manufacturing Firm Evans City, PA

Network Engineer

For Repair and Configure Sniffer Lanalyzer Project, found and straightened the

bent pin on the back of Compaq Sniffer. Entered the DECnet node addresses for

the VAXs, and Terminal Servers on the fiber optic backbone. This let the Plant

Fiber Optic Backbone Supervisor monitor, which VAXs caused the most network

traffic. Also, was on the Network Team, which recommended a Bridge to make the

fiber optic backbone into a ring, so that accidental interruption of the

fiberoptic backbone would not affect the attached computer systems.

7/1991

- 3/1993ESA, Inc. contracting for a Manufacturing Firm Evans City, PA

Systems Programmer

For the Replace Custom Indices Project, custom index code caused data

acquisition programs to hang. The source code was replaced with VAX RMS system

calls and, programs ran indefinitely and overall system performance improved.

For the Speed Display Programs Project, replaced routines, which wrote

characters to the terminal one by one with routines, which wrote the screen

with one QIO call. Programs sped up by factor of 10, and fewer resources were

used.

For the Realtime Database Load Project, the Rdb Database on the MicroVax 3100

was only updated once per week. I was not responsible for updating the

database. I was responsible for setting up the file shari

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