Donald E. Cherf Jr.

***** ****** *****, *** *****, CA 92131

858-***-****(c) 858-***-****(h) acs5vt@r.postjobfree.com

QUALIFICATIONS PROFILE

• 20+ years professional software experience; 16+ years in real-time embedded

• Peer Reviews, Defect Tracking, Static Analysis, Unit/Integration/Regression Testing

• Enjoy creating algorithms and sculpting code

• Active Secret/SAR Clearances

TOOLS / LANGUAGES

• C/C++, Ada, UNIX, MSVC++, Tcl, Agile, QNX, XML, Assembly, VAX

• Visual Studio, Green Hills MULTI, ClearCase, ClearQuest, SlickEdit, Subversion, Coverity, VectorCast, GIT, DOORS

• Familiar with Shell Script, PHP, HTML, Java, Javascript, Cold Fusion, Python

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Senior Embedded Software Engineer, Raytheon Company., El Segundo, CA 2008 - 2015

• Wrote code to control various HW

• Locally famous for debugging by ripping out bad code, and finding/fixing other issues

• Became familiar with SNMP, OIDs, and MIBs

• Designed/coded controller for a QNX system (Pub/Sub, Networking)

• Added GUI/CLI functionality in Agile C/C++ environment using Visual Studio

• Worked in embedded, multi-tasking C/C++ programming environment

• Researched and resolved product issues through static analysis

• Added features to Java, C++, and Perl applications

• Took the lead on an Error Handling CSC in a RT embedded system

• Our team met a customer deadline two weeks early

Embedded Software Engineer, Northrop Grumman, Inc., San Diego, CA 1997-2007

• 9 years on F/A-22, CNI System, developed per military standards, primary focus: on-board diagnostics, voice synthesis, & audio conferencing

• Led team of four to update 26 Software Design Documents using everyone's strengths

• Involved in all phases of software lifecycle

• Worked in real-time, embedded, multi-tasking programming environment

• Developed on various processors using Windows XP and AdaMULTI

• Quickly became the DOORS SME, able to assist and advise others

Software Programmer, Screaming Pink, Inc., Carlsbad, CA 1995-1997

• Lead engineer on port of Earthworm Jim from Sega Genesis to Saturn & Playstation

• No code provided for port; we had to play and write the game from scratch!

Game Programmer, Wavequest., San Luis Obispo, CA 1993-1995

• Lead engineer on Bronky & Trakie, a side-scroller to help children w/asthma

• Also, did port of Blackthorne from assembly to C

EDUCATION

• BS Computer Science, San Diego State University, May 1992

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