Anil “Neil” Dave

US Citizen (had interim Security Clearance)

Cell: 650-***-****; email: ady4xy@r.postjobfree.com ; 249 Walter Hays Drive; Palo Alto, CA 94303 6/2023

Profile

●Project Manager/PMBOK Level/MSft PMP/SharedSheet: TCS : Clients: /Albertsons:/Hertz/Maurices/Marriott; Scrum + Planning + Technical Code Review: / Azure/AKS SQL Migration of Java applications suite from DB2 Mainframe data to AKS/Docker Spring Boot; AWS/Informatica/Teradata/:SQL Data Center Migration; Oracle Retail/Bamboo Rose; DataPower/XLTS/Security/ :

●ScrumMaster: Led 4 person team at Wabtec through Sprint Planning, Sprint Execution, Sprint Retrospective for Complex Software Releases to re-factor and add new features for Black Box management and reporting for harsh environment monitoring and post-incident retrieval for regulatory analysis.

●Software Engineer/Embedded/Firmware/Scientist/Project Manager (Agile, JIRA, CONFLUENCE, XP, SCRUM, RUP, CMMI, Rational,Perforce/Jazz/Git), Senior Software Developer, and Program Manager with extensive technical management and leadership experience; (C++, C, Linux, ARM 7/11, Win 7, ATMEL Mega 16, AVR Studio) in three wireless companies in WiMax and Mobile Terminal Middleware and Firmware, as well as software design in a Data Quality startup.

●Hands-on Real-time telecommunications Software Project Management experience; 6 years Hands-on Wireless Systems Development Experience.

●Performance tuning of hardware and software systems: simulation, algorithmic analysis, queuing analysis

● Demonstrated software problem solving skills / ability to solve complex problems with limited information/resource constraints.

●Designed component software for harsh environment communications systems for variable bit rate QOS sensitive applications.

●Expertise in Wi-Fi/WLAN/Bluetooth/BLE/NFC, GPIO, CAN, communications software and secure communication protocols (Linux, ARM11)

●Experience in defining Product / QA requirements, Architecture, Design, Development through Software/Hardware life cycle for Mobile Linux platforms, Bluetooth, SIP, UMA, mobile wireless terminals, edge network components, core network management, and core fault recovery/diagnostic systems on Linux/ARM11.

●Experience in Networking, RF/WLAN, WAN, MAC level Device driver design (Linux, ARM11) & QA implementations per IETF/RFCs.

●Experience in design, development, implementation and QA support for Bluetooth, TCP/IP, MAC/PHY/RF layer for IEEE 802.11.

●Experienced with entire life cycle of software development engineering operations for fixed & mobile network. Versed in Linux/Lauterbach embedded tools: gdb, busybox, pthreads, ipconfig, arp, & others for debugging routing/switching issues.; also Win 7 netsh, NDIS, WLAN device drivers

●Experience in BLUETOOTH, WLAN/GSM/GPRS//WiMax, WAN, LAN hardware.

●Development Experience with C/C++ (Linux, Perforce, ARM11/GNU/GCC, CM Synergy, Kdevelop, gdb, Lauterbach, ARM Real View).

●Development experience with SNMP Element Management in wireless mesh and ad-hoc networks.

●DOD experience: embedded Software development for military applications, MANET, Ad Hoc, mesh network design, implementation, and testing; secure communications, Doors, program management, COTS, frequency agile radio, cognitive radio, network management.

●Developed flight-hardened analytical instruments for space research, as well as Data Science/FFT to extract patterns

Technical Skills

Operating Systems

Linux, (RTOs) Monta Vista Linux, (RTOS) eCos, Yocto, Red Hat & Ubuntu Linux, Win7

Hardware

BSP, ARM11, ARM7, x86/64, PIC, Freescale/MIPS, ATMEL AVR

Languages

C, C++/11, Python, Java, UML, bash, C#.net, Obj C, L2-L7

Services/Protocols

TCP/IP, DHCP, SNMP v3, UDP, IPSec, 802.x, GPIO, CAN, Crash Hardened Memory

Servers

Apache, Ngnx, MySQL, Linux, GCP

Middleware/Firmware

RTOS device drivers for X86, ARM

SW Environments

Yocto, Monta Vista, Android, iOS,Ubuntu, Linux C/C++, C#, Lauterbach, ARM/Real View,Valgrind, Jupiter, AKS, Spring Boot, Docker, AWS, Azure

Tools

Visual Studio, Clear Case, CVS, CM Synergy, Perforce, GIT, DOORS, Net SNMP, Chariot, iPerf, Eclipse, xCode, Spring Boot, Android, Informatica

Professional Experience

Project & Skills Summary: Embedded Software/Firmware Engineer: executed Linux/Embedded contract assignments (Spendgo.com, Lark.com, Quantenna.com, PowerCloud Systems, Bruker, CableLabs, Dolby,RightOn, Wabtec, Think Surgical, TCS/ASP) developing C++ Windows USB filter driver for scanning POS metadata, TI/Linux Bluetooth low energy applications for embedded devices, 802.11n 4X4 MIMO sniffer in embedded Linux on a Quantenna chip, and currently at PowerCloud Systems Embedded Firmware Engineer developing/debugging range extension for a cloud controlled WLAN router as well as ipset blocking of restricted sites on openWRT/Linux/MIPS platform, Linux platform engineering and WLAN/Ethernet/USB/LCD device driver for ARM7/ARM11/PIC BSP, iOS Health Kit Machine Learning medical app; QNX Embedded Firmware

TCS Site Engineer and Project Manager: time-bound assignments in CA: ASP, Irvine; LUCID Newark, ABS Pleasanton, Hertz,Maurices,Marriott: 2019 to present

Technologies:

●QNX Embedded Firmware for Medical devices

●Platform support: Installed QNX, modified BSP to support AM335X and Analog/Digital Peripherals through QNX Resource Manager for I2C, SPI, and ADC interfaces; implemented TDP per QNX mount of .so libraries.

●Autosar Test Management on Secure Boot Loader

●Azure AKS/Docker SQL Migration of Java applications suite from DB2 Mainframe

●IBM/Oracle/Teradata->AWS: retire Legacy Platform: migrate historical data + Live Feed -> Teradata using Informatica to normalize -> step to AWS migration (future)

●API/Identity Management/: Migrate legacy API to Single-SignOn, Security

Think Surgical, Fremont, CA 2018 - 2019

Embedded Software Drivers for Linux Driver Peripherals: GPIO, CAN, Optical Modems, Robotic attachments: pendants, hydraulics, floor lifts, optical LED position markers.

RightOn, Mountain View, CA: CTO 20132018: self-funded startup in background time overlapping contracts below:

●Machine Learning libsvm App for Diabetic Monitoring using Bluetooth Wearables/Linux/MongoDB Mobile/cloud GPS mediated secure stateful firewall and proximity sensor development for Bluetooth wearables, IOS/Android health-kit API; Python test framework and scripts to verify services.

●Cloud hosted Linux containers/VM to interface to medical iOT for diabetic monitoring.

Wabtec, Germantown, MD 3/1/17 – 2/13/18

●ScrumMaster for 4 person Software Engineering team: Requirements and Feature Planning, Sprint Planning, Sprint Execution, Sprint Retrospective: 2 week Sprints for Re-factoring Legacy Black Box Monitor for Harsh Environments in Diesel Locomotives for Regulated FRA Customer (Union Pacific).

●Added Responsibility to ScrumMaster: Embedded Software Engineering Lead: Video & Data Monitoring Product in harsh environment for long-term railway locomotive operations. Linux 4.3 kernel driver debug for memory leaks (Valgrind) leading to EEPROM corruption.

Dolby, Sunnyvale, CA 11/18/16 -1/14/17

● Embedded Linux: WebRTC/Chromium V4l2loopback on X86 for Gstreams

CableLabs, Louisville, CO 4/17/16-7/15/16

●Embedded Linux Atheros AP Wi-Fi/OpenWrt/ driver for LTE mitigation

Bosch, Palo Alto, CA 9/24/2015 – 12/14/2015

●C++ architecture/component for Infotainment: GPS data flow to JSON parser to SQLite3 persistence with archiving and pub/sub analytics.

Varite/Cisco, San Jose, CA. 6/22/15 – 7/15/15

●Python port to ARM 7 Linux: investigate feasibility.

SONY San Mateo, CA. 1/5/15 – 5/15/15

●Developed ARM7 USB kernel gadget for 3d audio using AW20/H3 BSP.

ERG, American Micro Semi, San Jose, CA 9/29/14-10/17/14

●Embedded/firmware ARM/Yocto BSP: Built, debugged, and tested ARM Ethernet driver kernel code on a BSP supporting Network timing.

Bruker, Fremont, CA 2/24/14-10/1/14

●Linux Yocto/ (RTOS) MontaVista/eCOS /Platform BSP engineer, build engineer, Linux Embedded software development on a multi-processor network {Linux ARM11, PIC, CAN/I2C}: Monta Vista/bitbake, ACE/Mentor/Rox object broker builder: LCD kernel device driver, PID controller for instrumentation control.

●Debugged and designed a new feature/sensor on a CAN bus integration of PIC processors/sensors/detectors to an ARM 11; the system also used SPI bus for other sensors.

PowerCloud, Palo Alto, CA 7/13-2/22/14

●Embedded/firmware: Developed/debugged Linux openWRT middleware running in a MIPS/openWRT router for filtering DNS requests from an (ipset) list of blocked MAC addresses restricted from accessing the DNS requests.

●Debugged middleware (bash, C) scripts on openWRT to reconfigure the platform's (iptables and ebtables: firewall, L2 bridge) for range extension of the 802.11n AP's on the router.

●Debugged performance/throughput issues on the router related to the firewall and bridge implementation of the 802.11n WLAN in range extension mode.

Quantenna, Fremont, CA 3/13-7/13

●Embedded/firmware: Developed Linux kernel mode socket buffer to capture/format data from a Quantenna 4X4 MIMO chip/driver interfaced over a Windows socket into a third-party GUI from WildPackets for sniffing 802.11n networks.

Spendgo, San Francisco, CA 9/12/-3/13

●Embedded/firmware: Developed a Linux/Windows USB kernel mode sniffer using an open source version of libusb that {scanned, formatted, and parsed retail receipt metadata} from a USB stream sent by a retail Point of Sale ("POS") application to an Epson printer; developed .NET/C# middleware that formatted the data for a Windows socket into a Python app into a back-end data center (cloud).

●Developed Python test framework and scripts for verifying services.

Summary: these contract projects from 9/2012—current require {C/C++/C#, Objective C, bash script, Python) skills in Embedded Linux/Monta Vista and Windows kernel build environments (GIT/Gerrit//Perforce/SVN, gcc, Visual Studio, openWRT,iOS,Objective C) in kernel mode and middleware from L1/L2/L3 chip/driver interfaces up to Layer 7 socket programming and GUI debugging in an embedded (ARM 7 and ARM11, X86, MIPS) environment. Currently applying Machine Learning to an app for iOS Health Kit.

CyberPoint, Baltimore, MD 8/2010 – 8/2012

Senior Engineer (Security Software)

●Linux/Windows kernel internals drivers for intrusion defense; Linux intrusion fuzzer with Flex/Bison processor

Agilent Technologies, Santa Clara, CA 10/19/09- 6/2010

Senior Engineer

●High performance Linux kernel & platform development for Atomic Microscopy; socket clients for fast/reliable TCP/IP transport, command parsers and GUI, FPGA control interface, GPU and data compression for high fidelity GUI.

Microsoft, Redmond, WA 7/14/08-10/1/09

Program Manager/ScrumMaster specifically for WLAN Vendor Management for Windows 7 Release

●ScrumMaster: Vendor Management for driver submissions from QUALCOMM/Atheros, Intel, Broadcom, Ralink, Realtek

●Details: Windows 7: WLAN drivers, IPSEC debugging, WPA2/PSK, Teredo, debugging; bug triage and resolution for NDIS, miniport, LWF; WHQL/Logo, NDISTest, OCA, DNF, and IHV localization. Class driver and OCA mitigation design. Windows 7, Vista internals, .NET.

Broadcom Inc., San Jose, CA 3/1/2006-7/1/08

Principal Senior Engineer

●Embedded Linux SW porting and development on ARM11/Linux based platforms, (original Raspberry PI using the Broadcom 2835/2836) for mobile, multi-media, broadband communications platforms and chips; Bluetooth, 802.XX, coexistence; broadband HCI interfaces to smart handheld platforms: debug and problem isolation for baseband and Host protocol stack for embedded platforms.

SDRC Inc., San Diego, CA 2/15/2005-2/15/2006

Senior Engineer

●Linux embedded software: Distributed Element Ad-Hoc Wireless Communications Networks, EMS, SNMP: (see unclassified company public profile at www.sdrcinc.com

●Areas of expertise: distributed Linux Element Management System; expertise: L1/L2/L3 Ad-Hoc protocol and mesh networks for harsh, secure communications environments, high reliability/availability; expertise: policy based spectrum management and policy based, cognitive software-defined radio L1/L2 stack. IPSEC, IPV4/6 networking.

Samsung Telecommunications, Dallas, TX 1/2005-2/2005

Software Handset Test Developer

●Mobile Test Group Executed a contract for developing robust testing scripts for Mobile handsets using C # /.NET to automate commercial acceptance tests of advanced mobile terminals for T-Mobile, Cingular, and Verizon.

TekMobile, Santa Clara, CA 2004 – 2005

Software Developer, System Designer

●Designed Linux middleware to support seamless mobility per UMA spec across Cell (GSM) and WLAN supporting 802.11 QOS and VoIP; evaluated algorithms to compensate for Network delay, jitter for VoIP; designed C implementation of UMA Protocol class interfaces to MAC layer and SIP/GSM Session layer; QOS service implementation for VoIP quality constraints.

●DNS interfaces.

●Evaluated the technical feasibility (API’s, foot print, network management) of providing a generic UMA/COPS client that would run on Linux.

●All efforts were a part of a business proposal to raise venture funds from Siemens Venture

PartsRiver, South San Francisco, CA 1999 –2003

Senior Manager, Co-Founder, Software Development Engineer

●Designed Oracle 8i based reference data and schema for parsing purchasing and invoice data warehouse contents for Data Quality Assurance, Data Normalization, and Data Dimensioning.

●Developed XML schema to represent complex structures describing hierarchical relationships for use in transactional Web services for purchasing.

●Designed semantic network to model data synchronization services.

●Defined Data Synchronization systems and protocols for item synchronization services across procurement networks.

●Evaluated Tibco EAI protocols and software for synchronizing data in real-time across multiple warehouses.

●Designed SAP S/D BAPI’s to integrate multi-level, virtual data warehouses across customers and suppliers ERP.

●Got company funded at $8M, developed a high ROI service, and landed first paying customer (Ryder) saving him over $10 M/year of excess purchases.

Compnet: Founder, President, General Manager, Wholesale Distributor $ 2M sales, team size 10 + Sales, Accounting, Warehouse, IT: 1986-2003

Bell Northern Research: Manager II, PBX Systems Design, team size 10+ Senior Engineers and Managers I : 1979-1986

1970-1979: Bell Labs (1970-72) Embedded Software, (1972 +) GTE/Automatic Electric: Manager II, Class 4/5 Switching Systems Software Development, team size 30+ Software Engineers and Managers I; successfully released two commercial systems to GTE Operating Companies : area of specialization for my charter was Network Management, Firmware Stack for Peripherals, System Recovery

Education:

AB, MS, PhD Physics: Carnegie-Mellon/UCLA (AB), University of California at San Diego (MS, PhD) 1957-4/1970;

MS Computer Science, Software Development and Management: Carnegie-Mellon University, CMU: 5/2010

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