MICHAEL ANDREW DAVIS II

Cell: 830-***-****

Uvalde, TX 77801 cz6y4b@r.postjobfree.com

A seasoned software engineer and recently graduated electrical engineer. I have extensive work experience as a software engineer but having a deep interest in hardware systems I recently went to school to pursue a degree in electrical engineering. I’m currently working as a contract engineer in both software and hardware.

EDUCATION

B.S. Electrical Engineering, Dwight Look College of Engineering, Texas A&M University. Completed in 3 years.

INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCE

I have extensive international experience in East Asia and the Middle East, having spent over 4 years living abroad as a civilian. For over two years I lived in Japan from ’02 to ’04. I can speak, read, and write Japanese fluently. Stemming from this I have also invested a large amount of time in studying Chinese. My speaking ability is beginner but I can read at an intermediate level. I also spent nearly three years living abroad in the Middle East from ’06 to ‘08, in both Qatar and Yemen. I can speak, read, and write Arabic at an intermediate level. I also have extensive travel experience throughout Europe, Asia, and the Middle East.

ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING

I’m a fresh electrical engineer with notable academic design experience, but my work experience in these areas is however limited.

Technical Areas

Signals/Communications, Controls, Embedded Systems, Power Systems, and Power Electronics

Design Experience

As a student I have worked on a wide variety of design projects. Brief summary:

• Developed a power inverter for use with the cigarette lighter in vehicles. The inverter would convert 12VDC power to +/- 240VAC and would operate reliably at 500W consumption. At any power rate the system would generate a clean sinusoidal output ideal for both electronics and inductive loads.

• Developed a model for analyzing and correcting power flow problems in transmission systems. Model was used to correct real-world load problems on a power grid in Qatar.

• Developed a computer model to analyze the effects of fast fading in a wireless communications channel. The system would compare and contrast the effects of fading when various aspects of the system were altered and make recommendations on the most cost-effective arrangement per the SNR (signal-to-noise ratio).

• Developed a digital wireless radio communication system. System utilized standard modulation techniques.

• Developed an MCU-based alarm system. The system monitored 10 windows and doors in real time. A color LCD panel and several buttons served as the user interface. The user could enter a password to arm/disarm the system and control which “zones” to monitor. When armed an alarm would sound when a zone was tripped and the LCD panel would indicate which zone was the cause.

• Developed nonintrusive power load monitoring system for commercial and residential buildings. System utilized signal processing to separate individual loads inside the structure and analyze their performance. System was web-based with real-time monitoring.

• Developed a wireless sensor network for automated environmental event monitoring. The system was specifically designed to detect leaks in structures and also serve as a “smart” diaper system. Throw-away sensors were developed from scratch to detect moisture. These sensors were inductors. EMF generated from an interrogator circuit would flow through the sensor. A MCU would then watch the sensor and signal processing was used to detect the level of moisture. If deemed “wet” the sensor would trip and it would then communicate this wirelessly to a base station. The base station connected by USB to a Windows-based PC that served as the controlling system. The system monitored 255 wireless sensors in real time.

Additional Skills

In the course of my studies and design projects I also gained a lot of design and hands-on experience with PCBs and rapid prototyping. I have designed many printed circuit boards with Eagle and NI Ultiboard. This experience includes both 2- and 4-layer boards, utilizing both SMD and through-hole components. I also have extensive experience with SolidWorks and 3D rapid prototyping. I’ve worked with several 3D plastic printers and also Arcam’s 3D titanium printer.

I also have a lot of experience with the following software packages relevant to analysis and design in various aspects of electrical engineering.

Circuits: PSPICE, NI Multisim

DAQ/Signal Processing: NI LABView

Math/Signal Processing/Communications: Matlab

Power Systems: Power World, PSCAD

Power Electronics: PSIM

Microprocessor IDEs and Compilers: Microchip-related products (in both C/assembly), 8051-comptatible products (both C/assembly), Rabbit Semiconductor products, TI products, Si Labs products

CAD: Solid Works, NI Ultiboard, Cadsoft Eagle

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING

I’m an accomplished software engineer specializing in multi-tiered Internet-capable software systems. Have a proven record as a self-starter capable of handling difficult assignments. Professional accomplishments include management, project management, and software development in a wide range of industries. Over ten years professional work experience.

Technical Experience

Languages: C, C++, Java (J++, J2EE), C#, Visual Basic, VBScript, JavaScript, SQL, Perl, PHP

Server Scripting Languages: ASP (VBScript), ASP.Net (C# & VB), PHP, Cold Fusion, Perl

Formatting Languages: HTML, DHTML, XML, CSS

Technology: ATL, MFC, Windows API, Win32 API, IIS, ISAPI, MSMQ, Crystal Reports, ActiveX, COM, DCOM, NTFS, .Net, DirectX, OpenGL, TCP/IP, ActiveX

Database: MySQL 3.0/4.0/5.0, Access, Sybase, SQL Server 2000/2005/2008, ODBC

Development Tools: Microsoft Visual Studio .Net 2003/2005/2008/2010 (Visual C++, ASP.Net / C#, Visual J++, VB), Front Page and other HTML editors, Photoshop, Illustrator, Flash, Installshield, Demoshield, MSI, Eclipse, CVS

Operating Platforms: Windows, Windows Server, IIS, Apache, Linux (Fedora, Ubuntu, Red Hat), Sharepoint (MSS/WSS), Windows Mobile, iPhone

WORK EXPERIENCE

International Safety & Development, San Diego, CA, 2010 – Current

Working as contract electrical engineer on development of two new patent-holding products in the energy industry.

Cyth Systems, San Diego, CA, 2010

Worked as contract software engineer on intranet business applications, Outlook add-ins, and desktop applications involving PC-based C# and C++ development.

United States Navy, 2008 – 2010

After graduating from Texas A&M University I joined the United States Navy to become a Navy SEAL. While in the middle of Basic Underwater Demolition / SEAL training in Coronado, CA, my family experienced some changes that required my attention. I was subsequently honorably discharged from active duty naval service for family hardship reasons with the option to return at a later date if/when the hardship is able to be resolved.

Contract Electrical / Software Engineer, 2005-Present

I have worked as a contract electrical/software engineer on a wide-variety of projects for a wide-variety of companies for the past several years. Projects include everything from web development to MCU-based C development, firmware programming, data acquisition, power electronics systems, control systems, and wireless communications systems.

Capsher Software, Bryan, TX Spring 2006

I worked as a part-time software engineer during the while taking a full load of classes at Texas A&M University in College Station. Worked mostly on .Net Windows Forms applications developed in C# with Visual Studio 2005. The applications ranged from internet-driven applications that were developed to control in-house intranet services to multi-tiered desktop database applications.

Gold Tank Inspection Service, Houston, TX, 2005-2006

I designed a kind of inventory system for a global tank inspection company. It’s a multi-tiered solution that allows the company to manage all of its tank inspection records and provide a means for clients to access them. A desktop application written in C++ lets employees for the company maintain all of the inspection and client records. Clients can then access their records online through a web-based application developed in C#/ASP.net that plugs into the system, as well as through desktop software that caches the records for offline reference.

Title Control Systems, Inc., Glendale, CA, 2005-2006

I redeveloped a desktop software application used in the pharmaceutical industry for tracking patient records. The application operated by “sniffing” LPT ports and grabbing data from existing software when prescriptions were printed. Data was sifted and databased as it went by.

Reikan Corporation, Gilbert, AZ, 2004-2005

Worked as a contract software engineer on two projects. One project was a community portal/ecommerce site developed in C#/ASP.net. The second project was a desktop application for studying various foreign languages (C++/XML).

GameHappy, Bryan, TX 1999-2002

GameHappy was an online portal / software company in the video game industry. They offered a variety of online technologies and content-driven sites in support of several popular video games. Network-wide they received more than one million unique visitors and tens of millions of page views PER DAY, their portals were among some of the most-visited at the time. They also offered web-hosting services to over 100,000 clients. My responsibility and calling was the Senior Software Engineer and Networking Guru for GameHappy.

I designed the architecture of their entire network, including the hardware, but the software design was the real weight of my responsibilities. Server-side code written in C++ provided a kind of

self-healing load balancing system that managed close to a hundred Windows 2000 servers with 99% uptime. Everything was automated so that only a minimal technical staff was required to serve the millions of customers.

Additionally, I was also responsible for various online content-based and ecommerce properties. Most of these services were developed in ASP/ASP.Net & MySQL.

I also participated in the development of several famous online games such as Counter-Strike and Diablo II. Third party add-ons and various support type tools were developed in Java and C++ to support the games, several being bundled with the games themselves.

I also responsible for a desktop software package/online service that allowed consumers to lease and manage video game servers for various online FPS games such as Quake 1, 2, & 3, Counter-Strike, Half-Life, Unreal, and Tribes. The program was developed in C++ client and server-side, with a variety of ASP.net pages (VB) that handled the payment-side of the service.

Oarsman Corporation, College Station, TX 1997-2000

Oarsman Corporation was an engineering firm that specialized in energy, and was the leading designer of energy analysis software at the time. I was hired as a contract software engineer to work on their desktop software Beacon. The windows-based desktop software was developed in C++ with MFC. I worked on a team and was primarily responsible for the GUI and management side of the application. Other engineers developed the calculation engines that performed the various energy analysis calculations. My job was to tie that into the front-end, generate misc. graphs and reports with the numbers, provide an interface for users to input data into the calculation engine, provide file I/O for the creating and recalling saved projects, etc. All programming was in C++ with Visual C++.

The software was also ported into a variety of internet-capable applications. Browser-based versions of the software were developed for online use. ASP/.Net, Java and other internet technologies were used for porting the application to the web.

Lower Colorado River Authority (LCRA), Austin, TX

LCRA is a multi-billion dollar power company located in Austin. I was hired to develop a web-based product named PowerHouse. It is an energy conservation program for school kids. School kids use the software to enter misc. data about their homes, which in turn gives them a report on how much everything is costing them on their electric bill, how much energy they are using, and what kind of an impact this has on the environment. The program was developed in a combination of ASP, Java, and C++.

BicycleMall.com / California Springs, Santa Fe Springs, CA

I was hired by California Springs to develop an online portal called BicycleMall.com. At the time, online sales were starting to become a serious threat to all the “Mom and Pop” bicycle shops across the country. This site was intended to send people back to the shops, increasing their sales. The site offers “deals” to consumers in the form of coupons. Manufactures, distributors, and bike shops all signup as sponsors of the site. Through the site manufacturers offer special deals that can be bought into by distributors and then bike shops. These deals then make it down to the end-use consumers through the coupons. After distributors and bike shops signup, offering the deals, coupons become available through the site. Consumers browse through gear in the online store, select a product, enter their zip code, and bike shops in their local area offering that product at that special price appear. They then print out a coupon and take it to their local shop to claim the special price. Sponsors of the site include companies such as Trek, Specialized, Giant, Schwinn, Redline, and Bell. Most development work was in ASP/.Net and C++, with others for special needs.

Cycle Source, Houston, TX

Until being sold to Catalyst Corporation, CycleSource was one of the leading online destinations among cycling enthusiasts. It was a very database-intensive ecommerce/content portal. I was the senior software and network engineer responsible for the entire development and operation of the portal, which served over 500,000 daily customers. Most development work was in ASP/.Net and C++, with others for special needs.

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