• Embedded systems include intelligent elevator controllers, pipe inspection systems, automated test systems, 3-D rotational steering tool firmware, gas injection well controllers, rod pump controllers, gas pipeline RTUs, fetal monitoring systems, cardiac pacemaker and implanted insulin pump programmers, digital signal processing systems, V.80 modem firmware, embedded networked PC multimedia, road roughness monitor for Texas highway department, gas chromatographs, and intelligent sensors including an intelligent triaxial accelerometer module for rail cars.
• Kernel and device driver level programming experience includes custom UDP protocol handlers under Linux & Win32, compact PCI middleware interface for Win32/NTembedded, B-tree file systems, writing real-time kernels from scratch, and targeting RTOS packages from several vendors to specific hardware.
• Commercial systems include medical dispensing cabinet control interface to commercial database software (Dataflex), and complete networked (Novell) accounting, MRP, and formulations control system for industrial chemical manufacturing industry.
• Technology consulting in communications (ZigBee, 802.11, UWB, satellite & cellular telephony), sensors (chemical, radiological, biological, & environmental), acoustics (interferometry), & physical metrology (viscosity, temperature, pressure, acceleration).
• Consulting client list includes Compaq, Motorola/ Metrowerks, Pathfinder Energy Services, Cray Research, IBM, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Pathfinder Energy Services, Fairfield Industries, Tuboscope, Intermedics, Digicon, Dresser, and Meditrol.
• Has sat on corporate-level committees for Baker Hughes and Basic Four. Speaker on software management for Baker Hughes Software Conference.
• Was on the ANSI working committee for the High Performance Parallel Interface (HPPI), an 800/1600 Mbit/sec. network and visualization interface.
• Wrote and implemented ISO 9000-3 and CMM level 5 compliant software development procedures. Developed automated tool suite for validation of C/C++ compilers and associated tools.
• Wrote portions of the standard run-time library for the Symantec C++ compiler.
• Archivist for "SNIPPETS", a megabyte+ compendium of free C source code available internationally via the Internet and various amateur BBS networks. Authored ~35%. See http://www.snippets.org.
• Author of "C Snippets" sidebar features and other articles in Dr. Dobb's Journal. Wrote "Exploiting DOS" column for Tech Specialist magazine. Wrote a portion of MS-DOS Systems Programming (1st printing), published by R&D Press. Also published in C/C++ Users Journal.
• Author of "The MicroFirm Toolkit", a package of 28 utility programs for IBM PCs, published both as shareware and commercially distributed.
• Author of "The MicroFirm Function Libraries" for MS/PC-DOS programmers using the Microsoft, Borland, Symantec, or Watcom C and C++ compilers, a general purpose library of over 400 system-level programming functions.
• Moderator of the SNIPPETS.ORG programming conference mailing lists... Moderator (1990-1991 & 1996-1997) of the FidoNet C programming conference (the C_Echo), an elected position. FidoNet was an amateur computer network predating the Internet for amateur use and the C_Echo was carried internationally by over 2,000 amateur Bulletin Board Systems (BBS's).
• Hardware background in geophysical and seismic instrumentation, rheological instru­men­tation, automated test equipment, hardware DSP, networking, Doppler radar, downhole instrumentation, high-speed visualization, and medical instrumentation.
• Patents on surgical glove monitoring system, high-pressure viscometers, and gasoline additive dispensing systems. Patents pending or in process on intelligent sensors.
• Designed and implemented a number of virtual instruments using LabVIEW for test equipment.