Career Summary
System Architect with 20 years of experience in the successful analysis, design, and implementation of home automation and security, alarm monitoring. Expertise includes: structured design methods (Yourdon & DeMarco), real time systems, computer simulation and prototyping. Mentor and lead other engineers in product development. Major strengths include:
- System Analysis
- System Design
- Creative Problem Solving
- Product Development
- Communication & Protocols
- Innovative Solutions
Computer competencies include:
- Java
- C
- Assembly Language
- Object Oriented Programming
- Real-Time
- Windows
Work Experience
2006 - Present Nexa Technologies Irvine, CA
Principal Software Engineer Lead development engineer and manager for market data group responsible for interfacing to exchanges, gathering market data, normalizing it to internal formats, and then providing that financial data to both internal and external customers. The current workload is processing over 8 billion messages a day for all exchanges to which we interface.
- Utilizing statistical methods found ways to reduce the communication errors from the financial exchanges by over four orders of magnitude.
- Managing market data group of software developers, QA test engineers, and production engineers located in Irvine, CA and Plano, TX.
1996 - 2006 GE Medical Systems Information Technologies Milwaukee, WI
Senior Software Engineer 1996 - 2006
Lead development engineer for real time medical patient monitoring systems and communication devices to provide patient information to GE patient monitoring systems.
- Developed and supported all VitalCom product lines after relocation to Milwaukee. Successfully transitioned product development processes to GE corporate standards.
- Assumed the responsibilities of over 6 engineers, when California office relocated.
- Interfaced with customer and third party developers to lead specification and creation of an innovative client/server package that other customers requested GE sell when they heard about it.
- Lead development team adding additional protocol converters to an embedded gateway device. This was performed in C on the C Executive RTOS using serial and Ethernet connections. These interfaces provided for over $12 million dollars of sales.
- Mentored development engineers in the GMP (Good Manufacturing Practice) and corporate development procedures allowing products to meet FDA required standards.
- Implemented cardiac ST monitoring, for an OEM customer, developed using C on the Vertex RTOS (real time operating system) allowing the customer to enter new markets.
- Developed caching scheme that allows remote physiological waveform display to appear continuous despite Internet latency breaks in data, facilitating patient diagnosis.
1977 - 1996 Honeywell Inc., Irvine CA
Senior Engineering Fellow 1993 - 1996
System Architect for System 7000, Honeywell's newest home security system. Senior Engineering Fellow is third highest technical position at Honeywell.
- Designed and developed an innovative user interface solution that strengthened Honeywell's position as the leading producer of user friendly home alarm systems.
- Analyzed and developed a rapid prototype of the System 7000 . By simulating the entire system on a personal computer the product development time was reduced by more than 8 person months.
- Created the System 7000 configuration tool by reusing more than 75% of the TotalHome® configuration tool's code allowing Honeywell to introduce the product on schedule and reduce development costs by more than 70%.
- Developed and implemented design procedures that led to ISO 9001 certification.
Software Systems Specialist 1985 - 1993
System Architect for TotalHome® Honeywell's home automation system. TotalHome® became the industry leader in less than a year.
- Developed the TotalHome® home automation simulation system. This saved more than a years time in developing a home automation package and resulted in multiple patents.
- Analyzed requirements for TotalHome® and created the TotalHome® programmer that allowed Honeywell to meet it's development schedule, budget, and target product cost.
- Designed and developed an alarm communication simulation allowing alarm monitoring systems to be verified for performance and function without putting real customers at risk.
- Developed, jointly with HIS Italia, a new product (Centry) enabling Honeywell to create a profitable new market segment.
Principal Software Engineer 1983 - 1985
System Architect for the development of the real time alarm monitoring system, PS-6. Developed in house design standards for product development.
- Developed, as part of the U.S./British team, a resilient non stop computer system. Developed a real time alarm monitoring system, based on that technology, enabling Honeywell operators to monitor 1000 customers instead of 200.
Senior Software Engineer 1980 - 1983
Led a team responsible for subsystem analysis, definition, and implementation. Analyzed and partitioned software system, as a member of the High Level Design Team, Provided management with schedules and dependencies to complete the software project.
Programmer/Analyst 1978 - 1980
Responsible for the analysis, design and implementation of a new software subsystem for the existing real-time alarm monitoring system, CENTRA-COM.
Associate Project Engineer 1977 - 1978
Responsible for the planning and installation of 2 CENTRA-COM systems.
1975 - 1977 Diversified Numeric Applications Bloomington, MN
Special Programmer/Analyst 1975 - 1977
Developed special programming for hospital laboratory systems. Implemented a computer to computer (bisynchronous) communication system.
Education:
Bachelor of Elective Studies (B.E.S.) Majors: Computer Science & Mathematics, University of Minnesota, December, 1975.
Awards:
1995 - U. S. Patent #5,461,372 for the system and method of modifying security in a security system.
1993 - U. S. Patent #5,225,806 for a security system having mode control of sensor points.
1992 - H. W. Sweatt Engineer Scientist Award, Honeywell's highest award for Engineers/Scientists.
1986 - H. W. Sweatt Engineer Scientist Award.