Rockwell Collins, Inc.

Cedar Rapids, Iowa - July 1999 to Present

At Rockwell Collins I am a senior software engineer, primarily working on communication products in a real-time, embedded systems environment. Here are some highlights of my work experience:

• Implemented a DSDV-based network routing protocol for an airborne, ad-hoc network.
• Primary architect of a SATCOM protocol message processor. The design was reused on several subsequent programs within the department.
• Championed the use of open source software within the department. Created an open source model for code sharing across teams within the deparment.
• Participated in flight testing at China Lake Naval Base.
• Experience with porting prototype code to a new hardware platform, maturing the code in the process.
• Extensive debugging, software-hardware integration, and performance optimization experience.
• Designed and implemented a network ingress protocol for an airborne, ad-hoc network.
• Lead engineer for a team of 9 programmers. Led the team through requirements analysis, design, coding, and integration efforts.
• Primary author of a software requirements document for a large software radio waveform.
• Created operating system and architecture abstraction libraries used on multiple programs within the department.
• Considered to be one of the department's C++ experts.
• Mentored programmers in C++. Acted as an advisor to trainers developing in-house C++ training.
• Our team won the Rockwell Collins Chairman's Team Award in 2005.
• Regularly participated in issue resolution with other software, hardware, and systems teams.
• Performed cost-accounting and scheduling duties for a small software team.
• Led several software-hardware integration efforts.
• Written device drivers to interface with cryptographic hardware, serial ports, GPS units, compass & inclinometers, and motorized gimbals.
• Wrote code to load cryptographic keys into hardware crypto-unit.
• Created PC-based simulations of routing protocols.
• Created PC and Python based tools to aid in integration, testing, and debugging.
• Presented training on Python to the department.
• I have represented Rockwell Collins at industry meetings and working groups.

Commonwealth Edison

Braidwood, Illinois - June, 1992 to July, 1999

• Maintained and created simulation models of nuclear power plant systems for six full-scale operator training simulators in FORTRAN, C, and C++.
• Interfaced power plant equipment to training simulators using various real-time embedded systems; utilized serial, shared-memory, and TCP/IP communications.
• Designed and implemented a three-tier client/server database system to manage maintenance requests for the simulators.
• Received Individual Excellence Award in 1996 for creating a simulator computer to plant process computer interface under a very compressed schedule.
• Developed various tools for instructors to test simulator operations.
• Developed embedded software in C on a custom VME board to control thousands of I/O points in a power plant simulator.