Air Force Test and Training Range Data Link

• Developed proprietary TDMA, low latency, high throughput routing and control network application for custom designed radios
• Debugged real time applications with problems including including dead locks, priority inversion, limited memory and CPU, and constrained debugging tools
• After vendor tools proved incapable, created a custom event and scheduler tracker to determine context switches and execution times of threads
• Integrated waveform onto developing hardware, having to adapt to its changes as the project progressed
• Created test harnesses and controls to exercise the full functionality of software and ensure it fulfilled all requirements
• On my own initiative implemented nightly builds for the program to ensure code stability
• To overcome limited hardware assets, created simulators to test multiple radios on a single host computer, while keeping the majority of the application code “in the loop” to minimize simulation artifacts

Cryptography Development

• Selected by my management to assist a high visibility, high stakes program that was under performing
• Worked with existing team members to identify problems, improve their skills, and implement features
• Project was steered back on track to a successful completion

Link 16 Radio Development

• Integrated legacy waveforms to newly designed hardware and third party operating system (Nucleus)
• Debugged communication buses between custom hardware boards
• Integrated custom cryptography device (from hardware signaling up to application level protocols) with host controller
• Ported waveform application code from Ada to C++

• Created a custom and easily configurable GUI in Java using Swing allowing users to search a residential property database
• Assisted with developing a SOAP-style protocol for network communication
• Created a dynamic street level mapping application utilizing the open source project MapServer
• Used unit testing and code reviews to ensure code accuracy and quality

• Organized work schedules for coworkers and plan monthly meetings
• Diagnosed and solved any hardware or software problems students or staff encountered
• Assisted in organizing, editing, and writing The Kernel, a campus-wide monthly publication discussing the activities of the campus’s computing center

• Programming expertise in C, C++, C#, Python, Java, SQL, Perl
• Scope of programming experience ranges from low level operating system drivers to control GUIs
• Software development and debugging of real time operating system (specifically RT-Linux and Nucleus)
• Use of a variety of compilers: GCC tool chain, Visual Studio, Visual DSP, Code Composer, NIOS2 IDE,
• Networking: TCP/IP, UDP, Raw Ethernet, SOAP, CORBA
• Development Tools: scons, make, subversion, ClearCase, shell scripting
• Third party libraries: boost, .Net, IoComp
• Experience with XML and XSLT
• Lab Equipment Knowledge: Oscilloscope, Logic Analyzer, Spectrum Analyzer, Multimeter, Power Supply, Power Meter

• First Lego League Volunteer Mentor
• Salvation Army Red Kettle Bell Ringer
• Cedar Valley Running Association, Equipment Manager and Webmaster
• Midwest Extreme Triathlon Club
• Sticks in the Water Paddling Club