Experience

March 2007 to Oct 2007

Fantasy Entertainment, Hudson, NH

(now located in Salem, NH)

Commercial Kiosk Photobooths for Fantasy Entertainment of Hudson New Hampshire (who have 5000 booths in shopping malls, tourist attractions, etc, world wide. Working with Fedora 5 and 7. Extensive C code-cracking of legacy system C code. Converted stack-based C-code mush into heap based solid C with keyed-container idiom providing insight into other-wise obscured interface. Extensive study of UDEV rules for use in rpm loaded startup service scripts. X11 core (utilizing X.h). GNU tools, gcc, make, pmake, complex build scripts. Service scripts (in Fedora under /etc/rc.d) and install RPM's for Micro Touch screen driver. Touch Screen XPointer user interface tools. Hardcore reliable (and fast as it gets) C coding. Service scripts and install RPM's for Airprime driver (Verizon version) that at boot starts service (in Fedora at /etc/rc.d/) and custom UDEV rules (in Fedora at /etc/sysconfig/modules/udev-stw.modules and also /etc/udev) in Linux for this airprime card making the wireless device plug-and-play. As always X11 setup, startup, configuration (in Fedora at /etc/X11). Extensive use of gdb with gdb-server and gdb-tui for remote debugging and troubleshooting.

between gigs

Amillia Publishing Company, Natick, MA

While not employed elsewhere, active in pursuit of new engineering opportunities. Amillia Publishing Company is my own company. http://urgecentral.homelinux.com for DYNDNS self-hosted site with PHP served pages all of my own code. Still doing the PHP home web pages More than 95,000 images hosted live with custom PHP code.

Jan 2006 to July 2006

Automated Assemblies Corporation, Clinton, MA

Cutting edge realtime C powered industrial sequencing. Lead Embedded and Real Time architect for the Raptor Series of industrial robots. Candidate was the original architect and software engineer for the sequencer portion of the AAC robotic control system. Cutting edge realtime C powered industrial sequencing. XML, XSLT, RPM, Linux System Administration, Web Site Administration, C, C++, Linux Industrial Robot Control. GUI part done in Kylix based C++ IDE. IPC using XML and persistent shared memory subsystem. XSLT presentation of XML formatted sequence input files. These large scale pick-and place industiral robots are widely distributed by the hundreds in factories world wide especially in China, Europe, Mexico, and the United States of America.

August 2004 to Present

Amillia Publishing Company, Natick, MA

Details Confidential.

May 2004 to July 2004

Automated Assemblies Corporation, Clinton, MA

Lead Embedded/ Real Time architect for the Raptor Series of industrial robots. Image Processing Algorithm Development with the Cognex Insight Camera. Image processing integration with the AAC robotic control system.

December 2003 – February 2004

Zip Leads Direct, Leominster, MA

Developed PHP web scripts for web-spidering: data collection for use in direct marketing.

March 2003 – October 2003

Automated Assemblies Corporation, Clinton, MA

Lead Embedded/ Real Time architect for the Raptor Series of industrial robots.

As a Software Engineering Contractor architect and code control software and GUI for high speed, high-power multi-axis robotics running on Linux. These robots are used for automated takeout of plastic parts from injection molding machines. All work is for the Linux OS in C and C++ using Borland’s Kylix and gcc. Developed real-time robotics automation sequencer. Developed multi-thread command and control client software. Intimate with low voltage industrial controller: specification, BIOS setup, root-boot to Linux, auto-loading OS with Kickstart (either over a network or through CD loading). Intimate with a Motion Engineering Incorporated (MEI) controller card. This controller, utilizing CAN IO and Synqnet, controls high-powered Kollmorgen drives for robotic axis motion. All aspects of Linux boot and development. Real-time automation sequencer running under Linux controlled by a GUI in a separate task (the real stuff that works). Kickstart for Linux load. Very cutting edge low-voltage controller. Linux system administration. MEI toolset. CVS Source control.

May 2002 - July 2002

Green Mountain Optics. LLC (startup), Brattleboro, VT

Control software for optical coating equipment. Multi-threaded RS-232 client software.

Jan 2002 – May 2002

Eustis Cable Enterprises, LTD, Brookfield VT.

C++ Standard Template Library (STL) namespace STD. GUI for tracking and invoicing. Data exchange to MS Excel. Encrypted file formats. Automated input sequencing.

April 2000 - May 2001

Conexant's NetPlane Systems, Inc(once Harris & Jeffries), Dedham, MA

Software/Hardware/Firmware Embedded Engineer:

Networking and TCP/IP Device Driver Development. MPC8260 Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) device driver development. 860/850 ATM device driver. ATM used with the UTOPIA bus and fiber optic connection. Inside Tellecom Switch industry. Device Drivers, Board Support Packages (BSP) development for Motorola MPC8260, VxWorks pSOS, VxWorks, ENEA/OSE operating systems. In Circuit Emulators (ICE) procurement, setup and efficient use of both AMC Powertap and/or ESTC Vision necessary for the root boot development of a microprocessor based boards. 860/8260 PowerPC internals: Communications processor configuration with dual port RAM. MPC8260 work. Ins and outs of MPC8260 ATM. ATM driver theory, design, and implementation. POSIX: RTOS cross platform development IPC, queues, messaging, timers, logging, etc. UDP Remote boot and diagnostics for PowerPC Processors. Advanced debugging interfaces: logging and data display. GREENHILLS, GNU, and DIAB compilers. Various MAKE versions. H&J LEAP interface, LEAP internals (public interface). Tellecom protocol spec and implementation. Multiplatform build system and Makefile design and implementation.

Oct 1999 - Jan 2000

Embedded Support Tools Incorporated, Canton, MA
Senior Software/Embedded Engineer

VxWorks and pSOS BSP releases for PowerPC and 68xxx boards: 860, 860T and 8260 and 68360. Network boot shell for processor startup and configuration of TCP/IP and Mac addresses. Device Drivers for pSOS and VxWorks on PowerPC family of processors: Serial, Flash, Ethernet. 68360, 8260 and 860 assembly language. Network Processor root boot BIOS capabilities. cross platfrom make systems for GNU and DIAB standard C Compilers. Symbol table, code locating, linking and loading for bootable and/or downloadable code: absolute or relative addressing. Multi-thread coding issues, reentrant functions.

Oct 1998 - Aug 1999

Tellabs International, Burlington, MA
Senior Software Engineer, Optical Networking Group

Low level boot code development for PowerPC MPC860T multi-node optical network for telecommunications dense wave division multiplexing fiber optic switcher/router. MPC860T startup and initialization issues. MPC860T registers and on-board peripherals. Presentation of register and initialization data to thin client GUI's based on Windows and/or Solaris. Initialization Modules: generation of MAC and IP addresses for 60 boards in network switch. Source Control, makefile and auto dependency issues. ClearCase source control.

Jan 1996 - June 1998

Kokusai Semiconductor Equipment Corporation(KSEC), Billerica Ma, formally KBTI, formally Bruce Technologies International.
Senior Software Engineer, Software Controls Group

In C Designed, Coded, Tested, Troubleshot and Fixed Control Software for Concurrent Real-time Multi-Axis semi-conductor fabrication furnaces. VxWorks on VME Back Plane utilizing 68000 based processors. Logging, Debugging, Static Database, Pick-and-Place, fault-tolerant algorithms. Group Leader. Design and implementation in C of testable, provable, and error-correcting real-time multi-layer command and control system. Event triggered logging and debugging for legacy furnaces. Advanced error-correcting pick and place algorithmsMaterial tracking algorithms: Routing of wafers and cassettes, custom database. Move and Position Modules for sequencing of robotic automation: movement continuously monitored with modular interlocks. C Safety Interlock Engine for collision avoidance: robots move at the same time. Decoupled modules allow for simulation of devices for development and testing. Advanced 'agenda' modules: simulations allowed test of process sequencing. Static database design in C: keyed container idiom. Modularized Legacy C with Data Wrapping. Eased legacy maintenance: reengineering with data-wrapping and set/get access for logging and control of debugging. Command Line Reporters and Diagnostics. Decoupled GUI Client from Control System Database. Allows multiple GUI control windows.Memory management: Error logging for Networked Error Reporting with PCMCIA Flash Memory logging for anomaly diagnostics. SRAM persistence: error checking, RAM initialization, WinNT, Solaris (UNIX) and VxWorks cross-platform environment. SCCS source control. Software build and debug: Tornado and Crosswind debugger.

July 1988 - Dec 1995

USAF Space Systems Division, Phillips Laboratory
(also called the Air Force Geophysics Laboratory). Hanscom AFB, MA.
Electronics Engineer, Verification and Test Division (PL/SXAD).

Air Force Geophysics Laboratory; Aerospace Engineering; DOD contract management.

Engineering, development, verification, launch, and recovery of balloon, sounding rocket, and Space Shuttle payloads. Management of Information Systems with Signature Authority on equipment requests. Wrote and administered preflight acceptance tests: shake, shock, thermal cycling for DOD scientific aerospace payloads. C++ Control System for Data Collection: Build system, makefiles, 80x86 Assembly device drivers. PC Host to V25 target with RS-232. Interrupt Service Routines. Global Positioning System (GPS) receiver. Designed portable computing device with GPS prototypes. Supervised design and manufacture of Space Shuttle qualified boards: Embedded Controller for Space Shuttle VIPER GAS Experiment for STS-39: Engineered 8085 electronics, 8085 Assembly Code, and makefile and build system. 8 bit A/D. Multiple levels of interrupt control. Switching of 24 high power relays. Integrated at NASA Kennedy Space Center 1990. NASA Goddard, Maryland. VME, C++ Based High-altitude Control System. Deployment at Holloman AFB, NM 1991-1992. Ground crew on various programs including Beam Aboard Rocket (BEAR) at WSMR, NM 1988-1989 (SDIO program); SPEAR, Wallops IS, VA, 1993; various balloon launches at White Sands. Crafted DOS (written in Turbo Pascal from Borland) based GUI library. DOS based GUI fits onto a 300K floppy, and will boot and run from that. Wrote the following applications with this toolset: GUI and Remote Control of Network Machines. GUI for EPROM Formatting in Hex/ASCII with IRIG spec data framing. Telemetry, with s-band RF, monitored and recorded real-time IRIG spec data at rates of 3 Mbits/sec. TCP/IP networking: accessing remote military resources. Parts specification and procurement. Government Acquisition Professional level II. Managed multi-node communications for world-wide deployment of critical mission data. Distributed data to scientists and engineers Antarctica, France, Greenland, New Mexico.

Skills Overview

Design, implementation, and test of fault tolerant control systems.

• C, C++, PHP, XML, Java, Pascal, PERL, Fortran, MFC, Win32, Borland Builder, Visual Studio, etc.

• Embedded software: real-time C, Assembly, Device Drivers.Real-time OS device drivers and board support packages: VxWorks, PSOS, OSE., Linux.

• Automake/Autoconf, gcc, g++, Open Source tools and development.

• SPI interface for injection molding machines (Plastics Industry). Copyright William Perilli, 2005.

• Aerospace (United States Air Force), Telecommunications, and Semiconductor Industries.

• Device Drivers: Serial, ATM, FLASH. Memory Devices, persistence in Static RAM.

• Data persistence: Designs for fault tolerant static and dynamic data bases of all types.

• Fault tolerant algorithms, pick and place. Robotic sequencing and automation. Collision avoidance techniques for Robots. Error Correcting Processes. Event triggered logging.

• Network and communication processor internals (especially PowerPC).

• Linux, OS-X, WinNT/2000/XP, UNIX, Solaris, VxWorks, PSOS, OSE, Vertex OS's (etc).

• Application software for Windows and Linux: C, C++, Visual Studio, C++ Builder.

• Application and Graphical User Interface standards, design and implementation.

• TCCP/IP, POSIX, UNIX V stacks, queues, timers, etc. Multi-threaded real-time.

• Cross platform MAKE systems. Source Control. CVS Linux configure and gmake, pkg-config.

• Network management, setup and configuration.

• Advanced debugging techniques. In-circuit emulators for various microprocessors.

• Technical Writing: Help files, Setup files, Technical Presentations. Customer Service.

Education:

BS in Electrical Engineering, University of Lowell (now U Mass., Lowell).

BA in Communications and Media, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia., PA.