Seeking senior software engineering position in product development or research and development
Technical team leader and team player familiar with all phases of a project's life cycle, strong C and Unix, familiar with other languages, operating systems, web design, threads, real time, structured and object-oriented analysis and design, configuration management, system administration, digital and analog hardware design
NexPress [ was Heidelberg Digital, was Eastman Kodak Co. office Imaging] (1983 - present)
Helped develop the Raster Image Processor (RIP) front end for many of our company's printers. A RIP turns a Page Description Language such as Adobe's Portable Document Format (PDF) into dots for the marking engine to print on paper along with feature selection such as media selection, folding, and stapling. These RIP's were Sun Sparc based PDF, PostScript, TIFF, and PCL for networked color and black and white full featured copier/printers. My responsibilities included architecture, design, and implementation of PDF, PostScript, Common Command Handler, and coordinated integration with other system components. Shipped as Heidelberg Digimaster 9110/9150, Kodak ImageSource 92P/92SP printer (time from architecture to shipping only 7 months) and Kodak ImageSource 70cp copier-printer.
Custom embedded Mips/cexec based PostScript and raster RIP for a near photo quality color thermal die printer using Adobe's Reference System (Kodak XLS 8650 and 8650PS series printers) - responsible for porting the operating system, engine and control panel analysis, design, and implementation
Other projects include: embedded 68030/psos+ based photo quality color printer, image processing hardware and software, parallel processing software (transputer), CCD camera software
Have two US patents and 1 pending, and one European patent
Summer job in process control instrumentation
Niagara County Community College (1981-1982)
Worked part time tutoring students and as a lab assistant while attending school
United States Navy (1975 - 1980)
Cryptologic Technician - preventive and corrective maintenance on sophisticated electronic systems
B.S. Electrical Engineering, 1990, Rochester Institute of Technology, with honors
A.A.S. Electrical Technology, 1983, Niagara County Community College, with high honors