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SYSTEMS CONSULTINGS

Areas of interest
Development Projects, Skills                         detailed in My Resume
New Product Design
Inventor, Visionary, and Systems Architect.
Systems Architecture
Architecture for a Satellite Uplink Controller, in FORTH. Vertex.
Embedded OS "ERTOS", in ADA. (For the Abrams BattleField Management System.) GD Land systems.
Distributed Data Aquisition, in Labview. Northrup Naval Systems.
Wrote Tests System Language Compiler and OS based on the ATLAS Test Language. Gould Ocean Systems.
       (Written in FORTH. Toolset was in use for ten years. )
AIN (Telco) peripheral "SNIP", in FORTH on Unix.  AGCS.
CPCI, SAN Network Oracle Cluster on Linux, and PPC development. Motorola.
Infiniband Design team of the Research and Systems Architecture Group. Motorola.
IBMCAD Re-Architecture, and Code management. (In FORTH). IBM Boulder.
Airport Operations and Ancillary function Software Evaluation. (Code was in FORTH.) Bechtel.

Avionics
Systems Engineering Analysis for Global Air Traffic Management interoperability. Boeing.
Javascript Test Code Review and Verification. Rockwell Collins.
ADA Code Review and Verification. (Arinc and RTCA DO-178B(A)). Cemsol, Boeing and Smiths.
ADA Flight Control Code Validation. Smiths Aviation.

Medical
X-Ray System Operational and Image-Processing Software development. Orthoscan.
Macintosh based DICOM Pacs Server Development and Configuration. Orthoscan.

Decision Support Systems
Seldon, an AHP toolset, minor work. IsoQuantic.
Motif based SQL command widget for Ellery Open Systems, Astrophysics Data Base, in C and C++. Ellery Systems.
Commodity Conversion and Billing system repair and debugging, in CADOL. Benchmark Systems.
Financial Software in DIBOL. Alpine Software.

Embedded Systems
VME Processor Board Test Stand in Debian Linux and Bash, Motorola.
Firmware Engineer, Staff Software Motorola.
Cognizant Engineer developed Denali Test Stand for FC based Raid System, Motorola.
Diagnostics and Drivers for SOC "Hermon" Chip, Raw and Linux based, in C  and FORTH.  Intel.
Linux Kernel API for version 2.6, in C, C++, for a Infantry distributed information system.  CSC.
DOS emulator that ran on SGI computers, for running Word Perfect and other tools.  ESI.
Torpedo Test instrumentation and positioning Software, a 3 axis motor problem.  Ocean Systems.
Mechanical Typesetter control Software, 6 axis motor problem, in Assembly and FORTH. Mohawk Labs.
Simulator for Compugraphics Universal Typesetter. (To save on Film.).  Crawford Services.
Concrete Batch Control System Interface Software. Creative Systems.
VideoWriter OS and Drivers. Philips Home Interactive Systems.
Hard Disk Sector latency software, MultiTasking Basic Input Fields. Andy Johnson-Laird Consulting.
Educational Carrel Systems Interfacing, Video, Audio, Questions and Answers. Pace International.
Converted a $250K Computer into a Typewriter, for Marketing and Training. Four Phase.

Administration
and Training
SGI Irix, Sun OS, Solaris, BSD, Unix 5/6/7, Linux, Ultrix, HPUX, and FORTH systems.
"Build and Install tools" for "MDM Communications element of the International Space Station. Honeywell SSO.
Taught classes on Beginning FORTH for Engineers. (PDX) Consulting.
Taught classes on Operating System Design, DMA, Interrupt-Control and API Interfacing.  GD Land Systems.

Community and
Standards
ANSI/NCITS ANS FORTH Standards effort, 1984-1998.
FORTH International Standards Team, 1982-1983.
Member of Honeywell SSO Network Security Committee.
Boulder Graduate School, Board Advisor. (Helping to set direction.)
Started "Techspan", a Training company in Portland.



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