Sierra Research Corporation Work Values

Daily Duties at Sierra Research Corporation:

Flight Inspection Systems: development of real time data acquisition, evaluation, data reduction and analysis, report and plot generation with a variety of hardware interfaces. Requirements analysis, systems analysis, system design, detailed design, development, unit testing, integration, system version controlled releases, EPROM programmer procedures, team leadership, mentoring and training of engineers and technicians. Supported extended debugging and software/hardware trouble shooting efforts for software teams. Developed interfaces to avionics instruments and navigation aids. Real time device drivers including SCSI, real time updates to serial and parallel drivers, and 32 bit support for 16 bit card mounted HPIB (IEEE 488) driver using EPROM programmer copy and assembled patches. Finished system integration testing, and implemented custom modifications (from design through integration testing) by myself. Authored manuals for commercial, DOD and foreign government flight inspection customers. Support utilities, tools and procedures. FORTRAN, C and Assembly language on a VAX cluster using a Motorola 68K cross compiler and linker with pSOS, pROBE, pHILE and pRISM. Saved many hours with development and documentation utilities. E.g.: ● Developed software download to "boot tape" capabilities, including modifying SUN UNIX C device driver. Reduced download time from over 90 minutes serial download to 4 minutes to create boot tape and less than 2 minutes to boot from tape. Dual processor download would have been over three hours via serial link, but just 8 minutes to create tape and 4 minutes to boot. Disk boot capability reduced time to less than 20 seconds. ● A documentation aid to print source and object listings to DOD specifications - saved over two thousand hours in first two months plus continued savings over labor intensive cut and paste. Designed and implemented a radar simulation to test target acquisition algorithms prior to hardware implementation. Authored final report. Data General FORTRAN. Estimated software costs for proposals. "Station Keeping" RF Digital Data link software design, development, and testing. Intel µP assembly language including device drivers and antenna angular speed and alignment control. Designed and implemented simulation of multi channel multiple function digital communications control panel for a major proposal mockup. FORTRAN and x86 assembly language. Analyzed requirements, designed, implemented, and tested utilities for data interchange between engineering design systems and CAD systems. Toll Road administration system: Technical proposal preparation, hardware and software specifications and selection, system administration, driver development, hardware and software trouble shooting, and, design and development of application software and support libraries for PDP-11/34 & 11/44 RSX-11M+, FORTRAN and assembly language.

What they like about Sierra Research Corporation:

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Tags

embedded, real-time, firmware, C, Assembly languages, RTOS, Software Lifecycle, Hardware/Software troubleshooting, C plus plus, Avionics, DO-178B, Integrity, VxWorks, pSOS

Skills

Ecommerce Strategy and digital marketing channels optimization - SEO, SEM, email, affiliates - for high-profile accounts., Sales Support, Resolving complex design issues, Full Software Lifecycle from requirements gathering through maintenance updates, Real-time embedded firmware systems, C, C plus plus, assembly languages, FORTRAN, scripting, Windows, Linux, UNIX, , Integrity, VxWorks, pSOS, and other RTOSes, Debugging, Testing, and troubleshooting complex Hardware and Software Problems

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