Skills

Experience

• Senior Engineer - Zionsville Engineering, Inc. (June 1999 - June 2000) - Software and Hardware Engineering tasks. One of the main tasks here was the design of a user interface program using C++ for downloading settings to a radio from a database.
• Consultant - Robinson e-Consulting (April 1998 - September - 1999) - Software and Hardware Engineering tasks. Manufacturing, test, and repair of customers electronic PCB ( Servo To Go, Inc. ).
• Central Engineering Manager - Span, Inc. (October 1995 - April 1998) - Oversee the Central Engineering Department, which is responsible for the definition of procedures, requirements, and documentation for bringing products from engineering to production. I also continued my responsibilities as a Computer Engineer (below). One major task was the specification, purchase, and complete installation of a NetWare 4.10 system with both PC and Macintosh clients.
• Computer Engineer - Span, Inc. (July 1988 - October 1995) - Oversee product design: determining customer requirements, estimating time, customer quotes, project leadership and design, and customer service. Other tasks include: coding software, logic circuit design, and printed circuit board layout, assembly, testing and repair. Plus: recommending, installing and maintaining PCs and Macintoshes, including: operating systems, applications, computers, peripherals, and general user support. A recent accomplishment was the design of an ISA bus card to drive up to eight servo motors with encoder feedback. Another was receiving a patent for participating in the system design of an automated grain dryer.
• Computer Engineer - Microlink Corporation (January 1978 - May 1988) - Similar to above, but did not include customer quotes and dealt with minicomputers rather than PCs. A major involvement was participating in the design and specification of a Z80 microcomputer system for engineers. This included hardware, I/O drivers, and operating system (CPM) configuration.
• Education - Bachelors of Science, Computer Technology, 1983; Indiana University - Purdue University at Indianapolis.