Designed and implemented image filtering and image database comparison algorithms for a printed circuit board inspection machine. Wrote a complete Unix based server for this system on an AT & T 3B2400 to allow clustering of inspection machines on a factory floor.
Designed and implemented a VMEbased controller for Lincoln's PC board inspector. This software coordinated the actions of several positioning motors for mechanical components of the machine, triggered scanning electronics as required during the scan process, then compressed and storing results for a PC based front end.
Reorganized company internal DP operations around a SQL based 80386 DBMS server. Implementation was a mixture of C and the Progress/SQL DBMS language.
Tested and debugged SNA communications software for the Courier 9000 series cluster controller. Developed and implemented a test sequencing and tracking database system for the IBM PC. Developed a training course to bring inhouse developers current in C.
Developed and maintained assemblers for the 8085, Z80, 8086, 80186, 68000, and 68010 microprocessors. Developed and maintained a variety of automated test software for GenRad's Z80 based Field Maintenance Processor. Software was maintained in C on a Unix workstation. Designed and implemented test program sequences to allow manufacturing staff to validate tester hardware on the production floor.
At Graphtek's Tokyo office, developed and implemented an extended BASIC compiler for the Interdata 70 minicomputer, and assisted firm's customers with maintenance of existing software. Designed, implemented, and documented a timeshared subset PL/I compiler for the University of Tsukuba on a Honeywell Level 66 under GCOS III. Developed a word processor for Graphtek's 8-bit small business computer.
Assisted in development and documentation of image processing software for an automated drafting device using the Motorola 68000 microprocessor. Developed a disk I/O package and text editor for Graphtek's line of 6502-based Japanese character word processing systems. Also implemented an assembler and linking loader for this system.
Directed the Game Development Group, with responsibilities for design, prototyping and initiation of manufacture for Motorola 6809 based electronic gaming machines built for the Nevada gaming trade.
Assisted Honeywell Information systems in development of mainframe file systems.
Designed and developed retail sales forecasting and inventory control software using Box-Jenkins adaptive modeling techniques to predict sales and labor utilization for a retail grocery chain. Designed and implemented a translator to convert source code for older IBM business systems into PL/I for System/360. The translator included an idiom recognizer for "learning" the coding styles of individual programmers.
Contracted to design a topdown PL/I syntax processor for a new IBM mainframe replacement. This machine design, developed for a venture capital group, was to have been the first mainframe to implement PL/I in firmware as its basic machine language.
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