Resume 4

I am responding to your ad seeking software/firmware/embedded engineers.

I am an expert firmware designer with many years of engineering experience in developing products, hardware, firmware and software. I have designed, developed and managed many projects in the areas of communication, digital television, telephony, instrumentation and consumer electronics. I have an excellent reputation for getting projects developed in time and within the budget.

Let me apply my expertise to your project

I would like to talk to you about your current and future design needs.

Sincerely,
Ronald Gashek

• Designed and developed many successful microprocessor - based products, hardware and software
• High quality software and firmware design in C, C++, JAVA or assembly, extensive RTOS and kernel experience, BIOS, board bring-up
• Experience writing specifications, cost and time estimates, proposals, research studies
• Expertise in communication system design, system debugging, data transmission, digital television, instrumentation, test equipment and consumer products
• Expert device driver designer, BSP integrator and API developer
• Products delivered on time and within budget
• Friendly, easy going personality

• Experience with many processor architectures - RISC, CISC, DSP
• Designed many device drivers for RTOS (PSos, VxWorks, PharLap, LINUX, Win-32, OS9 and many others), DOS, Windows
• Worked with Motorola 68 family, 860, Intel 8051, 960, 80xxx, Pentium, Zilog, Hitachi, Atmel, MIPS, PowerPC, PIC, ARM and many others
• Experience with device I/O - UARTS, modems, A-D, D-A, Board Support Packages (BSP), BIOS, Ethernet
• Experience with a large number of communication protocols and bus architectures, PCI, SCSI, PCMCIA, TCP/IP, SNMP, DHCP, ARP, DOCSIS, Sockets, B-ISDN (ATM), Ethernet, Fibre channel
• Have developed systems using latest techniques utilizing compilers, debuggers, simulators, emulators, logic analyzers etc…
• Experience in quickly designing and developing products, quickly grasping new concepts

• Depending on the size of the project, I will develop your system by myself or I can lead an engineering team. I will make sure that your product is delivered on time, and within budget
• Many references available

BSEE Systems and Control, University of California, San Diego (UCSD)
MSEE, University of Prague

• Designed and developed embedded server (TCP/IP) -based prototype - ICMP, HTML, TELNET, hardware and software
• Assembled and lead a team of expert engineers turning prototype into a product
• Successfully demonstrated the product to customers and investors

Designed and developed a consumer communication product, hardware and software. Wrote specifications and requirements, coordinated the development teams. Hired and managed engineering development team.

Developed device drivers for network-enabled MPEG-II video encoder and decoder, modified Windows drivers, wrote Linux and VxWorks device drivers

• Designed PCI DMA drivers
• Wrote MPEG-II DVD encoder device driver
• Developed buffering for network streaming
• Developed driver for MPEG-2 PCI-based decoder board

System integration and debugging of a new HDTV MPEG-II based digital television set-top box

• Redesigned and implemented an RTOS kernel
• Installed, customized and tested a TCP/IP protocol stack and PPP
• Developed device drivers
• MPEG-II decoding and A-V synchronization development and debugging
• DSS, ATSC, HDTV product development

• Designed and developed BIOS calls for Pentium - based plug and play DSL modem board under VxWorks

Debugging and improving cable modem product.

• DOCSIS based system developing testing and debugging
• Writing device drivers
• Using VxWorks RTOS
• Debugging following protocols: TCP/IP, DOCSIS, ARP, RARP, DHCP, TFTP, SNMP

• Designed and developed firmware for a PCS paging receiver, was instrumental in the board bring-up, developed BIOS
• Debugged hardware, installed a Real Time Operating System, debugged Ethernet connection, wrote peripheral device drivers using C, C++ and assembly
• Implemented user interface, ported TCP/IP stack, developed a Telnet interface, an SNMP agent, TFTP flash-based in system re-programmable solution

• Designed C - based embedded firmware for a sophisticated hand - held instrument
• Designed and debugged hardware, developed kernel
• Developed and implemented a communication protocol stack
• Wrote device drivers for DOS, Windows and Lab-View.

• Designed and implemented interrupt driven MPEG-2 A-V synchronization using interrupts on RTOS (PSOS), C++
• Debugged hardware, installed RTOS and remote Ethernet-based debugging
• Wrote video device drivers for PSOS running on RISC architecture
• Successfully lead the debugging of the system

• Designed and developed a cable modem-based communication interface for an interactive television set-top box.
• Designed and debugged hardware, installed operating system, wrote drivers for the peripherals in C and C++

• Designed and implemented MPEG-2 video-audio synchronization into digital set-top box.
• Debugged and redesigned hardware, built RTOS into the product, (PSOS and VxWorks device drivers)

• Designed and implemented Built-in Self-Test (BIST) into the digital television set-top box, installed a multitasking operating system
• Installed a VxWorks operating system on a prototype platform (board bring-up)
• Tested, improved and redesigned digital hardware.
• Wrote and debugged complex code in C++ , developed numerous device drivers running under MMOS RTOS; running on RISC and CISC processors

• Fujitsu
• M.L.Hightower, Inc.
• Transworld, Inc.
• Datron, Inc.
• Deltec,Inc.