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| Summary | Highly skilled videographer, professional programmer and electrical engineer with over a decade of experience consulting with and working for corporate clients of all sizes. | |||
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| Aug 2009 - Present | Independent Contractor Legal Videographer Contracted to local Court Reporting firms for legal deposition work. | |||
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| Mar 2000 - Present | Domain Administrator Performed network installs, repaired and disinfected hundreds of computers, hosted internet domains on my own servers co-located at an ISP. Created Microcontroller devices for remote power control with Atmel chips and Codevision AVR compiler. | |||
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| Dec 2005 - July 2009 | Hewlett Packard, Houston TX Software Engineer Tested server ROMs, learned about BIOS functions. | |||
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| Feb 2002 - Dec 2005 | Fast Pace Litigation Technologies, Houston TX IT and Video Departments Manager Created and supervised new video department; specified and purchased necessary equipment, designed departmental procedures. Conducted legal video depositions using trend-setting techniques intended to eliminate common industry problems. Maintained internal computer network. Researched migration to Linux and implemented where appropriate. | |||
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| Apr 1998 - May 2001 | Compaq, Houston TX Software Engineer Developed and maintained an automated testing system in C/C++. Replaced tester tools with friendlier, more reliable ones which simplified testing and eliminated typical user errors. | |||
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| Jun 1995 - Mar 1998 | Utility Translation Systems, Raleigh NC Software Engineer Designed and wrote electric/gas meter-reading software for handheld PCs using C/C++. Wrote many configuration and file utilities, BIOS/interrupt tools, serial interface drivers, debuggers. | |||
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| Jan 1993 - Jun 1995 | Triangle Biomedical Sciences, Durham NC Software Engineer / Project Manager / Contract Engineer Managed stepping motor controller product bought from Maxwell, as independent division. Overhauled and enhanced C++ apps, worked on real-time control in 8051/8032 assembly. | |||
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| May 1988 - Jan 1993 | Maxwell Electronics, Raleigh NC Head of Production Hand-built microcontroller-based motor controllers and created assembly documentation. Managed several controller products from construction to testing. Wrote test applications in C/C++. By '93, ran the entire production department single-handedly, with sales at an all-time high. | |||
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| May 1984 - Feb 1987 | Concept Design, Burlington NC Electronics Technician Made and tested microprocessor-based detection devices for the audio duplication industry. Designed, prototyped, and debugged [chemical etched] printed circuit boards. | |||
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| Education | North Carolina State University Attended NCSU for a BS in Computer Science. | |||
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| Related Experience | Multimedia work; videotape seminars and classes, multi-track audio recordings, video capture to PC and Web. Advanced class Amateur Radio; antenna design, propagation. Budding photographer. |