4380 Albany Drive, Apartment 21 San Jose, California 95129
DAVID MAYER
4380 Albany Drive, Apartment 21 San Jose, California 95129
Telephone: (408) 249-7578 Email:
ELECTRONICS TECHNICIAN / EMBEDDED SOFTWARE ENGINEER
Preliminary note
After being an electronics technician for over 10 years, I decided to become a software engineer. I left a senior engineering technician job at Apple Computer to pursue a BSCS (Computer Science) at San Jose State University. The prospect of being a software engineer who was also highly experienced with electronics meant that I should be a desirable software engineer for low-level software development positions. The field of Embedded Software Engineering was ideal for me. But, although I was changing my career from technician to engineer, my interest in electronics never faded away, and embedded software engineering requires a good working knowledge of electronics. Recently, though, with the job market being so rigid regarding hiring new embedded software engineers who don’t have extensive experience with the company’s particular software/hardware components, I decided to make myself available for hire as an electronics technician again.
In this resume, you may not find the exact experience with specific technologies that you are looking for. However, I have often been challenged with technologies that are new to me, and have never worked on a job that used the same exact technologies as past jobs. I am well suited for working with emerging technologies. My strength is in rapidly learning whatever new technology the job needs, while applying my extensive past experience. I welcome the opportunity to have an honest discussion of how I can be immediately productive for your company, or what technologies I may have to come up to speed with.
Also, your company might be interested in hiring me as a technician with an eye towards eventually promoting me to an embedded software engineering position. This would make hiring me first as a technician a productive and potentially beneficial “probation period” to verify my skills and how well I fit into the company’s culture.
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This resume is organized in a somewhat backwards way, since it is intended for Technician job applications. The earlier Electronics Technician experience is shown first, with the jobs listed in reverse chronological order. And the more recent Embedded Software Engineer experience is shown last, also in reverse chronological order.
DAVID MAYER
4380 Albany Drive, Apartment 21 San Jose, California 95129
Telephone: (408) 249-7578 Email:
Electronics Technician
Professional Experience
Apple Computer, Senior Engineering Technician 1985-1987
NASA-Ames Research Center, Lead PC Technician 1984-1985
Flexstar, Technician 1983-1984
Cabot Engineering, Design Engineer 1982-1983
Memorex, Engineering Technician 1981-1982
Applied Electrochemistry, Electronics Technician 1977-1980
1985-1987 APPLE COMPUTER, Cupertino, CA
Senior Engineering Technician: Performed Design Validation Testing for floppy disk drives, hard disk drives, printers, and other electromechanical peripherals on the Macintosh. Performed component-level troubleshooting, with an eye towards identifying circuit design flaws (as opposed to bad components).
Test equipment used: oscilloscope, DMM, logic analyzer, environmental chambers, custom test equipment.
1984-1985 NASA - AMES RESEARCH CENTER, Moffett Field, CA
Lead PC Technician: Established the PC maintenance program for the Flight Simulation Department, including new system bring-up (configuration) and testing. Learned Pascal programming techniques.
Test equipment used: oscilloscope, logic analyzer, DMM, and custom test equipment.
1983-1984 FLEXSTAR, Santa Clara, CA
Technician:Performed floppy and rigid disk drive repair. Performed component-level troubleshooting.
Test equipment used: oscilloscope, DMM.
1982-1983 CABOT ENGINEERING, Sunnyvale, CA
Design Engineer:Developed the mechanical design for an automated hard disk cleaning system.
1981-1982 MEMOREX, Santa Clara, CA
Engineering Technician:Designed, built, and troubleshot machines used for rigid disk production and test. Involved reading schematics, component data manuals, and other design documentation. Performed component-level troubleshooting.
Test equipment used: oscilloscope, DMM.
1977-1980 APPLIED ELECTROCHEMISTRY, Sunnyvale, CA
Electronics Technician: Assembled, calibrated, and troubleshot oxygen analyzers. Involved reading schematics, component data manuals, and other design documentation. Performed component-level troubleshooting.
Test equipment used: oscilloscope, DVM.
DAVID MAYER
4380 Albany Drive, Apartment 21 San Jose, California 95129
Telephone: (408) 249-7578 Email:
EMBEDDED SOFTWARE: Technical / Project LeaderEngineer Programmer Analyst
Professional Experience
Domain Technology, Embedded Software Consultant / Leader / Analyst / Designer 1997-present
Embedded Systems Design, Embedded Programmer / Analyst / Consultant 1994-1997
Biocircuits, Senior Embedded Programmer / Analyst 1991-1993
CAREER NOTE:Recent activities include the study of mobile apps in general, and the development of a specific iPhone app. Development environment and tools used: XCode and Objective-C.
DOMAIN TECHNOLOGY, San Jose, California (1997 – present)
Sole proprietorship founded to deliver embedded software engineering consulting services.
Embedded Software Consultant / Leader /Analyst/Designer/Implementer: Conducted software requirements analyses and led projects to achieve individual client goals. Evaluated existing embedded software code for client Summit Analyzers’ smog analyzer. Developed printing capabilities for exhaust gas analyzer. Directed all phases of embedded software engineering process for Adeza Biomedical. Managed embedded software engineers engaged in coding. Liaised with outside testing firm to arrange independent testing to comply with government auditor protocols.
Clients:
ADEZA BIOMEDICAL, Sunnyvale, CA
Designed all of the embedded software (applications and device drivers), and directed the entire software development project, for the company's first medical instrument product (the Adeza TLi).
SUMMIT ANALYZERS, Livermore, CA
Added printing capability (application and device driver) to the embedded software used in the automotive exhaust gas analyzer that I had worked on earlier for them.
EMBEDDED SYSTEMS DESIGN, Alameda, California (1993 – 1997)
Embedded software engineering consultancy with up to 8 engineers on staff.
Embedded Software Consultant / Programmer/Analyst: Managed consulting projects. Developed embedded software applications and device drivers for Bridge Analyzers’ automotive exhaust gas analyzer. Led development of new embedded software applications for Versatron’s Skyball gimbal-mounted camera subsystem for use on Predator drones, and redesigned existing system software to accommodate infrared operation. Gained valuable object-oriented architecture skills while executing embedded software application and device driver projects for Summit Analyzers. Created embedded software applications and device drivers for Machina voice recorder. Redesigned embedded software and created technical documentation for AMO / Humphrey.
Clients:
BRIDGE ANALYZERS, Alameda, CA
Developed embedded software (applications and device drivers) for new automotive exhaust gas analyzer.
VERSATRON, Healdsburg, CA
Project foreman for development of new embedded software for Skyball gimbal-mounted camera system used in unmanned aerial surveillance camera used by the military. Redesigned portion of existing system's software (applications and device drivers) to accommodate new infrared camera.
SUMMIT ANALYZERS, Livermore, CA
Improved my generic object-oriented architecture, and used it in the embedded software (applications and device drivers) used in their automotive exhaust gas analyzer. Created generic data processing object with 'plug and play' numerical analysis filters using C++. Developed library of standard filter templates for data processing.
MACHINA, San Francisco, CA
Developed embedded system software (applications and device drivers) for palm-sized tapeless voice recorder. Performed extensive code-size optimization. Product used a 4-bit microcontroller. Implementation was in assembly language.
AMO/HUMPHREY, San Leandro, CA
Redesigned existing embedded software and wrote technical documents, for phacoemulsification cataract extraction system.
BIOCIRCUITS, Burlingame Sunnyvale, California (1991 – 1993)
Medical device engineering and manufacturing company focused on testing for thyroid hormones.
Senior Embedded Programmer/Analyst:Initially hired on a part-time basis to service the research platform for chemists to use while performing clinical studies. Then was hired full-time to develop the corresponding embedded system software. Instrument was approved by the FDA after first audit.
EDUCATION
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science
San Jose State University, San Jose, California
May, 1991
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