Eric H. Loos
President and CEO
Eloos@protogate
Summary
Thirty-five years in the field of digital acquisition and control and telecommunications in real time environments. The most recent experience is in the area of technical management of the engineering staff with production also reporting to me. Past experience includes the design of computer hardware interfaces and the associated diagnostic programs as well as the maintenance of complex computer systems. The real time software implementation of control and monitoring computer systems as well as communications protocols such as X.25 and Binary Synchronous Communications.
Experience
Simpact, Inc. San Diego, CA
Vice President of Technology and Operations6/98 – 1/2000
Responsible for the management of production and product quality assurance. The emphasis during this period was to automate a number of the processes associated with and between configuration management and production. Additionally, I provided technical support to engineering and customer service.
Vice President of Technology 11/96 – 6/98
Responsible for the management, leadership and technical direction of hardware and software groups. The emphasis during this period was to restore the reliability and producibilty of the software of the Freeway product line and the related wide are communications protocols.
Self Employed Independent Consultant/Contractor
Real time systems, software, and hardware engineering5/95 – 11/96
Qualcomm - Bid & Proposal work for an airborne DLS system (Richard Troxel). This effort was primarily focused on the hardware aspect, but also included coordination and refinement of estimates from the software group.
Qualcomm - Assisted in the debugging of DLS hardware problems with the MFRM modules and recommended an approach for an engineering change order that made them functional units (Judy Eddy).
Simpact Associates - Real time programming in 680x0 assembly and “C” for their communications server protocol engine tool kits. The effort Includes driver work under VxWorks in a VME environment.
Simpact Associates, Inc. San Diego, CA
Chief Technology Officer8/94 – 4/95
Responsible for the technical direction of hardware and software efforts associated with the corporate product lines as well as special/custom projects. Secondary responsibilities are associated with the planning of future corporate products such as ISDN and Frame Relay interconnects for Wide Area Networks (WAN) servers attached to Local Area Networks (LAN).
Vice President of Engineering (Hardware/Systems)1/88 – 8/94
Responsible for the hardware and systems engineering aspects of the corporate product line and implementation of complex custom systems. These systems included those involved with telecommunications and with Voice Response systems using plain old telephone service (POTS).
Director of Special Projects7/85 – 1/88
Responsible for research and development of specialized hardware, software, and system components of computer interfaces and corporate product lines. Primarily associated with interfacing Digital Equipment Corporation VAX and PDP11s using their Q-bus and BI-bus architectures.
Hardware and Systems Engineer6/81 – 7/85
Responsible for the design and implementation of front end communications processors for Digital Equipment Corporation computers using the Unibus™ and Q-bus™ bus technologies.
MicroMax Systems, Inc.
President5/74 – 6/81
This was primarily a one man company, myself, involved in the hardware, software, and systems consulting business. The following are customers (and their projects) consulted or contracted to during the life of the business:
General Atomics Electronic Systems Division (ELITE Systems)
General Atomics Electronic Systems Division (Radiation Monitoring Systems)
DECOM Systems (University of Texas Lunar Seismology data conversion)
DECOM Systems (Canadian Forces Cold Lake Test Facility)
Cubic Corporation (Electronic Warfare Telemetry)
Rohr Corporation (Automove Warehouse)
Teledyne Micronentics (Antenna Design and Testing)
California Electric Works (Houston Post Office Mail Sorting System)
California Electric Works (San Diego City Waste Management System)
California Electric Works (Penny’s Catalog Sorting System)
General Atomics Electronic Systems Division
Hardware/Systems Engineer8/72 – 5/74
Responsible for project management and implementation for their ELITE data acquisition system, helium circulator monitoring system, and preliminary design and component selection of their radiation monitoring system. (DEC PDP11s)
Rohr Corporation
Hardware/Software/Systems Engineer9/67 – 8/72
Responsible for the design and implementation of the computer control systems for a number of automated warehouse systems built by the Automove Systems Division. (DEC PDP8s, PDP9Ls, and PDP15s)
Numerical Control Parts Programmer9/64 – 9/67
Entry level programmer for generation of programs for controlling automated numerically controlled milling machines. Also operated and performed hardware design for a numerically controlled drafting machine.
Education
B.S., Electrical Engineering (Computer Option) 1968
San Diego State College (Now San Diego State University)