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- 1. KENNETH E. CHIRKO [email protected] QUALIFICATIONS: Twenty-nine years of real-time embedded systems software engineering experience with consultant,project leadership, technical liaison, research, design, implementation, mentoring, and technical support responsibilities. I have excellent oral and written communication skills. I am amiable and have the abilities to work as team leader, team member and independently. COMPUTER SKILLS: Languages: C, C++, Java, Java Script, Tcl/Tk, PLM, Pascal, Fortran, Assembler, Windows API, OWL, X/MOTIF, UIM/X, HTML, OracleSQL, PERL, AWK, UML, and SDL. Operating Systems: RTXC, UNIX, VRTX, MTOS, PSOS, RMX, NucleusPlus, Green Hills velOSity, Windows, and MSDOS. Modeling Tools: Rhapsody,Visio, Enterprise Architect Configuration Management: ClearCase, StarTeam, Synergy, Kiln EXPERIENCE: 06/14 to present GHSP, Grand Haven, MI Contract Software Engineer All facets of real time embedded software development including requirements gathering, design, implementation and unit testing for a shift- by-wire gear shifter. The toolset used consists ofKiln and Tortoise for the CM System, IAR C Compiler, IAR Workbench, Renesas E1 JTag Debugger, waveform generator, and digital oscilloscope. Designed, implemented, unit tested and integrated a four-port Serial Peripheral Interface (SPI) device driver for the Renesas RH850 microcontroller. The SPI device driver, which supports both polling and interrupt-driven modes of operation, is used in the polling mode in the bootloader and interrupt-driven in the application. Designed, implemented and unit tested the systemchronometric statistics module, which gathers and validates task timing statistics. Enhanced the Melexis Triaxis (3-axis Hall effect) sensorsoftware module that determines gear shifter position to use the SPI device driver, improve performance and error handling. Augmented the Freescale SBC (System Basis Chip) software module. The systembasis chip is used,rather than the microcontroller, to manage low- power situations. Enhanced the RH850 Pulse Width Modulation (PWM) device driver to detect and report 0% and 100% duty cycle states. Designed and implemented the LED device driver, which controls a
- 2. TLC5917 LED constant-current integrated circuit. 08/11 to 6/14 Delphi, Kokomo, IN Contract Software Engineer The project was to be an integration of existing software blocks onto a new tuner hardware platform. It immediately became a development project with little integration. The tuner supports XM satellite radio and both AM and FM analog and High Definition (HD) radio. The tuneruses the Renesas (NEC) V850 microcontroller and iBiquity (NXP) SAF3560 Cayman and SAF7741 Durana DSP chips. Responsibilities included requirements gathering, reverse engineering, analysis,design, implementation, unit testing, release and software team liaison to project management. Learned the V850 microcontroller, the Cayman and 7741 DSP for this project. The RTOS was a proprietary round-robin task scheduler with mailbox, timers and interrupt handling support. I mapped microprocessors ports,modified interrupt service routines (ISRs), established power-moding, initialization timing and set ports to meet low-current requirements. 04/10 to 8/11 Brockwell Technologies, Inc., Huntsville, AL Senior Engineer / Analyst JBC-P Responsibilities included Software Technical Lead for the Network Services Gateway of the U.S. Army Joint Battle Command – Platform (JBC-P) and Software Technical Lead for Joint Capabilities Release (JCR) Defect Report resolution. IDMOSA Responsibilities included model driven design using the IBM Rhapsody modeling tool suite to develop UML software architecture models for the U.S. Army Integrated Data Modem Open Systems Architecture (IDMOSA). Created Activity Diagrams, Sequence Diagrams and State Chart Diagrams using the Harmony Work Flow. Used the State Chart diagrams to verify the Activity Diagrams. 08/08 to 2/10 General Dynamics, AIS Division, Inc., Scottsdale,AZ Contract Software Engineer Responsibilities included, software development technical lead, software requirements gathering, design, implementation, unit testing,design reviews, and code reviews of the GPS-III, phase A, Thin Communications Unit software solutions. Software Development Technical Lead for the Special Test Equipment (STE) 11/08 – 01/10 Customer liaison between the General Dynamics GPS-III software development team and Lockheed-Martin 11/08 – 01/10 Real-time embedded systems software development of the ColdFire based router for the GPS-III, phase A satellite. Software development adhering to FAA DO-178B, DO-278, customer (Lockheed-Martin) standards and General Dynamics internal standards. Developed Software Requirements Specification (SRS), Interface Requirement Specification (IRS), and Software Test Plan (STP) for the Thin Communications Unit for GPS-III constellation. Customer acceptance of SRS, IRS, and STP contributed to
- 3. successfulSoftware Specification review (SSR) and Preliminary Design Review (PDR) earning full software milestone payment to General Dynamics. Continued to work toward the Critical Design Review (CDR). Designed and implemented a Green Hills velOSity RTOS benchmarking application used to evaluate RTOS performance of priority and time-sliced tasking models. Established the standard software development platform and a basic software application for the software development team to use as a start in application development. Participated in development of the Thin Communications Unit Software Design Description (SDD) using the IBM Rhapsody UML based modeling tool. Partnered with the embedded Software Task Lead to develop a more efficient software development schedule; software delivery time was reduced by 18 months resulting in 100% of the milestone award fee attributed to software. 11/06 to 7/08 DCSI, now Aclara Powerline Systems Inc., St. Louis, MO Contract Software Engineer Lead ZigBee software design engineer for DCSI, since 11/06. Real-time embedded systems software development of a ZigBee enabled electric meter on Freescale S08 and Microchip PIC18 platforms. Significantly contributed to a demonstration project for commercial metering using a Freescale S08 microcontroller and ZigBee radio device interfaced to a Microchip PIC18 microcontroller. Led the demonstration project for a residential metering solution using the same ZigBee radio device and microcontrollers. Significantly contributed to a demonstration project using a ZigBee enabled iPhone to shed a ZigBee enabled residential load using the Freescale solution. Designed, implemented, unit and integration tested the manufacturing RF test for a custommodule, which uses an Ember EM260 ZigBee radio and PIC24 host processor.The test uses the Ember EM260 manufacturing library. Created a ZigBee firmware developer’s guide that instructs engineers as to how to implement ZigBee profiles and clusters on the ZigBee device. Responsibilities included, software development lead, software requirements gathering, design, implementation, unit testing, integration testing of the software solutions,design reviews, code reviews, and new hardware troubleshooting. 5/06 to 10/06 Phoenix International, Fargo, ND Contract Software Engineer Real-time embedded systems software development of a VTi agricultural display using CodeLab C and C++ and the NucleusPlus RTOS on an ARM9 platform. Developed a GUI tool to communicate with and transfer data files to the VTi using Microsoft Visual Studio .NET C++ on a PC. Used the UML in Visio and Rhapsody for the design of an ISO11783 file server for the VTi. Responsibilities included software requirements gathering, reverse
- 4. engineering of the existing product,design, and implementation and testing of the software solutions. 4/04 to 4/06 General Electric – Transportation Systems, Grain Valley, MO Senior Software Engineer & Contract Software Engineer Real-time embedded systems software development of the ITCS (Incremental Train Control System) using Green Hills Multi C and Assembler on a Freescale ColdFire multiprocessor platform, and Microsoft C on an Intel 80186 processorplatform. Responsibilities include software requirements gathering, reverse engineering of the existing product,design, implementation, testing of software safety solutions and mentoring of junior engineers. 1/04 to 4/04 Kodak Health Imaging, Oakdale, MN Contract Software Engineer Real-time embedded systems software development of a medical dry imager using Keil Software C and on an Intel 8051 processor platform. Analyze, debug and develop software solutions to field problems. Responsibilities included software requirements gathering, reverse engineering of the existing product,design and implementation of the field problem solution. 8/03 to 12/03 Alliance-Bally Gaming, Las Vegas, NV Contract Software Engineer Real-time embedded systems software development of a slot machine using C and PSOS on a Motorola 68332 processor platform. Develop the new software architecture for the existing EVO slot machine. Responsibilities included software requirements gathering, reverse engineering of the existing product,and design of the new slot machine software. 7/02 to 7/03 General Electric – Transportation Systems, Grain Valley, MO Contract Software Engineer Real-time embedded systems software development of a railroad Hot Box Detector using C and RTXC on a Motorola 68332 processorplatform. Responsibilities included software requirements gathering, design, implementation, unit testing, integration testing,and mentoring of engineers. Solved a five year old systems software problem relating to axle spacing and freight car recognition. 7/00 to 7/02 Motorola, Inc., Elk Grove Village, IL Contract Software Engineer Real-time embedded systems software development of a Daimler- Chrysler Telematics controller using C and RTXC on a PowerPC processorplatform. The controller included on board GPS, DSP and embedded cellular telephone components. Responsibilities included software requirements gathering, design, implementation, unit testing, integration testing,and mentoring of
- 5. engineers. Team leader and mentor for the design and development of the DSP software. 12/99 to 7/00 Telelogic North America, Inc., Rolling Meadows, IL Senior Applications Consulting Engineer Consultant to clients using the Telelogic Tau SDL Tool Suite (UML, SDL, MSC, and TTCN) for the analysis, specification, design,implementation, and testing of real-time embedded applications. Responsibilities included assisting customers in the development of their applications using the tool suite, providing technical training in support ofusing the tool suite and technical support of the tool suite. Required an understanding ofcustomer needs and the problem domain in order to be effective. 9/97 to 11/99 Case Corporation, Burr Ridge, IL Contract Software Engineer Real-time embedded systems software development using C on a proprietary ARM processorplatform. Took over a failing software project as Lead software engineer with 6 software engineers reporting to me. Turned the project around and led to a successful field delivery in the spring of 1998. The platform consisted ofan embedded controller with both an LCD display and a touch screen that provided a GUI interface to the user. Software development included widget and framework design and implementation. The purpose of the controller was to provide automatic product application rate control for a seed planter. Responsibilities included: project leader, mentor, and liaison to engineers, project and product management, and all facets of software development. 3/97 to 8/97 Motorola, Inc., Schaumburg, IL Contract Software Engineer Real-time embedded systems software development using C on UNIX, and PSOS PowerPC platforms. Implemented an OSI layer two-communication protocol based on LAPD for the transmission of packet data through a cellular telephone system. Responsibilities included development, unit testing, integration testing,and mentoring of junior engineers. 10/94 to 3/97 Motorola, Inc., Arlington Heights, IL Contract Software Engineer Real-time embedded systems software development using C on UNIX, 68000, and x86 platforms. Designed, implemented and maintained features of the Man Machine Interface (MMI) for a cellular telephone system. Project leader, mentor, and liaison to other engineers. Implemented portions of the MMI GUI using UIM/X and MOTIF. Created a testing environment for software developers. Created test tools using HTML and Tcl/Tk for the GUI interface with Expect, DejaGnu and Perl having been used for the test scripts.Used Oracle SQL to implement an Oracle database to store the requirements, traceability matrix, test scripts,test cases,and
- 6. test results. Designed and implemented WWW pages using HTML and PERL as a member of the Web team. 1/91 to 10/94 Tellabs Operations, Inc., Lisle, IL Senior Member of Technical Staff (SMTS) Real-time embedded systems software development: C and assembler on UNIX, MTOS and MSDOS platforms for OCN, T3, T1, and E1 PSTN products. Design using the StP CASE tool and FrameMaker. Debugging: Hewlett Packard 64700 emulator, Atron 68000 emulator, AMS Z8000 emulator and Turbo Debugger. Created a microcontroller GUI application using the Microsoft Windows API. Project leader and mentor for a Microtec compiler upgrade of approximately 1 million lines of C code and an Informix database. 3/90 to 1/91 Motorola, Inc., Arlington Heights, IL Senior Software Engineer Real-time embedded systems software development for the MMI portion of a cellular telephone system. Responsibilities included: design using the StP CASE tool and Interleaf. Code, debug and unit test using the C language on Sun workstations running the UNIX OS. 7/86 to 2/90 Abbott Laboratories, Abbott Park, IL Instrument Scientist Real-time embedded systemsoftware development using PLM286 and RMX286 on the Intel 320 development system. Debugging with the SoftScope debuggerand the ICE286. Created a GUI application using the Cviews API that allowed chemists to develop assays and manufacturing to validate a blood and urine analyzer. Project manager for a host interface using the Kermit protocol. Member of the corporate communications standard committee. 4/84 to 6/86 Zenith Microcircuits, Elk Grove Village, IL Senior Engineering Associate Test engineering software development using Turbo Pascal on a Z100 microcomputer. Creation of an extensive small parts database using Dbase II. 10/80 to 4/84 Elscint Imaging, Itasca,IL Senior Engineering Associate Real-time embedded systems software development for the Intel 8751 microcontroller using PLM51 on an Intellec systemIII running the ISIS OS. Hardware design and breadboarding for the 8751.
- 7. Education: Illinois Institute of Technology,Chicago, IL MS in Computer Science One year completed (One Third). 1992 Elmhurst College, Elmhurst, IL BS in Computer Science (BSCS) 1986 Major: Computer Science Minor: Mathematics GPA: 3.41 (4.0 scale) Directors list: spring 1985, fall 1985, spring 1986 William Rainey Harper College, Palatine, IL AS in Science and Mathematics (ASSM) 1983 GPA: 3.23 (4.0 scale) Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society: 1982 Honors list: spring 1981 Dean’s list: summer 1981 Trustees Honors list: summer 1982 REFERENCES: Available upon request.