Mike Ferguson, Computer Scientist
(657) 464-7645 voice or text
1099 to EIN preferred, W-2 acceptable
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• Evaluated TI Stellaris ARM Cortex M3 development platforms
• Interfaced a Windows XP motor control program using Visual Studio C++ Express 2010, Winsock, WinPcap 4.1.2, and Wireshark 1.8.1
• Integrated a secure login email client
• Developed a TI Graphics Library emulation
• Developed a SafeRTOS emulation using FreeRTOS, tested using the TI Graphics Library emulation
  
• Researched cloud solutions
• Explored fast boot CLI embedded Linux on Marsboard using Arch Linux and Tiny Core
• Analyzed debugging DVDNav and FFmpeg integration on a proprietary Android 4.1 DVD player platform
• Developed a trivial Android application and listed it on Google Play
• Installed/administered AWS Ubuntu LAMP servers
• Prototyped C/PHP/SQL/JavaScript dynamic web services
• Migrated a Wordpress website to a static AWS LAMP server
• Prototyped an emailing webpage using AWS SES
• Built static S3 websites using AWS Route 53
• Installed AWS MS Windows Servers with SQL and IIS
• Converted an Access database to MSSQL
• Developed a custom trading client using Visual C++ 2010 and IB TWS C++ API, explored Linux and AWS deployment
• Extracted AES encryption from Crypto++ 5.3.0, built a client/server test program using TCP/IP sockets, Windows XP, and Visual Studio 2008
• Tested GSM modems
  

• Wrote requirements using DOORS
• Coded in PPC assembler, diab C/C++, and Microsoft Visual C++.NET in a Windows XP environment using MKS, PVCS Tracker, and Python build management
• Debugged GPS system code using VisionClick ICE
  

• Analyzed software development process
• Recommended improvements pursuant to planned CMM assessment
• Analyzed requirements and legacy design for a military aircraft intercommunication system
  

• Developed a PowerPC restart program to boot from CAN or memory using Metrowerks and Green Hills Multi C/C++ and PPC assembler
• Coded a Windows CE.NET port I/O utility
  

• Ported a C/C++/68K DSP program to an Atmel ARM platform using Green Hills Multi
• Optimized using ARM assembly
• Assisted with custom RTOS debugging and system programming
• Documented using UML, I-Logix Rhapsody in C++, and Visio
  

• Wrote C/C++ interface code for a PowerPC-based high-speed IP transport prototype in a SunOS/UNIX/pSOS+ environment using Rational ClearCase, CSM, and DDTS configuration management
  

• Ported a proprietary RTOS to a 68328 using Diab Data's "C" compiler/assembler and the SDS SingleStep debugger, and to a PowerPC MPC823 using a Metrowerks tool set
• Configured VxWorks, RtX real-time X-Windows, and Java for a color VGA LCD and web browsing using WindRiver's Tornado tool suite
• Integrated cross-platform FLASH programming drivers
• Configured ATM server and switch
• Wrote test code for a PowerPC StreamMaster set-top box running Microware’s OS-9 RTOS
• Trained in SEI/CMM
  

• Ported a Borland/MS-DOS "C" application to pSOS+ using SoftProbe+/386
• Variously coded, modified, and integrated keyboard, display, PCMCIA, radio modem, and IrDA drivers, a client-server system architecture, graphics facilities, and ISA hardware diagnostics in MetaWare "C" and Microsoft 80386 macro assembler
• Performed final system integration and debug of a proprietary radio-networked PDA
• Coded diagnostics, drivers, applications, and test simulations using Microtec 68000 assembler and "C", and an SDS 68000 simulator
• Debugged embedded subsystems using HP and HMI ICE logic and protocol analyzers
  

• Modified 68HC11/16 firmware for telephone and video I/O boards in a fiber-optic linked premises network mainframe
• Debugged using ICE's and a logic analyzer
  

• Programmed system/gaming software using GNU "C" and a custom client-server GUI windows manager for an 80960 video terminal on VAX VMS CMS/Ultrix and MS-DOS Windows PVCS/SCO UNIX development networks
  

• Programmed diagnostics and virtual memory utilities in 'C' and 80386 assembler
• Developed an IBM-PC hosted VRTX target emulation to supplement Intel ICE debugging
  

• Programmed a data acquisition, analysis, and curve fitting system with real-time graphic display using Turbo "C" 2.0, FORTH, 8086, and 68HC11 to calibrate critical-care flow transducers for respirators
  

• Programmed a monitor in Microsoft "C" and 8086 assembler under the VRTX RTOS for a "911" call dispatcher, integrated and debugged system and application software using Codeview and in-circuit emulators
  

• Performed product support for a Z80 boiler energy management system
• Co-designed an electro-mechanical accessory to throttle natural gas boilers

• Programmed diagnostics in Lattice "C" with menu and command interpreter user interfaces for IBM-PC networking boards
• Integrated low and high volume token ring and X.25 networking, and PC/AT hard/floppy disk host adapter board testers

• Integrated STD-bus Z80 computer systems
• Programmed device drivers for a computerized microfiche viewer in 8080 and the CP/M operating system BIOS interface

• Repaired bit-slice TTL/analog electronics
• Developed a single-stepper
• Programmed a disassembler and assembler
• Derived breakpoint listings
• Customized microcode for a modified Harvard architecture CPU
  

• Designed a semi-custom CMOS gate array prototype for a touch-activated dimmer, consulted for successful prototype conversion and a volume purchase by Sears-Roebuck
• Repaired CMOS and analog ultrasonic alarm electronics
• Developed an automatically sequenced functional tester
  

• Built temperature controllers using Microchip PIC's and Arduino
• Integrated an 8-digit, 7-segment display driver library for Arduino
• Explored Linux multi-boot using grub
  

• Built a Linux kernel 2.4.37.7 using MinGW/Cygwin
• Installed Ubuntu 8.04.2 on an IBM Thinkpad R51

• Evaluated Fedora 1, Redhat 7.1, Slackware 9.1, and Debian 3.0 Linux distributions
• Integrated ISA computer systems with SCSI disk drives
• Modified cabinets and power supplies for ATX compatibility
  

• Explored UNIX through RedHat 5.2 and InfoMagic LINUX, Coherent, Sun StarOffice 5.1, C++ using Microsoft, Borland, and Zortech compilers, Windows development using WindowsMAKER Prototyper and Borland C++ 5.0
  

• Programmed a 68000 cross-assembler in Turbo PASCAL
• Wrote undergraduate programs in compilers, statistical simulations, and database management
  

• Attended a PolyFORTH seminar sponsored by FORTH, Inc and XXCAL
• Coded an 8086 FORTH interpreter with an MS-DOS file interface
  

• Licensed First Class Radiotelephone Operator with Ship Radar Endorsement
  

• Cessna 150 flight training
  

• Custom database, personal computer integration
• Celestial, inertial, and dead reckoning navigation
• Heathkit construction: test equipment, computer
• Automotive repair: gasoline, diesel, propane
• Legal research, real estate, construction