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William D.

@wdanford

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Experienced engineer hardware, firmware, software

$100 USD / Hour

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United States (11:44 AM)

Joined on March 23, 2007

$100 USD / Hour

Software: Asm & C real-time. FORTRAN, BASIC, C, PASCAL, Asm. Windows, MS Visual C++. Windows/MAC, CodeWarrior (C++, Pascal, Java). Buildroot, gcc make Test prog with CVI, LABWindows, VB. Port Linux to ARM custom platforms, device driver dev. Hardware drivers on x86 embedded (Qseven) platform. Hardware: Work with 6800, 6809, 68HC11, 68070, 68020. Embedded design 386EX, 6800, 6809, Hitachi H8/300, NEC, PIC, ARM, ARM Cortex. Asm & C prog of above for real-time, bare metal, FreeRTOS. FPGA design using ABLE, CUPL, proprietary IDE. Other PLD, CPLD and FPGA. PWB with P-Cad, PADS, Eagle, KiCad. Design VMEbus, DEC Q22 bus, STD bus boards. Design IEEE-488, Parallel, Serial. Design IrDA with Embednet stack. Low-band VHF design. Analog instrumentation design. Power control (SCR), power supply. Consumer, Industrial and Military. ATE with GenRad, Trendar, HP, Zentel. ATE with VXI / GPIB instruments, custom design. Web site: Database driven web sites, MySQL, php.

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On budget

100%

Accept rate

100%

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Replace 200 resistors on small PCBs €506 EUR

Delivered everything on time, and keeping me up to speed during the process, all good.

João A.

@JoaoDiogoAmaral

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Aveiro, Portugal

4 years ago

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API Integreation Into Home Page $250 USD

Excellent communication, good understanding of project, worked efficiently and in a timely manner. Very clear step by step communication.

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Consultant, Contract Engineer

Jan, 2001 - Present

24 years, 9 months

Independent Consultant, Contract Engineer, San Antonio, Texas

Jan, 2001 - Present

24 years, 9 months

Contract Engineering design/development services for small and medium manufacturing firms and DOD contractors. Projects include commercial product hardware/firmware design/development, ATE systems development and Test Program development. Developed firmware for embedded application (H8/300, PIC, STM32). Developed application specific software for PC based system. Design to IEC 60601 standards for FDA requirements. Database driven web site development using MySQL scripted with php.

Jan, 2001 - Present

24 years, 9 months

Electronics Research Manager

Dec, 2009 - Jan, 2018

8 years, 1 month

Thermon

Dec, 2009 - Jan, 2018

8 years, 1 month

Hardware / firmware design development for industrial control system modules and integrated controllers for power control of electrical heating systems, "Heat Tracing", in continuous flow production processes. Principle applications in petrochemical industry.

Dec, 2009 - Jan, 2018

8 years, 1 month

Sr. Project Lead Design Engineer

Oct, 1993 - Jul, 2001

7 years, 9 months

Frontline Systems, Inc., Conceptual Mindworks, Inc., Galatic Technologies, Inc.

Oct, 1993 - Jul, 2001

7 years, 9 months

System and board level redes for DOD contracts. Insertion of high-dens PLDs, FPGAs, other devices in older sys as replacement for obsolete devices. Replacement of older Micro-P (8085) with newer (386EX) & firmware conversion. Sub of the latest analog and digital families. PWB with PADS. Replacement of custom built subsys with newer commercial prod. Rehost of Test Prog from older sys to PC platforms as Windows apps. Source-code conv from Pascal, ATLAS & various BASIC to new versions of BASIC, C.

Oct, 1993 - Jul, 2001

7 years, 9 months

Education

Purdue University

1967 - Present

58 years, 10 months

BSEE

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United States

1967 - Present

58 years, 10 months

Qualifications

Registered Professional Engineer

1983

Texas Board of Professional Engineers

Registered Professional Engineer

1983

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