Charles Wilson
Computer Science graduate with MSc in Electrical Engineering from Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. Currently working as Senior Consultant at XtemeEDA USA Corporation.
| Headline: | Engineer |
| Skills: | Electrical Engineering, Engineering |
| Interested in: | Consulting opportunities, Finding team mates, Meeting new people, Providing services to startups, Trading services |
| Schools: | Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology |
WORK EXPERIENCE
| Employer: | XtemeEDA USA Corporation / Austin TX |
| Position: | Senior Consultant |
| Time period: | June 2008 - Present |
| Description: | • wholly owned subsidiary of XtremeEDA
• Developed C++ courseware • Provided technical training for C++ and SystemC (Windows/Unix/MacOS) • Participated in the OSCI SystemC TLM 2 Working Group • Developed example code for inclusion in the TLM 2 reference platform |
| Employer: | Self (as Non-Corporeal Designs) |
| Position: | Contract Software Developer |
| Time period: | August 1991 - Present |
| Description: | • Co-designed and implemented of the SXSW schedule application (Palm OS/PHP/MySQL) [2002-2005]
• Designed the UI for a cross-platform (Palm OS/WinCE) configuration utility for AMD [2003] • Designed and implemented software (Palm OS/Windows) demonstrating a new RF technology [2001-2002] • Designed and implemented the national Alpha Phi Omega web site apo.org. (HTML/CSS/PHP/MySQL) [2001] • Designed and implemented a CodeWarrior CVS version control plug-in (Windows/Macintosh) [1999-2000] • Designed and implemented the UI (Macintosh) of a Hell scanner system (ScanMac) [1991-1993] |
| Employer: | ESLX, Inc. / Austin TX |
| Position: | Member of Technical Staff |
| Time period: | February 2007 - May 2008 |
| Description: | • Merged with XtremeEDA (July 2008)
• Developed C++ courseware • Provided technical training for C++ and SystemC (Windows/Unix/MacOS) • Architected corporate IT infrastructure • Participated in the OSCI SystemC TLM 2 Working Group • Developed example code for inclusion in the TLM 2 reference platform |
| Employer: | Wireless Computing, Inc. / Austin TX |
| Position: | Vice President of Engineering |
| Time period: | April 2002 - January 2007 |
| Description: | • Co-designed and developed long-range wireless RF-based products (encrypted keyboards, USB and PS/2 receivers, handheld and wireless mice, presentation remotes).
• Designed and implemented protocols (RF,USB,PS/2,serial) and firmware (PIC/C/ASM) |
| Employer: | Veriprise Wireless, Inc. / Austin TX |
| Position: | Research Scientist |
| Time period: | September 2000 - February 2001 |
| Description: | • Investigated cross-platform C++ development environments (Windows/Unix)
• Investigated VoiceXML development environments for use with wireless devices |
| Employer: | Altamira Group, Inc. / Burbank CA |
| Position: | Vice President of Technology |
| Time period: | June 1999 - August 2000 |
| Description: | • Served as the chief software architect and Vice President of Technology
• Designed a distributed image scaling system (Windows/Linux) • Served as Director of Development over development and IS operations • Designed and implemented the Canto Cumulus STiNG file format plug-in (Macintosh) |
| Employer: | Metrowerks Corporation / Austin TX |
| Position: | Product Engineering Manager |
| Time period: | August 1995 - May 1999 |
| Description: | • Managed several CodeWarrior embedded products (m*Core/SH)
• Managed the CodeWarrior ClearCase version control plug-in development • Served as technical lead and manager for six releases of Visual SourceSafe for Macintosh • Designed the CodeWarrior IDE version control plug-in API • Coordinated third party CodeWarrior version control plug-in efforts |
| Employer: | Great Plains Software, Inc. / Fargo ND |
| Position: | Senior Product Analyst |
| Time period: | November 1993 - August 1995 |
| Description: | • Served as Macintosh technical lead
• Designed and implemented Windows 95 UI to Dexterity (database development system) • Designed and implemented Macintosh AOCE support for Dexterity • Ported Dexterity to the Power Macintosh (C/68k/PPC) |
| Employer: | The Dreamers Guild, Inc. / Northridge CA |
| Position: | Chief Operating Officer |
| Time period: | May 1991 - July 1992 |
| Description: | • Managed the company's development projects
• Consulted on UI issues |
| Employer: | Tri-Data Systems, Inc. / Santa Clara CA |
| Position: | User Interface Designer |
| Time period: | March 1989 - July 1990 |
| Description: | • Redesigned and implemented the UI of an IBM 3270 terminal emulator Mac3270 (Macintosh/C)
• Designed and implemented a keyboard remapping utility for Mac3270 • Developed a multi-programmer code management system (Macintosh/MPW) |
| Employer: | Qubix Graphic Systems, Inc. / San Jose CA |
| Position: | Software Engineer |
| Time period: | April 1987 - March 1989 |
| Description: | • Designed and implemented the Macintosh UI of Leonardo (technical illustration product)
• Redesigned the Sun user interface of Leonardo • Redesigned and implemented a vector font editor to allow for Kanji fonts (Sun/C) • Redesigned and implemented the user interface of the internal text editor (Sun/C) |
| Employer: | Volt Information Sciences / Autologic / Los Angeles CA |
| Position: | Engineer |
| Time period: | June 1985 - April 1987 |
| Description: | • Developed the graphic editor of the photocomposition product Microcomposer Convergent (NGEN/C/x86/PLM)
• Served as Systems Manager for a government electronic publishing system benchmark (600S) |
| Employer: | General Electric Company / Valley Forge PA |
| Position: | Applications Programmer |
| Time period: | February 1984 - May 1985 |
| Description: | • Programmed scientific applications (IBM 370/FORTRAN)
• Redesigned and implemented a PDL analysis program (Convergent NGEN/FORTRAN) • Collaborated on the Space Systems Division/DSRM portable operating systems IR&D • Collaborated on the DSRM Communication Protocol Optimization and Conversion Blue Ribbon IR&D |
EDUCATION
| University: | Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology |
| Time period: | 1994 |
| Degree: | Electrical Engineering , MSc |
| University: | Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology |
| Time period: | 1984 |
| Degree: | Computer Science , BSc |
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Graphic Arts graduate from Radford University, pursuing a Master of Science Communication Technology – Networking communications from Strayer University. 15 years of healthcare experience. 2 year and 4 months IT experience.