Halpern-Wight Software, Inc.
17 Brookfield Street Roslindale, MA 02131-2423 (603) 801-4558
email: phalpern@halpernwightsoftware.com http://www.halpernwightsoftware.com

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Pablo Halpern
Embedded Software Resume
Updated 04/16/2003

Summary:

I have worked on a diverse set of embedded devices, from water purifiers to routers. Regardless of whether your project uses a commercial embedded OS or a home-grown alternative, I will apply the same skill that I apply to all of my embedded systems projects: the ability to write tight, memory- and time-efficient code, whether in C++, C, or assembly language. In each project I successfully manage shared resources in an interrupt-driven environment.

I will take your project through all or any part of the software-development life-cycle, working either as a team leader or as an individual contributor. I ensure that the project's needs are considered at every level of detail. When programming, I avoid quick-and-dirty solutions in favor of maintainable, extensible and efficient implementations. I also document my work with clearly written specifications, design documents, and/or test plans. I am expert in a number of programming and scripting languages and am quick to pick up new languages or third party tools as needed for a particular task.

Skills:

General: Object-oriented analysis and design (using UML), strong verbal and written communications skills, embedded systems, team leadership, software tools, graphical user interfaces.

Languages: C++ (since 1989), C (since 1982), Perl, Pascal, Visual Basic, HTML, Unix Shells (Bourne, Bash, Korn, C-shell), 680x0 and 80x86 Assembly languages. Learning C#, JavaScript.

Operating Systems: Unix (Linux, Solaris, Sun OS, HP-UX), MS Windows (95, NT, 2000), OS/2, MS-DOS, VAX/VMS.

Tools and Libraries: X.11/Motif, lex (flex), yacc (bison), Clearcase, CVS, Visual Studio, Rational Rose.

Embedded Software Experience (Consulting)

Note: This resume contains only experience directly related to embedded systems software development. For a more complete resume, please visit my home page at the URL below.

Highland Laboratories, Ashland, MA (4 years, intermittent)

• Fully responsible for design and implementation of Linux device driver to control automatic paint-color dispenser.
• Interfaced with Linux internals, PCI interface card, front-end program written in MUMPS.
• Real-time, interrupt-driven modules written in C.
• Previously wrote low-level DOS driver for precursor of same paint-color dispenser.
• Skills Used: Linux internals, C, C++, 80x86 assembly language, DOS, embedded systems.

CLI Power Tools, Wilton, NH (8 years)

• Productized tools for building Cisco-like command-line interfaces.
• Product cuts 3 to 6 months off the time needed to create a high-quality CLI.
• Enhance and maintain compiler for custom CLI-description language and compact and efficient run-time parser.
• Write high-quality customer documentation.
• Provide ongoing support and customization services to customers.
• Skills Used: CLI, C++, compilers (lex, yacc), interpreters, SNMP, Linux, Unix (Solaris), Embedded Systems, CVS, IP Networking.

Nauticus Networks, Framingham, MA (9 months)

• Designed embedded compiler to translate special pattern-recognition language into code for proprietary processor chip used in HTTP load balancer.
• Worked with hardware chip design team to improve http processor's instruction set.
• Designed, implemented and documented assembler for http processor
• Implemented software emulation of some http chip features.
• Wrote programs for parsing parts of http protocol.
• Skills Used: C++, compilers, Unix (Linux), Embedded Systems (OSE), Networking.

Tenor Networks, Acton, MA (7 months)

• Designed and implemented Cisco-like command-line interface (CLI) for high-speed MPLS service switch/router.
• Implemented compiler for custom CLI-description language.
• Implemented compact and efficient run-time parser.
• Skills Used: CLI, C++, compilers (lex, yacc), interpreters, SNMP, Unix (Solaris), Embedded Systems (OSE), Clearcase, Networking.

Highland Laboratories, Ashland, MA (3.5 years, intermittent)

• Low-level drivers for automatic paint-color dispenser.
• Real-time, interrupt-driven module written for DOS in C++ and Object-oriented Pascal.
• Skills Used: C++, Pascal, 80x86 assembly language, DOS, embedded systems.

Millipore Corp., Bedford, MA (18 months, intermittent)

• Configured and managed computer network.
• Helped establish procedures for tracking safety-critical sections of code for quality assurance purposes.
• Managed revision-control system and wrote productivity scripts.
• Skills Used: DOS, Networking, Unix shell (Korn).

Education:

Hampshire College, B.A. in Computer Science, May, 1983.
Thesis: Language Extensions for Improved Data Abstraction (a procedural language approximation of object-oriented concepts).

Publications:

Book: The C++ Standard Library from Scratch, Que Publishing, November, 1999. An introduction to the C++ Standard Library, including STL, strings, and I/O streams. Guides the reader through the development of a working personal information manager (PIM) application using standard library facilities.

Training material: The C++ Standard Library, 1998. Approx. 110 pages of slide presentations, exercises (with solutions), and accompanying instructor's manual used to teach a two or three-day training for intermediate or advanced C++ programmers.

Article: "M and Robotics," with Max Rivers and James Poitras, M Computing, April, 1995.

References: Furnished on request

How to Contact:

By Phone:	(603) 801-4558
By email:	phalpern@halpernwightsoftware.com
On the Web:	http://www.halpernwightsoftware.com
By Postal Mail:	Halpern-Wight Software, Inc. 17 Brookfield Street Roslindale, MA  02131-2423