Aaron Clarke

 

E-mail: ac@aaronclarke.com                                            Telephone: 716-514-4141


OBJECTIVE  Consulting opportunities that will utilize my professional experience
           in electronic product development and my strong problem solving skills.

EXPERIENCE Aaron Clarke, Lockport, NY
           Embedded Systems Consultant, July 2007-Present
           Developed electronic prototypes and embedded software for several start-ups.
           Initial board bring-up and software integration for ARM processors.
           Ported bootloaders and embedded linux kernels to new platforms.
           Tested EMC compliance of prototypes at accredited laboratory.

           Fisher-Price Inc.,  East Aurora, NY
           Project Engineer, November 2004-July 2007
           Developed electronics for multiple consumer products.

           ATTO Technology, Inc., Amherst, NY
           Systems Engineer, August 2002-November 2004
           Developed firmware for iSCSI storage switch.

           Sierra Research, Buffalo, NY
           Engineer, June 2001-August 2002
           Developed VxWorks drivers and embedded software modules.

           Amherst Systems, Inc.,  Buffalo, NY
           Engineer, December 1997-January 1999
           Contributed to a wide variety of embedded software projects.

           VoCAL Technologies, Ltd., Amherst, NY
           DSP Engineer, February 1996-June 1997
           Led team developing modem and fax firmware and hardware for Japanese client.

           Dynamics Research Corp.,  Tonawanda, NY
           Computer Programmer, June 1995-February 1996
           Garnered patent for work on data-acquisition system (U.S. Patent #5805464).

EDUCATION  B.S. Electrical Engineering, University at Buffalo, February 2000.
           Developed audio signal compression system using psychoacoustics in Matlab.
           B.S. Mathematics, University at Buffalo, June 1995.
           Concentration in Applied Mathematics.
           A.S. Engineering Science, Erie Community College, Williamsville, NY, June 1990.
           Awarded Engineering Society of Buffalo scholarship.

SKILLS     Computer Languages  Assembly, BASIC, C, C++, C#, FORTRAN, Pascal, Perl.
           Microprocessors     68000, ADI-2181, ARM7, ARM9, fixed point,
                               DSP, LPC2134, PowerPC, PSoC, S3C2410, XScale.
           Operating Systems   DOS, Linux, MicroC/OS-II, UNIX, VxWorks, Windows.
           Software            Altium, Apex, Emacs, gcc, MathCAD, Visual Studio, Mathematica,
                               Matlab, mobiclip, OrCAD, PVCS, U-Boot, Visio, Visual Source Safe,
                               Vivi, Razor, RCS.
           Technologies        Embedded Linux, GPIB, EMI, ESD, Ethernet, firmware, iSCSI,
                               HID, microcontrollers, modem, SLIP, TCP/IP, UDP,
                               USB, VME, WDK, WHQL, Windows Logo Testing.

TRAINING   Altium Designer: Schematic capture and PCB layout.
           ARM Developer's Conference 2006.
           Mathworks Matlab Image and Video Processing Seminar.
           Microsoft Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC) in 2006 and 2007.
           Microsoft Vista LogoFest (WHQL) at Microsoft 2006.

MEMBERSHIP Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).
           IEEE Consumer Electronics Society.
           IEEE Signal Processing Society.

Member number:10365
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Copyright(c) 1995 - 2006 Aaron Clarke and Software Contractors' Guild, 3 Country Club Dr., #303, Manchester, NH USA 03102