Name: James Michael Newton
Position Desired: Application Engineer
Strengths:
- Able to design successful retail and custom applications, and work with programmers to ensure timely implementation, avoiding and/or solving real-world problems.
- Able to understand and enhance sales priorities and to work effectively with sales staff and management to accomplish company goals.
- Able to communicate effectively with non-technical persons, solve customer problems, and present technical information to prospective clients.
Work History:
Dascor (APR 00 - NOW)
Embedded developer. In a part-time position:
- Developed all software for high speed data loggers in PC104 x86 based system used to collect inflight data for military rockets.
- Developed all software for ultra low power pump controller based on the TI MSP430 processors.
- Modified existing code for PIC based data loggers.
- Designed, routed, and produced small Printed Circuit Boards.
- Updated website.
- Installed and became proficient with:
- Protel 99/se.
- IAR C++ compiler / debugger.
- TI FET emulator.
- Tern x86 development system.
- Adobe Go-Live.
Electronic Forms Plus (APR 99 - NOW)
- Developed methods for placing forms in HP proprietary ROM DIMMS for the Laser-Jet 2100, 4000, 5000 and 8000.
- Developed integration of PCL form images with all versions of MS Windows through PFM/PCM eForm as Font selection technologies.
- Developed PCL 5 parsing and compression / decompression system in Win32Asm and Microchip PIC micro controller assembly language to bring the advantages of the PCL 6 binary language to the existing PCL 5 print base while requiring only an embedded controller.
- Supported integration of electronic forms into the hotel industry. Worked with Hilton, Lanmark, Springer Miller, and other property management software.
- Implemented e-commerce solutions includeing order processing and tracking.
- Specified, purchased, installed and configured peer to peer networks.
- Wrote Perl scripts to manipulate binary data files and to perform zero footprint installations.
- Currently developing a low cost storage device for electronic forms that will not depend on proprietary printer memory and will eliminate the need for integration of electronic form calls on the host system.
- Installed and became proficient with:
Mips Dataline America, Inc. (SEP 93 to APR 99, Part time JAN 00 to NOW)
Reason for leaving: Desire more room for advancement.
Byte and Floppy Computers (JUL 92 to AUG 93, also part time 90 to 92 and 99 to NOW)
- Managed and taught computer classes for new computer users and presented seminars for corporate training.
- Developed curriculum for Windows, Lotus 1-2-3, and WordPerfect for Windows v5.2,
- Selected and purchased class materials, videos, desks, chairs, etc..
- Assisted in the installation and managed network of all classroom computers using Novell NetWare v4
- Managed corporate sales accounts including:
- Setup semi-automated system for taking and organizing orders.
- Ordered materials and tracked existing orders and billing.
- Wrote programs in FoxPro v1.0, v2.0 and v2.5 for:
- Tracking vendors catalog items.
- Printing sales quotes.
- Tracking special orders and arbitrating between sales and purchasing.
- Transferring data from accounting system to PC's for storage and analysis.
- Assisted on sales floor and in technical support department.
- Repaired or purchased replacements for most office equipment.
- Implemented basic ecommerce site integrated with legacy accounting system.
Reason for leaving: New job opportunity (opportunity for professional growth)
U.S. Navy (DEC 85 to JUL 92)
- Trained for one full year in:
- Electricity / Electronics
- Computer Digital Systems
- System troubleshooting and repair
- Aircraft and shipboard operation and safety
- Extensively trouble-shot and repaired electronic and computer systems on Anti-Submarine Warfare equipped jet aircraft and helicopters.
- While assigned to the Maintenance Training and Improvement Team (MTIP) Received Navy Achievement Medal for reducing man hour expenditures by writing programs in dBase v3 to automatically:
- Retrieve test score information from a mainframe computer system
- Select and schedule training and re-testing
- Evaluate squadron performance in attaining training goals
- Wrote programs using d-Base v3 to automate the scheduling of recurring aircraft inspections and the tracking of all outstanding repair orders resulting in a significant reduction of man hours expended.
- Licensed operator of fork-lifts up to 20k, aircraft tow tractors, mobile generators.
- Travelled in the Pacific and Mediterranean areas. Decorated veteran of the Gulf War.
Reason for leaving: Desire to settle down, get married, have family.
Hobbies: Administrator and webmaster for the PICList, an association of 2000 embedded programmers hosted by MIT. Host of SXList.com a web site devoted to Ubicom embedded controllers. Host of http://techref.massmind.org a technical archival project.
Interests: PC programming, x-Base, Delphi, C/C++, ASM, Javascript, ASP, html, nuts & bolts PC Tech-Data
Email me at jamesnewton@geocities.com.