Resume of Barry M. Kasindorf

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SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS:

•  15+ years in Electronics and Computer Technology
•  History of delivering projects on time, within budget
•  MIT Graduate Electrical Engineer; Master's study in Computer Science
•  Strong consultation, analytical and problem solving skills
•  Extensive experience with device drivers and kernel code with hardware interface design
•  Knowledge of a wide variety of systems and hardware, ability to work on any type of project.
•  Experience in project management, team leadership, budgets, scheduling, sales support etc.

SELECTED ACHIEVEMENTS:

•  Software patent for language translation
•  Hand held remote laser pyrometer (hardware, software design, patents, IR-100 award)
•  SCSI device emulation for OS/2 docking support (published in Byte magazine sidebar)
•  USB to IDE/ATAPI interface hardware and software reference design

COMPUTER SKILLS:

• HARDWARE: 68000,  X86, PPC, 8./16-Bit CPUs,  FPGA
• SYSTEMS: UNIX, LINUX, RSX-11, CP/M, OS/2,  Win98, Windows 2000/.NET, CDOS
• SOFTWARE: C, C++, Pascal, LISP, FORTRAN, PL/M, Java, HTML, various assemblers

EXPERIENCE:

Member Technical Staff, AMD inc, Boxboro, Ma.         2007 to present
–CodeAnalyst Development team

• Support Windows and Linux device driver for CodeAnalyst Optomization tool
• Added supoport for new IBS features of new quad core Family 10h processors
• Submitted Linux kernel patch for oProfile IBS support
  
• Made driver more WHQL compliant
  

Senior Engineer, Thermo Electron Corp, Franklin, Ma.      2005 to 2007
–iSeries Instrument platform support, Linux and Windows

• Added new features to uClinux device driver and embedded application
• Debug system crashes and instability, improve performance
• Updated Windows GUI support program for new product line features
• Maintain and support CVS source code versioning system

Contract Engineer, VentureTechnologies Inc, Billerica Ma.      2004 to 2005
–Contract work at Thermo Environmental Instruments, Franklin, Ma

• Added new features to uClinux device driver and embedded application
• Updated Windows GUI support program for new product line features
• Maintain and support CVS source code versioning system
  

Principal Engineer, Verdasys Inc, Waltham, Ma.  2004
–Windows system programming

• Created windows FSD filter driver for dynamic file encryption
• Customer support and system crash debugging
• Added new features for next generation of Digital Guardian product.

Contract Engineer, Communica Inc, Pocasset, Ma.  2002 to 2003
-Contract work onsite at Teradyne Inc, Reading, Ma.

•  Created embedded system using real time drivers and kernel modules for 1394 test system using RTLinux and LNET 1394 drivers from FSM Labs for X86 and PPC.
•  Hardware team lead for design of an advanced digital power supply board for Intergra test system, involving FPGA, drivers and advanced power management.
•  Redesign of docking control hardware and software for Integra test system to reduce cost, improve functionality and increase reliability.

Consulting Engineer, Marathon Technologies Corp., Boxboro, Ma.  2000 to 2002
-Windows System

•  Used .NET kernel sources and  HALs to port fault tolerant server product from Win2000 to .NET
•  Debugged, ported and improved kernel drivers for storage, network and plug and play

-Applications

•  Added features, debugged and ported GUI user applications using MFC and VC++
•  Ported and improved system installer package

Director of Application Engineering, ScanLogic Corp., Burlington, Ma. 1999-2000

-Product design

•  Wrote firmware and Windows and Mac device drivers for USB to IDE DVK and reference design
•  Wrote firmware and Windows driver, and hardware design for SmartDisk and Compact Flash USB reader reference design
•  Participated in pre-sale and design of USB to Flash memory used in Microsoft XBOX controller

-Customer support

•  Produced custom versions of software and hardware for customer needs
•  Debugged customer hardware and software problems, responded to inquiries

Contract Engineer,  Renaissance Worldwide Inc., Waltham, Ma.  1998 to 1999
-Onsite Digital/Compaq Computer, Marlboro, Ma.

•  Portables division device driver group system engineer
•  IDE device drivers, network drivers, Plug and Play/ACPI drivers, File System drivers, etc.

Chief Scientist/Senior Engineer, Communica Inc., Pocasset, Ma:  1993 to 1998

-Generalist

•  Team lead, architect of many projects
•  Dos/Windows/WIN95/OS2/NT/Unix system programmer
•   DOS, Windows and OS/2 network drivers, NDIS/ODI, TCP stacks
•   Device drivers, Multimedia, Video, Storage/SCSI, USB, etc.
•   File system drivers, remote, local, non-FAT filesystems
•   Copy protection

-Hardware Design

•   Pcmcia CardBus
•   Embedded systems
•   ISA and MCA card designs

PRIOR EXPERIENCE:

•  Cerjac Inc. SONET test equipment
•  Barsook and Brisk, contract consulting
•  Intermetrics, Space Shuttle software
•  Genrad, automated testing

EDUCATION:

•  MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, Boston, Massachusetts: Candidate   for Master of Science in Computer Science Engineering
•  MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, Boston, Massachusetts: Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering (B.S.E.E); MAJORS-Computer Science & Electrical Engineering

 PATENTS:

•  Translation of Natural Language
•  User interface Design (Software)
•  Various other product patents

AWARDS :

•  I-R 100 Award (1985)-Hand-Held Laser Pyrometer
•  I-R 100 Award (1982)-Hand-Held Gamma Ray Contraband Detector

AFFLIATION:

•  President-AMICA (1982-1985)
•  Circle of Friends Coffeehouse, Franklin, Ma
•  (misc. public service activities including Disaster assistance with area amateur radio clubs)
•  Member IEEE and ACM