Bill Butler Resume
William N. Butler
1304 Breanna Way
Coppell, Texas 75019
(972) 304-0545
bbutler@
Principal Embedded Firmware Engineer – Team Lead
Experienced team lead and individual contributor for low-level embedded firmware, and middleware. Have worked on analog, digital and mixed signal designs. Specialize in custom board bring up to support an OS such as embedded Linux or non-OS bare-metal applications. Led small teams of engineers in multiple project using Agile methodologies.
|TECHNICAL |Hardware: |Arm9, MCF5xxx, MCP860, MC68xxx, TI DSP 320C240, 320C54CST, 320C5402, 320C5502, 320C64x+, |
|SUMMARY: | |ADSP2185, 8051, 68HC812, IBM PC/x86 and Compatibles, HP730, Sun, Sparc, DEC6xxx, 8xxx, 11/750, |
| | |11/785, GPIB-488, MIL-STD-1553 |
| |Operating |LINUX, RTEMS, PSOS, DspBios, Windows 9x/NT/2K/XP, UNIX, VRTX, USX, Nucleus, OS2/WARP, MS/DOS |
| |System: |6.2, VMS |
| |Languages: |C, C++, MC68xxx/TI/8051 Assembly, Windows SDK, ZAPP, MFC, OWL, YACC, MEWEL, PASCAL, FORTRAN, |
| | |Visual Basic. |
| |Design Tools: |Evergreen Case Tools, CADRE Case Tools |
| |Debugging |Single Step ICE, TI Debuggers, GDB, HP 7400 series ICE, Tektronics and HP Oscilloscope, |
| |Tools: |Tektronics Logic Analyzer (Prism 3000, DAS), CADRE in-circuit emulator, HP4951a Protocol |
| | |Analyzer, IO-Tech 488 Analyzer. |
Professional Employment
|September, 2002 |Estech systems Inc, Plano, TX |
|to Present |Principal Software Engineer- Firmware Team Lead |
| |Responsible for architecture, design, development, and testing of real-time, embedded code for a market leader in |
| |telephony equipment utilizing TDM and VoIP technologies. A lead developer on multiple projects integrating Timesys |
| |Linux on an ARM9 with direct interface to a TI64xx. Extensive experience with Motorola/Freescale MCF52xx, MCF5407; TI |
| |TMS320C5402, TMS320C5502; TMS320C64x+; and ADSP-2185 processors using C/C++ and assembly. Responsible for low-level |
| |board bring- up, including drivers for flash, SDRAM, network chips, RTC, Compact Flash, IC2, and T1 Framers. Ported, |
| |expanded and maintained DSP algorithms and codec’s in assembly for multiple DSP brands to take advantage of vendor |
| |pricing. Algorithm familiarity includes: tone generators, CID & DTMF codec’s, and echo-cancellers, G.726, G.711, & |
| |ADPCM. Very comfortable with working on board at the hardware interface level. Familiar with TDM serial bus interfaces |
| |as well as with VoIP technologies. Manage a team of 5 embedded engineers, working on multiple firmware projects using |
| |Scrum/XP Agile methods. Responsible for hiring, assigning tasks, reviews, promotions and raises. |
|January, 2002 |Advanced IP COmmunication, Richardson, TX |
|to September, 2002 |Senior Embedded Software Engineer / Project Leader -Contractor |
| |Responsible for architecture, design, development, and testing of real-time, embedded code for a startup company to |
| |produce a small business phone switch using VoIP. Developed code for the Motorola MCF5307 processor using C/C++ coupled|
| |with RTEMS real-time OS. Wholly responsible for board check out, GNU Tools, bring up of the board, rating the bios, |
| |which provided a network boot; and 80% of the VoIP application. The proprietary board included flash, SDRAM, a network |
| |chip, a RTC, and Compact Flash. Also developed code for the TMS32054CST DSP to interface to the coldfire utilitizing |
| |the Host interface port. Used Assembly for low-level startup, driver ISR and debugging. Administered a Linux Server |
| |running 6.2, which we migrated, to 7.3. |
|August, 2000 |ComSpace Corp, Coppell, TX |
|to December, 2001 |Senior Embedded Software Engineer |
| |Responsible for design, development, and testing of real-time, embedded code for a startup company that provided |
| |spectrum efficiency over RF. Developed code for the Motorola MPC860 processor using C coupled with the PSOS real-time |
| |OS. Also developed code for a VLSI ARM processor using C coupled with the Nucleus OS. Further, developed network data |
| |interface applications using LINUX on a PC target, compiled with GNU tools. Specialized in serial and network |
| |interfaces and debugging in assembly. |
|December, 1995 |Vari*LITE, Irving, TX |
|to August, 2000 |Senior Embedded Software Engineer - Project Lead |
| |Responsible for design, development, and testing of real-time, embedded code for the industry leader in concert and |
| |stage automated lighting. Products use Motorola HC12, 68360, 68302, 68332, 68040, and TI Dsp 320C240 processors on |
| |custom boards. Code generated in C, C++ and Assembly with the MicroTec C, GoDsp C and by HiCross embedded C/C++ |
| |compilers hosted on PC and UNIX platforms. Trained in Booch Design model. Experience in Microsoft C++ for Windows 95 |
| |user interfaces. Managed several projects and a team of 3 people. |
|July, 1994 |AMR- Sabre Decision TECHNOLOGY, Irving, TX |
|to December,1995 |Software Engineer - Contractor |
| |Team member developing a large commercial fourth generation compiler (QIK2) to produce user-friendly interfaces for |
| |complex host environments in call centers. Development under Watcom C++ for multi-platforms (DOS, Windows 3.X, OS2/16 |
| |and OS2/PM) using ZAPP class framework, MEWEL for DOS and OS/16 capability, and YACC as the lexical engine. |
| | |
| |Software Engineer/Project Manager - Contractor |
| |Designed and maintained an Automated Travel Authorization Certificate (AutoTAC) program developed in Microsoft Visual |
| |Basic (VB) using Q&E database extensions. Work closely with clients and operators to increase TAC processing efficiency,|
| |increase user-friendliness, and decrease operator-training time. Increased processing from 2100 TAC’s/month to 21,000 |
| |TAC’s/month. Other duties included Novel LAN administrator and configuration administrator |
| | |
| |Software Engineer - Contractor |
| |Developed Window 3.X printer drivers for specialize Europe ticket printer. Development under Microsoft Visual C++ 1.5 |
| |compiler. |
|January, 1990 |ElectroSpace SYstems, Inc., Richardson, TX |
|to July, 1994 | |
| |Software Engineer/ Software Lead |
| |Team member designing DF calibration controller required to control and collect data from several GPIB-488, serial |
| |(RS232, RS485), MIL-STD-1553, and TTL devices. System requirements included time critical control, recovery from |
| |equipment errors with reduced mode capability, and wireless synchronization timing between controllers. Selected |
| |hardware and software for project including PC 486 notebooks, interfaces, networking, and programming environment. |
| |Development under Windows 3.11 using Borland C++ 3.1/4.0. Designed using C++ OOP with class structures and data |
| |encapsulation. |
| | |
| |Software Embedded Engineer |
| |Team member implementing a project design using C++ OOP on Sun Sparcs. Developed control algorithms for HP signal |
| |generators controlled using GPIB-488 bus. |
| | |
| |Software Embedded Engineer / Project Lead |
| |Designed, developed, and tested embedded software for large earth station antenna control systems. Responsible for |
| |projects developed using C hosted on pc and Unix environments cross-compiled using MircoTec C coupled with the VRTX |
| |real-time OS based on the MC68xxx platforms. Used Tektronics Logic Analyzer (Prism 3000, DAS) and CADRE in-circuit |
| |emulator to debug code. |
|February, 1989 |Tees Engineering computer services, College Station, TX |
|to December, 1989 | |
| |DEC VAX System Programmer /Operator |
|June, 1987 |Solved programming problems and assist with the VAX/VMS environment. |
|to December, 1987 | |
|January, 1988 |US ARMY, TEST AND EXPERIMENTATION COMMAND (TEXCOM), Fort Hood, TX |
|to January, 1989 | |
| |Computer Specialist (COOP) |
| |Team member designing, implementing, and testing programs used for critical reliability testing for the Department of |
| |Defense. Developed using Clipper/ dBase 3. |
|Education: |Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas |
| |Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, 1991 |
| |Minor: Electrical Engineering |
| | |
| |Microsoft Visual Basic Programming Course |
| |Booch OO Design Training |
| |TI DSP 320X2xx Training |
| |TI DSP 32055xx Training |
| |TI DSP 320C64x+ DSP System Integration Workshop using DSP/BIOS |
| |Linux Essentials Training |
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