Frank Christiny

About Frank Christiny

I have 16 solid years of continuous software development experience in the aerospace industry. I worked in NASA\'s Space Shuttle Program until its demise and currently work in the International Space Station Program.My strengths are: Real-Time and Embedded Systems software, with emphasis in Guidance, Navigation and Flight Control. I have extensive experience developing technical software in computer languages such as: C/C++, Java, Ada, Fortran and Assembly language. I have used VxWorks to design various device drivers that interface with Operating Systems environments such as Windows XP, Linux and AIX. Also, I have used Matlab/Simulink for simulation analysis of space flight data. I have designed algorithms for parallel multi-processor computers containing Intel\'s Xeon Phi and NVIDIA\'s GPUs.

Experience

1. Embedded Software Engineer - International Space Station

   Boeing

   Nov 2007 — Present · Houston, TX, US

   I design, develop, test and maintain software programs embedded in the Guidance, Navigation & Control (GN & C) computer of NASA\'s International Space Station (ISS). The software modules are written in the Ada language and in National Instrument\'s MATRIXx superblocks. I review and collaborate in the elaboration of the exacting software requirements for the ISS flight control and navigation modules. When required, I create, test and distribute flight critical patches in the x86 Assembly language for the ISS MDM computer.

Education

• Our Lady of the Lake University

  Bachelor, Computer Information Systems

  1994 — 1998

• University of Houston-Clear Lake

  Master, Computer Science

  2006 — 2011

Skills

• Openmp
• Object Oriented Design
• Space Systems
• Java
• Ada Programming
• Cuda
• Visual C++
• Unix
• Hardware
• Pascal
• Visio
• Linux
• Ooad
• Multithreading
• Mpi
• Avionics
• Real Time
• Simulink
• Engineering
• Aerospace
• Parallel Programming
• Software Engineering
• Software Development
• Vxworks
• Technical Leadership
• Inter-Process Communication
• Embedded Software
• Matlab
• Visual Studio
• Parallel Computing
• Assembly Language
• Rtos
• C
• Programming
• Flight Simulation
• Pthreads
• Scientific Computing
• Device Drivers
• Firmware
• C++