John Harris

About John Harris

Senior Software/Embedded/Firmware Design Engineer with a reputation for developing software that drives devices and application interfaces to perform quickly and reliably.* Bachelor of Science in Applied Mathematics and Master of Science in Computer Science.* Projects have included the full life cycle of software development.* Design Pattern experience with special emphasis on adapter, singleton, and observer.* UNIX (AIX) applications, Windows desktop, chart components, and building controls.* Strong background in telecommunications (cable & telephony).* Wrote state machine for testing Bluetooth connections.* Developed handheld instrument applications in C#/managed C++ on a Windows CE platform.* Built live data chart controls for a released handheld product.* Added interrupt handler to code developed from an Altera FPGA design.* Shares ideas with a team of product managers and developers to define new product features.* Solves complex problems, with thorough testing for customer satisfaction.* Developed products with many software languages and tools with an expanding skill base. Specialties: Languages: C#.Net, VB.Net, Visual C++ 6.0, C/C++, VB 6.0, SQL. Tools: Select OMT, UML (Visio), Subversion, SourceSafe, PVCS, gdb, dbx Protocols: TCP/IP, RTP, RS-232, RPC, CORBA, Q931, SNMP, XWindows Platforms: WinCE, Windows AIX on Systems Recent Training: JAVA, JSP & Servlets, HTML, XML, SQL Data Access Programming in VB, COM & ActiveX Programming in VB.

Experience

1. Senior Firmware Engineer

   VeEX Inc

   Jan 2014 — Present · Norcross, GA

   Add serial interrupt handler and other enhancements to code fpr Altera FPGA.

Education

• University of Tennessee Space Institute

  Master of Science, Computer Science

  1976 — 1977

• Georgia Institute of Technology

  B.S., Applied Mathematics

  1972 — 1976