Mark A. Fitzgerald

About Mark A. Fitzgerald

Working as an embedded system engineer for over 20 years, hours on well over projects, I have successfully engineered solutions for major corporations,(Ford Motor Company, Star Enterprise (Texaco), DEKA Research, Abbott, NxStage) and others, creating both hardware and software solutions.I have noticed over time, that companies requiring engineering and engineering management consulting expertise are looking for:• A consulting company with a quick learning curve that can hit the ground running on a project and require very little supervision and direction for their personnel• Instant resource that helps clients meet their engineering deadlines• Engineering consultants with vast experience on many projects, technologies, and companies to complement the full time employees that don\'t have the experience required for certain projects• Companies look for someone to firefight and resolve a bug on a project quickly and without supervision• A consultant that is easy to bring on board, get them up to speed quickly, help complete the project, and then take them off the projectHow I work with clients:• I use tools that help me learn the client’s codebase or design very quickly so that I can help contribute to the project immediately• I have experience in engineering management, project management as well as Scrum Master so I can provide project/team management as well as engineering• I work on both hardware and software issues and can interface between both departments• I solve the dilemma of software departments losing time because the hardware is incomplete, not functioning properly or doesn’t have good reliability because it’s a mix of power supplies, boards and wires• My work output is high quality and something that the client\'s internal departments can use without trying to guess how I implemented the project. I provide adequate documentation and explanations so that client’s engineers can pick up the work easily and move forward• I inform my client of any critical path or decision. I let the client dictate what they want done• I integrate into management and the team effectively, providing good feedback to managementIf you would like to discuss an upcoming project please reach out to me.

Experience

1. Principal Consultant

   Silver Bullet Engineering, Inc

   Jun 2011 — Present · North Andover, MA, US

   I bring business value to companies, not only in the engineering aspect but I also have run entire development projects and been involved with startups where my role was also as project manager and engineering department manager.Mark Fitzgerald spent 16 years at the world’s largest controls company as a Principal Engineer working on all major systems within the company and with thousands of customers, creating both hardware and software solutions. Embedded software and hardware design is not the only focus; project management with an emphasis on business value, concept development and fire-fighting problems are keys to successful past projects. We can help you address your key design issues.We are also experienced in Agile software development.Specialties: RTOS experience, Automated testing, Algorithm Design, C, C++, HTML5, CSS3, Javascript, AJAX, C#.NET, Java, Qt, Android, SQL Database, Assembly Language, Pascal, Embedded firmware design, Embedded hardware design, ARM Processors, Freescale PSC9131/3850, Freescale iMX6, NXP LPC1760, NXP LPC4300, Ti OMAP 5912, Intel PXA-255, Freescale 68HC12, Analog Devices ADSP 21161, Freescale Coldfire MOD5270, TCP/IP Sockets, GUI, MFC, Visual Studio C++, CodeWarrior, Netburner, RTOS, Wind River VxWorks, Nucleus, ThreadX, Freescale SDOS, CPLD design, Verilog, ABEL, OOD, I2C, I2S, SCCS, Clearcase, Surround SCM, 802.11 drivers.

Education

• Merrimack College

  Computer Science

  1995 — 2000