Ross M.

## BIO I am an Australian electronics engineer currently living in Japan. I have worked the last five years in Australia for and embedded systems company in Brisbane, designing products for the Intelligent Traffic System (ITS) industry. I have experience in designing, prototyping, programming, testing, producing and maintaining embedded systems and projects. Some of the many products I have developed are: Roadside vehicle measurement system. Detects vehicle speed, length, headway, axle spacing and classification. Measurements are stored on CompactFlash card for fixed line, GSM or GPRS retrieval (Sold in Australia, Britain, Ireland, Cyprus and the U.S.) Hand held inductive loop meter. Measures loop inductance, resistance and Q. Also contains a insulation tester and a loop field detector. Graphical interface firmware for Variable Message Sign to enable the display of graphics and graphic sequences Prototype embedded video detection system. Processes image stream from a CMOS video camera to determine if vehicles are in predefined detection zones, using a 16 bit processor and OV6620 sensor. Prototype GPS tracking add-on for existing bus tracking system. Uses GPS to locate bus position and sends information via GPRS to central server. In addition, I wrote programs for the Windows and Windows Mobile operating system to interface with embedded devices: Software suite to interface with roadside vehicle measurement system. Consisted of Windows Mobile application to communicate to roadside device via bluetooth and download data, Windows application to synchronise with multiple iPAQs to transfer data to MySQL database. Various software programs to simulate and test communications protocols and point to point or multidrop networks of embedded system devices. ## Area of Expertise Embedded systems design skills: Assembly/C/C++ programming for 8 and 16 bit microprocessors. e.g. 80C320, XAG49, PIC16F874 VHDL programming for Xilinx CPLDs / FPGAs such as XC95108 Programming and design to interface MCUs with peripherals such as RAM, CompactFlash drives, GPS devices, GSM/GPRS radio modems and other communication devices Design of communications protocols for robust communications over intermittant networks. Coding for interface with Maxstream XBee products Analogue and digital circuit design. Computer programming skills: .NET application development in C# for deployment on Windows machines .NET Compact Framework application development in C# for deployment on Windows Mobile 5.0 devices HTML/CSS/PHP/Javascript coding for small websites MySQL experience as a database for .NET applications Other skills: Altium Designer 6 CAD Microsoft Office Suite Photoshop CS2