Datacard
11111 Bren Road West
Minnetonka, Minnesota 554343

Business:

Manufacturer of plastic card printers.
Turn-key solution provider for identity, security and financial card technology.

Position:

Principal Firmware Engineer
November 2000 – April 2001

Accomplished:

• Developed software and firmware for printer/computer communication
• Developed firmware for printer job scheduling and controls
• Developed color calibration software
• Developed software for halftones

Tool(s):

• Unix BSD
• Microsoft Windows NT
• WindRiver VxWork
• Microsoft Visual C++
• Adobe Photoshop
• X-Rite DTP colorimeter
• Gretag spectrophotometer
• Wolfram Mathematica

Skill(s):

• C, C++, OOP, MFC
• Error-diffusion dither (FM screen)
• Amplitude modulation dither (AM screen),

Position:

Firmware Engineer
July 1998 – March 2000

Accomplished:

• Developed software and firmware for printer/computer communication
• Developed firmware for printer job scheduling and controls
• Developed software for image enhancement, data binding, color separation, etc.
• Developed software for color calibration.
• Developed software for X-Rite colorimeter controls.
• Evaluate raster image processors for converting continuous tone image to halftones.

Tool(s):

• Unix BSD
• Microsoft Windows NT
• WindRiver VxWork
• Microsoft Visual C++
• Adobe Photoshop
• X-Rite DTP colorimeter
• Gretag spectrophotometer
• Wolfram Mathematica

Skill(s):

• C, C++, OOP, MFC
• Color separation GCR
• Convolution filters-sharpen
• TCP/IP, RS-232 communication
• beginner print-driver programming
• image formats - TIFF

Position:

Imaging Engineer
April 1994 – September 1996

Accomplished:

• Developed custom software for image enhancement, correction, text-raster.
• Research and experiment mapping techniques for color management.
• Evaluate cameras, printer and scanners for product integration.

Tool(s):

• Microsoft Windows 3.0, NT
• Microsoft Visual C++ 1.0 - 5.0
• Microsoft Excel
• Wolfram Mathematica
• Adobe Photoshop
• Aldu Freehand
• Accusoft Image Library
• Pegausus Image Library
• ACS spectrophotometer
• Minolta spectrophotometer
• Colortron spectrophotometer

Skill(s):

• C++, beginner OOP, MFC
• Chroma-key algorithm
• Convolution filters-sharpen/smooth/despeckle/derivative
• Modulation Transfer Function (MTF)
• Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT)
• Look up table (LUT)
• Auto-histogram equalization
• Image formats - bmp, targa
• Back-propagate neural network (BPN)
• Color conversion - RGB, CMYK, YIQ, XYZ, HSV, CIEL*a*b*
• Text raster operations

1st: 01Mar05
mod: 25Feb06