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:
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Developed software and firmware for
printer/computer communication
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Developed firmware for printer job scheduling
and controls
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Developed color calibration software
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Developed software for halftones
Tool(s):
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Unix BSD
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Microsoft Windows NT
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WindRiver VxWork
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Microsoft Visual C++
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Adobe Photoshop
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X-Rite DTP colorimeter
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Gretag spectrophotometer
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Wolfram Mathematica
Skill(s):
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C, C++, OOP, MFC
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Error-diffusion dither (FM screen)
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Amplitude modulation dither (AM screen),
Position:
Firmware Engineer
July 1998 – March 2000
Accomplished:
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Developed software and firmware for
printer/computer communication
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Developed firmware for printer job scheduling
and controls
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Developed software for image enhancement, data
binding, color separation, etc.
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Developed software for color calibration.
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Developed software for X-Rite colorimeter
controls.
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Evaluate raster image processors for
converting continuous tone image to halftones.
Tool(s):
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Unix BSD
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Microsoft Windows NT
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WindRiver VxWork
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Microsoft Visual C++
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Adobe Photoshop
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X-Rite DTP colorimeter
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Gretag spectrophotometer
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Wolfram Mathematica
Skill(s):
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C, C++, OOP, MFC
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Color separation GCR
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Convolution filters-sharpen
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TCP/IP, RS-232 communication
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beginner print-driver programming
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image formats - TIFF
Position:
Imaging Engineer
April 1994 – September 1996
Accomplished:
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Developed custom software for image
enhancement, correction, text-raster.
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Research and experiment mapping techniques for
color management.
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Evaluate cameras, printer and scanners for
product integration.
Tool(s):
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Microsoft Windows 3.0, NT
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Microsoft Visual C++ 1.0 - 5.0
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Microsoft Excel
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Wolfram Mathematica
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Adobe Photoshop
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Aldu Freehand
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Accusoft Image Library
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Pegausus Image Library
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ACS spectrophotometer
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Minolta spectrophotometer
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Colortron spectrophotometer
Skill(s):
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C++, beginner OOP, MFC
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Chroma-key algorithm
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Convolution
filters-sharpen/smooth/despeckle/derivative
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Modulation Transfer Function (MTF)
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Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT)
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Look up table (LUT)
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Auto-histogram equalization
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Image formats - bmp, targa
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Back-propagate neural network (BPN)
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Color conversion - RGB, CMYK, YIQ, XYZ,
HSV, CIEL*a*b*
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Text raster operations
1st: 01Mar05
mod: 25Feb06