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This document is to introduce you to myself, Peter Dennett, and PADSOFT, Inc. PADSOFT is a vehicle for providing the services of myself for computer software and hardware projects.  PADSOFT has been providing such services by contract now for over twenty five years with an extremely high customer retention rate. My typical customer has used my services over several years for multiple projects. I have handled projects from relatively short, one or two man months, to projects involving several man years. In all projects PADSOFT works on, I act as the principal consultant for PADSOFT.

 

I am a computer project consultant with a software and hardware background and thirty years of experience. I primarily work in embedded design, operating system development, application system design, and system deployment areas.  My resume can be found at these links as a .doc or .pdf.

Areas of Specialization

  • Manned space flight avionics systems

  • Embedded systems design and development

  • LINUX and Windows device driver development and support

  • Network and communications protocols and systems

  •  Scientific computing systems

  • Graphical and printing systems

  •  Support of international development and collaboration

 Partial Client List

  • Academia Sinica - Taipei Taiwan (Project management and system architecture)

  • Anadarko Petroleum – Houston Texas (Plotting systems)

  • Atlas Wireline Services – Houston Texas (Graphics systems for wireline services)

  • Baker Atlas – Houston Texas (Plotting systems)

  • Carlo Gavazzi Space – Milan Italy (System design and implementation)

  • Cogniseis – Houston Texas (Geophysical software)

  • Delphax Systems – Dedham Massachusetts (High performance embedded printing systems)

  • Digicon – Houston Texas (Geophysical software)

  • Gulf Oil – Calgary Canada and Houston Texas (Geophysical software)

  • Houston Processors – Houston Texas (Geophysical software and embedded systems)

  • Jacob Sverdrup – Houston Texas (System design and implementation)

  • Lockheed Martin – Houston Texas (Communications monitoring)

  • MIT @ CERN – Geneva Switzerland (Manned space flight avionic systems)

  • Orbital Sciences - Goddard Space Flight Center (International Space Station Avionics)

  • Siemens Rolm Communications – Santa Clara California (Call center utilities)

  • Sperry Univac – Houston Texas (Mainframe systems, operating systems)

  • Texaco Oil – Calgary Canada (Geophysical software)

  • Xerox – Boston Massachusetts (High performance embedded printing systems) 

Major Projects

  • Avionics systems for the AMS-02 payload of the International Space Station
  • Electrical Ground Support Equipment (EGSE) development for the ELC ISS facility class payload.
  • Project management and systems architect for an International Space Station sub-rack payload (ACOP)
  • Embedded systems development. 8051 systems supporting CAN bus communications for a networked instrumentation system supporting GUI.
  • TCP/IP client server systems for inter-connection to Microsoft DDE environment
  • Printer and plotter driver development for Windows NT and Windows 9x.
  • Shuttle payload flight software development and support including 1553 support.
  • Ground support systems for the Human Research Facility of the International Space Station
  • X-Windows Motif development on Sun, SGI, IBM, ...
  • High performance printer system integration’s for many systems. Including implementations of TCP/IP servers for the lpd protocol.
  • TCP/IP Telnet protocol client/server system for communications multiplexing providing remote control access to phone systems.
  • Geophysical software development, conversion, and migrations. Including redesign and engineering a system from a card image batch system into a X-Windows environment.
  • Development and marketing of device independent graphics libraries specializing in the geophysical environment.
  • Design, development, and support of device drivers for block mux channel emulation support.
  • Design, development, and support of device drivers for SCSI emulation support.
  • Design, development, and support of emulation system to emulate printers, tapes, and disks via SCSI and block mux attachment.
  • Development of several compiler and lexical analysis tools.

Major Strengths

  • Software development: embedded systems, device drivers, compiler and lexical analysis software, and graphics.

  • Project management - system design through implementation complete.

  • Marketing support.

PADSOFT's services are available on an hourly, retainer, or fixed price bid basis.

 

Update: 03-Feb-2008