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Laurence A. Hildenbrand
Senior Software Development Engineer
Memberships, Awards or Acknowledgements:
  • Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE).
  • Professional and Technical Consultants Association (PATCA).
  • Product development for PC, Macintosh, workstation, and micro-based systems. Real-time software, digital hardware, and project management. Close customer contact from product definition through system completion, and often through product-life support.
  • Hardware architectures include Intel X86, Motorola 680X0, Sun IV/SPARC, numerous RISC-based systems, and many embedded control applications (8051, 68HC11, etc.). Environments: X86 protect mode, DOS, Windows, OS/2, UNIX, VRTX, iRMX. Languages: C++, C, Assembly, PASCAL, FORTRAN, etc. Methodologies include CASE, object-oriented design, structured development, metrics, and software standards.
  • Eleven years as an independent software engineering consultant developing products for medical, telecommunications, manufacturing, computer systems, and graphics industries.
  • Clients have included AMD, Apple Computer, Commodore-Amiga, Compression Labs, Credence Systems, Dupont Digital Design, Fujitsu, Hewlett-Packard, Intel, Medtronic, Microsoft, NCR, Octel Communications, Phase 2 Automation, Ricoh, Spectra-Physics, Sun Microsystems, Tracor, Varian, and Verilink.
  • Two years at Identronix developing real-time controllers for an RF-based identification system that tracked high-valued work in process, and rail and truck fleets.
  • One year in GCA's plasma products unit developing real-time control systems for semiconductor ion implant, plasma etch and wafer stepping equipment.
  • Three years in disk manufacturing engineering at IBM's General Products Division developing real-time process control systems for fixed-disk manufacturing processes.
  • Five years at General Electric's Nuclear Energy developing GCOS software.
  • BS Engineering/Computer Science 1976, San Jose State University.
  • MBA Candidate, U. of Santa Clara.
  • FoxFire Systems Corporation
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