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Skills & experience

Software related skills
Most of my past progamming projects apply to the red areas in the picture below:

(programming areas)

Although I have done some minor web development too, (examples: embedded websites, this website, ahum), I specialize in (cross-platform) embedded software.
To give an impression of my skills, I list some of the typical IT jobs I did in the past:

Setting up embedded development environment for customer board
  • Install cross-development tools on PC (IDE, tool-chain)
  • Realize JTAG connection with target processor/microcontroller
  • Realize trace channel
Embedded software development (cross-platform)
  • Adapt Board Support Package (BSP) and middle ware for customer board and getting it working
  • Get OS working
  • Create device drivers for custom hardware/chips (working from datasheets)
  • Create application
  • Test and debug application software
Product software updating (cross-platform)
  • Design software updating mechanism for customer product (local/remote)
  • Implement tools for software updating on board and PC
  • Build test configuration for automated software update testing
Software quality checking
  • MISRA C checking of source code with QAC
  • Due Diligence check of existing software before buy
  • Review test design/plan
Writing technical documentation
  • Write software specifications
  • Write software design
  • Write user manual
  • Write datasheet
Hardware related skills
Hardware support
  • RMA: Investigate defect products returned by end-customers
  • Review hardware design
  • Help with prototyping new boards
  • Replace components (desoldering/soldering)
  • Investigate alternatives for End-Of-Life (EOL) components
IT experience

Computers/platforms

Experience

Last

PC

35 years

2026

Sun Sparc

< 1 years

1997

IBM AS/400

1.5 years

1990

 

Operating systems

Experience

Last

MS-Windows 3.11 / 95 / 98 / ME / NT4 / 2000 / XP / VISTA / 7 / 8 / 10 / 11

30 years

2026

Linux (embedded & PC)

3 years

2026

Eigen network OS (ID1021)

4 years

2013

MS-DOS

15 years

2004

Unix, Xenix, QNX, Solaris

< 1 years

1997

Solaris

< 1 years

1997

VxWorks/VxWindows

< 1 years

1997

Alsys ARTK

1.5 years

1995

 

Programming languages

Experience

Last

C

35 years

2026

C++

< 1 years

2026

Assembler (Z80, 6809, 8086/80386, 68000, NSC CR16, NEC 78K/0, Hitachi H8, Renesas RX, Atmel ARM, Microchip PIC, NXP ARM)

35 years

2026

C#

2 years

2022

JavaScript

< 1 years

2005

ADA 83

1.5 years

1995

dBase IV/FoxPro

3 years

1988

Pascal

3 years

1988

 

Development tools

Experience

Last

MISRA C / QA-C

< 5 years

2026

MCUXpresso (NXP)

< 10 years

2026

Atlassian Jira, Bitbucket, Confluence, Bamboo

< 5 years

2026

GIT (Tortoise, SourceTree)

5

2026

Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Project, Outlook, Power Point, Visio, Teams, Frontpage, SourceSafe)

30

2026

GNU C/C++ Toolchain

5

2026

Microsoft Visual Studio

6

2026

Subversion (SVN, Tortoise)

3

2019

Eclipse (ARM, Renesas)

10

2019

MPLAB IDE / XC8 (Microchip)

< 1 years

2019

IAR EW (Renesas H8/NSC CR16/NEC 78K/0)

7

2013

Renesas HDI/HEW/FDT

4

2013

WaveCom SDK

1

2006

TeleLogic CM Synergy

1

2005

TeleLogic Doors

0.5

2005

BorlandC/TASM/Turbo Vision

15

2004

Microsoft Developer Network (MSDN)

4

2003

MS VisualC++/MASM

4

2002

MS-Windows SDK/DDK

2

2000

Intersolve PVCS

< 1 years

1999

Alsys Ada dev.env.

1.5 years

1995

dBase IV, FoxPro

3

1988

 

Datacom protocols

Experience

Last

CANopen

< 10 years

2026

LoRa

< 3 years

2026

Internet protocols

(TCP/IP/UDP, HTTP, FTP, Telnet, POP3, SMTP, PPP, NetBIOS, NAT, DNS)

30 years

2026

Ethernet protocols (ethernet v2.0, IEEE 803.2)

30 years

2019

GSM data (SMS/GSM data, GPRS)

15 years

2024

Other(V24, V25, HDLC)

15 years

2013

Telephony (GSM, DECT, PSTN, PHS)

7 years

2005

 

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