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Engineering & Casino Gaming Consulting Company – Aug 2002 - Present
Sierra
Computer Engineering – Aug. 1988 – Nov 1995
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& Other Consulting Work )
Sierra Computer Engineering was the name of my electronics engineering company while living in Sonora up in the California Sierras. Unfortunately I would get phone calls from kids looking for Sierra the gaming company. The following is a list of some of the projects that I have worked on and am allowed to mention!
Aircraft
Hydraulics Testing System
Built first prototype on plexiglass board mount using Vacuum Florescent Display (VFD), Light Emitting Diodes (LED), 5x6 Membrane Keyboard, Bidirectional Rotary Encoder Wheel, and Network drivers as well as wire-wrapped the prototype utilizing a Rabbit 2000 (Z80) processor core.
Seize the Day
Localized English language personal database program from Win3.1 to the Win3.1/J and Win95/J Operating Systems in Japanese.
- Dual Tank Hydroponics control system. Designed the electronics, prototyped and programmed!
- Wrote a control program that would read ASCII files of 2D hole positions and size information and communicate with a very ancient Computer Numerical Control (CNC) type machine and batch the data in (emulating the tty terminal) instead of using the old method of manual entry and/or punch tape import/export system.
- Prototyped 6502 based Slave emulator for software development.
- Graphics tools used in the conversion of graphic image file formats.
- Development of software for an embedded device interrogator, to determine its serial number and track in a custom database.
- Did some black & white scanning work with printer control files so a client could print various logos on letterhead and envelopes.
- Computer Monitor repair.
Port
of an Apple II maze game video game to Atari 800 when project was terminated.
Some projects that I have worked on involved reverse engineering and so am under a Non Disclosure Agreement (NDA) so as to not mention the name of the company!
· GIS (Computerized Cartography) Graphics programs using digitized and vector based Mercator projections used with GPS and Loran vehicle tracking systems. This was used in determining Loran coverage areas as well as zones of intersections.
· NOAA Digital Coastline Cartographic Compression.
· The tracking of vehicles using mobile GPS receivers in conjunction with cellular phones and modems for position monitoring at base stations.
· The reverse engineering and creation of various airport-runway database storage systems for use with GPS equipment.