JIM LANDOWSKI 4685 Albany Circle, #105 San Jose, CA. 95129 e-mail: jimlandowski@hotmail.com phone: 408-249-5147 EMPLOYMENT EXPERIENCE: Rovsing A/S, Skovlunde, Denmark; Senior Software Engineer; September 2006 to October 2007 · Software development using LabVIEW 8.0 for a GPS satellite application for the European Space Agency. Microsoft, Yahoo and Oracle; Mountain View, Sunnyvale and Redwood Shores, CA; Software Consultant; 2002 to 2006 · Very short term software consulting once at Microsoft in 2006, once at Oracle in 2002, and three times at Yahoo between 2003 and 2006. · User interface design and usability software engineering. Stanford Research Institute International, Menlo Park, CA; Software Consultant; June 2003 to October 2003 · Developed application software in a LabVIEW 7 and Windows XP/2000/ME environment. · Architected, designed, coded, developed and tested a process control automation (robotics) manufacturing prototype system. · Used the latest state of the art LabVIEW 7 technologies such as dynamic event structures, queued state machines, and sub-paneled vi’s. Molecular Dynamics, Sunnyvale, CA; Software Consultant; October 2000 to April 2001 · Provided mission critical, sole support of the companies new product releases during the transition period from R&D to manufacturing. · Using LabVIEW 6i, enhanced, supported and debugged existing code, and wrote new programs in a Windows 98/NT/2000 environment. · Wrote build scripts and released production code. · The applications include data acquisition for a pressure transducer, process and motion control. · Architected, designed, coded, developed and tested programs using the latest state of the art publish and subscribe programming model. · Wrote WIN32 dll calls. · Wrote multithreaded, communications software using a proprietary protocol, DSTP, similar to HTTP. Apple Computer, Cupertino, CA; Software Consultant; June 1997 · Enabled the deployment of equipment used to test G3 computer motherboards at world wide manufacturing sites. · LabVIEW programming including GUI, TestStand, motion control, and C code, diagnostic, software integration. Applied Materials, Inc., Santa Clara, CA; Software Consultant; May 1997 · In a Windows NT/95 environment analyzed and improved the execution speed of a LabVIEW program to control ion implant capital equipment. TESystems, Milpitas, CA; Software Consultant; March 1997 · Discovered some bugs while analyzing a telephony device driver written in CVI LabWindows environment used to test Internet telephones. · Proposed a new software system to the customer. IBM Almaden Research Center, San Jose, CA; Software Consultant; September 1996 · Debugged and added statistical analysis to a LabVIEW program running on Windows 95.
E-TEK Dynamics(now JDS Uniphase Corporation), San Jose, CA; Software Engineer; February 1995 to June 1996 · Responsible for release of two capital equipment systems worth over $300,000 each used for manufacturing fiber optic telecommunications transmitters and receivers. · Soft real-time systems application development in LabVIEW and C in a Windows environment for semi-automated manufacturing, PC controlled equipment. · Complete software cycle: system requirements, analysis, architecture, design, coding, test, debug, documentation and release. · Wrote device drivers in C and LabVIEW for a laser diode controller, laser welder, amp meter, and motor controllers. · Parallel protocol (GPIB/IEEE-488) and serial protocol (RS-232) communication bus interfacing. · Lead Software Engineer in GUI development for robotics and process control applications. · Worked with customers and team process engineers in the development cycle. · Closed loop motion control algorithm development. · Hardware/software integration of 3 stepper motor sub-systems. · The shipped system performed concurrent testing, process control and report generation for each product manufactured, including a database. HTR, San Jose, CA; Software Engineer (part time); December 1994 to April 1995 · Writing of C code in a Windows team environment developing a database engine for a pre-start-up company. Raynet, Menlo Park, CA; Test Engineer; November 1990 to May 1991 · User of a LabVIEW based ATE environmental chamber system including motion control to test telecom components to Bellcore standards. Raychem (now Tyco Electronics), Menlo Park, CA; Test Engineer; November 1988 to September 1989 · Programming in BASIC, and system integration for ATE environmental chamber testing, and prototype manufacturing applications, including motion control. Litton Applied Technology (now Northrop Grumman Electronic Systems), San Jose, CA; R&D Engineer; March 1986 to August 1988 · Programming in BASIC of an ATE system and integration of HP instrumentation for a RF test application. ADDITIONAL EMPLOYMENT EXPERIENCE: · Hardware Engineer at 5 other companies. 1980 to 1995 · Nine years of teaching at UCSC and researcher at UCB, UCSD and U. of Arizona. 1970 to 1980 EDUCATION: University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee; September 1965 to January 1970 · B. S., Applied Math and Physics; Computer Science courses. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; September 1970 to January 1971 · Graduate School research study in holography in the Electrical Engineering Department. Foothill-DeAnza College; January 1993 to July 1993 · Certificate in Computer Information Systems; course work in C and C++.