Welcome to My Home Page
I am an embedded systems consultant specializing in software development
for consumer electronics. I have worked with start-up companies to research and develop
new prototypes and add features to existing products. Below is a brief resume, contact me
for my current resume, or to discuss my qualifications in more detail.
I have been developing embedded systems since 1995 for both large and small
companies, on a variety of products in the consumer, defense, and industrial
markets. Some examples are toys, computer peripherals, networking hardware
and communication equipment. I really enjoy my work designing and engineering
new products and bringing them to completion.
This website also includes some resource pages on subjects I have
researched in my work developing embedded systems and consumer
electronics. I also blog about these topics at
embeddedcoding.com.
AARON CLARKE
E-mail: ac@aaronclarke.com Telephone: 716-625-1247
OBJECTIVE Consulting opportunities that will utilize my professional experience
in electronic product development and my strong problem solving skills.
EXPERIENCE Aaron Clarke, Lockport, NY
Embedded Systems Consultant, July 2007-Present
Developed electronic prototypes and embedded software for several start-ups.
Initial board bring-up and software integration for ARM7 and ARM920T PCBs.
Ported bootloaders and embedded linux kernels to new platforms.
Tested EMC compliance of prototypes at accredited laboratory.
Fisher-Price Inc., East Aurora, NY
Project Engineer, November 2004-July 2007
Developed electronics for multiple consumer products.
ATTO Technology, Inc., Amherst, NY
Systems Engineer, August 2002-November 2004
Developed firmware for iSCSI storage switch.
Sierra Research, Buffalo, NY
Engineer, June 2001-August 2002
Developed VxWorks drivers and embedded software modules.
Amherst Systems, Inc., Buffalo, NY
Engineer, December 1997-January 1999
Contributed to a wide variety of embedded software projects.
VoCAL Technologies, Ltd., Amherst, NY
DSP Engineer, February 1996-June 1997
Led team developing modem and fax firmware and hardware for Japanese client.
Dynamics Research Corp., Tonawanda, NY
Computer Programmer, June 1995-February 1996
Garnered patent for work on data-acquisition system (U.S. Patent #5805464).
EDUCATION B.S. Electrical Engineering, University at Buffalo, February 2000.
Developed audio signal compression system using psychoacoustics in Matlab.
B.S. Mathematics, University at Buffalo, June 1995.
Concentration in Applied Mathematics.
A.S. Engineering Science, Erie Community College, Williamsville, NY, June 1990.
Awarded Engineering Society of Buffalo scholarship.
SKILLS Computer Languages Assembly, BASIC, C, C++, C#, FORTRAN, Pascal, Perl.
Microprocessors 68000, ADI-2181, ARM7, ARM9, fixed point,
DSP, LPC2134, PowerPC, PSoC, S3C2410, XScale.
Operating Systems DOS, Linux, MicroC/OS-II, UNIX, VxWorks, Windows.
Software Altium, Apex, Emacs, gcc, MathCAD, Visual Studio, Mathematica,
Matlab, mobiclip, OrCAD, PVCS, U-Boot, Visio, Visual Source Safe,
Vivi, Razor, RCS.
Technologies Embedded Linux, GPIB, EMI, ESD, Ethernet, firmware, iSCSI,
HID, microcontrollers, modem, SLIP, TCP/IP, UDP,
USB, VME, WDK, WHQL, Windows Logo Testing.
TRAINING Altium Designer: Schematic capture and PCB layout.
ARM Developer's Conference 2006.
Mathworks Matlab Image and Video Processing Seminar.
Microsoft Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC) in 2006 and 2007.
Microsoft Vista LogoFest (WHQL) at Microsoft 2006.
MEMBERSHIP Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).
IEEE Consumer Electronics Society.
IEEE Signal Processing Society.
