Consulting Services
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Based in south-east Queensland, I provide consultancy in hardware design, firmware creation and product development for international and local clients. Talk to me about your product development needs. Professional consultancy and development rates are $250 per half day, plus expenses. 

Past industry experience includes DSP and microcontroller hardware, industrial and commercial automation, robotics, data logging and remote sensing. Management responsibilities have included business development, R&D management (both software and hardware development), and product development (build, test, integration, documentation and field trials).
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Hardware Design

• 8, 16, 32, 64-bit & DSP embedded hardware, developed from the ground up
• Expertise in ARM SoC, PIC/PIC24/PIC32, TMS320Cxxx, 8051/XA, 68k
• PCB design (multilayer boards)
• Altium/Protel expertise
• Fault-tolerant, fail-safe and TMR systems
• Design for manufacture
• Ruggedised (MILSTD 810F) electronics
• Low-power/nano-power systems
• Parallel (SIMD/MIMD) & distributed processing
• Design for EMI/EMC suppression
• Sensors & control
• I2C, SPI, RS232/RS422/RS485, CAN, USB

Firmware  (RTOS & on-the-metal)

• C, C++, embedded C 
• Forth 
• Assembler (various)

R&D Project Management

• Multi-disciplinary engineering management
• Agile (Kanban & Scrum) iteration management
• Project & NRE management
• Certified Scrum Master (Reg #: 000435753)
• Requirements management (SEBoK)
• MS Project, Asana, Omniplan, Slack, Trello & LiquidPlanner proficient
• Timelines, scheduling, critical-path management
• Resource allocation and levelling
• PDLC / SDLC management
• Business analysis, planning & product strategy 
• Intellectual property, patent management
• Large team technical leadership (up to 35 staff)
• Motivational & supportive leader
• Creation of successful team environments
• Staff recruitment and retention