Embedded System Designer, ASQ - Certified Software Quality Engineer
Sharon, Pennsylvania Area
- Current
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- R&D Engineer at Grace Industries
- President at The Designer-III Company
- Past
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- DESIGNER-III at Matric Limited
- Designer-III at Matric Limited
- Software Engineer at Joy Mining Machinery
- Project Editor at Circuit Cellar Magazine
- Education
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- Technical
- Connections
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- Industry
- Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing
- Websites
Bob Paddock’s Summary
From the final "Connect Time" in Circuit Cellar Issue #80, March 1997: "I do want to thank a few individuals who have contributed above and beyond the call over the last 10 years (and, I'm hopeful, for years to come). Specifically, **Bob Paddock**, Pellervo Kaskinen, George Novacek, Jim Meyer, and Ed Nisley. I could always count on one of these sharp guys to have an intelligent, well-thought-out answer to some of the most off-the-wall questions I've ever seen." - Ken Davidson former SYSOP/Editor-In-Chief Circuit Cellar Magazine
I was born with "The Knack", per Dilbert:
http://blog.obscureresearch.net/index-April-2007-2.html
and have been programming and designing Embedded Systems ever since.
Designing low power 'Green' systems are now all the rage, but I've been designing them for years by necessity, of having to run on batteries or other low power energy sources, such as Intrinsically safe systems.
I worked for many years in a Electronic Contract Manufacturing environment. I know what it takes to have a idea come in on the back of a napkin, and get a finished product out the door. See my blog on the subject:
http://blog.designer-iii.com/contract_manufacturer/20090616-211514-Is-there-a-rule-of-thumb-for-estimating-the-cost-of-getting-circuit-boards-assembled
My work for the CDC/
National Institute for Occupation Safety and Health (NIOSH) Mining Division maybe found in the links below:
http://www.wearablesmartsensors.com
http://www.designer-iii.com
You can find my name in the First Edition of the uCOS-II RTOS book and the wxWidget book:
"Cross-Platform GUI Programming with wxWidgets
(Bruce Perens Open Source)"
"MicroC/OS-II The Real-Time Kernel; A complete portable, ROMable scalable preemptive RTOS";first edition.
My particular interests are in the area of requirements management and Software Safety. See my award wining web site on the subject at http://www.softwaresafety.net .
Bob Paddock’s Specialties:
The prevailing attitude that "Memory is Cheap" doesn't cut it in the world of Embedded Systems. I'm an expert in getting code to fit into parts that are to small (that others have picked), and at translating code between different micros and compilers.
Bob Paddock’s Experience
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R&D Engineer
Grace Industries
(Medical Devices industry)
January 2003 — Present (6 years 11 months)
I am one of the lead Engineers at Grace, working in the R&D
department doing software development, mostly AVR and wxWdigets, as well has hardware design, including
Printed Circuit Board (PCB) layout.
These are some my products:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BysRTzZhAqA
You may have seen this older one on TV,
or in the movie "Ladder 49", starring John Travolta:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFiExKZqyoI -
President
The Designer-III Company
(Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing industry)
1999 — Present (10 years )
Part time consulting.
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DESIGNER-III
Matric Limited
(Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing industry)
June 1982 — October 2002 (20 years 5 months)
I designed and programming embedded systems
for one of the roughest environments on Earth, Coal Mines.
In a Coal Mine you have the worst of everything,
caustic water, dust so thick you can't see through it,
and vibrations that can turn "off the shelf" modules in to unidentifiable 'things' rolling around the bottom of the
case etc...
If my designs can survive that, I bet they can survive your requirements. For an example of my thoughts on embedded systems, see my site on System Safety. http://www.softwaresafety.net -
Designer-III
Matric Limited
(Privately Held; Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing industry)
1982 — 2002 (20 years )
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Software Engineer
Joy Mining Machinery
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; JOYG; Machinery industry)
May 1999 — October 2001 (2 years 6 months)
I was sent, by Matric, clean up a multiprocessor project that
was designed by a committee of people spread all over the world. The unit was large moving equipment that if something went wrong, people might die. The unit was composed of several different CPU modules communicating on a property bus. Each modules software as written by a different group in a different part of the world.
It was my job to get this system working correctly and on time. The first thing I did to get the project back on track was
to adopt a standardized variable naming convention...
Contact me for The Rest of the Story... -
Project Editor
Circuit Cellar Magazine
(Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing industry)
October 1998 — June 2001 (2 years 9 months)
During the heyday of the Dot Com boom I was the
lead author of Circuit Cellar Online's Resource Links.
Steve said I set the standard by which other link sites were judged.
I was also a paid member of the Circuit Cellar AskUs staff.
From the final "Connect Time" in Circuit Cellar Issue #80,
March 1997: "I do want to thank a few individuals who have contributed above and beyond the call over the last 10 years (and, I'm hopeful, for years to come). Specifically, **Bob Paddock**,
Pellervo Kaskinen, George Novacek, Jim Meyer, and Ed Nisley. I could always count on one of these sharp guys to have an intelligent, well-thought-out answer to some of the most off-the-wall questions I've ever seen."
- Ken Davidson former SYSOP/Editor-In-Chief Circuit Cellar
Magazine
Bob Paddock’s Education
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Technical
Associate , Electronic/Software , 1977 — 1982
Additional Information
Bob Paddock’s Websites:
Bob Paddock’s Interests:
Software Safety, Embedded System Hardware Design, Health Food Cooking, Bicycling, Unusual Research, RFID.
Bob Paddock’s Groups:
American Society for Quality (ASQ)- Certified Software Quality Engineer (CSQE),
Amateur Radio Relay League (ARRL).
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Embedded -
Power Management Professionals -
Project Analog -
Real-Time Embedded Engineering -
Atmel AVR Developers -
wxWidgets -
Mixed Signal Electronics/PCB Design Group -
Pittsburgh Tech Council -
Electronic hardware designers -
ASQ Software Division -
gEDA Professionals -
DO-178B and DO-254 Programming Group -
Quality Progress Magazine, ASQ -
Computer Validation CONTENT -
Embedded Leaders Community -
Energy Harvesting and MicroPower -
Regional Center for Workforce Excellence
Bob Paddock’s Honors:
My site http://www.softwaresafety.net/ has been listed as the EG3
Editor's Choice in the Embedded Safety category for February
2004.
eCLIPS gives the site four of five stars in the September 7th
2004 SAFETY CRITICAL - DESIGN GUIDE.
Bob Paddock’s Contact Settings
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- new ventures
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