Don Goodeve

Current

• Project Development Consultant at Gateway Filesystems Inc.
• Consultant at Stanton Magnetics
• Owner at Beara Nascence Inc.

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Past

• VP Engineering at SaneWave Inc.
• DSP and Design Consultant at SaneWave Inc
• Engineering Consultant at Carmanah Technologies Inc.

• Snr. Firmware Eng. at IVL Technologies Ltd.
• Lecturer at University of York
• Research Fellow at University of Leeds

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Education

• University of York
• University of York

Recommended

3 people have recommended Don

Connections

73 connections

Industry

Computer Hardware

Websites

• My Website

Don Goodeve’s Summary

Goals:
Solving challenging engineering problems, consistently exceeding expectations, and having a lot of fun doing it.

What I am good at:
- Systems design; firmware/DSP/software/hardware. Concept to delivery.

What I enjoy doing:
- The above with a good team.

What if there is no good team?
- Then we build one...

Don Goodeve’s Specialties:

Senior Firmware Designer and Team Lead. Hardware designer. Project estimation, planning and management. Engineering management. Audio (incl. DSP) and embedded control.

Don Goodeve’s Experience

• Project Development Consultant

  Gateway Filesystems Inc.

  (Information Technology and Services industry)

  April 2008 — Present (1 year 8 months)

  Aiding the development of a novel Social Networking web product focussed on informal and formal Healthcare. Developing and supporting effective capture, design and deployment practices.

• Consultant

  Stanton Magnetics

  (Computer Hardware industry)

  2007 — Present (2 years )

• Owner

  Beara Nascence Inc.

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Hardware industry)

  November 2003 — Present (6 years 1 month)

  Co-owner of Consultancy company. Activities are primarily my own consultancy work.

• VP Engineering

  SaneWave Inc.

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing industry)

  July 2006 — May 2007 (11 months)

  Heading Engineering group across industrial design, mechanical, electronic hardware, firmware and software disciplines.

• DSP and Design Consultant

  SaneWave Inc

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing industry)

  December 2005 — July 2006 (8 months)

  Firmware/DSP design for Audio Systems.

• Engineering Consultant

  Carmanah Technologies Inc.

  (Public Company; 51-200 employees; Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing industry)

  August 2004 — May 2006 (1 year 10 months)

  Design of novel embedded control systems; solar powered aviation lights.

• Snr. Firmware Eng.

  IVL Technologies Ltd.

  (Computer Hardware industry)

  1999 — 2003 (4 years )

• Lecturer

  University of York

  (Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Higher Education industry)

  October 1996 — December 1998 (2 years 3 months)

  University Lecturer; Computer Science. Embedded systems design (hardware/software), Networks. Research in Parallel and Distributed Computing,
  interest in formal approaches to protocol design and verification and asynchronous
  system design.

• Research Fellow

  University of Leeds

  (Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Higher Education industry)

  1994 — 1997 (3 years )

  Developing novel approaches to abstraction for high performance computing environments. Based around high-level abstractions with distributed implementations, and interesting synchronization properties...

Don Goodeve’s Education

• University of York

  DPhil , Electronic Systems / Parallel Computing , 1990 — 1994

  With sponsorship from the former Inmos Ltd. under the CASE program. Developing models of network performance, and lightweight techniques for network balancing under fine-grained computational loads.
  
  Designed/built/tested and used a 68 processor system to simulate 16,384 processor systems of various configurations with simulated workloads.

  Activities and Societies:

  ASEG - Adaptive Systems Engineering Group
  (aka. Scruffy b******s at the cutting-edge of technology)

• University of York

  MEng , Electronic Systems Engineering , 1986 — 1990

Additional Information

Don Goodeve’s Websites:

• My Website

Don Goodeve’s Interests:

Energy Efficiency and Conversion, BioFuels, Music, Flying

Don Goodeve’s Groups:

IET (UK)

•    CleanTech
•    Audio Engineering Society

Don Goodeve’s Contact Settings

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