Project Manager and Systems Architect at Moore Good Ideas, Inc.
Greater Salt Lake City Area
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- Project Manager & Systems Architect at Moore Good Ideas, Inc.
- Past
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- Applications Engineer at National Instruments
- Computer Support Hardware Technician at Harold B. Lee Library at Brigham Young University
- Education
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- Brigham Young University
- Brigham Young University
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Robert C. Mortensen’s Summary
Robert C. Mortensen’s Specialties:
LabVIEW development, National Instruments hardware platform,
project management, system architectures, test & automation, instrument control, communication protocols
Robert C. Mortensen’s Experience
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Project Manager & Systems Architect
Moore Good Ideas, Inc.
(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)
January 2007 — Present (3 years )
• Design, develop, implement, and maintain custom hardware/software systems for scientific, industrial and manufacturing companies using LabVIEW and National Instruments hardware
• Manage multiple accounts and projects with various customers throughout the greater Salt Lake area and nation
• Plan and execute key business strategies and decisions related to marketing, sales, and business development as one of five employees
• Developed TerraTRA, a tight rock analysis system for TerraTek, a Schlumberger Company, which improved rock analysis throughput and decreased process time
• Led a five-man team in the architecture of the software for a multi-million dollar real-time test system for the Expeditionary Fighting Vehicle (EFV) software group at Hill AFB to simulate vehicle components
• Developed from scratch a new set of Read/Write Anything VIs for general, open source LabVIEW development use, improving the to-disk and from-disk speeds over the old method by more than 500x -
Applications Engineer
National Instruments
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; NATI; Computer Hardware industry)
January 2004 — January 2007 (3 years 1 month)
• Developed the software, API, and driver in LabVIEW FPGA for a new cRIO LIN module in cooperation with Freescale debuting at NI-Week 2006
• Lead editor for new software and hardware technical interview questions used to evaluate the technical ability of engineers applying for full time ELP (Engineering Leadership Program) positions
• Served as the Windows Vista “go-to” in the AE (Applications Engineering) department, orchestrating training, and developing demos illustrating the integration of LabVIEW with Windows Vista, specifically the built-in speech recognition API
• Served as the senior member of the LabVIEW Email Team, supporting customers via email with complex LabVIEW questions as well as the rest of the department on any LabVIEW related issues (July 2004 – August 2005)
• Developed a complete, full-featured application in LabVIEW called NI-Bingo for use in trade shows in attracting customers to the booth and promoting the 30 years of NI and 20 years of LabVIEW campaign -
Computer Support Hardware Technician
Harold B. Lee Library at Brigham Young University
(Information Technology and Services industry)
September 2000 — January 2004 (3 years 5 months)
• Maintained 24 hour turnaround on complex computer repair issues by bringing systems and communication on-line, dramatically increasing overall efficiency
• Repaired and troubleshot various computer hardware and software problems
• Coordinated repair and replacement of equipment with supply vendors
• Administered distribution of computer equipment in library
• Filled in as building manager of the library for several months, managing physical facilities (665,000 square feet), receiving operations and four student employees
Robert C. Mortensen’s Education
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Brigham Young University
Masters , Business , 2008 — 2010 (expected)
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Brigham Young University
BS , Computer Engineering , 2000 — 2003
- Activities and Societies:
- Chess Club President 2001-2002
German Club Information Officer 2000-2001
