Work !Work !
What I actually do !
I'm an Embedded Software Engineer with an engineering degree in communications but my entire career has been software development at it's lowest level - and I love it. Embedded software is all the code that hides deep in anything that has a micro-processor embedded inside. Most of my work never gets seen - but that's cool.
Who I work for now and then...
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Started January
2001 as Senior Software Engineer doing embedded audio
software development. I spent 70+ hours a weeks for 6
months writing code, debugging, and listening to endless
great music on a great system and I absolutely enjoyed
the entire time - very challenging and extraordinarily
rewarding - take a look. Once the project was complete, they asked me head the engineering effort on the next generation - which is what I'm currently doing - officially I'm the Project Engineer - which sadly means I get to do very little coding anymore but the project management stuff is a blast. |
Bose is by far the most exciting and enjoyable company I have worked for - as far as I am concerned, I have the ultimate job - I get to combine my two favorite loves of music and engineering with a team of very sharp cookies.
Bose is the first company I have worked for involved in consumer level electronics - other jobs to date have all been in industrial electronics.
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Trimble is the
company that gave me the opportunity to move the the
States and experience the American way of doing things.
For this I am greatly appreciative. Jim Green was my boss
and one cannot ask for a better boss than he. I learnt a
lot working for Trimble and enjoyed it immensely. Once again, I was responsible for the design and implementation of the software for a hand held GPS data logging device. This product is certainly one of my top achievements - take a look also. |
There have been other jobs,
Prior to Trimble in the States I was working for Trimble in New Zealand working on the GeoExplorer 2 completing multi-lingual additions to the system - including Russian, a word of which I cannot speak.
Prior to that I was working on wireless data radio systems and Automated Vehicle Location (AVL) systems for a New Zealand company.
Prior to that, I was developing Supervisory Control and Remote Data Aquisition (SCADA) systems used for monitoring and controlling remote stations, primarily in water, power and sewage distribution. This was a cool job but it got boring after a year and half.
Prior to that I was working for the NZ government as a telecommunications cadet on airport landing systems.
I've also owned and operated a bakery with my then wife and worked as a wine waiter.
Updated November 26, 2001