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creates custom designs, devices, and applications to implement the MIT
Auto-ID concept using existing RFID products, while advising
and assisting businesses in their development of related specialized equipment,
systems, implementations, and software. This work also involves
preparing and presenting demonstrations, seeking funding for the applied
research and development, and inventing unique products.
Interbink generates advances in RFID,
robotics, materials research, logistics, and biotech. The company
serves customers who need medical, mining, agricultural, space, transportation,
environmental, and supply chain applications. |
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Massachusetss
Institute of Technology
Cambridge, MA
Research Engineer at the MIT Auto-ID Center |
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Duties included designing
and building demonstrations
of Auto-ID applications, establishing and managing the electronics development
lab, purchasing materials, instruments, and technology for the lab, presenting
demos, explaining the technology and proposed applications to sponsors,
and developing testbeds for the research.
While creating the demos, devised additional
configurations for the technology, discovered mutations for the RFID equipment,
invented innovative applications and hardware, applied previously unnoticed
effects, and researched applicable methods, implications, and techniques.
Also assisted with system administration
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To achieve their mission "to merge the physical
world with the information world," the MIT Auto-ID Center is developing
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Electronic Product Code (ePC): a standard defining unique numeric keys
for identifying physical objects,
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Product Markup Language (PML): a language for describing physical objects,
and
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Object Naming Service (ONS): a method for locating data associated with
a particular object, and implementing demonstrations of these techniques
using existing Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology. |
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The ePC is intended to extend and
replace the UPC (bar codes) now found on most products, PML will
describe those products, and the ONS (similar to the Internet's
Domain Name System) will direct computer systems to the information associated
with ePC labeled items. |
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As
Independent Contractor
Pittsburgh, PA |
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Customized usability and interaction
testing, and advising, for specialized products and software.
Serving startups and small firms in the
U.S. and Canada, I intend to continue this work as a consultant or on contract. |
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Carnegie
Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA |
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Provided lab
assistance and grading to students of an Electrical Engineering course,
in which they built a programmable mobile robot. |
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Earned BSc in Electrical and
Computer Engineering at Carnegie
Mellon University |
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Career advancement suspended,
temporarily, for full-time parenting. |
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Symbionics
Nepean, Ontario |
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Inventor of Fantasy
(patents issued 1981) and UNREAL.
Projects included design of a M68000 based
board for multiprocessor applications, development of custom hardware for
avionics data acquisition, and production of prototypes for the Poynton
Vector real-time video frame store. |
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A
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Poynton
Vector Corporation
Ottawa, Ontario |
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| 1981 - 1982 |
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Assisted in the development
of a real-time video frame store to process signals from the Shuttle.
Duties included mechanical design, purchasing
and inventory control, drafting, assembly, wire-listing and
other support functions with occasional opportunities for analog and digital
design and design review.
Owner relocated to Houston to do on-sight
debugging after delivery. |
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Carleton
University
Ottawa, Ontario |
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| 1981 |
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Sessional lecturer responsible
for instruction, further course development, and preparation of instructional
materials for the one semester fourth year course, Microprocessor Systems.
Electrical Engineering, Physics, Math, and Computer Science students attended. |
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Tarot
Electronics
Kanata, Ontario |
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| 1973 - 1983 |
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As partner from 1973, I participated
in the design and production of custom interfaces, scientific instrumentation,
turnkey systems with embedded microprocessors, mapping equipment, avionics,
and the like, and MIMIC
(Mutable Integrated Memory, Interface, Controller), a microprocessor based,
one board computer (1974).
MIMIC, the central module for much
of the equipment we built, was also used as a bi-directional simulator
for incompatible equipment, and was sold to hobbyists, in kit form, as
a personal computer.
In addition to design and development,
I was responsible for budgets, accounting, deadlines, employees, office
support, and administrivia.
From time to time, I accepted employment
on contract, most notably as the ground station manager at Communications
Research Council, and as a consultant at Systemhouse
Limited.
I concluded the business when my partner
died. |
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A
History of Tarot Electronics |
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Systemhouse
Limited (on contract)
Ottawa, Ontario |
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Electronic Hardware and Documentation
Specialist responsible for design, design evaluation, establishment of
documentation standards and procedures, preparation of PCB artwork, prototype
construction testing and debug, and pre-production documentation, for multiprocessor
based automated mapping equipment.
Electronics consultant responsible for
co-ordinating all electronics activities for the Division. |
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Communications
Research Council
Shirley's Bay, Ontario |
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| 1974 - 1975 |
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Electronics Hardware Specialist
responsible for the maintenance and further development of the prelaunch
ground station hardware for Hermes.
Supervised at the Ottawa facility during clean room debug and rework,
and preparation for shipment, and in Cleveland for environmental testing.
Since Project Green Maple, as it
was called during the prelaunch period, was a joint Canada/US endeavor,
I held both Canadian and US security clearances. |
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Bell
Northern Research
Ottawa, Ontario |
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| 1971 - 1973 |
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Member of Scientific and Technical
Staff responsible for resource management, inventory control, production
pricing, prototype construction, debug and testing of Subscriber Terminal
Equipment and central office components for Digital
Data Network. Supervised assembly technicians and acquisition
of production (quantity) materials. BNR
is now a division of Nortel. |
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National
Research Council
Ottawa, Ontario |
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| Summer 1969 |
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Designed and built a
30MHz gain-controlled stage for a radar receiver. Researched an improved
filing system.
Evaluated the feasibility of a compact
microfiche
reader, and investigated the usefulness of Fourier transforms for OCR.
Assisted with computations for experiments
in radar weather mapping. |
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Northern
Radio
Ottawa, Ontario |
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| Summer 1968 |
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Quality assurance, board-level
inspection and testing, line supervision, and wiring harness verification. |
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