Elwood Charles Downey

email: ecdowney@ClearSkyInstitute.com

Last updated March 2008

Career Emphasis:
Major Strengths and Experiences:
Systems Engineering
6 years writing SOWs; technical contract representative; evaluation; integration, coordination and oversight;
Principle Application Domains
30 years Astronomy, Medical Imaging, Avionics;
Technical Instruction
6 years classes on advanced UNIX, C, Java, sh, X Window System and Motif;
Communications
20 years shared memory; DMA; ethernet; ISDN; RS232/485; TCP/IP sockets, UDP, RPC; ssh; HTTP; fiber;
Graphics & Image Processing
15 years custom hardware and software; algorithms and applications; 3D modeling; voxels;
Graphical User Interfaces
10 years X Window System, Motif, Qt, Java Swing, tk; design and implementation;
Chief Software Engineer
8 years leading team, systems requirements, design, implementation;
Real-Time
12 years event-driven, embedded, motion control, drivers, anti-jerk; Nucleus, µC/OS, PSOS, stand-alone C;
UNIX and C
30 years applications, drivers, kernel work; PDP11, Vax, x86, dual core, MC680x0, Linux, Mac OS X;
Design Methodologies
20 years structured, rapid-prototyping, object-oriented;
Astronomy fundamentals
20 years telescopes; CCD cameras; photometry; astrometry; ephemerides;
Programming Languages
30 years C; Perl; HTML; XML; Java (J2SE and J2ME); postscript; C++; tcl
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Education:
Other Interests:
US Citizen.
References available upon request.


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