EMS	December 2010 to Present

Co-founded Eugene Maker Space, Its mission is to foster a collaborative environment wherein people can explore and create intersections between technology, science, art, and culture. Worked tirelessly on it's formative documents such as Articles, and Bylaws, and eventually became the secretary of the Board of Directors.

(Self employed)

April 2007 to Present

Debugged and cleaned up kernel code for a small embedded device. Primarily in the memory allocation and garbage collection areas.  Wrote device drivers, and ported over a filesystem among other things.

(Self employed)

September 2004 to June 2008

Started a small spinoff web hosting company to host EPUDs customers. Did research on current  market, hardware, software, and services to build an attractive, cost effective, and reliable hosting site.

(Self employed)

March 2003 to September 2004

Worked as an independent researcher and entrepreneur to design and implement the San Francisco free wireless network (SFlan). Nodes were based on Single board computers, and 802.11b cards. SFlan has grown to about 40 nodes. Here are the main page, and network map.

ITU	March 2002 to July 2002

Worked as an International Telecommunication Union (ITU) consultant in Bhutan to design and implement a wireless Voice over IP system as a pilot project for Bhutan Telecom.  Evaluated network performance and stability.  The report can be found here: http://www.bhutan-notes.com/clif/

Wireless Networking Specialist

UNDP	March 2001 to June 2001

Worked as a United Nations Volunteer (UNV) in Bhutan to demonstrate the feasibility of using wireless networking technology to bring communications services to remote areas. Including using wireless VoIP to provide phone service. Also promoted Linux as an appropriate server platform.

(Self employed)

February 2000 to March 2001

Provided Wireless Internet connectivity to events using a Tachyon.net satellite base station and Aironet 802.11B gear. As a partner in a web co-operative I administered the web server and set up various ecommerce web sites. Worked with other clients to spec and set up Unix server solutions for them.

University of Oregon

June 1998 to February 2000

Engineered the porting of the Zebra fish genetic database from Illustra to Informix. This involved a large perl program to convert the data and web page code to Informix syntax. Purchased servers and RAID arrays Configured the Solaris OS, Database, and web servers. Wrote various perl scripts to automate the configuration of the DB servers and easily bring up multiple instances. Administered the database, Unix systems, and other servers involved in our site.

Chambers Communications Corporation

April 1996 to October 1996

Managed the creation and deployment of the new ISP arm of this large cable company. Areas of responsibility: General  hardware and software system design including, hardware specs and cost. Guiding selection of ISP services and software packages. LAN and WAN design. Design of NOC. Design of POPs. Helping with Marketing plan and pricing model which was based loosely on EFN's. Coordinating customer support setup. Supervised the technical work such as equipment installation, setup, and programing.

OPN	October 1992 to February 1997

Started EFN on a Sun 3/160 Under a stairway with one phone line, Now located at LCC DTC using several Sun SPARCs with 250 lines and about 7000 users. Purchased and installed hardware, network connections, and most application software. We currently are a ISP for POP sites in Medford, Rosburg, Cottage Grove, and Klamath Falls. Duties included planing for system growth, adding and maintaining servers and other network hardware. Automated many administrative tasks with perl scripts. coordinated with other system administrators in the configuration and maintenance of their networks which are served by OPN.

Zetron

October 1990 to August 1992

 Hardware and software design and implementation for various communication products. Involving Motorola HC11 and 6805 Micros, C and assembly code, and Programmable Logic Devices. Designed and implemented a data communications protocol to link a computer aided dispatch system and a fire station alerting system. Created a message passing interface and protocol for coprocessors of the FSA system.

(Self employed)

November 1987 to October 1990

Designed and implemented and built several prototypes of a Microcontroller based phone accessory product. Designed and built a micro based digital speech recording and playback message device. Designed and built an HC11 board with external memory for use as a product development platform and subsequently fixed several bugs and otherwise made improvements to Motorola's MCX11 real time executive for the HC11 (see version 1.3). Reverse engineered and modified various hardware and software systems. Converted and correlated several databases into a new format preserving old relationships and extracting new ones from the data using Dbase III+ for the Department of Wildlife. Created a system of automatically generating unique codes for geographic locations in the state of Washington based on latitude and longitude.

ProCon, Process Control Consultants

February 1985-November 1987

Designed and implemented a Remote Control/Telemetry application which communicated over a bidirectional radio link using a packetized data transfer protocol, and the real-time multitasking scheduler which it ran under. Converted ProCon's main software product from Basic to C using a partially automated process and wrote the library of primitives to replace Basic's. Maintained and did further development on this package and other related utilities. Wrote many device drivers and primitives for communicating with Programmable Logic Controllers such as Reliance, TI, and Automate.

(Self employed)

June 1983-February 1985

Various BIOS enhancements, device drivers, small data base applications, and communications software. Designed and implemented both a control program for a multiuser telephone messaging system, and the software necessary to digitally record and play back phone messages.

Computer Services TESC

October 1979-June 1983

Supervised the computer center, scheduled and coordinated the use of resources by the users, consulted on software projects, Designed and coded systems programs,Diagnosed and corrected hardware failures, Designed and constructed a patch panel to facilitate flexible device/computer hookup, and Designed and coded a system use monitoring and control program.

Sirius Software

June-November 1982

The design and implementation of real time computer games involving special graphic and sound effects. Also hardware design and modification to enhance the development environment.

Strobe Data Inc.

March-August 1981

Designed and implemented intelligent CRT control software, including smooth scroll, and pass through printing features. Implemented financial analysis software.

US Forest Service

Summers 1980 and 1978

Worked  on  a  brush  and disposal crew to prepare clear  cut  units  for replanting, and when necessary fought forest fires.