About My Work

I am a software engineer that specializes in creating user applications. I have spent years developing intuitive, powerful software applications for the biomedical and pharmaceutical industries. Many of the software applications I worked on revolutionized the way research and sample processing are done in an industry that had been accustomed to jumping through hoops to get their results.

My Expertise

User Application developed in LabVIEWSoftware and hardware development using LabVIEW

  • Professional user applications
  • Analog data acquisition
  • Instrument control

Software development using C#

  • Professional user applications
  • Object Oriented Programming

Other Software Development

  • Web pages using Dreamweaver (HTML), Flash
  • Data management using XML structuring

Technical Writing

  • Service Manuals and Installation Guides
  • User Manuals

Some of My Finer Moments

Greatly improved Aria™ OS patented multiplexing technology at Cohesive Technologies (now part of ThermoFisher Scientific). The multiplexing software coordinates four systems to operate in an identical but staggered manner to deliver their samples consecutively to a detector system, which is the effective bottleneck of production. I revamped the multiplexing logic so that it would:

  • Coordinate the systems to operate with any configurable method, allowing greater flexibility to the customer to run different sample types.
  • Allow the user to add more samples and new systems to operate on the fly, automatically adapting the process sequence to fit in the new samples.
  • Automatically continue operating on all functional systems, even if one of the systems went offline.
  • Allow the user several new operating methods that emphasized speed or consistency of operation.

Single-handedly developed AriaGC™ gas chromatography software, which resulted in an entirely new product line for the company.

  • Worked closely with customer to create a set of specifications, and leveraged the existing Aria™ OS code to quickly produce an effective and user-friendly software application.
  • Integrated software application with Agilent ChemStation software for automated sampling.
  • Produced all documentation and manual for software use.

Primary engineer that created code libraries for AriaSL™, a lower-cost version of system that proved to be a valuable point-of-entry system with many customers.

  • Updated code library to trigger collections from a digital signal port that was preexisting on the instrument, thus allowing for a high-cost digital signaling board to be removed from the assembly.
  • Managed changes around a few key code libraries so that the same Aria™ OS platform could be used to operate the instruments, eliminating the need for an entirely new application.

Seamlessly integrated new instrument (fraction collector) into system and software that allowed for an entirely new application, which directly increased customer base and was a catalyst for developing new products.

Earned 2002 Silver Column Award in recognition of outstanding work performance and interdepartmental contributions (one-time eligibility).

More About Me

I grew up in Miami, Florida where I studied at DASH (Design and Architecture Senior High), a magnet school that provided college-level design courses in addition to the standard high school curriculum. Originally planning to be an architect, I was instead turned on to the idea of studying an engineering discipline during my senior-year physics course.

I then moved to Boston, Massachusetts to study at Boston University. I received my B.S. in Systems Engineering, and soon after graduation began working as a software developer at Cohesive Technologies.

Working for such a small company as Cohesive Technologies, I was required to take on many roles— as in specification and software designer, coder, tester, technical writer, and service/support engineer. Through it all I learned the importance of project management, and became a more fully developed software engineer.

After several years of living in Boston, I moved in late 2005 with my wife to Brooklyn, New York to be closer to friends and family. I continued to work for Cohesive Technologies for almost two years as a telecommuting engineer, but the relationship was ended shortly after the company was purchased by ThermoFisher Scientific in late 2006. I am currently working as an independent contractor.