| Employment: | R&D Engineer with HP; No Longer Seeking Employment |
| Start Date: | October 1996 |
| Job Objective: | Challenging hands-on R&D position in embedded systems, computer networking, real-time systems, computer architecture, or firmware engineering; hardware and software are both fine. |
| Degree: | Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, August 1996 |
| G.P.A.: | 4.0/4.0 |
| Other Degrees: |
M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering (1992) B.S. in Computer Engineering (1990) B.S. in Electrical Engineering (1989) |
| Affiliations: | IEEE Senior Member |
| License: | Professional Engineer-In-Training (EIT), Maine Certificate #3581, July 1990 |
| Dates | Job Description |
|---|---|
| 4/04-present |
Principal R&D Design Engineer, Platform Architect Hewlett-Packard Company, Workstation Division, Fort Collins, Colorado Hardware/firmware principal design engineer working on the specification, design, and development of Intel architecture workstation platforms. Responsibilities include multiprocessor system design, specification of chipset pinouts and package design, design and development of high-speed printed circuit boards, motherboard design, I/O subsystem design, development of workstation embedded systems, vendor and partner management, project management, strategic planning, and team leadership. Keywords: High-speed design, signal integrity, multiprocessor system design, chipset development, firmware, PCI-Express (PCIe), PCI, PCI-X, AGP, Mentor Graphics, Cadence, platform architect, strategy, computer architecture, PCB, PCA, technical leadership, project management. |
| 3/99-present |
Professor Adjunct University of Colorado at Boulder, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Independently designed and taught a new senior-level and graduate-level course in Embedded System Design. Developed Embedded Systems Certificate Program offered by the University. Teaching and research activities are in addition to full-time position at Hewlett-Packard Company. |
| 12/99-4/04 |
Senior R&D Design Engineer Hewlett-Packard Company, Technical Computing Division, Fort Collins, Colorado Hardware/firmware senior design engineer working on the specification, design, and development of IA-32 and next generation IA-64 multiprocessor platforms. Responsibilities include multiprocessor system design, specification of chipset pinouts and package design, design and development of high-speed printed circuit boards, motherboard design, I/O subsystem design, development of workstation embedded systems, vendor and partner management, and team leadership. Keywords: High-speed design, signal integrity, multiprocessor system design, chipset development, firmware, PCI, PCI-X, AGP, Mentor Graphics, Cadence, computer architecture, PCB, PCA, technical leadership. |
| 10/96-11/99 |
Research and Development Engineer Hewlett-Packard Company, Colorado Personal Storage Solutions Division, Loveland, Colorado Hardware/firmware development including specification, design, development, and testing of rewritable CD (CD-RW) products. Led a firmware development team on the development of an external CD-RW drive. Responsibilities included specification of firmware command sets and functionality, specification of drive hardware functionality and performance, and participation in standards committees. Also responsible for developing a firmware test tool in C, and for developing and conducting tests on CD-R and CD-RW drives. Interacted closely with international and domestic partners on development issues. Extremely familiar with compact disc drive colored book specifications for CD-DA, CD-ROM, CD-ROM XA, CD-I, CD-R, CD-RW, and Multisession discs. Extensive experience with ATAPI, SCSI, and MMC command sets and sequences. |
| 8/94-8/96 |
Research Assistant Colorado Space Grant College, University of Colorado at Boulder Performed research in the advancement of spacecraft automation and autonomy. Lead engineer in charge of the design of the Command & Data Handling embedded system for a NASA Space Shuttle Hitchhiker payload and a student-proposed Earth-orbiting satellite (9/94-2/95). Advisor for the embedded system design for a Wallops Flight Facility sounding rocket. Responsible for the specification and design of subsystem hardware and software and the management of the embedded system engineering team. Hardware included a Motorola 68EC040 development board, a SCSI-2 DAT drive, and a communications link utilizing Xilinx FPGAs. Software included a real-time operating system, device drivers, and application code written in C. Also developed the embedded system prototype for the Pluto Express mission as part of an advanced end-to-end mission operations system team working in conjunction with the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. |
| 8/90-4/96 |
System Administrator CAMPmode Center & ECE Department, University of Colorado at Boulder Performed UNIX system administration duties on the Center's and department's HP 9000 workstations and PCs. Duties included installation and configuration of the operating system and application software, TCP/IP network management, management of user accounts, and system maintenance. |
| 8/94-12/94 |
Graduate Part-Time Instructor ECE Department, University of Colorado at Boulder Independently designed and taught a new senior-level course in Embedded Systems Design using the Intel 80C51 and Microchip PIC16C54 microcontrollers. |
| 8/90-8/94 |
Teaching Assistant ECE Department, University of Colorado at Boulder Responsible for a microprocessor laboratory course using the Intel 8088 microprocessor and related peripherals, C, and UNIX. Lectured, prepared experiment based on hardware and software design, and managed course TAs. |
| 5/92-1/93 |
Project Manager and Design Engineer Research and Technology Division, DDx, Inc., Boulder, CO Responsible for designing Intel 8031 microcontroller-based telemetry systems. Managed an engineering team involved in circuit design and software engineering. Specified electrical components and interacted with electronics distributors. |
| 5/91-8/91 |
Firmware Engineer
Corporate Research and Development Division, Iomega Corporation, Roy, Utah Implemented assembly language code for motor control and power-on confidence tests of RAM and C code for a SCSI command queue for a new 150 MB Bernoulli removable mass data storage drive using the Intel 80196 microcontroller. |
| 5/90-8/90 |
Systems Associate Corporate Research and Technology Division, UNUM Corporation, Portland, Maine. |
| 1/89-5/90 |
Undergraduate Teaching Assistant Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Maine at Orono. |
| 5/89-9/89 |
Engineering Assistant Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Maine at Orono. |
| Computer Skills: |
UNIX (HP-UX, Ultrix, SunOS), Windows, DOS UNIX System Administration C, C++, Pascal, Fortran, Assembly Orcad, Mentor Graphics, VIEWlogic, TangoPRO, Perl HTML, LaTeX Motorola 680x0, 56000, 68xx Intel 8086/88, 80196, 8031/51 Zilog Z-80, Microchip PIC16Cxx Xilinx FPGAs ATA/ATAPI Analyzers, Logic Analyzers ATA/ATAPI, SCSI, MMC, Mt. Fuji Standards CD Colored Book Standards (CD-DA, CD-ROM, CD-ROM XA, CD-i, CD-R, CD-RW) ISO 9660, UDF File Systems |
| Honors and Awards: |
Tau Beta Pi National Engineering Honor Society - President (1989-90) - Vice President (1988-89) - Outstanding Chapter Member Award (1989-90) Eta Kappa Nu Electrical Engineering Honor Society - President (1989-90) Walter Creamer Electrical Engineering Merit Award (1990) Bioengineering Fellowship Recipient (1992) Electrical Engineering Lead Graduate Teacher (1992-93) National Merit Scholar, National Merit Scholarship Recipient (4 years) National Honor Society, National and Local Scholarship Recipient University of Maine Pulp and Paper Foundation Merit Scholarship Simmons Merit Scholarship Recipient (4 years) Blaine House Merit Scholarship Recipient (4 years) Valedictorian, Mt Abram Regional High School (1985) University of Maine Spirit of Maine Achievement Award (2004) Distinguished Member, University of Maine Francis Crowe Engineering Society (2004) HP Master Engineer Award (2004) |
| Affiliations: |
IEEE, ACM, AIAA CU ECE Program Review Committee (1995) Boulder Regional Citizen Police Academy HOA Board Member, Treasurer, Corresponding Secretary, Acting President HOA Committee Member, Architectural Control |
| Outside Activities: | Piano, guitar,
synthesizer, drums, bass, home studio recording, classic rock and classical
music, ballroom dancing, ice hockey, tennis, volleyball, alpine skiing,
softball, flying, mountain biking, traveling, reading and
teaching
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| Presentations and Conference Proceedings: |
Sam Siewert and Linden H. McClure, "A System
Architecture to Advance Small Satellite Mission Operations Autonomy,"
9th Annual AIAA/USU Conference on Small Satellites, Logan, Utah,
September, 1995
Linden H. McClure and Ellen L. Riddle, "The Educational Ozone Researcher: A 1995 USRA STEDI Finalist," 1996 AAS/AIAA Space Flight Mechanics Meeting, Austin, Texas, February, 1996. Linden H. McClure, "Distribution and Automation Technology Advancement for Space Mission Operations," MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Lexington, Massachusetts, March, 1996. Linden H. McClure, "Distribution and Automation Technology Advancement for Space Mission Operations," Hewlett-Packard, Palo Alto, California, April, 1996. Linden H. McClure and Ellen L. Riddle, "EOR: A University Small Satellite for Low Cost Remote Sensing of Ozone," Space 96, Albuquerque, New Mexico, June, 1996. Linden H. McClure, "Improved Transient Fault Tolerance in Commercial Off-The-Shelf Embedded Systems for Ultra-Low-Cost Spacecraft," Ph.D. Dissertation, August, 1996. |