Investigate difficult failures
Find the real cause when measurements disagree, algorithms behave inconsistently, or a product works in the lab but fails in production.
Engineering experience that gets difficult projects unstuck
I solve difficult technical problems.
I am an independent consulting engineer with more than four decades of experience in machine vision, barcode technology, image processing, embedded systems, software architecture, and product development.
My work has ranged from low-level embedded software and FPGA design to commercial barcode verification systems, patented inventions, research engineering, and the investigation of subtle algorithmic failures that resist ordinary debugging.
What I help companies do
Design better algorithms
Develop practical imaging, decoding, measurement, and embedded algorithms that can survive real-world data and hardware.
Move products forward
Bridge the gap between concept, prototype, standards compliance, production software, and customer use.
I am most useful when a project is technically important, unusually difficult, and no longer responding to routine fixes.
Selected background
Commercial products
Barcode verification and inspection
Chief software developer for the LVS product family through Label Vision Systems, Microscan, and OMRON.
Research
Georgia Tech Research Institute
Senior Research Engineer working on applied technical problems requiring broad software and systems expertise.
Invention
HD Barcode
Inventor of a patented high-density machine-readable symbol and its supporting generation, reading, and security technology.
Foundations
Systems from the hardware up
Experience includes assembly language, TSRs, segmented-memory systems, device drivers, embedded processors, compilers, Unix, FPGA design, and modern cross-platform software.