Carl Parsons
6 Flackdale Road
Hilton, Huntingdon
Cambs, PE28 9NY
Carl.parsons@pingnu.com
Personal Profile
Embedded C and embedded Linux worked with both digital and analogue electronics. Able to perform
effectively on own initiative and contribute successfully as part of a team. Now looking for work that will
utilise and develop existing skills and abilities. Motivated and tenacious person who takes pride in his work
and enjoys a challenge!
Very enthusiastic open source advocate can create full tool set from installing revision system and
developing cross compiler and full environment. I usually work in a team well and create code to drive
hardware and have created mswindows Gui test tools for clients.
Employment History
Jan 2011 to Nov-2012 ANT Cambridge ( Consultancy )
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Testing view21 set top box to dtg standard and freesat.
Jira and management of dektec streamers
April 2011 to June-2011 DTG London ( Consultancy )
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Checking digital switch over conformance
Redrat development to automate testing environment.
July-2010 to Dec-2010 Intel Shannon ( Consultancy )
Helping develop and debug dev kit for voip phone ipads on Moorstown/atom chip and running PESQ tests.
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The job involves fetching Meego images and dd onto sd card configuring and applying
patches not released.yet. Writing tweeks to kernel and apps to get platform working.
Buiding under chroot environment. Writing test specs
Sep-2009 to Mar 2010 DTG London ( Consultancy )
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2001 - Current
Testing set top boxes for conformance in the uk.
PinGNU Systems Ltd ( Consultancy )
Own Company providing support working with dbtechnologies etc on a P/T basis
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Sep-2007-Jan-2009
Dbtechnologies, Cambs
Linux server installation Fedora, Slackware. Mandriva
Sendmail, bind , samba PDC also linux motion sensitive security camera.
Fixing virus’s updating home computers
TomTom London
Acting as software support for UK hardware team liaising and communicating with main Dutch office
including embedded linux development. Profiling new hardware for performance.
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Jun-2006-Jun-2007
Linux kernel drivers, arm 11, porting, u-boot and poky
PIC PIC10F 200* assembler
Windows C++ MFC test tool Visual Studio 7
Sony Basingstoke ( Consultancy )
Test software to go in production Bravia Tv’s and debug problem middleware to driver related code also
test release versions and support streaming video players
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2005 2006
Bravia H.264 AVC upgrade software driver team
embedded C, Cleacase revision system
Nucleus and Greenhills slingshot tools
ACIS, Cambridge, Cambs
I was a developer in a newly created test department developing tools to help test production devices and
servers. One tool was to create 300 virtual devices to stress test the server.
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3 month
Netflare Cambs
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Installation and development of LAMP template web sites on Linux platform example
hilton-village.com. graduatedinghy.com
MySQL SQL manipulation software
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2002 2003
Embedded arm to Visual Studio 7 porting for simulators
Developing tools to automate testing in C++ / Embedded, C
Socket communication and threaded code.
Leica Microsystems Ltd ( Consultancy )UK and Holland
Setup vxworks development environment on a linux PC to port VxWorks code to Linux helped with the
porting including building cross-compiler binutils etc.
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2001 2002
Ported EHT control software from VxWorks to Embedded Linux and 68000 to powerpc
System V IPC code
VxWorks build on Linux Intel platform for NFS mounted VME based boards
Hitachi Automotive, Maidenhead
I wrote test code to exercise parts of a ic under development eg can bus i2s etc
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1994 – 2000
Embedded C test Software development for in car multimedia IC for Hitachi SH4
and using HEW Tornado
VxWorks . Target board was FPGA development board emulating new in-car
multimedia IC.
Leica Microsystems Ltd, Cambs
Principle Systems Engineer
Configuring, Repairing and calibrating Electron Beam Writing machines involved computer configuration
Electronic test and repair and Vacuum system fault finding
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1991 – 1994
Embedded VxWorks software development
System integration and development of nanobeam machine
Onsite installation of ebeam machines in Europe Japan & America
VMS computer administration
Understanding of electron optics and calibration
PDP11 assembler programming
MacDonald Dettwiler & Associates, Canada
Principle Systems Engineer
Configuring, Repairing and calibrating Remote Sensing satellite ground station involved computer
configuration Electronic test and repair.
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1988 – 1991
System integration satellite ground station equipment
System integration weather radar system
Mission Electronics, Huntingdon UK , Vancouver Canada
Stereo System development Engineer
Sole software hardware developer using schematic cad and ice development tools
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1985– 1988
Principle designer for CD Player & Tuner
Principle amplifier test fixture design HP Basic
Integrated OEM inkjet printer for new laptop computer
8bit Assembler programming
Thurlby Electronics
Test and QA Manager
Qa and test manager manufacturing test equipment ( now thurly thandar )
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Responsible for 8 test engineers
Produced test equipment for the electronics industry
Computer Skills
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Embedded Linux ( kernel drivers ), VxWorks
C and C++ software programming
Unix/Linux and server admin
Analogue and Digital electronics (repair and design)
Qualifications
 Btec 2 Electronics
 O Level English, Maths Physics A Level Technical Drawing
Personal Details
Driver (full clean licence) Married with two children
Interests
I have two Kayaks and am a member of the Huntingdon Canoe club which meet Wednesdays and
Saturdays.
Family history
References
Available on request