kevin — Automation Engineer

Azure solutions architect. Developing harware and software for over 45 years. Develpoing with the latest technologies. Most recently Blazor for websites and mobile apps. EnitytFramework for databases Sqlite, SQL and COSMOS DB. Internet of Things IOT device to Azure cloud for BI and AI

Have covered SQL from the start in TSQL, ADO.NET, EnitityFramework 6.0 and COSMOS DB

ARM Cortex and ESP32 controllers with firmware written in C++, RTOS

Electrical Engineer with BS from Michigan Tech. Worked at Intel, Microsoft, Intellectual Ventures, Gates foundation, etc. Skilled in circuit design, PCB layout, embedded microcontrollers, sensors, Fusion360, Visual Studion 2022.

Have developed many products and succesfully brought to market. From circuit boards, firmware, desktop apps, mobile apps, cloud apps, sensors, NMEA 2000 marine electronics. 3D CAD Fusion 360 for enclosures, circuit design and PCB layout. Microsoft development full stack Azure & Blazor C#

Worked at Microsoft as a UX designer / Developer. Have written many applications and interfaces as websites, embedded controllers, mobile apps, XAML

Worked at Saber Engineering doing machine automation with PLC's Vision, IP cameras, actuators, machine vision

Authored article in Vision Systems Design about Gallo mass bottle counter using infrared camera and Microsoft DirectShow to count various unordered glass bottles on conveyor belt. Many more applications using machine vision

Michigan Technological University - B.S. Electrical Engineering (Computer Engineering major, Computer Science minor). Graduated with honors. GPA 3.86

Ferris State college of Pharmacy - B.S. 5 years

Intel University management graduate.

INTELLECTUAL VENTURES UNIVERSITY Patent Education. Other: Past President of Seattle vNext.org President of Silverlight Developers Association. Past President of.NET Developers Association of Redmond. Currently on Board of Directors and founder of Seattle Silverlight User Group. Employment History: 10/19 - Present - President & CEO BlueOceanIOT® - Seattle, WA BlueOceanIOT builds NMEA2000 devices for IOT. We design and develop hardware, software and firmware for NMEA2000 devices. The goal is to get rich vessel data from commercial, recreational and military vessels to the cloud for BI and AI analysis. This is to help understand vessel operation for human safety and vessel operation. We also provide consulting, system design old or new and installation. We manufacture NMEA2000 device sensor/controllers and do custom design for others. CAN Bus data concentrators and control systems. 7/17 - 10/19 - VP of Software Engineering MarqMetrix - Seattle, WA Microsoft technology stack leading a team of devs, PM's, SME's and business stakeholders into migrating high end laser spectrometers to IOT. High end devices running Win10 IOT CORE They are provisioned with the IOT HUB in Azure during factory setup We have the ability to diagnose and monitor their health remotely We or our customers can update or install UWP foreground and background applications All software was created from scratch using Microsoft SDK's and VS2017 All build automation and deployment using TFS/DevOps Became a Microsoft IOT partner. Microservices for front end web and backend data in dev, test and production environments. Bidirectional configuration of device remotely. Local ETW logging and transmitted to Azure IOT HUB Hands on development with another developer to produce production worthy software with high availability and scalibility use Azure micro services…

11/15 - 5/17 Principal Mobile/ Azure Software Architect, Lead Developer and Lead Technical Solution Architect Joint Commission - Chicago, IL (remote from Seattle) Microsoft technology stack leading a team of devs, PM's, SME's and business stakeholders in Chicago. WPF, ASP.NET, Windows Azure, Windows 8.1,Windows Phone 8.1 and Windows 10 UWP mobile applications for enterprise health care certification. HIPPA compliant migrating web based apps to mobile technology and Azure. Azure worker roles, database, hybrid connection manager, Azure Active directory, mobile data services, service bus queues, notifications, Cortana speech recognition and app services. Encrypted data for mobile with online/off-line synchronization with on premise databases. Lots of hands on coding. Highly scalable critical application for health care. Reported to CIO and business owner for future applications. Legacy on premise database re-architecting for optimized Azure mobile database access. 05/14 -1/16 CTO (Investor and developer) IUNU - Seattle, WA Startup producing high technology plasma indoor horticultural lights and systems. Software and hardware development. Using Arduino, Win10 embedded. Full automation using ZigBee radios for sensors, actuators and embedded light controllers. Window 10 UWP applications for desktop control. Integrated with Windows Azure cloud based master control and logging. Also, 3D printing, mechanical and electrical engineering. (I'm an investor). LINQ to EDM database modeling and generation.

08/13 -4/15 Lead Technical Solution Architect Wicresoft - Bellevue, WA Microsoft technology stack. Windows Azure, Windows 8.1 and Windows Phone 8.1 applications for enterprise. Architecting complex system solutions using the full stack. Note 3-5 hrs. per week 08/13 -9/15 Senior UX design developer Microsoft - Redmond, WA