The University of Texas at Austin

Systems/Software Engineer - Platform Developer at Trend Micro / TippingPoint

Austin, Texas, United States

Trend Micro

Systems/Software Engineer - Platform Developer (at TippingPoint)

- Interpreted customer requirements, wrote design documents, and reviewed designs with the customer•	Wrote multi-core, RTOS integrated embedded C software based on design documents/requirements modifying design and clarifying with the customer where necessary•	Wrote test software to ensure embedded control software was robust and met all requirements•	Followed the Fagan model for inspections of code and design•	Identified issues in the schematics and helped facilitate fixes for the next hardware release•	Helped debug cross-discipline issues and helped realize the best hardware and/or software solutions•	Provided occasional on-site customer support•	Helped with testing utilizing dSPACE (HIL), NI equipment, and custom simulator boxes•	Wrote design and/or embedded C drivers and API for the following: Frequency Inputs, Pulse Inputs, Complex I/O, Pulse Outputs, Discrete I/O, External Watchdog, OS Idle Percentage, etc.

Continental

Embedded Software Engineer

- Improved performance of Ethernet Bus Functional Model (BFM) to enable line-rate traffic in simulations (using C++)•	Responsible for design, scheduling, implementation, and successful execution of functional verification test plan for new Priority Flow Control (PFC) features (using C)•	Implemented Memory-Mapped Register tests using Universal Verification Methodology (UVM)•	Utilized BugScope to identify verification holes in Network Subsystem’s Queue Manager

Texas Instruments

Design Verification Engineer

- Wrote multi-test, reentrant power management test framework involving critical section handling without ARM load exclusives/data synchronization barriers in place on a multi-core, multi-cluster system (using C)•	Modified bootcode for functionality with power management/reentrant tests (using ARM Assembly)•	Voluntarily provided Perl scripts to the teams allowing quick ClearCase view duplication and post simulation cleanup—which helped speed up the debugging of outstanding issues•	Wrote Excel Visual Basic macro to highlight pin out changes between RTL version releases•	Helped bridge communication across multiple teams/team disciplines/sites

Patrick Babin