| Marion McCoskey |
| 1201 Locust Ave. |
| Shasta Lake, CA 96019 |
| 530-776-5262 |
| mckyyy@gmail.com |
| 9/06 12/07 | Wrote the PHP code for the AtaFriend Website featuring a virtual information economy. AtaFriend is designed to use economic principles to produce a self-governing forum. |
| Self Employed | |
| Programmer | |
| PHP, MySQL, Apache, Linux |
| 7/05 8/06 | Wrote the aArtline drawing program. |
| Self Employed | |
| Programmer | |
| Microsoft C++ |
| 3/99 6/05 | Designed, coded, tested, and marketed the Thred embroidery digitizing program. Wrote the Stitchout screen saver. |
| Self Employed | |
| Programmer | |
| Microsoft C++ |
| 11/98 2/99 | Developed, coded, tested, and benchmarked the single-buffered count sort. |
| Self Employed | |
| Algorithm design, Programming | |
| Microsoft C++ |
| 5/96 10/98 | Started out in documentation. Wrote code to test the Vadem BIOS. Designed and built hardware for specialized testing of a Vadem VGA controller, and wrote the code to interface the hardware to a PC. Administrator of the Track Record Bug Tracking database. Designed the hardware and wrote the code for a tester for smart batteries. Wrote MIPS code for the VR4102CC microprocessor. Wrote code to test software modulation algorithms of an LCD controller for passive LCD displays. |
| Vadem | |
| Software QA Engineer | |
| 80x86 assembler, C, C++, MIPS Assembler |
| 3/95 to 5/96 | Wrote a microcode compiler. Designed an instruction set and programmers model for a microprocessor, and started on the assembler and simulator. |
| Self Employed | |
| Design Engineer/Programmer | |
| Instruction set design, Microprocessor design, C++ Programming |
| 3/95 to 5/95 | Wrote a real estate home display application which accessed a database of real estate properties by translating user dialog mouse clicks into SQL queries, and then displayed AVI files of the selected properties |
| Contract | |
| Visual Basic Programmer | |
| Visual Basic, SQL, AVI |
| 9/94 to 3/95 | Designed and wrote a musical instrument synthesis algorithm using digital filtering and deconvolution. Added 26 new utilities to my FasTrak shareware music sequencer. Posted more than 70 messages to the Mills College Tuning List. |
| Self Employed | |
| Software Engineer | |
| 80386/80387 assembler, Additive sound synthesis, Music Theory |
| 7/93 to 9/94 | My product, a satellite TV implementation of the StarSight on screen TV guide, won the Audio Video International Magazine product of the year award. |
| Starsight Telecast | |
| Software Engineer | |
| 8032 Assembler, Firmware |
| 2/92 to 6/93 | Designed, coded and debugged the FasTrak MIDI Sequencer that can store and edit data entered on a MIDI keyboard and play/replay that data using the Sound Blaster Board. Wrote my own drivers and real-time executive. I believe this the first implementation of programmable automatic harmony with a real-time implementation of least common multiple harmony. |
| Self Employed | |
| Software Engineer | |
| MIDI Sequencer, MIDI interface, Sound Blaster, 80386 Assembler, MS-DOS |
| 10/91 to 2/92 | Was a principle member of a team of writer/programmers that completed the documentation on the software for the F-18 Night Attack Fighter display subsystem. |
| Kaiser Electronics | |
| Technical writer | |
| Technical writing, 68020 assembler, Word Perfect, Unix style text processing utilities |
| 8/91 to 10/92 | Completed the Hardware and software design and debug for a unique electronic musical instrument, including a proprietary algorithm for developing and storing Just Intonation musical scales in a data compressed format. |
| Self Employed | |
| Hardware/Software Engineer | |
| 6805 Assembler,Firmware. Electronic Music, Digital and Analog hardware design using Orcad. 80386 assembler |
| 10/88 to 8/91 | Wrote, debugged, and documented Built-in-test software for the F18 Night Attack Fighter. Used HP emulators and logic analyzers and the Microtek Assembler. Wrote 8051 assembler Built-in-test software for the A-12 Heads-up display |
| Kaiser Electronics | |
| Software Engineer | |
| 68020 Assembler, Unix, HP-9000 with in-circuit emulator, Vector and Raster Graphics, Built-in-test, 8051 assembler, firmware, Nohau 8051 in-circuit-emulator, Shared memory multiprocessing |
| 11/87 to 10/88 | Did design, coding, and debug for the Destruct Test Set, a component of the D5 Trident Missile Program. Used a 68000 cross assembler hosted on a VAX and the Applied Microsystems ICE. |
| Lockheed Aerospace | |
| Software Engineer | |
| Data Acquisition, 68000 assembler, VRTX, firmware |
| 12/86 to 9/87 | Worked on a speech recognition system for the F-15 fighter on a subcontract for McDonnel Douglas. Wrote the interrupt service routine for the speech recognition module. Wrote a graphics oriented speech display and editing system for IBM PC in 8086 assembler. Was system administrator for the Corvus Network |
| Woodside Design | |
| Software Engineer | |
| Speech recognition, 65C816, 65802, 6502, and 8086 assemblers, Apple Basic, firmware |
| 11/85 to 12/86 | Wrote most of the industrial controller software for the Halawa Medium Security Prison in Hawaii and all of the industrial controller software for the Brevard Prison in Florida. Wrote the software that generated all of the wire lists for the control electronics in the Halawa Project. |
| Alpha-Metrics | |
| Software Engineer | |
| Industrial Controllers, ladder logic, automated wire list generation. Alpha-Micro, Amos operating system |
| 3/85 to 12/86 | Designed the algorithm for a novel method of dividing residue numbers, and implemented it in the C-like Action Language on an Atari 800XL. This algorithm was published by the IEEE. I believe it to be the world's fastest integer residue division algorithm |
| Self Employed | |
| Programming, Algorithm design | |
| Atari 800 Action Language, Residue arithmetic |
| 7/84 to 3/85 | Designed the motor driver circuit used in the initial production prototypes of the Petster. Managed the production of the first 25 AG Bears. Wrote the assembly language drivers for the Andy Robot Personality Editor. Handled difficult negotiations with the developer who wrote the Andy Robot Personality Editor. |
| Axlon | |
| Hardware/Software engineer | |
| Logic design, 6502 Assembler, Commodore 64 Basic |
| 1969 to 1984 | Designed and built ten musical instrument prototypes. Designed a novel algorithm for translating residue numbers into polynomial. Wrote a C/PM Bios. Wrote several programs in 8080 and Z80 Assembler. Did a lot of patent work |
| Self Employed | |
| Inventor | |
| Residue Arithmetic, 8080, Z80 Assembler, Logic design, musical instrument design |
| 1965 to 1969 | Troubleshot, repaired, tested, and fabricated electronic devices. |
| General Electric, Marshall Labs, Electronic Memories, Inc., and RCA | |
| Electronic Technician | |
| Oscilloscopes, Meters, Soldering equipment, Miscellaneous lab equipment |
| 1961 to 1965 | Instructed for B-52 tail gunners using simulators. Maintained simulators. |
| US Air Force | |
| Electronic Technician | |
| Oscilloscopes, Meters, Soldering guns, Vacuum tube testers. |
| Born | Oct 24, 1939 in Scottsburg, Indiana |
| Hybrid Arithmetic | 19th IEE Conference on Circuits, Systems and Computers, Asilomar, California |
| A Residue Integer Division Algorithm | 20th IEE Conference on Circuits, Systems and Computers, Asilomar, California |
| A Pipelined Residue Processor | 21st IEE Conference on Circuits, Systems and Computers, Asilomar, California |
| 4,178,832 | Portable Electronic Musical Instrument |
| 4,375,177 | Automatic Electronic Musical Instrument |
| 4,458,327 | Prime or Relatively Prime Data Processing System |
| College Boards | Scored in the top half of the 99th percentile on the verbal test |
| Purdue University | One year majoring in math and physics |
| Indian University | One year majoring in linguistics |
| Merced College, CA | One year majoring in Electrical Engineering |