Chris Ring's Resume

Assets

I've managed several significant projects to production, including:

Software components for Palm, Linux, WinCE and Symbian-based phones on heterogenous devices
Systems software components for Linux, and DSP/BIOS-based single- and multiple-core devices

I can also find my way around:

I've played with

Work Experience

Engineering Manager for Multimedia Frameworks 2005 - Current

Responsible for Multimedia Frameworks (Codec Engine, Framework Components, DSP Bridge, xDAIS, etc) on single- and multiple-core processors like DaVinci and OMAP

Engineering Manager for DSP Bridge 2003 - 2005

Responsible for DSP Bridge product on OMAP for several Embedded OS's (Symbian, Linux, WinCE).

Sr. Software Engineer, PalmOS, DSP development. 2002 - 2003

Sr. Software Engineer, NT, Win2k/XP, Linux Device Driver and systems development.

Design lead for NT kernel mode RTOS framework used for Host Media Processing.
Ported RTOS to NT kernel framework.
Research of performance related issues relevant for Host Media Processing.
Supported several internal development teams building upon the RTOS framework.
Wrote several drivers to control hardware boards (both physical and virtual boards).
Managed small testing group.
Managed intranet web site responsible for publishing test results, internal product releases, support of releases, etc.
Worked with large remote group of developers.

Spectron Microsystems, 1995 - 1998 (Note that the link is now to TI-Santa Barbara)
Santa Barbara, California

Software Engineer, PC development.

Lead a porting effort of WinBRIDGE to NT. This required porting a Win95 VxD driver architecture to NT 4.0, and simulating Plug-N-Play in the NT environment.
Developed several device drivers, both on Win95 and WinNT 4.0, to interact with hardware as well as provide Kernel level services to User mode applications.
Member of the WinBRIDGE development team, a project which enables the ability to communicate from a user level application to an arbitrary piece of hardware using a device independent API. This uses a class driver/mini driver architecture.
Developed a Control Panel Applet and a Win95 device class installer (Which required thunking to Win16 because that's the way Win95 is built) for simplifying hardware installation, and to provide a common installation scenario on both the Win95 and WinNT platforms.
Developed installation framework using InstallShield 3.0, to address common installation issues, some of which are listed here; client/runtime models, simple runtime redistribution model, product protection using encryption and registration keys, COM component installation/registration/removal.
Wrote test suite using Microsoft Test and Visual Basic for the IA-SPOX RTOS.

Ring This... Software, 1997 - Current
Santa Barbara, California

My personal consulting company.

With This Ring... (Wedding planner software - no longer available)
Graph This... Netscape plug-in.
Several Consulting Services, including Hardware/Software Installation scripts and some Win32 applets.
Created and maintain various private websites.

TradeWorks International, 1996 - 1997
Santa Barbara, California

Software Engineer

Fontainebleu Apartments, 1992 - 1994
Isla Vista, California

Resident Assistant, general maintenance, all-around university university student baby-sitter.

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