Z produced a consumer distributed Disk over IP box, sold to ordinary consumers via a major retail firm. I supported this device, building UDP / IP tools for technical help folks, evaluating and adding features for marketing folks, internationalizing for the Asian market. I also worked on a management tool for a business product, using Java / Swing / JNI. I was also hired for cryptographic experience. They ran out of VC funds. They had lost consumers because of flaws in their consumer device, in part thanks to the lowest- or fastest- bidder Indian outsourcing. They also had remaining flaws when they tried to deploy the business product in beta business sites.
At C I helped produce a medical device (ECG/defibrillator) for use by nurses and physicians; I helped implement the GUI and various internals, as well as ancillary Windows programs.
The company was bought and several engineers including myself were laid off. A few years later and the product is released, pictures are on the net.
At H, a medically-qualified electronic design firm, I helped refine and then implemented the embedded GUI, from the ground up, for a medical surgical instrument, for which I was lead software engineer. I helped bring up custom PCBs. I also designed and implemented a prototype system used for preliminary FDA evaluation. This involved designing a script engine, choosing I/O modules, writing JNI layers to talk to I/O modules. I implemented cryptographic authentication protocols using Atmel cryptomemories, etc. Worked on both 8-bit PIC processors and 32-bit ARM7 processors. This company grew too quickly and could not make payroll. That was a shame as it was fun to work there, smart and humourous people, relaxed conditions, combined a number of interests of mine.
