I am an experienced software, hardware and mechanical engineer with direct experience Testing, designing and implementing embedded systems since 1980. In the last 10 years I have been involved with highly reliable controllers for medical electronics, underwater remotely operated vehicles and rugged computers for military vehicles. I have formal education in computer science (BSCS), with real world engineering experience in all aspects of embedded system design, implementation, integration and test. The last five years I have been working as the engineering lead in a contract manufacturing company, working with literally thousands of electronics test scenarios, from implementing customer supplied test systems to designing and implementing DSP based sight and sound testing systems. I am experienced on the hardware design side, having several dozen designs to my credit, including several commercial laser printers from the 1990's. From the mechanical aspect, I have direct experience with