Selected Project Summaries
for
Michael Majors
NASA HITS project /
Internal projects to develop Primary & Multifunction cockpit displays
Avidyne, Lincoln, MA
Aircraft
systems engineering including requirements, analysis, design, interfaces,
installation and testing. Developed avionics simulation equipment to
support product development and testing. Electrical design including board
level electronics and interface boxes. Software engineering including
complete life cycle of requirements, analysis, design, code, test, docs, FAA
certification, all in C++ on Win32 and embedded systems. Engineering
liason between Avidyne and aircraft manufacturers. Test pilot and flight
test engineer for Lancair Columbia integration. Engineering support for
setup and demo at trade shows.
Win16 to Win32
Conversion / Font Conversion
ArgoData
Systems, Dallas, TX
Michael was responsible for the conversion of a 16 bit program
written using Borland C++ 3.1, OWL and Object Graphics Library
from the WhiteWater Group. The end of the process is a 32 bit
Win95 program using the standard Windows 95 GUI. This project
also used the HP Intellifont package for rendering documents on
PCL-4 and PCL-5 printers. The new version will use True Type
fonts, which involves parsing the PCL output stream and capturing
all font information for storage in a database. Michael used Borland C++,
Visual C++, OWL, MFC and the TrueType and HP Intellifonts for this project.
Production/Inventory
Monitoring Application
Paramount
Citrus, Delano, CA
This project for a major produce manufacturer
was a
database application used to monitor production processes. It improved the amount and quality of information available to
the production process operator. One phase of the project was to
integrate the database information with corporate mail and
information systems for vendor billing. This project used Visual Basic and
SQL Anywhere.
Database Solutions
Various
Clients
Michael has written several database solutions, both single and
multi-user, for small businesses who want to automate. One
example is a database for a small auto dealership that enabled
them to print rather than type contract, title applications, etc.
Single user applications are in Access, multi-users are in Access
or Visual Basic front ends with a SQL engine type database
backend such as SQL Server or SQL Anywhere.
Embedded
Systems
Raytheon,
Waco, TX
Michael developed embedded computer systems for aircraft
applications including: messaging systems, communications,
interphones, signal processing and encryption devices. He
performed the electrical design, printed circuit layout,
coordinated prototype and production construction, test and
integration of printed circuit boards for 8051, 80x86, 680x0 and
TMS320x families of processors and associated memory and I/O
devices. Michael also developed the communications, networking
and test applications software for the embedded systems. These projects
included the use of VxWorks, Nucleus, C, Pascal and Ada.
Software
Proposals and Design
Raytheon,
Waco, TX
Michael has worked on several proposal efforts for aircraft
contracts. On one, he was hardware and software architect for
aircraft video, network and data collection systems. On another,
he was team leader of the overall software effort. He coordinated
with internal development activities and three major
subcontractors to propose a solution to deliver almost half a
million lines of code, of which about 1/3 was new development in
C++ and Ada. As part of this effort, Michael designed an embedded
VME based data collection and processing system to replace
existing aircraft equipment.
