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Not just another fish in the
Sea!
Bio
Sketch for Jim Leiterman
I am a Senior Hardware / Software Designer
Be afraid, I
own a soldering iron and I know how to use it!
But first a little…
Cover Letter
propaganda
I have done good things for the various companies that
I have worked with and love working with new technology and people, which
allows me to learn and grow as an individual contributor on team products. I
have the following consecutive programming experience:
36+ years total programming experience.
This time was spent working with small and medium sized companies, which due to their smaller staffing allowed me to independently break new ground doing technology research, which in turn allowed my skills to develop and flourish.
Companies are paying fortunes for Localization efforts after the release of the domestic version of their products because of the unawareness of the proper method of building a global application. This is a skill I’ve fine-tuned over the last 11 years.
Reusable code is a cornerstone of my personal philosophy of code development. Despite the typical NIH (Not Invented Here) thinking of a majority of programmers, the modules I write are layered in such a way, as they are smart self-managing modules/engines to make life easier for the programmer.
· 3D & Tools Experience
· Object Oriented Approach
· Birds Eye View
· On Time – On Target
This gives me a better vantage point to make proper development decisions as opposed to that of the typical programmer whom merely jumps in feet first without looking to see where they’re going to land and then typically drown.
Intrigued?
(Read On!)
Bio Sketch
Stuff - Alias: This is my life
Note:
I kind of slapped together this website just for fun and to act as a cover
letter for my resume. There used to be
fish and one scuba diving nerd on the screen but there was a little problem of
trying to read this page!
As
Bugs Bunny would say, “First I was born.”
I
first started with Electrons by helping my dad for many years as an
Electrician’s apprentice. He was an
Electrical Contractor, his company, Leiterman and Sons Electric Company. Interesting thing. Although he had six sons, none of us went
into his business. New construction I
liked, but I personally hated crawling under old houses. I first started with Electronics by building
circuits instead of doing my homework in Elementary and High School. Ever try to build an adding machine with only
diode matrices and switches? Once one
learns about the transistor it becomes much easier. I first started with computers by
programming, building and repairing them and their peripherals, down to the
component level. I also designed digital
electronics and slave emulators for them.
This was back in the days of Imsai, Apple II, Atari, Processor Technology
Sol 20, Exidy Sorcerer, Compucolor, etc.
Just to name a few. I wrote
diagnostic software to assist in the repair of some of them, especially the
peripherals. This awareness of what a
computers’ hardware could do gave me an edge and opened the door into the world
of video game programming. Using this
knowledge I was able to build circuits such as ram/rom cartridges so I could
download game code into a specially built ram cartridge, throw a write protect switch,
unplug it and then plug it into a 2600 console.
This clumsy method of development led me to build inexpensive slave
emulators where I could single step the processor watching address and data
lines via L.E.D’s (Light Emitting Diodes).
Or do debugging using a dumb terminal and a serial port. Back then (in the dark ages) I worked with
derivatives of the 6502, Z80 (Loved that Killer I/O chip), and TI 1000
processors. I designed wire wrapped, and
programmed a few electronic devices such as a battery based Dual tank
Hydroponics controller, a crude slave emulator, etc. In fact I used to be extremely good at 6502
and (8080) Z80 Assembly programming and circuit design, with a familiarity with
the 8748 and now very ancient TI 1000 series.
Back then I used to reverse engineer electronic toys and devices, by
taking them apart, drawing their schematics, and figuring out how they worked,
but that’s ancient history and now I’m getting ahead of myself.
Over
the years I’ve built a lot of video / computer games that made it to market and
some that never made it to market but were hyped at the computer game show ‘E3’. Not vaporware but the next thing to it. One summer I taught at the summer program,
“College 4 Kids.” Any idea why it was
the most popular class they had on campus?
Of course some of the kids thought it was a place where they could play
video games. To their surprise (since
they didn’t read the syllabus) it was how to build them! I have been a volunteer science, math, and
computer instructor at an elementary school, where I’d take groups of four or
so students at a time and teach them things related to the subject that they
wouldn’t actually learn until High School or College. I was also a volunteer fireman for about five
years. Have also worked for the U.S.F.S.
(United States Forest Service) as a change of pace one summer after being laid
off and while searching for a new job.
In
2007 I moved my office into M.E.L. My Mobile Electronics Laboratory.
Additional information and installation instructions are available at the the following link.
http://www.INNBarn.com
Some years ago I had written and almost completed the book, which was meant to be
volume one of a three volume set, “The Death and Rebirth of the X86 Assembly
Language Programmer”. It was written for
the primary purpose that ‘C/C++’ compilers have been getting pretty good at
building optimized code and so assembly language programming was becoming a
dying art. But with the advent of MMX,
3DNow, and S.S.E. (Katmai NI) instruction sets, there’s been a renewed need for
assembly language programming and optimization based upon the Intel and AMD
architectures. I’ve had hot and then
cold responses from publishers. All whom
were sent the book were excited about it but within a couple months they’d
decided that since they couldn’t sell their last assembly language book, then
they wouldn’t be able to sell this one either.
I think they missed the point. It
was a training manual, reference manual, and (tiny) autobiography all rolled
into one. It also contained real life
code samples that one could use within their applications, not made up nonsense
code you usually find. Almost everyone
whom I gave a copy to for review asked to keep their copies! Others that I’ve known asked for copies as
well, and only one was returned. But it
contained the requested editing notes.
Vol1: General x86 Assembly.
Vol2: Floating Point Math
Vol3: System Level Programming
Not
to be disappointed I found and signed book deals, “Vector
Game Math Processors”, “Learning Vertex
& Pixel Shaders” and “32/64-bit 80x86
Computer Architecture.” with my publisher WORDWARE Publishing, Inc. They are all available now and cover all
flavors of X86, PowerPC, and MIPS Multimedia Assembly Language programming of
Vectors, and shaders.
My
brother Robert is a published author as well!
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Click
here for the books page for
my brother and I for our books being published.
Click here for web links related to me that I have found from time to time.
The
following working history is in reverse chronological such as a resume would be
so that you don’t get bored silly!
OBJECTIVE
A Senior Computer Engineer or Project
Lead position where my experiences in creating and shipping extremely high
quality, world-ready, hardware and software products can be utilized to make a
significant contribution to your organization.
WORK EXPERIENCE (Bio Sketch & Images)
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XPERI (Formerly DTS) |
Jan 2017 – Feb 2019 |
Senior Software Engineer |
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Haas Automation, Inc. (consult) |
Nov 2015 – Jan 2017 |
Software Engineer |
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Zodiac Technologies (Consult) |
May 2015 – Nov 2015 |
Software Engineer |
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Jul 2013 – May 2015 |
Senior Programmer |
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Intel Beaverton (Consult) |
Nov 2012 – Jul 2013 |
Software Engineer |
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Microsoft (Consult) |
Jun 2012 – Jul 2012 |
Software Engineer |
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VW Electronic Research Lab
(Consult) |
Nov 2011 – Jun 2012 |
Software Engineer |
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Intel Chandler (Consult) |
Nov 2010 – Nov 2011 |
Software Engineer |
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Aug
2002 - Present |
Electronics
/ Software Design |
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Savage
Games |
Jan
2008 – Oct 2009 |
Senior
Games Programmer |
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June
2004 – Aug 2007 |
Senior
Games Programmer |
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Jan
2003 – Jun 2004 |
Senior
Software Engineer |
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Nov
2000 – Aug 2002 |
Senior
Research & Design Engineer |
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July
1999 – Oct 2000 |
Senior
Software Engineer |
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July
1997 – June 1999 |
Senior
Software Systems Engineer |
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Feb
1997 – June 1997 |
Senior
Software Engineer |
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Nov
1995 – Jan 1997 |
Senior
Programmer |
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Feb
1994 – Nov 1995 |
Senior
Programmer |
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Oct
1993 – Feb 1994 |
Engineer
/ Co-Manager |
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Aug
1989 – Jan 1994 |
Senior
Computer Engineer |
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Apr
1984 – Aug 1989 |
Senior
Software Engineer |
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Apr
1982 – Mar 1984 |
Research
Engineer |
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Nov
1981 – Mar 1982 |
Video
Game Programmer |
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Byte
Shop - Beaverton |
Feb
1979 - Oct 1981 |
Computer
Service Repair |
Skills
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Windows DirectX Linux
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'C/C++' and
Assembly
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PowerPC
{AltiVec}.
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X86 {3DNow!(+) MMX(+) SSE(2)}.
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MIPS C790 EE VU0/1.
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Rabbit, PIC 18F,
PIC 24F, Z80, 6502, and other ancient 8-bit processors.
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Digital
Electronics Design and Prototype Development.
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Team Leader Developing International Software.
Education
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2013 B.S.
Computer Science Degree from CSU Channel Islands.
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1992 A.S.
Computer Science Degree from Columbia College.
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Volunteer - Boy Scouts of America |
