david cofer

Building and testing the intelligent, adaptive robots that reproduce the behavior of insects, and other animals, by mimicking the neural networks in their brain. As part of my doctoral thesis I built a neuromechanical simulation application that allows researchers to model the biomechanics and the nervous system of living organisms so they can test hypotheses on neural control of behavior. I have upgraded this software to make it easy to build and test neurally controlled robotic systems. I am now in the process of trying to build robots based on that platform that can perform useful functions like cleaning your house, mowing your lawn and so on. I am also in the process of building and selling related electronics projects as I build them to meet my primary of goal building intelligent robots.

Worked on large multi-tier projects to build and manage the financial systems for the largest US internet job board. Exentsive use of Agile/Scrum methodologies for lean development.

* Worked as a contractor developing warehouse integration and inventory tracking systems (SCADA). * Used visual basic, asp, Microsoft transaction server (mts), sql server, and oracle to gather information from barcode scanners, PLCs, and hand-held devices to track products on assembly lines. * Developed hand-held scanner user interface and backend objects. * Built numerous applications to map data from one system or db to another using either real time or batched processing.

Technical project leader for simulation and training applications for unmanned vehicle systems.