edward leaver

embedded developer

About

Experienced scientific and engineering software development with background in chemistry, physics, and mathematics. Control software GUIs. Hyperspectral image processing. Acoustic and Electromagnetic applications. EDA circuit simulator development and device modeling. Unix and Linux. C++, Fortran, Perl, shell scripts. Multi-process and threaded programming, Qt and Gtkmm graphical user interface and utility libraries. Authored popular web articles on climate and energy. See http://www.edleaver.com. Follow the "Projects" tab for project descriptions..

Country

united states

City

denver

Industry

medical devices

Skill

physics, fortran, simulations, c++, programming, algorithms, image processing, hyperspectral image endmember unmixing, geoelectromagnetic modeling, anisotropic ray tracing and seismic velocity modeling, analytic and numerical solutions to differential equations, circuit simulation and device modeling, graphical user interface design and development, unix and linux system programming and administration

Experience

member technical staff

nasa jet propulsion laboratory

1988-9 - 1990-6 · 1 yr 10 mos

Hypercube application software development: SDI battle planning, plasma physics simulation, planetary atmosphere IR limb-sounding remote sensing.

senior software engineer

john galt staffing

2017-4 - 2018-3 · 1 yr

Wrote control and status GUIs for a remotely located telescope.

software engineer associate

adecco group

2011-10 - 2012-3 · 6 mos

Contract technical and scientific programmer. C, C++, Fortran

member technical staff

bdm corporation

1986-1 - 1988-1 · 2 yrs 1 mo

Interaction analysis of electromagnetc pulse and strategic systems. Finite difference modeling of electromagnetic pulse effects.

advisory engineer

intel corporation

2002-1 - 2003-1 · 1 yr 1 mo

Automated timing and layout tool development

advisory engineer

ibm

1995-8 - 2001-12 · 6 yrs 5 mos

EDA software development for PowerSPICE circuit simulator. Device modelling and ODE integration.

embedded developer

black diamond networks

2018-5 - Present · 8 yrs 5 mos

Front-end development and cross-product code integration for robotic medical device.

president

icarus resources

2004-3 - Present · 22 yrs 7 mos

Software development and consultation in Electrical Methods, Remote Sensing, and Seismology. Icarus is my personal LLC for research and development of projects of personal interest. Currently involved in a remote sensing hyperspectral image analysis program, and web articles on climate and energy policy. Commercial projects include Icarus Archive and its network license manager, a data sharing and archive program for use with the ProMAX(tm) suite of seismic data processing tools, available for licensing.

software engineer contract

oxford global resources

2015-4 - Present · 11 yrs 6 mos

Qt consulting for aerospace application. Worked mostly with Qt's QML/JavaScript front end on the customer-facing graphical interface; the only actual C++ coding was for a simple pthread condition/wait unit test. JIRA, Coverity, SVN, and Qt 5.2.1 on virtualized Ubuntu 14.04 (QEMU).

Education

university of colorado boulder

chemistry

university of utah

physics

Outstanding Physics Graduate Student award Activities and Societies: Active on Chemistry and Physics Student Advisory Committees, cycling, skiing, and mountaineering.