Versatile software engineer with a background in .NET consulting and CMS development. Working on regaining my embedded development skills to get more involved with IoT opportunities.
At 21 years old, I was allowed to design a digital billboard system. We had identified a vendor who would provide the sign modules, but I was responsible for the design of all control and scheduling software and procuring any additional hardware we needed. It was the coolest thing I have ever worked on.
The day before we're supposed to ship the first batch of signs, I can't get the display driver to work. It was looking like I was going to have to rewrite my code from start and dig into some Win32 nightmare methods to copy video memory. We can't really delay; we have a freight company scheduled to come by at noon and they are expecting six signs on the manifest. Failure was not an option!
I knew I had worked with one of the libraries that played a major part in the vendor's display system before and had a feeling it was missing options. Sure enough, I found some configuration info in a random blog post, and when I copied it over to the sign's controller, everything started working!
I had spent my 21st birthday up til 4AM getting these signs to work, and the glow of the room when the first ads started rolling across seemed so vibrant between the sleep dep/ecstasy of success/recognition I can go sleep now. Looking back, there's no way I would have rather spent my 21st birthday.
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At 21 years old, I was allowed to design a digital billboard system. We had identified a vendor who would provide the sign modules, but I was responsible for the design of all control and scheduling software and procuring any additional hardware we needed. It was the coolest thing I have ever worked on.
The day before we're supposed to ship the first batch of signs, I can't get the display driver to work. It was looking like I was going to have to rewrite my code from start and dig into some Win32 nightmare methods to copy video memory. We can't really delay; we have a freight company scheduled to come by at noon and they are expecting six signs on the manifest. Failure was not an option!
I knew I had worked with one of the libraries that played a major part in the vendor's display system before and had a feeling it was missing options. Sure enough, I found some configuration info in a random blog post, and when I copied it over to the sign's controller, everything started working!
I had spent my 21st birthday up til 4AM getting these signs to work, and the glow of the room when the first ads started rolling across seemed so vibrant between the sleep dep/ecstasy of success/recognition I can go sleep now. Looking back, there's no way I would have rather spent my 21st birthday.