Gray Abbott's Resume
Gray's work with Hewlett Packard DAQ productsWhile at Creare, I worked on several systems integration projects based on Hewlett Packard equipment. I co-wrote the proposal for a system for a major manufacturer of aircraft engines, to acquire and analyze jet engine test data from FM tape. I co-designed the system and co-managed the project, which cost over $600,000, including hardware. I also wrote all of the realtime data acquisition code. The client was an internal data reduction center at the engine plant and their focus was on the production of enginering analysis reports. They were judged by how many reports they could produce in a day. For this reason, a lot of the signal processing was done in realtime, instead of in a post-processing step; this significantly reduced the time required to select and plot the "interesting" data (by more than an order of magnitude, compared to their previous system).Another HP-related project was the development of software for a large electric utility, for capturing and analyzing lightning strikes on power lines. This began as a very small project (<$10,000) but the customer was so pleased with our work that they repeatedly came back for more, totalling over $80,000 in a little over one year. Creare was made an HP Channel Partner, based on the work of our group, working primarily with the Lake Stevens Division, and some with the Loveland Division. I personally recieved special training from HP on undocumented internals of the HP3565 hardware and I worked closely with HP product developers on several projects. And I worked with HP Field Engineers, chasing sales leads in many areas, including machinery health monitoring for paper mills and interfacing an acoustic intensity measurement system to a robot (to position the microphone). I believe that any of the people I dealt with at HP would recommend me without reservations.
Gray Abbott's Resume |