Stuart Austin Member

Manassas, Virginia , USA  •  IEEE Northern Virginia Section
Tagline
Digital Signals and Systems Consultant and founder of Critical Software Systems
Contact
  • Phone
    +17037548855 (Work)
    +17037548855 (Home)
Technical Expertise
Aerospace
Application Software
C++
Communications
DSP
Embedded Systems, Hardware, Software and Controls
Simulation and Modeling
Systems Engineering
WiFi
Networking
Space-Ground Communications
Electronic Music
Defense
Real-Time
Microcontrollers
Computer Vision
Modern C
Iterative Software Development
low power
space flight components
vivado
digital audio
digital video
Special Skills
Technical Specialties
Thirty-five years experience in software development and systems engineering for mission-critical systems. U.S. Citizen (cleared). Expertise in space flight systems, broadband and local-area networks, weapons systems, digital video/imagery and digital signal processing. Embedded flight, test and ground system software development for low-earth-orbit and geosynchronous satellite systems. Mathematical modeling, design and implementation of digital and RF communications protocols for serial interfaces, local/wide-area networks and spacecraft-to-ground links. Embedded software development for Internet protocols. Design and implementation of performance analysis systems for broadband and High-Performance Computing Cluster networks. Software systems engineering and software development for electronic warfare, digital radar and active sonar (acoustic) systems. Software development for digital television set-top boxes (consumer electronics) for direct broadcast and Internet convergence applications. Object-oriented design and development of multi-tier software using C, C++, Java, Python, and scripting languages on Windows, Unix and Linux. Development of embedded software on microcontrollers and microprocessors, both with and without real-time operating systems such as VxWorks and embedded Linux.
Additional Specialties
Embedded systems design, programming and testing. Object-oriented design and implementation using C , Java, Python and C#. Functional programming with C, Visual Basic, assembly, Perl, Tcl/Tk. Simulation and modeling with Matlab/Simulink, Octave, Mathematica, and similar tools. Network management tools such as SNMP/MIB, HP OpenView, Tivoli NetView. Database programming using Oracle, Access, SQL. Systems and software engineering process tools including UML, Rational, Telelogic DOORS.
Interests
Aerospace electronics
Space vehicles
Aerospace simulation
Aerospace testing
Aerospace control
Artificial intelligence
Software agents
Natural languages
Computational intelligence
Neural networks
Computational intelligence
Artificial intelligence
Computing technology
Experience
Consultant
BroadMasters Corporation
Education
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State Univ
Master of Science
Computer Sciences and Information Technologies , 1986