Implemented a Windows/MFC application using Visual C++ to provide management for internationalization and localization of other Windows Applications. Designed to handle both Unicode and a wide variety of other character coding systems including S-JIS, KS, GB, and Big-5. Parses text and identification of elements from a resource file, collecting this into a DAO database. Allows off-site translation of languages, then creates resource files in the other languages. These resource files compiled into DLLs which can be loaded to change the application language. Patent applied for as applied to automotive diagnostics. 

Designed and implemented digital hardware, control systems, and software for an automotive wheel balancer product. This involves real-time data collection and DFT algorithms to determine the amount and location of weights to be applied to the wheel to counterbalance both static and dynamic unbalance. 

Designed and implemented software algorithms for an SDLC communications system that was used in autonomous land vehicle navigation. Developed solid modeling algorithms for a light-based inferometry measurement system. Used Informix 4-GL to drive a robotic welding system for which our project team was feature in the 1986 FMC annual report. Directed the software team in developing a non-stop PDP- 11 based newsprint roll delivery system for the Fort Worth Star Telegram. This system has now been ported to VAX and is in use in several major newspapers throughout the US and Europe. 

Developed a context-sensitive, hierarchical help system for use on automobile alignment systems running in the DOS environment. Software handled VGA graphics and automatic text formatting, wrapping text around pictures. 

Developed a VGA text editor and the character font system for a Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Thai. 

Wrote several stand-alone programs that performed lexical analysis of text files and categorized phrases for international translations. Some of the software did limited grammatical analysis. 

Researched the Ada computer language for two divisions of FMC. Selected and supervised the implementation of compilers and development systems for the two divisions to ensure software compatibility and portability. Internally published two books on the state of the industrial use of the Ada language.

Designed and implemented industrial process control systems. Assisted several electronics firms develop a quality control process by designing and installing various test systems and printed circuit burn-in facilities. Directed the operations of movers, electricians, machinists, and photographers in setting up the computer room in a new plant. Developed diagnostic and operational software for automated microscopes and scanning electron microscopes. Designed the hardware and developed the software for a continuous operation blood plasmapheresis system. Designed a preliminary approach to the diagnostic port on the GTD-5 telephone switch (a GTE equivalent of the ATT #5 ESS). 

Developed several diagnostics software systems for optical microscopy and scanning electron microscopy used in the semiconductor industry that ensured the measurement system was entirely accurate. 

Built an industrial controller using commercially available PLCs to replace an outmoded controller for a wire buncher, and a target controller for a firing range using commercial display subsystem and PLC.