Resume for Timothy Alan Hobbs

Resume for Timothy Alan Hobbs

Greensboro, N.C. 27455
thobbs@nr.infi.net

Education and Personals:

I graduated high school and finished a one year TV Servicing course in Winston-Salem, N.C., spent 7 years in the US Navy learning more electronics and servicing electronic countermeaures equipment. For the most part I am self-taught. I am 40 years old, extremely motivated, possess natural leadership and motivational skills and have a strongly innovative and creative nature. I also possess a working knowledge of electronics, Visual Basic, Quick Basic 4.5, 6800 Assembler and HTML coding with Java Scripting. I have programmed applications in "C" as well though I am less familiar with it's use. Travel or relocation can be accomodated as required.

Personal Projects - non-income related

Freeware Applications
Wrote two Internet based Freeware applications in Visual Basic 3.0 for Win 3.1. The Net Player and Multimedia Batch Developer for Netscape and Internet Explorer and the Net Search Assistant for organizing search filter strings on net search engines, most specifically Alta Vista. Net Player has made it on to Tucows with a 4 cow (excellent) rating.

Web Sites
I maintain a large web site on Infinet broken into two major sections, my personal thoughts and experiences at the Cosmic Consciousness Home Page and the Adaptive Computing Software Project where I research software and products for persons with disabilities.

Career Highlights

March 1992 - Present Carolina Instrumentation Co. Inc, Winston-Salem N.C.

Received U.S. Patent #5,363,885
for the development of a Robotic Sample Preparation System for Laboratory Automation utilizing a five axis robot, a Mettler balance and multiple microcontrollers programmed in Octagon Basic.

Programmed a robotic system in "C" language
to accurately weigh microgram level airborne Respirable Size Particulates collected on circular filters. Patent is pending.

Re-engineered an earlier model PC based eight channel weighing system
for controlling fiber blending processes with PLC downstream routing. This was written in Quick Basic 4.5 with round robin style multitasking on a 386 SX-25 and interrupt driven real-time serial data reporting.

Developed a Visual Basic based Balloting System
that involved significant control of all PC's with Network DDE on a Windows for Workgroups system network and digital point control over a Genesis based Environmental Chamber Controller.

Olfactometer and Laboratory Automation
Designed electronic systems for an Olfactometer [testing sense of smell], a portable data collection system, and completed both hardware and software design to automate handling of samples for chemical analysis including a servo driven round table, custom vacuum operated dry product dispenser, custom capper and decapper for sample containers, and more.

Feb 1991 - Feb 1992 Industrial Systems Design Group Inc. Greensboro, N.C.

Yarn Density Inspection System
Designed, programmed, constructed and serviced a Yarn Density Inspection System for the textile industry using both visual analysis (camera based gauging) and high accuracy weighing technologies.

Designed a PC based eight channel weighing system
for controlling fiber blending processes with Opto-22 module downstream routing. This was written in Quick Basic 4.5 with round robin style multitasking on a 286 PC using interrupt driven real-time serial data reporting.

Jan 1984 - Feb 1991 J.A. King Scale Co. Inc. Greensboro N.C.

Wrote software, constructed the electronic systems and installed the following types of weighing systems:

High Speed Bag Weigher for Southern States feed mills
Fiber Blend Weigh Systems [two styles] for textile blending plants
Tobacco Stem Separator for RJR Tobacco Co.
Tobacco Packing Weigh System for Philip Morris Corp.
Tobacco Container Weigh System for American Tobacco Co.
Automated Distributed Feeder for Holly Farms' Research Facility
High Accuracy Liquid Weigh System for Holly Farms
Automated Truck Loading System for Vulcan Materials

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