About

Karen West is a highly experienced software engineer with over 21 years of experience in embedded technologies, C/C++ programming, and hardware-software interaction. Currently working at General Dynamics Mission Systems, she is a part of the Cyber Security and Network Encryption Software Team. Karen has worked on radar software for Raytheon Technologies, where she used C++, DDS publish and subscribe message passing network communications with QOS guarantees, MATLAB, Lua, and scripters to execute and analyze code test results on Jenkins. She has also worked on data collection record (DCR) evaluation, collaborator for code reviews, Agile Scrum, RTN for adding code features, DOORs for requirements, iTracker for STRs, unit tests for code modules, openGrok for code search, and Rhapsody for some UML and sequence diagrams. Karen has extensive experience in local area networks and communications, satellite TV, USB products, core home gateways, all-in-one printer/scanner/copier fax machines, multimedia infotainment systems, and US Navy missile defense systems. She has held a Secret Security Clearance from 2007-2009 and has experience with product test and development in safety critical environments. Karen has worked on set-top box programming to support multimedia apps and gaming, C-shell Linux command interpreter with I/O redirection and pipe-based IPC, and web server development in C. Karen is proficient in C/C++, Qt, Assembly, Python, Android with Java and XML, R, MATLAB, Ruby on Rails, SQL, HTML, CSS, GNU, Emacs, PSOS, VxWorks, Proprietary RTOSs, and Microsoft Visual Studio. She has experience in Git, Github, Jira, Bit Bucket, ClearCase, CVS, Source Safe, Gliffy Diagrams, and Sharepoint. Karen is familiar with SoC registers specifications, Keil for Windows for ARM, logic analyzers, oscilloscopes, sniffers, debuggers, emulators, Jade hardware design, UNIX/Linux, Windows, Microsoft/Linux (Open) Office Suite, DOORS, Eclipse, Qt Creator, Android Studio, Blue J, PWM, ADC, DAC, UARTs, LCD, UARTs, MATLAB, Vmware Player, Oracle VB, and KVM's QEMU, Enthought's Canopy, Mentor Tools, and Spice to design CPUs, I2C, SPI, Modbus, Rstudio, SQL, SW/HW Sec. Karen has completed an online Agile Project