Andrew Bourhill

Designed and developed motion control applications, DEC oven controllers and medical health products.

• Designed and developed a custom compiled language for use with our products.
• Designed and developed a RealTime Operating system for our products. (BlackThorn OS)
• Developed device drivers for Blackthorn.
• Developed Jpeg, Gif & PNG codecs for Blackthorn.
• Reverse engineered USB device protocols
• Developed FAT32, FAT16 &FAT12 drivers for blackthorn.

Developed Power substation monitoring Hardware and software using DSP & FPGA's

• Maintained the Linux kernel that powered the companys hardware.
• Developed new hardware & drivers to control modBus clients.
• Developed Linux device drivers for Cleverscope Data acquisition units
• Oversaw and mentored junior developers

Oversee and develop new technologies for the PODIFI platform, PODIFI is a digital voucher redemption system.

• maintain linux kernel tailored specifically for the PODIFI hardware
• develop new drivers & hardware for PODIFI
• developed Bluetooth LE device drivers
• developed WIFI device drivers
• developed PWM drivers in pure software to drive digital audio feedback and tri-colour led brightness
• developed BTLE beacon drivers
• developed backend services for Apple passbook and android save to pay.
• developed backend scheduler service to facilitate timed customer events

A personal project that uses two PIC32's running in parallel, it is a home alarm system that uses a touchscreen for users to navigate zones easily and visually see what zones have been triggered. all sensors are wireless and it supports up to 12 .