Employer: Xerox CorporationLocation: Webster, NY
Position: Software / Firmware Engineer
Period: June 2008 - August 2008
Xerox is a global document management company specializing in the production of workstation printers, large scale printing presses, multifunction systems, and the supplies required to run such devices.
Nowadays Xerox seems to be shifting its focus to collaborative web technologies to make it easy to share, edit, and print digital media.
Xerox is named after the process of xerography, which was invented by Chester Carlson in 1938. The Center for Imaging Science (CIS) at RIT is named in honor of Mr. Carlson. A little over a year after I worked for Xerox I was hired to perform research on a flat plate xerographic printing press for the Print Research and Image Systems Modeling Laboratory in CIS.
While working for Xerox I was part of the Platform Development Unit / Control Systems Platform group and was part of the Xerographics / Image Path Software team. I helped maintain and develop the Nuvera Digital Production System line of products; however, my primary task was to implement C++ code to control a down-shooting printhead fixture.
The down-shooting fixture was a digital coater device capable of printing clear gel ink on paper. Such a device allows users to coat specific areas of a document with gloss instead of performing a flood coat of the entire page. Also, such a device can print Braille on pharmaceutical bottles. The European Union has made it mandatory that the name of all medications be printed on the packaging in Braille.
Responsibilities and accomplishments:
- Migrated digital coater LabVIEW code to production-worthy C++ application code.
- Designed a software architecture for Controller Area Network communication.
- Analyzed and implemented solutions for problems with the Nuvera Digital Production System printer.
