Richard Harlow has technical project and management experience in both hardware and software engineering. He has extensive expertise in systems design, implementation of applications, development of custom real-time embedded systems, and Linux and Windows operating systems expertise. He has an extensive background in engineering management and consulting, has the ability to work with clients to determine needs, develop plans, serves as liaison between technical and non-technical groups, and carry out the strategy, architecture and development of projects for major clients.

Recently, Mr Harlow served as Hewlett-Packard's lead test developer for HP's Business Intelligence applications on their Neoview platform. He provided high-end testing for database servers with storage exceeding 30 terabytes in size and developed special SQL scripts and applications used to harden databases and related systems in customer environments. He was HP's Architect, Technical Lead, and Project Lead for HP's NonStop Kernel Platform, and he was the JDBC Technical Lead on HP's Hybrid Super Cluster program.

Through Design Consultings, Inc., Mr. Harlow developed a major network-based client server application for Ford Motor Company's Scientific Research Laboratories. He participated in all developmental aspects of the project, creating applications to upload information to an Oracle database and provide data analysis tools used by engineers for viewing, analyzing, and archiving data through an easily accessible and supportable browser interface.

Mr. Harlow served as Compuware's UNIX Architect, Technical Lead, and Planner for workstation products, supporting company's expansion of mainframe fault diagnostic product line into the workstation market sector. He developed architecture for OS/2 and UNIX environments while supporting HP 9000 and IBM RS/6000 system platforms and providing strategic input into marketing, planning, and technical design.

A sampling of Mr. Harlow's other projects:

• Worked in UNIX, Linux, Windows environment, using C/C++, Java, .NET, and other tools
• Ensured that an operating system could meet high-availability and fault-tolerant requirements of cellular switching applications geared towards specific Motorola products
• Managed team of hardware and software engineers for the design and deployment of custom electronic test equipment for automotive and electronics industries
• Worked with clients to determine needs, prepared bids, determined resources to allocate
• real-time embedded system design, systems and application programming, consumer product creation, and data/telecommunications networking projects
• Developed real-time laser controllers and surface analysis equipment
• Developed a Racetrack Control System for Malibu Grand Prix for coordinating venue operations
• Member of 3D System's R&D Team that produced their original Stereolithography machines, developing proprietary 3-D imaging processes
• Developed software and debugged hardware for the 1997 Corvette Power Seat
• R&D Team member for advanced ground environmental control system for B-1 Bombers, AWACs, and Space Shuttles
• Lead developer of DataPlex's Road Maintenance Monitor utilized by city governments for field survey of roads, alleys and sidewalks
• Extensive software development and hardware debugging in the area of automobile power seat control, seatbelt and airbag safety systems

Mr. Harlow is a graduate of the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA, 1984), received Locus Computing Corp.'s Award for Outstanding Achievement, and received the Cost Improvement Program Award from Hughes Aircraft Company where he held Secret Clearance.

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