Summary
Steve Maynard is a retired embedded systems engineer with over three decades of hands-on experience spanning machine tools, motion control, telecommunications, and two-way broadband software. He has specialized in low-level firmware, board-support packages, loaders, and tools, with deep proficiency in Assembly, C, C++, and Java and practical experience with Linux/Yocto build environments. As a principal engineer and consultant he led prototype bring-up, lightweight hardware design, and IP investigations for companies from Motorola and 3Com to Time Warner Cable and his own firms. Based in Michigan, he combines systems-level architecture with pragmatic implementation and testing, often acting as the bridge between hardware bring-up and software deployment. An understated asset is his continual return to consulting and hands-on roles late into his career, reflecting a passion for solving embedded bring-up and integration challenges rather than purely managerial work.
11 years of coding experience
42 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at University of Michigan
Bachelors CIS, Bachelors CIS at University of Phoenix
AS EET Math, AS EET Math at Washtenaw Community College
Engineering Mathmatics, Engineering Mathmatics at Eastern Michigan University
English