James O'Connor

James O'Connor has a extensive work experience in the field of engineering and software development. James is currently working at AMERGINT Technologies as a Principal Engineer, a position they have held since December 2022. Prior to this, they were a Senior Software Engineer at the same company starting in November 2021.

Before joining AMERGINT Technologies, James worked at DirectStream LLC from 2016 to 2020 as a Staff Engineer. James was the chief architect of the network stack and developed various network module features, including establishing TCP/IP data streaming communications with FPGA based applications and optimizing pipeline packet processing between Ethernet and Interlaken protocols.

James also worked at SRC Computers, LLC (acquired by DirectStream LLC) for almost 20 years, from 1997 to 2016. James served as a Staff Engineer and contributed to the design and development of the network module software for the SRC system. James significantly increased CPU/FPGA bandwidth to the SRC platform by implementing memory-mapped FIFOs and a dual-ported shared memory system.

In the early years of their career, James worked at Sun Microsystems as a Member of Technical Staff from 1995 to 1997, and at MasPar Computer Corporation as a Member of Technical Staff from 1992 to 1995.

Prior to that, they worked at Advanced Decision Systems as a Senior Research Engineer from 1989 to 1991, and at Hughes Aircraft Company as a Senior Staff Engineer from 1983 to 1989. At Hughes Aircraft, they focused on R&D in computer vision and target recognition, developing algorithms for image feature extraction, segmentation, and classification using different types of imagery.

Overall, James O'Connor's work experience demonstrates their expertise in engineering, software development, and network architecture.

James O'Connor attended Northwest Nazarene University, where they obtained an AB degree in Physics. James then went on to the University of California, Riverside, where they earned an MS degree in Physics in 1974. James continued their education at the same university and completed their PhD in Physics in 1982.