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I am a software technical lead for a team working on surveillance video recording platform and a member of platform architecture council (not sure what that means yet), whose responsibility is to drive forward common framework/architecture for various products within UTC Climate, Controls and Security Systems division.

My primary area of expertise is high-performance (all aspects: CPU, throughput, disk/network I/O...) back end software written in C++/C# (90/10). Other areas where I've dabbled: C# w/ WPF (lots of dabbling), WCF, ASP.NET, HTML/CSS/Javascript/jQuery, F#.

I truly enjoy building software and seeing my products in the hands of end-users. Lately I've also discovered I enjoy building teams that build software.

Since I don't get to code as much as I'd like to at work, I spend nights coding at home primarily for recreation (plus there's that side effect of learning things). Some of that work can be found on GitHub. Code Project is next.

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Mar 5	comment	Misfire the next morning if car runs only for 15 seconds ... there could definitely still be oil somewhere in the connectors (either bottom part where it goes onto spark plugs or top where harness connects to the coils). But even if I did something in May of last year, seems this behavior persisted through all that completely unchanged. Is there a good explanation why oil would cause the whole thing with 15 sec run time? Otherwise, I can run this car for half a year without a single misfire.
Mar 5	comment	Misfire the next morning if car runs only for 15 seconds Interesting you should mention the oil. In May of last year I replaced the valve cover gasket because it was leaking oil. I had oil pool in all spark plug holes, then drip out onto exhaust manifold and smoke. When I did that job, I also replaced all spark plugs and attempted to do my best to clean any oil from electrical connectors (using q-tip with rubbing alcohol). Problem is that this car has ignition coils sitting right on top of the spark plugs and there's no standard spark plug wires that I can easily replace (engine wiring harness goes straight to the coils and is non-serviceable)...
Mar 5	comment	Misfire the next morning if car runs only for 15 seconds Can't say if there was or wasn't any smoke. I was suspecting leaky injectors and I've had them in the past, but it seems an injector wouldn't care if the car ran for 15 sec or for 2 hours. With my last car, injector problem caused misfire regardless of how long I drove the car for. In this case, the problem is extremely rare and generally crops up if only when I do something to the car outside of normal driving. I guess hooking up a fuel pressure gauge would take the guessing part out of this question.
Mar 4	asked	Misfire the next morning if car runs only for 15 seconds
Jan 25	comment	Why does a Turbocharger only produce boost when the engine is under load @generalexception: read your amendment and yeah I did answer the question. It all comes down to how much air you are moving through the engine. If your car is sitting still, it takes VERY LITTLE open throttle to rev engine to 3k rpm. On the other hand, putting the car under any kind of load (i.e. moving uphill or acceleration...) will require much more open throttle and get to same RPM. More open throttle X rpm ==> more boost.
Jan 25	answered	Why does a Turbocharger only produce boost when the engine is under load
Jan 24	comment	What's happening when you give someone a boost? @GregoryBell: yes, there's electricity flowing at all times through the car body. But if you consider how much electricity 12 gauge wire can carry and compare to the amount of metal the entire car body has, you'll realize that it's really not all that much. Also the amount of metal gives all circuits a path of least resistance back the the negative terminal of battery/charging circuitry and halves the amount of wiring you would've needed to have otherwise. As far as disconnecting the battery, what I meant is unhook the ground (-) terminal from old battery and leave it hanging.
Jan 24	answered	What's happening when you give someone a boost?
Jan 23	comment	Timing Chain vs. Timing Belt @BrianKnoblauch: familycar.com/CarCare/TimingBelt.htm. Looks like my initial SWAG is semi close to what some others are saying.
Jan 23	answered	Timing Chain vs. Timing Belt
Jan 22	awarded	Autobiographer
Jan 22	answered	02 Trailblazer with front end vibration which seems to increase over time
Jan 17	revised	02 Trailblazer with front end vibration which seems to increase over time added 692 characters in body
Jan 16	comment	02 Trailblazer with front end vibration which seems to increase over time Nick, although I appreciate a response, that is sooooo not what I wanted to hear :). Stupid TB. I did have the same suspicion, that' why I topped off the fluid, but I can't say it was that low. And btw, I did also notice that the differential pinion seal is leaking oil on my car as well. Stupid TB.
Jan 16	asked	02 Trailblazer with front end vibration which seems to increase over time
Jan 13	answered	Stiff gearchange especially when cold
Jan 13	answered	Power steering seems to be coming out of its reservoir from the top. Whats wrong?
Jan 11	comment	v-tech now vs then cam-less?? I know they've eliminated lifters, but without cam, how do you open valves? Unless you are talking about an electric motor. Btw, all continuous variable timing that I've ever seen is done by having rotation axis between the cam and the gear that is driven by the timing chain. Then they typically use oil pressure to change the position of the cam relative to the gear.