Lowell Gilbert

lg20@be-well.ilk.org

This is brief summary of my résumé, condensed and stripped of private information.
The full version is available on this page, in multiple formats.
Feel free to ask me for the password.

Skills in brief:

Highly experienced firmware engineer with a focus on device communications.

Brings wide experience in developing low-level software and implementing communication protocols and forwarding. Prime contributor in several technologically successful start-up companies.

Internetworking: architecture, design and implementation of Internet Protocol standards over several media layers. In particular, packet forwarding, on several network processor and general architectures.
Embedded Systems: design and implementation of operating software for event driven, interrupt-driven and polled system architectures in synchronous and asynchronous modes. Environments from bare-metal through various RTOS, and Linux (including Xenomai).
Hardware bringup: Developing software for hardware not yet available, and building proxy environments for that hardware. Helping making that hardware functional when it becomes available.
Computer Languages and Environments: Emacs guru, C expert, most version control systems, BSD Unix, Linux, VxWorks, C++, LISP, Java, Python, many others.

Work experience:

(includes a variety of consulting gigs as well as:)

Lincoln Laboratory
IPG Photonics
Ericsson/Redback/Marconi
Crescent Networks
IronBridge Networks
Acacia Networks
Epilogue Technology
Datability Corp.
Kay Elemetrics Corp.

Education:

Boston University -- M.S./Systems Engineering.
University of Rhode Island -- B.S./Computer Engineering, B.S./Electrical Engineering.

This page last modified: 5:12pm, Tuesday, 22 Sep 2026 by Lowell Gilbert.