While at Honeywell DCPD near USF in Tampa I did design engineering for the SST portable military computer CPU card and the Honeywell DCPD line of military printers. I worked with the Intel 80X86 microprocessor series to develop an SST CPU card, developed programmable logic design with PALS and ALTERA logic devices, designed, constructed, and debugged a military switching power supply design for the ANDVT, and designed electro-optics for micro-mechanical measurements of military printer print-heads using infrared diodes and laser technology. The CPU card debugging was done with sophisticated microprocessor emulators and custom assembly language code written in 80x86 assembler. While at Honeywell I took a company course in designing electronics for easy testability, and also took courses at USF in robotics and satellite communications. Our manager Norm Pittman had the presence of mind to make awards for outstanding achievement at high tide, as we achieved our goals, so that we at least a slip of paper after all to prove that we were heroes who probably deserved a raise. About the time I arrived, the radio was playing Got My Mind Set on You (video).

An Engineer's Portfolio of Design Ideas
Before I went to Honeywell Defense Communications in Tampa I was careful to keep many schematics of electronic design ideas that I had in an artist's portfolio. I exhibited them proudly at my Honeywell interview along with my resume Profile. Later, I was told that they were glad I had bothered to show them some actual schematics, drawings, and similar results. That is what they were hiring me to produce, along with working equipment and product documentation. Otherwise, they probably would not have hired me as a Principal Design Engineer on the strength of my resume, experience, and educational credentials alone. One day I caught the sunlight playing through the palm trees outside my apartment around the portfolio, seeming to create an image of The Flash, a comic book hero from DC comics, admiring a point of light floating above the drawings and schematics.