QUENTIN PIERCE
Senior Hardware Design Engineer
Automating Engineering, Beer, and Gaming.
qtpierce@gmail.com
LinkedIn:  www.linkedin.com/in/quentin-t-pierce
Resume:  http://www.smegabyte.dyndns.org/resume/


I want to brand myself as an automation engineer who knows both HW and SW.  And I play video games.  

So I practice automation on my video gaming experience.

The following tasks are automated in my gaming experience:
  • Nightly file backups locally and off-site.
  • Dedicated video game servers with passwords makes them a safe gaming experience.
  • Internet radio stations streaming from my house keep me listening to my own music when on the road.
  • VOIP using Teamspeak 3 means even remote players are kept up to date on the game's tactical situation in real-time.
  • OpenVPN means remote gamers can connect to the oldest games that predate the Internet.
  • Hosting my own webpage means friends can be informed of news and download patches.
  • Hosting my own wiki grants me access to my own data while outside the house.
  • Writing patches and mods means I had to learn the source code of the game and how to reverse engineer SW solutions.
I learned the following lessons from video gaming:
  • Apache webserving on Linux
  • Samba file sharing on Linux
  • Teamspeak 3 servers
  • OpenVPN servers and clients on Linux and on Windows.
  • Icecast internet radio servers
  • dyndns.org and how to talk with people about server URLS.
  • rsync and nightly backups
  • dokuwiki server
  • PDF conversion
  • Bugzilla and Git
  • Hard drive imaging through Acronis True Image and CloneZilla.
  • Perl script writing
  • Coding in strange languages like Lua and Unreal script.






As a hobby, I DJ music.  I've also created SW that assists me there too.
  • Playlist building script reduces the effort to building a playlist to typing fractions of song names and letting the computer find the matches.
  • Counting scripts that update dashboards on the number of songs I own.
  • MP3 tag verification SW that fixes songs that lack an artist or title tag.
  • Client-Server SW that helps me automate video playback on remote digital signage.