INTEGRATED PLANT PROTECTION CENTER

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering, June 1985.  General Motors Engineering and Management Institute (now called Kettering University), Flint, MI

WORK EXPERIENCE

2001 - 2006:
Hewlett Packard Systems Engineer responsible for design and implementing web-based business process applications running on a server written in Perl. Responsible for programming and administration of 30+ servers (mostly Linux). Responsibilities included: programming new features in Perl, interfacing with external databases; configuring Samba and Apache servers; writing HTML and JavaScript; designing search engines; automating source control; using GD to create dynamic images; interfacing with users; automating PDFs of all web content. Responsible web systems included:  knowledge management, document management, call center ticket tracking, and as-built installation database. Seven patents filed and 4 disclosures published (all user interface related). Authored and demoed a product that won the most votes for 2004 Corvallis Poster Fair.

1993 - 2000:
Hewlett Packard Systems/Controls Engineer responsible for designing, buying
off, and supporting high volume manufacturing automation equipment. Responsible for design and programming in PC based testers written in Perl and C. These machines built over 16 million pens while hosted in Corvallis. Responsible for programming and supporting various machine vision systems.

1990 - 1992
 Self Employed programmer of sawmill control systems written in C.

1987 - 1990
Applied Theory systems engineer designing and installing sawmill scanning and control systems.

1984 - 1987
General Motors System Engineer designing microcontrollers with Motorola for automotive engine controls.

1980 - 1984
General Motors Engineering Coop Student. Delco Electronics/General Motors.
  

PUBLICATIONS

DeBrito, D.N. 2006. One finger typing system. Research Disclosure 121

DeBrito, D.N. 2005. Method and apparatus for conveying image attributes. United States Patent 20050074170

DeBrito, D.N. 2005. Authorization method. United States Patent Application 20050246763

DeBrito, D.N. 2005. Text input via digital camera shutter button.  Research Disclosure 1292

DeBrito, D.N. 2004. Method for displaying refined search results.  Research Disclosure 1006-1007

DeBrito, D.N. 2004. Selling “regular expressions” to match against search strings. Research Disclosure 1037

DeBrito, D.N. 2004. Method for improving read performance of a database by bypassing reads and writes of a database’s caches system.  Research Disclosure

Miller, G., DeBrito, D.N. 1991. Timer channel with match recognition features.  United State Patent 50042005

Hill, S., DeBrito, D.N. 1990. Queued serial peripheral interface for use in a data processing system. United States Patent 4958277

SKILLS

Perl, C, JavaScript, HTML, Database design, Object Oriented Design, Linux, Unix, Knowledge Management, Intellectual Property management.

LANGUAGE  PROFICIENCY

English (native)
German (2 years High School)
Latin (2 years High School)