Ian Anderson

Automotive infotainment systems are familiar to all of us and are present in millions of vehicles worldwide. I contributed to developing production-quality embedded software for six successive generations of automotive infotainment electronic control units (ECUs). The ECUs contained an automotive-grade microcontroller, which maintained communication with the rest of the vehicle. The software targeting the microcontroller was written in Embedded C. I developed features and functions of the software related to the diagnostics domain, which are used throughout the vehicle's lifecycle for manufacturing and vehicle servicing applications. I supported several infotainment product launches. These systems are now on the road in millions of vehicles worldwide.

A custom-designed, server-based test application developed in C# and ASP.NET targeting global infotainment and telematics validation teams. I co-developed, deployed, and maintained this test application, which simulates the back office's protocols to communicate remotely with the in-vehicle telematics system. It has enabled the validation of multiple successive generations of automotive telematics products. It has been in continuous use since 2012 by hundreds of engineers around the globe for product validation and field investigations.

A custom-designed, server-based application developed in C# and ASP.NET targeting infotainment and telematics validation teams. Along with a small group of software engineers, I rapidly developed and deployed this software tool, which simulates the functionality of the back office to perform remote software and calibration updates over the air for in-vehicle electronic control units (ECUs). This tool has been a key enabler for successfully validating many generations of infotainment and telematics products. It has been in continuous use by development and validation teams worldwide since 2015.