Philip S. Malone

P.O. Box 501
McHenry MD, 21541
Phone: (301) 387-2331
e-mail: See Contact Form

Founding Director of Garrett Engineering And Robotics Society (GEARS), Inc. 2006-2008
GEARS was founded to provide a year-round robotics education and competition arena in Garrett County. GEARS hosts FIRST competition teams, SuGO (Sumo LEGO) competitons, 4-H and Summer Tech-Camps and recently added an Underwater Robotics camp. GEARS operates in 6000 sq feet of mixed office/warehouse space.

Coach/Mentor for three student Robotics teams. 2005-2008
As part of "Giving Back" to the community I mentor three robotics teams in Garrett County. 
I work with two Southern Middle School FIRST LEGO League (FLL) teams, and the "Garrett Coalition" (High School) FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC) team. 
In 2008 the NextGen FLL won the MD "Champions" award (again) and represented Maryland at the Nationals in Alanta Georgia.
In 2008 the FRC Team won the Engineering Inspiration Award at the Buckeye Regional, and competed in the Nationals in Altanta.

In 2007 the NextGen FLL won the MD "Champions" award and represented Maryland at the Nationals in Alanta Georgia.
In 2006 the FRC Team also won the Chesapeake regionals, and competed in the Nationals in Altanta.

Production and sale of the Web Energy Logger 2006-2008
Based on the interest in my own HVAC monitoring system, I was encouraged to produce a "generic" version which could be used to monitor any home, office or school.  The resultant Web Energy Logger (WEL) is now in full production and ove 100 units are being used on a variety of sites.  The WEL has the following features:

• Small form factor board using plug-in modules for highly integrated CPU and interfaces
• Automated monitoring of a 1-wire sensor network and multiple Wattmeters
• Local configuration via LAN browser
• Remote Data posting to external Web site
• Centralized data collection, storage and graphical display of live data and trends.

Energy-Efficient Home Design 2002-2004
As part of adopting a more "Energy Aware" lifestyle I designed and contracted the construction of an energy efficient home at Deep Creek Lake in Western Maryland. The home is showcased at www.OurCoolHouse.com, and utilizes the following energy features:

• Passive Solar orientation for minimizing winter heating and summer cooling.
• Earth Sheltering to mitigate extreme climate conditions.
• Geothermal Exchange to use the constant earth temperature for heating and cooling.
• Energy Recovery Ventilation for clean air without normal infiltration heat losses.
• Fully instrumented HVAC system with online real-time system monitoring and trend graphs.

• Created web sites for public companies, publishers and small business owners (see portfolio) Established a web site hosting business which controled 10 virtual servers, (UNIX and NT).
• System architect for the TrialMax program. TrialMax is a litigation support tool used to present real-time video depositions and exhibits in high exposure trials. Trialmax was used by Microsoft Defense Lawyers in their Anti-Trust litigation. (Let's face it, they could have used anything, but they used TrialMax)
• Created operator display software for a range of Remotely Operated Vehicles:
  • Plow2000: Caldwell Cable Systems, underwater Cable Burial Plow series.
  • Remora 6000: Phoenix International, 6000 meter depth rated Burial/Work Vehicle series

• Participated in first phase of the 1998 RMS Titanic Expedition. Spent 3 weeks at sea, over the Titanic site, performing software and electrical support for one of the mission ROV's "Remora". Read this great story about my Message in a Bottle that found it's way across the Atlantic.

• Consultant, Senior Software Engineer, Staff Software Engineer, Manager of Software Engineering.
• Created operator display software for a range of Remotely Operated Vehicles:
  • CURV III: US NAVY, 20,000 -foot depth rated remotely operated vehicle.
  • SEA DRAGON: Towed underwater Cable Burial Plow.
  • ORION: US NAVY, Towed Side Scan Sonar.
  • DEEP DRONE III: 7000 foot depth rated Remotely Operated Vehicle.
  • SEA TRACTOR: Sea Bottom, Cable Burial Tractor.

• Software Engineer
• User Interface design for a range of PC based products
• Networking software for embedded computer systems

• Engineer
• Design of embedded microprocessor hardware
• Design of multitasking software operating systems

• Microsoft Windows 1.0 - Windows 3.11, 95, 98, XP
• PC Dos
• Embedded: No operating system
• OS-9
• QNX
• Unix, PC Based, TCP/IP
• Unix, VME Based
• VX-Works

• Visual Studio 6.0 & .NET
• C and C++
• Java Script and JScript
• Active Server Pages (.ASP & ASPX)
• Perl 4 & 5
• Pascal
• Fortran
• Basic
• PLM
• Intel & Motorola Assembly

• Bachelor of Applied Science in Applied Physics, University of South Australia, 1980