About

Sid Roberts, the owner of Productive Technology LLC, has expertise at:

  • Design and implementation of embedded systems, custom industrial controls and their user interfaces, test equipment, embedding microprocessors into “anything”.
  • Schematic capture and PCB layout.
  • Bridging the gap between hardware and firmware, and between hardware and firmware teams.
  • Understanding of hardware designs and how to aggravate marginal hardware with firmware.
  • Machine to Machine (M2M) communications.
  • C, C++, Python, Scripting.
  • Also: Distributed processing in a message based architecture, Arduino hardware and software, ENEA OSE, Git, ClearCase, PVCS, MS Access, MS Visual Studio (.NET), Google Docs, Open/Libre Office, MS Office, Batch Files, Building firmware on Linux PCs, Assembly Language.