Ioan Pop

14376 Aspen Avenue, NE,Prior Lake, MN 55372

(952) 2325141 |ip1002216@westpost.net
http://www.linkedin.com/in/ipop01

QUALIFICATIONS
Senior Software Design Engineer with qualifications that include:
* Track record of success developing software solutions that meet specific busin
ess and technical needs, managing all stages of software development from defini
ng requirements through writing applications, creating and implementing quality
testing, and product release.
* Extensive background in designing and coordinating complex testing methods and
procedures to ensure software meets rigorous quality standards.
* Expertise in math modeling and algorithm development including applied numeric
al analysis, computer graphics and computational geometry.
* Expert in GUI/Java, MFC, serial communications, COM-client/server, and sockets
programming as well as embedded RTOS code implementation.
* Recognized as a creative problem solver, data interpretation analyst and effec
tive project planner.
* Strong communication skills and team leader, skilled at building relationships
with lab user testers, technical support technicians and product customers.
* Strong backgrounds in color science, color calibration and characterization, a
nd color management.
* Authored several nonlinear optics papers; and granted a color management paten
t.

TECHNICAL SKILLS
Operating Systems: Windows Vista/XP/2000/NT/98/95.
Development tools: Visual Studio 2008 & 2005, VC++6, NetBeans, MULTI IDE, Excel,
LABVIEW.
Languages: C/C++, Java, Matlab.
Source Control: Subversion, Microsoft Visual Source Safe.
Applications: Adobe Photoshop.

WORK EXPERIENCE
HEWLETT-PACKARD COMPANY (R&D Laboratory),Minnetonka, MN, 11/2007 to 10/2010
Software Design Engineer
* Developed embedded software for the Nucleus and Integrity RTOS implementation,
and color server OOP project development for the large-format Hewlett-Packard pr
inters.
* Coded the software for the implementation of the embedded color measurement de
vices [I2C bus communication and (X-Rite) technology] into printer's functional
architecture.
* Implemented 3D-graphics and computational geometry algorithm implementations a
ssociated with color space transformations.
* Designed, configured and oversaw complex workflow testing procedures and metho
ds for evaluating the ICC-profile accuracy, color device performance analysis an
d digital UV-ink printers quality control.
* Represented R&D Lab on global scale projects spanning multiple business units
within Hewlett-Packard to configure standardized color procedures, methods and m
easurement techniques for color quality evaluation and printing workflow.
MACDERMID COLORSPAN COMPANY (R&D Department),Minnetonka, MN, 09/1999 to 10/2007
Software Design Engineer/ R&D Color Engineer
* Created ColorSpan's Kodiak software tool for printer ICC profiling.
* Developed color-calibration software and multi-density ink separation algorith
ms for the printing process.
* Implemented a novel procedure to generate mono-chrome (using multi-density bla
ck ink) ICC profiles.
* Developed computational geometry and computer graphic algorithms for gamut map
ping, cLUT-grid interpolation, K-channel preservation and UCR/GCR implementation
.
* Developed R&D software tool for gamut volume calculation and surface visualiza
tion.
* Coded software tools for color space transformation (CIELAB, CIEXYZ, CIECAM97s
, CIECAM02).
* Performed serial/usb port communication code implementation for color measurem
ent devices (Dtp22, Dtp41, I1) and TCP/IP code development.
* Oversaw lab technicians team to perform color workflow for ICC profile quality
tests, error evaluation procedures, data interpretation and analysis.
* 60% to 65% of the ColorSpan printer customers/buyers were the users of the Col
or Management software package developed as a result of my R&D work.
WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY (Dept of Physics), Pullman, WA, 06/1998 to 06/1999
Post-Doctoral Research Associate
* Configured and performed time-resolved optical measurements on amorphousSi using
femto-second laser pulses in pump-probe experiments.
* Performed software development (MATLAB, LABVIEW) for power spectrum measuremen
ts.
* Taught undergraduate physics courses for engineering students.

THE UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING (Dept. of Physics and Astronomy),Laramie, WY, 06/1997

to 06/1998
Lecturer
* Taught courses in Quantum Mechanics, Thermodynamics and Physical Statistics.
* Created software tools for nonlinear curve fitting and computer simulations of
nonlinear optical phenomena (parametric processes, harmonic generation in Na va
por, hyper-Raman spectroscopy).
* Developed software programs to solve numerically (using Runge-Kutta methods),
the matter - field interaction (Maxwell-Block equations),electromagnetic wave pr
opagation and non-linear optics parametric processes.

EDUCATION
Ph.D., Physics (1997), University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY, USA
B.S., Physics Engineering (1983), University of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania

TRAINING
Object-Oriented Programming Coursework
University of Minnesota (2006) and St. Paul Technical College (2000)

PUBLICATIONS
Ioan Pop, HP-ColorSpan Color Sensor: Functionality, Performance Analysis and Co
nclusions
HP-LFP Division Report, April, 2009.
Oscar Martinez and Ioan Pop, ColorSpan On-Board Camera: Color Measurement Perfor
mance, HP-LFP Division Report, Feb. 2009.
Jan Morovic, Johan Lammens, Ioan Pop, Matty Litvak, Jordi Arbanat and Angel Alba
rran, Selecting an ICC Profiler for cross-HP-LFP use, HP-LFP Division Report, No
v. 2008 .
I. Pop and L. Moorman, Electromagnetically Induced Generation, Gain in Delayed W
aveMixing and Measuring Coherent States Using a Quantum Interference Window, Phy
s. Rev. A 60, p. 678685 (1999).
I. Pop and L. Moorman, SideComponent Asymmetries in a Stimulated Mollow Triplet G
enerated by FourWave Mixing, Bull. Am. Phys. Soc., Vol. 41, no. 3. 1103 (1996)
L. Moorman and I. Pop, Novel Ultraviolet Stimulated Mollow Triplet via FourWave
Mixing, Bull. Am. Phys. Soc., Vol. 41, no. 3. 1058 (1996)
L. Moorman and I. Pop, Stimulated Mollow-Triplet via FourWave Mixing, National C
onference on Lasers, CLEO/ QELS'96, Anaheim, June 27,QWE24, p.111

PATENTS
Method for Generating Customized Ink/Media Color Transforms.
US Patent No. 7, 251,058 (granted July 31, 2007)