Allen Huffman

2. What was the timeframe you worked at Microware? 

Jul 1995 - Jul 2001

3. What was your job title(s) and what did you do at Microware?
Associate Technical Training Engineer
Technical Training Engineer
Application Support Specialist
Field Application Engineer

4. What is your most interesting or vivid memory of Microware? 

Either seeing my first demo of DAVID "video on demand" demo, or the Christmas party for the 20th anniversary where the video tape played.

5. What were some of your favorite times at Microware? 

Working the booth at the Embedded Systems Conference, and getting to go to Disneyland and Walt Disney World multiple times a year thanks to teaching OS-9 classes in Orlando and Irvine.

6. Have any experiences, skills, or habits that you picked up at Microware made an impact on your life? Please share them with us. 

Presentation skills were developed thanks to teaching OS-9 over and over and over and over again for many years; and being around to many mentors (such as James Jones) let me pick up on programming stuff I
never would have been exposed to had I stayed in deep East Texas.

7. What was your reason for leaving Microware?

I thought unemployment might be more fun.  (RadiSys layoff.)

8. What have you been doing career-wise since Microware?

After Microware, I went to work for a customer I used to support out in San Jose, Sooriya Networks.  They were working on a MIPS/ARM dual-CPU networking device running OS-9.  After 9/11 they lost funding and paychecks stopped coming.  After an eternity on unemployment, I took a
retail gig selling cell phones and satellite systems to try to keep my landlord happy with me.  In November 2003 I started doing contract work for RadiSys.

9. Tell us about your family: spouse, significant others, kids, pets, etc. 

None -- after becoming unemployed I couldn't support my g/f and her two boys (3 1/2 years together), but, of course, I can't blame that on why we really split up ;-)

11. Do you ever see other former Microware employees and do you have their email addresses?

James Jones, the most, and keep in touch via e-mail with folks like:  Eric Crichlow, Joel Hegberg, Boisy Pitry.