About

Hello, I’m Derek. I’m from North Carolina (born and raised). I was born at University Hospital a "blue baby" but quickly transformed into a lifelong "baby blue".



Currently I reside approximately 700 km south of my hometown in the fine state of Georgia. Fortunately, as depicted in the beautiful skyline below, Carolina Blue is never far away. 



A distinct   connection on full display while enjoying a 
soccer game in Falcons country. This GIANTS garb and 
connection began when a certain linebacker was drafted in 
1981.  I became a lifelong fan ever since, never 
wavering, through the highs & the lows.

Engineering

I have been hacking electronics for 20+ years (30+ counting my youth). I have a real passion for all things computing, including software and hardware, gaming and operating, and any computer or engineering related task. I actually enjoy debugging software and troubleshooting electronics and cohesively meshing software and hardware together which brings me to my current computing era over the previous 3 - 5 years: embedded engineering. I have become adept at melding software and hardware in embedded microcontroller solutions. For example, one of my best engineering achievements (which is a perfect meld of software and hardware) is a current invention that is patent pending and has been called by the few who know about it a game-changer. If interested, return to Home page and click on the "Man on keyboard" for projects. Search the projects list and click on VIKIE. I have been focused on three families of microcontrollers lately: Freescale HCS12, Arduino family (including Due - different family MCU, ARM Cortex M3), and ARM Cortex M4. I also am passionate about network engineering as I have been coding network apps lately as well as building microntroller systems, including Distributed Computing applications.

Programming

If passion was not delivered via engineering information above, let me state an old hacker's adage here to drive it home:
“A hacker does for love what others would not do for money.” –/usr/games/fortune
I code in (or have coded in) Assembly (HCS12, i386), C, C++, Java, Python, PHP, SQL (Oracle, MySQL), HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Lua, Lisp, Tcl/Tk, Perl and others (like Shell scripting, VHDL for CPLDs, and so forth). My last Java project was a server/client application. My last C project (ongoing) is the patent pending embedded project mentioned above. My last PHP and other web languages is this site. Currently, my time is limited due to the patent coding; but I am trying to get time to learn Apple's new Swift language (have a pretty good app idea).

Break?

I do take breaks. I love reading books (including the Bible) and have been an avid gamer for 30 years. I am learning Qigong as well as practicing Hatha Yoga. I absolutely love our modern streaming technology which allows me to control movie & television time. It's been commonplace for a while now, but selecting what I want to watch according to my schedule is still simply amazing. Break-time. Great. What's on? Hmmmm... I don't watch any of those. Oh well, order on U-verse, iTunes, Netflix, Hulu, Crackle, and on and on. Oh wait, this is supposed to be break-time from technology. LOL.

About derekdevaughn.net

This site which is among one of many belonging to me was intended as a personal site offereing a brief summary of myself and my skillset I bring to employers/clients. It is a convenient avenue to update an ever-changing resume, career portfolio, case studies/work samples, and my fave: projects.

Now let's talk about the site for a minute. If you stumbled across my site, then you may not have a clue as to “what is”, and “where is.” Where are the ads? What is this link for? Where are the labels? Where is everything? In a word: GONE. Those invited will completely understand the navigation and its simplicity. I am a fan for simple and clean sites, including my own. All are welcome so if you surfed here by happenstance, let me post a legend to hopefully clarify and encourage further visits to and around the site.

Also, this site was written completely by hand in vi/Vim. Web technologies employed on this site consist of HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, and PHP.

Contact

The best way to contact me is via email I also am available via Twitter, Google+, LinkedIn, & Facebook. As time allows I am working on organizing software and schematics and will begin populating Github, Bitbucket, and Forrst among others.