Pro Code Works, LLC

Nelson Yaple - President and Principal Engineer, Pro Code Works, LLC.

Background
     Nelson has over 30 years of computer and software industry experience. Prior to founding Pro Code Works in 2007, Nelson was with , Inc a startup in Hillsboro, Oregon. Prior to MathStar, Nelson was a Principal Engineer and Partner at . Prior to TriplePoint, Nelson was at Intel for over 13 years in positions ranging from Sr. Software Engineer, Software Architect, Research Software Engineer, Software Engineering Manager, Director of Software Engineering , Director of Engineering and Principal Engineer.

     As Principal Engineer in the Intel Corporate Technology Lab, Nelson was responsible for advanced system software architecture. 

    As Director of Software Engineering for the LAN Access Division (LAD), Nelson was responsible for 150 software engineers spread across three geographies with a budget of approximately $16 million. The group delivered firmware, drivers, tools, install and configuration software to support LAD’s line of Network controllers. As Director of Engineering for the Residential Access / Access Products Division Nelson was responsible for a multi-disciplined team of hardware and software developers, UI Designers, writers, marketing and Program Management.  The staff varied from 30 to 50 in multiple sites with a budget of over $5 Million. As Director of Engineering for Residential Networking (AnyPoint product family) Nelson was responsible for approximately 34 Software Developers, Writers, UI Designers and a Program Manager with a budget of over $4 Million. The team delivered the first AnyPoint 802.11b products in 5 months from start to ship, beating our best-case schedule by three weeks. 

     As Software Engineering Manager for the Home Network Operation, Nelson was responsible for the team that developed and delivered the AnyPoint Connectivity Suite for retail and OEM customers. The team delivered 8 major and multiple OEM software releases over a three-year period. Nelson developed and drove software roadmap with both long and short term features and timeline. The AnyPoint Connectivity Suite was award winning and voted best in class by 3DHardware Review and PC World.

     As Research Software Engineer, Nelson was responsible for developing Proof-of-Concept code for the I2O Project.  This entailed writing drivers for Windows NT 4.0 and Wind Rivers IRTOS. The main goal was to validate the specification with a functional implementation. All of the Windows code was published in the Windows NT DDK. Nelson was also responsible for development of the Software API portion of the I2O specification.

     As Sr. Software Engineer for the Communication Architecture Lab, Nelson was responsible for multiple projects such as developing ODI and NDIS Shims for inserting in between the MAC and Protocol layers of a network stack and a prototype Asymmetric Protocol Stack using Winsock for use in Cable and DSL based networks. He created the prototypes and technology foundation for Intel’s InterCast product. Nelson developed a Winsock 2.0 Service Provider Interface for Vertical Blanking Interval (TV Teletext) data which was used in Intel’s InterCast product.

     As Sr. Software Engineer for LAN Enhancement Operation, Nelson was responsible for network device driver software and architecture.  He developed the NDIS 2.0 and NDIS 3.0 drivers for the EtherExpress product line. He also developed the Novell Server, OS/2 and DOS ODI drivers for EtherExpress and 82595. 

     As a contract Software Engineer, Nelson developed several SCSI device drivers for OS/2 for several different clients, a Presentation Manager application, and a Named-Pipe server. He developed a LADDR BID SCSI driver and a NDIS (MAC) driver.

     Nelson developed a disk caching system and device drivers for OS/2, including interface programs for use with Presentation Manager. He also developed a benchmark program and several utilities that were distributed with retail products (PC-Kwik Power Pak) as well as maintaining and enhancing Multisoft's DOS based disk cache (Super PC-Kwik).

     Nelson holds 9 patents and has others pending approval. He is also a member of the IEEE.