"Primus" is a software design and engineering consultancy, specialising in embedded, small footprint, high reliability, real time and consumer electronics.
We excel at designing and implementing software that delivers precisely what is promised, without preconceptions of tools, languages, procedures or operating systems.

Inca hired me because they had a problem: they predicted a tenfold growth in the size and complexity of their industrial drop-on-demand inkjet printers but they just didn't know how to deliver that kind of bandwidth or processing power.
When I arrived, their flagship "columbia" printer had 16 print heads and software that was at the limit of its capability.
When I left to found "Primus", I'd re-written their device drivers, helped design their latest hardware, designed and implemented a distributed data processing cluster, interchangeable plug & play print modules, feed-forward ink thermal control, real-time raster image processing engine. Their latest "onset" printer has 576 print heads (ie. doubling every year for the 5 years I was there) and processes print data at over 3 gigabytes per second.

I specialised in real-time, device drivers and embedded systems programming.
Clients included:
Adherent Systems
Storage Area Networks
Radiant Networks
Symbian