Stephen Perkins

Who am I?

I'm a technically minded individual who has approximately equal experience as an entrepreneur (NetMass, ServerBackup.com, and DataArchiving.com) and as an employee in the corporate world (TI and IBM). I consult as a way to keep my skills honed, I volunteer as a way to give back to the community, and I teach as a way to stay in tune with the upcoming generation. Currently, my activities include:

Please browse my works below and discover both the technical and the creative sides of my being.

Technical Specialties

I'm an avid learner and have a wide set of production skills. I have a deep understanding of systems and this allows me to quickly grasp most new frameworks and toolchains.

IoT Architecture, Infrastructure, and Development
Embedded Development
Kernel Development
Fast Prototyping
C, C++, Java, Lisp
Network Architecture and Protocols
Volunteer Lighting Design

High-Availability Infrastructure Design and Deployment
Storage Design and Deployment
Backup and DR Expertise and Consulting
Expert Witness / Investigative Services for Deposition and Trial / Patent Trial and Appeal Board

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Patents, publications, and other works

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Patents

Publications

A Time-Step Simulation Model for a Life Support System

M.E. Makela, S.J. Perkins, H. Presig, F.E. Little, Progress Report | Regenerative Life Support Systems, NASA Space Research Center SRC-4-5873-2, March, 1988, pp. 49-72.
A New Data Model for Biological Classification

S. Jung, S. Perkins, Y. Zhong, S. Pramanik, J. Beaman, , CABIOS, Vol 11, No 3, 1995, pp. 237-246.
Low-Bandwidth Access: An Evaluation of Application Level Protocol Compressibility

S.J. Perkins and M.W. Mutka, Proceedings of the International Conference on Telecommunication Systems, Nashville, Tennessee, March, 1996, pp. 97-108.
Characteristics of Low-Bandwidth Conversations

S.J. Perkins and M.W. Mutka, Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Communications, vol. 3, Dallas, Texas, June, 1996, pp. 1591-1595.
Two-way broadband CATV-HFC networks: state-of-the-art and future trends

S. Perkins and A. Gatherer, Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking, Elsevier Science, B.V., vol. 31, 1999, pp 313-326.

Service and Volunteerism

The Heights Lighting Team

I am currently volunteering as part of the Lighting Team at The Heights Baptist Church in Richardson, TX. It is here that I am able to provide the lighting design for the shows listed under the “Lighting Design” area.
McFBC Technical and Lighting Teams

For many years (between 2001 and 2006), I volunteered with a technical team from McKinney Fellowship Bible Church (now known as Christ Fellowship McKinney). We met weekly (or more if needed) to maintain the systems of the church. My specific part in the team was in firewall configuration and network configuration. Concurrently, I served on the Lighting Team. At the end I was leading the team. I was unable to continue with these projects after I moved away from McKinney.