DornerWorks News

The DornerWorks ARINC 653 Hypervisor was mentioned in the April 2012 issue of the Scientific Research Journal of Software Engineering. In a paper surveying current virtualization approaches for embedded environments, author Zonghua Gu points to the DornerWorks adaptation of the Xen hypervisor with ARINC 653 extensions in his list of current research on Xen for use in embedded devices. He also references a paper by DornerWorks Vice-President of R&D, Steven H. VanderLeest, which was presented at the Digital Avionics Systems Conference in 2010. DornerWorks continues to develop this technology, funded in part by a US Navy Small Business Innovation Research grant.
References:
Zonghua Gu, Qingling Zhao, “A State-of-the-Art Survey on Real-Time Issues in Embedded Systems Virtualization,” Journal of Software Engineering and Applications, 2012, 5, 277-290.
URL to Paper: http://scholar.google.com/scholar_url?hl=en&q=http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperDownload.aspx%3FpaperID%3D18574&sa=X&scisig=AAGBfm1twlsUITowYzHOeZwHR2ifydc4TA&oi=scholaralrt
S. H. VanderLeest, “ARINC 653 Hypervisor,” Proceedings of 29th Digital Avionics Systems Conference of IEEE/AIAA, Salt Lake City, 3-7 October 2010.
For additional information on this, please contact Dr. Steve VanderLeest steve@dornerworks.com

DornerWorks was honored to make the Inc. magazine list of 5000 fastest growing private companies in the US. The list is based on companies that have shown major growth from 2007 to 2010, expressed in terms of revenue and the number of employees. The Inc. 500/5000 list has been referred to as “The Engines of the Economy” and according to Inc. magazine, this list has created over 370 thousand jobs in the past 3 years. DornerWorks was ranked 44th among engineering companies for having a 3-year growth rate of 76%. DornerWorks placed first among engineering companies in Michigan. “We are delighted that we have played a role in revitalizing Michigan and the economy” said David Dorner. Despite the economic recession, the diversity of DornerWork’s clients helped carry it through this period. Although 2010-11 was rather flat, DornerWorks is now poised to resume a growth trend in the coming year.

About Inc 500 |5000: In 1982, Inc. introduced the Inc. 500 list of the fastest growing privately held companies in the United States. Since then, this prestigious list of the nation’s most successful private companies has become the hallmark of entrepreneurial success. In 2007, the Inc. 500 list expanded to the Inc. 500|5000, providing a deeper and richer understanding of the entrepreneurial landscape as well as capturing broader spectrum of success. The Inc. 500|5000 also ranks the winning companies by industry, metro and state areas, revenue, and number or employees.

Sean Sarniak has been named the 2011 recipient of the Outstanding Electrical Engineering Graduate Award at Grand Valley State University (GVSU). This selection is based on the vote of the GVSU engineering faculty. In response to the award, Sarniak said, “I was very thankful for the recognition during graduation and am flattered by the opinions of the professors that I’ve looked up to for the past several years.”

Sarniak has been working as a co-op student at DornerWorks since the summer of 2009. Upon graduating, he is taking a full-time position at the company, remarking “I really like the atmosphere, people, and the work here at DornerWorks.” Steve VanderLeest, Vice-President of R&D, noted that “DornerWorks is pleased to have talented engineers like Sean on our staff. We aim to provide meaningful work and challenging projects for every employee, creating an environment that attracts exceptional engineers. We are proud to have him on our team and we offer our hearty congratulations to Sean for this special achievement.”

Annual ranking showcases the 100 fastest-growing inner city businesses in America.

BOSTON, MA – The Initiative for a Competitive Inner City and Fortune Magazine released the 2011 Inner City 100 list of the fastest-growing inner city companies in the U.S. DornerWorks from Grand Rapids, MI ranked 33 on this year’s list. The Inner City 100 program recognizes successful inner city companies and their CEO’s as role models for entrepreneurship, innovative business practices and job creation in America’s urban communities. The full list can be viewed at www.fortune.com/innercity100.

The rankings for each company were announced at the Inner City 100 Awards Dinner on Thursday, May 12, 2011 in Boston, MA. Winners attended a two-day event featuring seminars for Inner City 100 owners and managers at Harvard Business School, a procurement symposium and an awards gala that drew more than 500 guests.

The Inner City 100 list provides unmatched original data on the fastest growing inner-city businesses in the U.S. In the last 13 years, 661 different companies have earned positions on the Inner City 100, collectively generating more than $2.2 billion in annual revenues and creating nearly 70,000 new jobs. Chevron Corporation, Staples Foundation and Goldman Sachs are long-time sponsors of the program.

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DornerWorks Ltd., a premier provider of electronic engineering services for the medical, automotive, aerospace, and industrial markets has announced expansion plans to east Michigan, including Detroit and Ann Arbor. DornerWorks, founded 10 years ago by David K. Dorner in his basement, now employs over 50 full time employees in their Grand Rapids headquarters. “The time was right to expand into east Michigan and reflects the growing need for our services in this region.” says David of the recent announcement.

As the economic recovery of the automotive industry and supporting OEM’s continues on both sides of Michigan, DornerWorks has been overwhelmed with staffing requests, many from the east side of the state. “We are excited about the opportunity to expand our presence in east Michigan and want to assure new clients that they will receive the same level of expertise that our west Michigan clients have experienced for the past decade,” notes Jason Lovell, VP of sales and marketing for DornerWorks. “Our recruitment efforts have increased over 200% in the last 3 months due to demand for the talent DornerWorks is known for.” Lovell added.

In August of 2010, DornerWorks announced the addition of Fred Dumsa as the Regional Director for the East Side Division. Fred is a lifetime resident of Michigan, and brings over 26 years experience at Delphi Corporation where he held several leadership roles. In his new role, Fred will focus on providing project management and recruiting efforts while maintaining the relationships with DornerWorks existing east side clientele. Dumsa said of his new role, “The demand has been overwhelming, in a good way, and I’m just proud to be part it. DornerWorks has weathered the economic “storm” with such precision and grace – that’s something not a lot of young companies can say.”

Nancy Mazza joined DornerWorks in December of 2010 as the New Business Development Manager for the Eastern Division. “Nancy brings over two decades of experience in sales and marketing for the automotive, industrial, and medical markets in east Michigan, and we are excited to have her on our team,” said Dumsa.

The exact location of DornerWorks new east side office has not been finalized. “It’s critical with any expansion plan that you take into account several factors, including industry needs and trends, as well as where to find the best talent. We want our clients to follow us, not the other way around, so a central office space that meets not only our client’s needs, but our valuable employee needs is paramount to the success of our expansion into east Michigan,” said Dorner. “Keeping a strong focus over the years on our core competencies has paid off and we feel an added sense of responsibility to continue that same level of focus for our east Michigan presence. DornerWorks is ready and able to provide the engineering services that east Michigan needs!”

DornerWorks, Ltd. has published the first installment of ARLX to the open source community. ARLX (ARINC 653, Real-Time, Linux on Xen), is a prototype implementation of the ARINC 653 standard using the virtualization technology of the open source Xen hypervisor along with a Linux-based domain as a system partition. By using a common hypervisor technology on multiple platforms, early application development can be done in a PC environment with relatively good modeling of the final target’s behavior.

ARINC 653 – The ARINC 653 specification (Avionics Application Standard Software Interface) outlines requirements for creating a robust software environment where isolated domains of applications execute independently of one another. The domains are isolated both spatially and temporally.

DornerWorks was recently awarded a SBIR (Small Business Innovation Research) grant, US Navy SBIR N102-184: “Isolation Techniques for Untrusted Software”. This work will start early next year to extend the prototype ARINC 653 hypervisor to address safety, security, and performance. DornerWorks will partner with Galois, Inc. to apply the formal methods proof-checking and key Digital Safety Consultants to address the safety artifacts (using FAA flight certification as a guide). Additional safety platforms for future revisions of ARLX include medical and banking industries – both of which provide real-time and safety-critical products and services to the clients they serve.

“DornerWorks is intrigued by the intersection of software and hardware in safety-critical applications,” said Steven VanderLeest, Vice President of Research and Development at DornerWorks. “Our prototype ARINC 653 hypervisor leverages open source technology and thus gives us a vehicle to explore the current design space and study some of the most challenging questions in safety-critical domains such as aerospace and medical. Our work thus far, along with funding through the SBIR program, provides the opportunity to pursue three goals simultaneously: (a) evidence-based assurance of safety of operation, (b) evidence-based security of data, and (c) high system performance.”

“This SBIR provides the unique opportunity to combine DornerWorks’ extensive experience in safety-critical engineering and FAA certification requirements with Galois’ expertise in statically verifying safety-critical and security-critical software via theorem proving and model checking, towards the goal of a broadly available open source OS platform for avionics software and other applications where fault isolation is mandatory,” said Laura McKinney, CEO of Galois.

About Galois:
Galois’ mission is to create trustworthiness in critical systems, tackling challenging Information Assurance (IA) problems that have significant impact on society, in areas like privacy, security, and safety. Galois was founded as a company bringing together computer science researchers, mathematicians and engineers to provide a unique R&D capability for our clients. Since 1999, they have been applying the latest computer science research to solve hard problems for our clients in software security, safety, productivity, and performance. For more information visit: http://www.galois.com.

The ARLX software is available on the Xen website: http://xenbits.xensource.com.

DornerWorks, Ltd., a premier embedded software and electronics engineering firm, is pleased to announce they have been chosen by Microchip Technology as a Medical Design Partner Specialist.

DornerWorks is currently a registered Microchip Design Partner and began actively pursuing the Medical Design Partner Specialist designation after receiving their ISO 13485 certification earlier this year.

Prior to receiving their ISO medical certification, DornerWorks has enjoyed a successful track record in developing hardware and software products for the medical device community. DornerWorks’ client list continues to grow with companies who seek an embedded design firm that understands the rigors of developing a medical device, along with the regulatory and customer requirements that can affect budget and time to market. DornerWorks has helped many large medical companies bring their medical devices to market, with new projects slated to begin this quarter.

“We are thrilled to be included in Microchip’s very prestigious and exclusive Medical Design Partnership program,” said David Dorner, president of DornerWorks. “We are the third of only a few select companies on the globe to attain this recommendation. This is largely due to our extensive background in medical hardware electronics and software engineering, coupled with our investment in an ISO 13485 medical-quality certification we received, earlier this year. A primary goal at DornerWorks is to grow nationally out of our local reputation, particularly in the medical market. This landmark moves us closer to that goal, while offering Microchip and its customers the ability to grow in the medical market with a proven medical design partner.”

“Microchip provides medical specialists with co-branding opportunities, direct links to its internal medical design center and access to its corporate technical resources,” said Cheri Keller, senior manager of Microchip’s Design Partner Program “We are extremely pleased to have DornerWorks become a part of our exclusive group of Medical Design Partner Specialists. Their extensive knowledge of our product line and medical-device applications will enable our customers to make a smooth transition into the marketplace.”

(Grand Rapids MI) – DornerWorks, a leader in Embedded Systems Engineering announced today that the company has received their ISO 13485 Medical Quality certification from Intertek. This certification is the quality management standard in the medical industry and allows companies such as DornerWorks to actively pursue business as a qualified and certified organization to the medical device community.

Lance Hilbelink, Director of Quality Assurance at DornerWorks commented, “Achieving this certification is a welcome reward for a great deal of diligence in our day-to-day activities. It is a reflection of our commitment to high-quality work in all safety-critical markets, including the medical device industry.”

DornerWorks is a premier provider of electronic engineering services for the medical, aerospace, automotive, and industrial markets. Founded by David K. Dorner with one aerospace client in 2000, DornerWorks has grown to a staff of over 50 engineers and clients nationwide. Celebrating their 10th year in business, DornerWorks has been awarded one of the 2010 Michigan 50 Companies to Watch Award and the Bloomberg Business Weeks’ ICIC 2010 Inner City 100 Award, where they were ranked 26th nationally. DornerWorks in an AS 9100, ISO 9001, and ISO 13485 certified company.

Grand Rapids, Michigan August 4, 2010 – DornerWorks today announced that Fred Dumsa has been named Regional Director of their East Michigan Division “We are pleased to bring Fred on board; his deep roots in East Michigan and his outstanding record of achievement as a senior manager will be an immediate benefit to DornerWorks as we expand our east side presence,” said Jason Lovell, Vice President of Sales and Marketing.

In his new role as Regional Director, Fred will be responsible for generating new business, overseeing existing accounts, and management of DornerWorks East Side Branch. Fred brings over 26 years experience at Delphi Corporation where he held several senior management roles, including five in their medical systems division, along with key management roles in their automotive divisions. Fred holds a B.S in Electrical Engineering from Lawrence Technological University and a B.A. in Psychology from the University of Detroit. Fred is an active member of the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) and is a two time patent holder.

Contact Information:

Fred Dumsa, Regional Director
Fred.Dumsa@Dornerworks.com
Phone: 810-986-0575

Grand Rapids, MI, August 2, 2010 – Tandel Systems, Inc. of Oldsmar, Florida and DornerWorks, Ltd. of Grand Rapids, Michigan are pleased to announce the launch of their joint venture, TeamWorks Engineering, LLC (TeamWorks). Established to serve the systems engineering needs of the aerospace, defense, government, medical, automotive, and industrial markets, TeamWorks expands the geographic reach and skills portfolio of the respective partners, extending their ability to deliver the quick, flexible, and cost?effective solutions customers have come to expect from the two companies. TeamWorks offices are in Michigan, Florida, Ohio and Arizona.

Over a year in the making, TeamWorks is the brain child of Mike Varga and David Dorner, the Presidents and founders of Tandel Systems and DornerWorks, respectively. With over 20 years combined experience and an impressive staff of 125 employees spanning four states, TeamWorks leverages the expertise of both DornerWorks and Tandel Systems into a single source engineering firm for new and existing clients nationwide.

David Dorner had this to say about the recent announcement: “The TeamWorks Joint Venture is a great strategic move for our two parent companies, DornerWorks and Tandel Systems. Together we offer broader geographic presence, broader capabilities, and larger bandwidth to meet our customers’ engineering needs. Both of our companies have succeeded in bringing engineering excellence into the marketplace, and I am excited to expand this engineering excellence even further via TeamWorks Engineering.”

Mike Varga commented, saying “I’m very excited to be able to offer our industries the combined capabilities, capacity, financial strength, and geographic reach of TeamWorks Engineering; together we are best able to handle the growing demand for performance and quality driven engineering solutions.

DornerWorks and Tandel Systems will continue to provide the professional engineering services their customers have come to expect, while offering new and existing customers expanded services and support.”

About TeamWorks Engineering, LLC

TeamWorks Engineering LLC is a systems engineering company providing solutions in the areas of Hardware and Software Development, Program Management and Consulting, Test Systems, Operations, Logistics and Asset Management, FPGA Custom Logic Engineering, Independent Verification and Validation, and Electronic Systems Architecture. For more information about TeamWorks Engineering, LLC visit www.teamworksengineering.com.

About Tandel Systems, Inc.

Tandel Systems, Inc, headquartered in Oldsmar, FL, is a multi?faceted engineering services and solutions company tackling the nation’s toughest engineering challenges since 2001. Innovation, creativity, and perseverance are the backbone of their best?in?class engineering and management teams that solve complex, mission?critical problems in the Aerospace, Defense and Government sectors. For more information about Tandel Systems, please call (727) 530?1110 or visit www.tandelsystems.com.

About DornerWorks, Ltd.

DornerWorks is a premier provider of electronic engineering services for the aerospace, medical, automotive, and industrial markets. Based in Grand Rapids, Michigan, DornerWorks, Ltd is a rapidly growing company boasting some of the most sought?after projects in the industry today. Founded in 2000 by David Dorner, DornerWorks now ranks in the top 20% of embedded development team sizes in the U.S. For more information about DornerWorks, please call (616) 245?8369 or visit www.dornerworks.com.