I'm a Systems Engineer specializing in high power ELF/VLF/LF transmitter control systems.  My primary duties include programming embedded systems using C and ASM, and Visual Basic GUI systems that controld the Embedded sytems.  I have 35 years experience as an Electronics Tech and 20 years programming in verious languages, 14 years programming embedded systems).  I have a clear understanding of that grey area between Hardware and Software which gives me a clear view of how each side affects the other.  There is allot an Electical Engineer can do to make the programmers life easy and vice versa.