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Pawcatuck, Ct

Transitioned from SRI to Princeton Identity as part of the spin-off company from SRI. Concept creator and technical lead for the iris biometric readers at Princeton Identity. The low-cost modular product design reduces component counts and assembly costs while providing a faster and easier user experience with greater reliability than competing products. Activities included capturing requirements, system decomposition, balancing design trades, coordinating the development efforts, providing risk assessment, risk mitigation strategies, and technical transfer to contract manufacturers for production.

Stonington, Ct

Technical lead for the mobile iris recognition technology and algorithms at SRI that lead to the successful deployment in Samsung's mobile devices and ultimate spin-off of Princeton Identity. Worked to balance accuracy, processing loading, user experience, safety, customer expectations, and dozens of other elements needed to produce a solution that will be accepted by millions of users. Successfully met the aggressively scheduled milestones throughout the program by identifying team members strengths and putting them in positions where they would excel.Team leader for software design and development of embedded iris processing platform. Bare metal design used to meet extremely fast (< 200 ms) boot time requirements on Freescale iMX6 series processor. Implemented encrypted high assurance boot to ensure protection of software algorithms and customer biometric information. Fixed existing code in unsupported BSP, added drivers for new hardware components, designed concurrent processing stages, and leveraged multiple hardware accelerator blocks in the system-on-module.Involved in the design and implementation of multiple products including biometric iris security, geospatial visualization fusion, and common operating picture situational awareness.

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New London, Ct

Technical lead for the design and development of multiple real-time low-latency wavelet based video codecs and products. The fully compliant ANSI C libraries maximizes cross compilation and dynamic optimization for a wide range of processors including desktop computers, embedded processors, digital signal processors (DSPs). Expanded capabilities to include multi-resolution support. This allows for dynamic bandwidth control, reduced computational loading, higher error concealment properties, improved network overlap for minimal latency, and efficient multicore processing. Imaging subject matter expert for the Naval Undersea Warfare Center Code 34. Provided system analysis, hardware design, and software algorithm solutions. Provided guidance on image enhancements, compression techniques, bandwidth estimates, and other areas to meet key performance metrics. Facilitated transitions from lab to Fleet through lab integration and dockside installation oversight. Lead on diagnostic and tiger teams to localize faults and improve designs. Technical lead of a rapid prototyping team developing a RACON. Responsible for coordinating the design efforts between the teamed companies. This included partitioning of the system, defining interfaces, and refining requirements. Also responsible for the design and fabrication of the digital subsystem and mechanical design with our local engineering team. We went from requirements to our first successful integration test in less than 5 months.Key member implementing an ISO and CMMI compliant quality system. Participated in over a dozen ISO audits and SCAMPI appraisals internally and as an independent appraisal member at other companies.Hired into A&T in January 2000 as a Staff Engineer which was bought by Anteon a year later. Rapidly promoted to Principal Engineer, skipping a level, in 2006 at Anteon. General Dynamics bought Anteon in 2006 and immediately divested groups that Alion purchased the same year.

Storrs, Ct

Fall 2005 - Multimedia System Design. Team project course designed for junior and senior level undergraduates. This course includes fundamentals of requirements, system decomposition, design, development, and testing using standard industry practices and quality systems.Summer 2004 - Fundamentals of Reverse Engineering. Creation of a new course focusing on reverse engineering practices and principles. This course focuses on estimating skills, ethics & legal issues, software techniques, and hardware techniques.Fall 2003 - Digital Logic Design. This course focuses on the decomposition of complex digital systems. The students start this course with an introduction to Boolean algebra, and conclude with their own design of a simple microprocessor that can run programs in the logic simulator.Spring 2003 - Digital Logic Design Lab. Instructor for the lab course associated with digital logic design. This course focuses on simple circuits that can be constructed by students to give them the fundamentals of Boolean algebra, logic design, and troubleshooting techniques. Responsible for weekly lecture to prepare students for lab, creation of new and updating old lab assignments and coordinating with teaching assistants to ensure consistent grading and student assistance.

Project was an in-car computer integrating navigation, phone, stereo, seat positions, and other vehicle functions. Designed circuitry to interface between the vehicle and computer, creation of part of the user interface in Windows CE using C++ and COM, VHDL coding for next revision of ASICs, and various computer based engineering challenges as a member of the advanced digital systems division.

Master Of Science, Computer Science And Engineering

Activities and Societies: Teaching Assistant, Resident Assistant, Engineering Student Leadership CouncilMaster Thesis: Efficient Hardware.

Bachelor Of Science And Engineering, Computer Science And Engineering

Activities and Societies: Upsilon Pi Epsilon, Tau Beta Pi, Phi Kappa Phi, Resident AssistantGraduated summa cum laude. Minored.

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