Bill Kain Email & Phone Number

San Jose, CA, US

Englewood, CO, US

• Echostar’s Local Storage Disk Video Recorder (LSDVR) is a DVR appliance receiving ATSC broadcasts. The system is comprised of a 5 tuner set top box and one or more dual element antennas.The RFTest Diversity System is a.
• Architect, lead (3 member team) and platform engineer for the LSDVR RFTest Development System.
• Designed and implemented I/O routines in C for FTDI FT2232H USB/I2C bridge providing command and status access to the LSDVR’s tuner, demodulator and RF sections. The whole LSDVR C library was then wrapped in its own.
• Designed and implemented a custom Tcl package with C style structs & enums making the LSDVR readily scriptable for diversity algorithm development and status logging. The package includes a bi-directional JSON/dict.
• Designed and implemented a test framework that allowed developers to easily script diversity tests utilizing arbitrary tuner/station/antenna bindings in Tcl.
• Designed and implemented a job control system for managing diversity test execution from the webapp. A task manager thread shares the exclusive-use LSDVR with the browser/FCGI client thread. The job manager thread.

Cailech Systems is a small engineering services firm providing hardware, software and technical engineering services for consumer electronics and enterprise clients.

• Designed and implemented several DAO modules for the Content Engineering group based on Spring 3.x’s JDBC Template and the 1.6 JDK. The deliverable included a JUnit test suite along with JMeter/JUnit Sampler.
• Designed and implemented a continuous-integration (CI) build-system for the Content Engineering group. The prior system used the Ant-based artifacts generated by the NetBeans IDE as the basis for a build system managed.
• Designed and implemented a continuous-inspection facility for the Content Engineering group. A variation of the CI system, the Maven Sonar plugin was used to orchestrate Cobetura, Findbugs, Checkstyle and PMD plugins..
• Designed and implemented a comprehensive Jenkins/Maven/SVN provisioning system for Sezmi’s networks and their environments. Sezmi’s TV service was comprised of two network configurations. One had 14 server types, the.

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• Architect of TellAPal’s second-generation platform. The original JSP/Servlet design was replaced with a Restlet/Spring/Hibernate/MySQL backend and either Javascript/Ajax/CSS, GWT/GWT Restlet Engine or PHP/Smarty.
• Designed and implemented a reward-fulfillment service utilizing a custom Tomcat/Restlet bridge, Spring-Framework managed Hibernate DAO’s and a MySQL database. A Restlet Resource provided a RESTful API service for.
• Designed and implemented a Maven-based development environment with Eclipse/SVN/Ant integration supported by local Archiva Maven repositories and custom installation/deployment utilities.

• Participated in the design and implementation of a new Application Server for Radix based on a Resource Orientated Architecture (ROA) using the Restlet framework.
• Developed information model for geolocation database using IDEF1X ERD’s. Defined, normalized and tuned a MySQL physical implementation of the model using the InnoDB storage engine. Database access was handled via.
• Implemented RESTful Resource Representations and their associated JDBC DAO’s
• Redesigned and implemented an Ant-based build system for their Java server builds. The new system built both release and development configurations with integrated Checkstyle format checking and TestNG unit test.

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• Designed and implemented a per-resource, declarative, thread-scheduling-policy facility based on OpenPFC’s POSIX threads. OpenPFC was a C++ device abstraction layer used by Pioneer’s Blu-ray.
• Replaced the JVM’s 2-value fixed-priority threading with separate scheduling policies for each of Java’s 10 priorities via the new PFC thread facility
• Designed and implemented a PFC MediaController facility to arbitrate user stop requests with PFC end-of-media events. The singleton PFC EventServiceRoutines (ESRs) also ensure the MediaController‘s Listener list.
• Redesigned and implemented JMF’s MediaPlayer/MediaController state machine and event generator. Added a state-transition facility for managed controllers and their players that was independent of the JMF.
• Redesigned and refactored JMF’s InteractiveAudio controller facility. The new facility managed a pool of IA resources to dynamically generate stereo or mono resource graphs while preventing rewiring whenever possible.

• Architect and lead engineer on YourIT’s Adaptive DAO Store (ADS) project.
• Designed and implemented ADS using a variety of Open Source components, particularly the Spring Framework, Apache’s WSIF web-service framework, Apache Axis, Tomcat and the MySQL DBMS.
• Architect, business analyst and middleware engineer for YourIT’s ADS Security System application. Based on ADS, ADS Security offered an n-tier digital-video security-system for a variety of businesses. ADS Security.
• Modeled business tier using transformation graphs
• Developed ERD and DDL for MySQL database

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• Architect and lead engineer on the Fathom Service Bus (FSB) project, an SOA middleware platform that provided a Web Service facility for FCM’s B2B and B2C applications. Designed around Open Source components, FSB.
• Designed and implemented FSB
• 1/2 of team that designed and implemented a data collection ETL facility (FDC) for collecting high volume “click” reports from search and tracking (e.g. DoubleClick) engines via Java and WSDL API’s, e-mail, and.

• Designed & implemented iMPP (iM Portable Player), a realtime, C++, multimedia-framework for PIM. iMPP managed audio/video content for WAN (live), LAN (jukebox via UPnP), and file streams. One multiplexed and 15.
• Created multicast network modules for iMPP (SDP, RTP/RTSP). By successfully integrating LiveCaster’s live.com libraries into iMPP, a large number of audio and video codecs were reliably added, along with the multicast.
• Created pluggable Win32/WinCE network-plugin for iMPP. The plugin provided a “pluglet” framework that allowed external media players to run unmodified as iMPP network-content plugins. COM Pluglets were done (by others).
• Designed & implemented HTTP 1.1 server with configurable thread pools and pluggable protocol handlers for PIM’s networking module. The server parsed and scheduled client “jobs” based on HTTP protocol elements.

• Half of the team that designed and implemented the middleware for iMonitoring’s distributed security system. Dedicated Java (2 SE) clients captured security-camera video and streamed it on demand to a DataCenter..
• Developed key class-library to represent DataCenter sessions for both camera clients and iMonitoring’s website. While presenting video as simple Java byte-streams, the class hierarchy multiplexed video and metadata.

San Jose, California, US

• Lead middleware architect for Cadence’s Home Infotainment Center (HIC). HIC was a hard-realtime Java platform based on Sun’s 1.1 JDK (pJava) running under VxWorks. The JNI-based design provided a porting environment.
• Designed Java resource-scheduling job dispatcher with JNI interface to queue-based RTOS resource-management-subsystem
• Designed Java filesystem utilizing custom serialization classes and pluggable backing-store for simple specification of arbitrary multimedia pipelines with metadata support for both resource reservation and QOS.
• Designed a secure, ACL-oriented platform environment with content-based groups mapped to platform-specific users via a custom security-manager and URL-based class-loaders

Palo Alto, CA, US

• Lead designer on Sun’s JavaOS Platform Services (JPS) Project. JPS took the core components of Sun’s JavaOS for Business and removed their dependency on a custom JDK. JPS’ unique components included a dynamic.
• Designed and implemented the JPS class loader and security-manager.

• Key designer on the Diba Application Foundation (DAF) development team. The DAF was a C-based, platform independent, thin-client OS used by Information Appliances. Hosts included Windows 95/NT, Linux and Solaris..
• Lead a two-man team porting the 1.02B Java JDK to the DAF
• Designed and implemented the Diba File System (DFS). DFS provided a fault tolerant, two-key, indexed-record filesystem for diskless clients. Though tuned to the unique characteristics of flash memory, backing-store.
• Developed a fully compliant, POSIX filesystem (including sparse files) as a DFS library
• Wrote a Berkeley socket-based, RFC-1035 compliant, caching name-resolver for the DAF

Cupertino, California, US

• Architect of Apple's container based, extensible filesystem for the Copland OS.
• Lead-inventor on patents: METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR FILTERING FILE MANAGER ATTRIBUTE VALUES and METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR EXTENDING FILE SYSTEM METADATA

• Designed and implemented a networked CD-ROM system. The C and x86 assembler package included firmware, device drivers, libraries and utilities for a DOS LAN product that provided clients both physical and virtual CD's

• Created UNIX TTY line-discipline modules in C for an intelligent, multi-port, RS232 device-controller
• Designed & Implemented suite of UNIX device drivers in C for an intelligent, multi-port, RS232 device controller