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Greater Chicago Area

Software development tech lead for Android applications.

Chicago, IL, USA

• Member of System Architecture and Product Performance team for X, G, E, Droid models.
• Developed predictive touch motion algorithm improving swing latency by 17ms median.
• Eliminated systemic occurrence of dropped frames on fling gestures by modifying input and power management subsystems in Android’s core framework.
• Tuned Linux VM and I/O subsystems, improving launch performance by 10x under specific conditions.
• Reduced touch latency to less than 80ms from a median of 150ms on phone unlocking use cases.
• Earned award for design and construction of instrumental to measure end-to-end touch latency, reducing setup and measurement times by 60x, improving accuracy by more than 16x, redefining procedures and statistical.

Libertyville, IL, USA

• Core member of skunkworks software team for innovative, award winning ATRIX flagship smartphone.
• Developed and filed patent for automatic input and video reconfiguration on external display connection. Developed, from architecture to code, software components to transform ATRIX’s touchscreen into virtual.
• Designed and developed first implementation of user configurable international layouts for external keyboards on Android. Feature was included in next major Android release (JellyBean).Defined functional and interface.
• Designed and implemented mechanisms to synchronize Android and Webtop, including real-time clock, time zone, language, locale and external keyboard layout.

Libertyville, IL, USA

• Member of small, multi-disciplinary product team for Evoke, first Linux based phone released by Motorola.
• Designed and developed touch input subsystem and gesture recognition algorithms.
• Wrote software rendering engine, capable of 30fps at WQVGA resolution under severe performance constraints.
• Developed, from requirements to code, 4 applications and web services for real-time data access.
• Integrated multilingual speech recognition and text-to-speech software components in multi-modal UI.

Schaumburg, IL

• Software productization and technology transfer from MotLabs to other areas of the company.
• Developed compact, simple, efficient and configurable gesture recognition engine that was key factor to win a strategic software contract for our team for $500K/year.
• Co-authored patent for multidimensional information retrieval engine on mobile devices (pending).

Motorola Argentina Software Centre (MACS), Córdoba, Argentina

• Core member of a leading software development organization that grew from 30 to 350 engineers in 4 years.
• Earned award for technical excellence and leadership.
• Led technically software teams, sizes 5 to 80, in complex, high risk, software development projects, with higher than 95% customer satisfaction and on-time delivery. Main projects: Autonomic networks administration.
• Led successful adaptation of agile development methodologies in a process centered organization, allowing teams to quickly respond to volatile user requirements and manage technical risks efficiently, contributing.

Worked as requirements analyst, software designer and SE consultant in several development and Software Process Improvement projects.

Developed, from concept to production, embedded systems for environmental and irrigation control of greenhouses, and for instruments used to monitor the food sterilization process in autoclaves.

Master'S Degree, Computer Software Engineering

Credit hours fulfilled. Final project incomplete.

Systems Engineer, Computer Science