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Indianapolis, In, Us

Los Angeles, Us

• Reverse engineered competitors’ products to ascertain whether Technicolor Intellectual Property was being infringed.• Created documents precisely detailing infringement of Technicolor Intellectual Property in competitor products and industry standards.• Operated protocol analyzers for HDMI, SATA, and USB and used results in analysis work.• Researched many standards, including extensive work with IEEE802.1, IEEE802.3 and IEEE802.11, as well as middleware standards for OCAP and DVB. Studied parts of Blu-ray Disc, USB, Bluetooth, SATA, HDMI, and CableCARD/NRSS.• Participated in numerous types of patent reviews, to help improve pending patent applications and to help judge existing patents.• Supported negotiators and attorneys at patent talks in Taipei, Taiwan and Osaka, Japan as the IA Project Lead.• Researched and attempted to implement various types of software reverse engineering as one of the first members of the group with a software development background.o Spent 6 months learning about Android internals, including writing Android applications, examining Android source code, decompiling existing applications, and extracting system data.o Modified open source Python program to extract memory from Android phones.• Yearly travel to Europe.

Los Angeles, Us

• In charge of technical decisions for software on next-generation cable set-top box.• Helped create schedule for project, including time estimation and manpower assignment for all software tasks and input on other project tasks.• Used Agile methodologies for software development, one of the first projects on-site to implement Agile.• Responsible for task assignment for five software engineers and input into task assignment for system engineers, system testers, and hardware engineers.• Responsible for task assignment and evaluation of co-operative education student and three interns.• Primary point of contact for BSP/IC vendor and middleware vendor.• Specified and built server for software team and system test use for user storage, building code, code deployment and debugging.• Extensive travel in support of the product, for both technical and project related work.o Attended International CES and NCTA to set up and support demonstrations.• Wrote and modified Java test applications that run on top of the middleware.• Wrote C code and integrated code from third-party vendors.

• Worked on first generation (OCAP) based set-top box.• Integrated initial software release and updates from middleware vendor.o Assisted in conversion from Windows based environment to Linux based environment.o Merged local code with vendor code – examined vendor code in detail to decide which changes to accept.• Integrated and tested multiple Java Virtual Machine (JVM) releases from vendor.• Worked with third-party employee to resolve issues in OCAP stack.• Performed general debug and added code to fix issues related to scaling, filtering, media decoding, graphics display, and other areas.• Facilitated working session between two third-party vendors.• Worked with third-party employee to resolve issues in the JVM and the frame buffer.• Attended weeklong OCAP Application training (using Java ME).• Integrated and wrote code to interface with third-party CableCARD stack.o Attended face-to-face meetings with CableCARD vendor.• Wrote Java application to simulate an electronic program guide (EPG).o Turned Java EPG into project for co-operative education students to work on and improve.• Wrote and modified Java test applications that run on top of the middleware.• Created and assisted in demonstrations for ICES and NCTA trade shows and CableLabs conferenceso Attended International CES to support and represent product and application.o Attended CableLabs Winter Conference to support and represent product and application.• Attended two OCAP Developer’s Conferences.• Responsible for bring-up, execution and board-level debug of Thomson software on third-party reference hardware.• Primary point-of-contact for JVM, OCAP, frame buffer, and CableCARD issues.

• Worked on five generations of HDTV products that successfully launched.• Designed, wrote and maintained:o IR (RCA and PPM5 formats) and FPA Drivero Key Manager (parsed and distributed various forms of input)o Flash Drivero Model Library (consolidated model and feature detections)o FPGA Interface Libraryo IEEE-1394 Middleware stacks / UI stacks• Involved with an external vendor:o Specification, testing, and deployment of IR keyboards.o Interfacing and testing with IEEE-1394 driver stacks.o Developing, testing, and deployment of IEEE-1394 HDD PVR units.• Involved with initial investigation and design of CableCARD integration.• Maintained bootloader and added new features:o Added code to digitally sign software to make sure that only TTE-created software could be loaded into the television.o Added the ability to verify downloads in the bootloader utilizing public-domain code where possible.o Modified software download server program and client code to work via Xmodem. Changed client software download code to be state machine based to improve performance.• Debugged third-party flash driver and fixed bug affecting thousands of televisions. Created secondary deployment method for flash driver fix, potentially saving thousands of dollars.o Extensive use of logic analyzer and debugger was required to debug transactions between the CPU and flash chips to find root cause of bug.• Modified third-party audio software to get audio working properly, to pass Dolby certification tests, and to get SRS modes working properly.• Helped design OS abstraction layer.• Participated in software architecture discussions.

Bsee; Mathematics Minor; Computer Science Minor, Electrical And Electronics Engineering

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