Dave Carr Email & Phone Number

Pittsburgh

Internal tool development.

Reno, Nevada Area

Worked as technical team leader and architect for slot game development.Lead development of a new Unity-based presentation system using a pluggable component model, enabling games to be easily constructed from larger pieces.Helped design and develop new communication protocol for communicating between presentation and game control. Delivered several complete games using new Unity-based presentation system.Worked as part of a team developing new game control framework.

Pittsburgh, Pa

Worked as part of a team to develop cloud-based speech recognition for medical applications.Worked on all application layers including WPF user interface, COM language bindings, RCF network communications, and server algorithms.Designed and implemented load balancing algorithms and performance testing to improve cloud server performance.Regularly delivered and maintained systems to dozens of clients with thousands of users.Helped optimize server performance by implementing on-demand resource management system which greatly improved server flexibility and performance.

Designed and developed ROS-based common manipulator control system currently used by multiple projects, and used this framework to develop and deliver several different robotic systems.Developed 3D graphical interface for robot control, including graphical representations of environment and motion planning.Acted as technical lead on project to develop an intuitive haptic robot interface. Oversaw mechanical, electrical, and software components of development, developed control software, and integrated and delivered final system.Worked as part of a team to rapidly develop a .Net network-synchronized representation of an arbitrary robot. Developed a generalized interface using this view-model and WPF.Developed several embedded robot control systems that communicate with external systems using both proprietary and industry-standard protocols.Designed and implemented system-level simulation and testing for several robots to allow for early software development and reduce integration time, and implemented an automated deployment system to create installable deb files out of ROS projects.

Developed graphical interfaces to allow users to intuitively define robot layouts and control execution using visual programming.Designed and implemented a generalized, serializable representation of medical robots and their payloads.Worked with a global team and was responsible for regular iterative deliveries.

Modified the Second Life client and several other open-source games to allow simple movement and interaction control through a one-button interface for users with limited mobility.Created and user tested a new text-based interface for Second Life for use by blind users that used machine learning algorithms to present a concise description of the world and allowed rich user interaction through an intuitive natural language interface.Worked as part of a team developing artificial intelligence for US Navy simulations.Developed an intuitive graphical interface for agent control in a US Navy training simulation to allow non-expert users to drive a concurrent behavior based control system.Modified existing simulation platform to allow AI algorithms to be run in parallel across a cluster of computers, greatly improving end user performance.