Tributary provides enterprise grade storage appliances that interface a wide range of hosts. From fiber channel to S3 buckets and everything between. I work with client to tailor our offerings to their needs and drive forward facing development efforts to maintain Tributary's leading position in our technological vertical.Developed custom Linux distro.Modernized development infrastructure and continuous integration using vSphere, Jira, Bamboo, CMake, Confluence, SonarQube and BitBucket.

Maintained Linux video drivers for custom PCI capture card.Maintained and upgraded custom ARM Linux distro, build environment and packages.Diagnosed a variety of hardware and driver issues on custom embedded device including touch screen, wifi, uboot, and video encoder/decoder.

Evaluated commercial and open source NLP, machine learning and statistical AI engines for future product planning and development including IBM Watson, Amazon Alexa, Stanford NLP and Apache OpenNLP.

* Maintained embedded linux firmware for networking and packet switching appliances in C/C++

• R&D an AI Cloud, Cloud based planning, recognition, categorization and NLP algorithms using Amazon Web Services for computer vision, localization and mapping, object detection/recognition, human/computer interaction, programming by demonstration, knowledge representation, speech recognition and language processing.• Design, model and simulate various robotic, electronic and mechanical devices in SolidWorks and Geomagic Design for stress, wear and material analysis.• Extensive R&D on distributed processing, big data mining for artificial intelligence, computational intelligence and computational decision making.

• Designed and developed a custom cross platform Big Data store for a proprietary network monitor appliance utilizing lock-free/block-free algorithms and massively parallel processing. • Designed and developed indexing strategy using variations on B-Tree and hash tables.• Designed data store layers using template meta-programming techniques to allow for compile time configurations of various store behaviors and policies including low-level IO, indexing, caching and table structures.• Developed custom c-ish functional query language to interrogate and manipulate data store.

• Maintained and improved a MAPI connector client to MDaemon email server for native Outlook groupware functionality.• Researched, reverse engineered, designed and developed a large scale development effort to implement the native Exchange RPC/DCE protocols used by Outlook for use by MDaemon using the Microsoft Open Protocol specifications.• Researched and reverse engineered various levels of the Windows security model for implementing an NT domain trust with MDaemon.• Researched, tested and designed a NDIS driver to implement SMB protocols from a 3rd party provider on Windows.

• Acquired Six Sigma Green Belt certification. • Designed, developed and implemented multi-tiered systems architecture, applications and reports using VB, VC++, ASM, MSMQ, COM+, ASP.NET, C# and ATL for Windows desktops, servers and various embedded devices to control, track and maintain production floor processing and products. • Designed, developed and maintained corporate databases including permissions, stored procedures, views, triggers, replication and DTS packages located locally, continentally and internationally for production and development environments. • Planned and implemented SQL Merger, Transactional and Snapshot Replication for sites locally, continentally and internationally. • Designed and developed Windows Scripting Host (WSH) admin scripts using WMI and remote scripting to manage and administer various systems admin tasks including backups, inventory control, permissions, hardware discovery and application management. • Planned, implemented and managed a Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) implementation controlling servers located locally, continentally and internationally. • Designed, developed and implemented various applications to control production floor and product processing. • Designed, developed and implemented reports using ASP, .NET, SVG, scripting and SQL Reporting Services.

• Designed, developed and integrated a SQL reporting engine for the Pervasive database. • Designed, developed and implemented a Windows Access clone UI for the Pervasive Database Engine including table design, view and data entry, query design and execution, report design, preview and print and form design, coding and execution with scripting. • Designed and maintained stored procedures, tables, views and triggers in a development environment.