Eric Brower Email & Phone Number

Santa Clara, Ca, Us

Responsible for embedded Tegra Linux software engineering, including the Jetson Developer Kit, SDK and board support package (BSP).NVIDIA Jetson with GPU-accelerated parallel processing is the world’s leading embedded visual computing platform. It features high-performance, low-energy computing for deep learning and computer vision making the Jetson platform ideal for compute-intensive embedded projects like drones, autonomous robotic systems, Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS), mobile medical imaging, and Intelligent Video Analytics (IVA). Visit http://developer.nvidia.com/embedded-computing for details.Manage a highly-talented and motivated global team driving upstream Linux kernel and ecosystem software for the Tegra system-on-chip. Implement lightweight policies for developer productivity in upstream contributions and community-available documentation for Tegra.Technical chair, open source software license compliance team.

Mountain View, Ca, Us

For high-density Cloud / SaaS application delivery, or performance enhancement through application-level parallelism, VPEP application virtualization technology exploits current virtualized or multi-core system architectures by enabling multiple instances of an unmodified application to run concurrently and securely within a single operating system.I maintain a significant hands-on role in research, architecture and development to lead by example and maintain credibility with staff, vendors and open source communities. I also enjoy the role of technical spokesperson for our organization, often speaking with investors and partners about our team and technology.Organized the founding Engineering team, infrastructure and tools, continuous integration methods, development standards and IP tracking policy, initial R&D budgeting and road map.Defined architecture and prototyped initial virtualization IP; remain development lead on stable and research versions. Principal named inventor for US Patent (pending).Demonstrated 3-8x performance improvements in commercial and open source "LAMP stack" infrastructure applications including Tomcat, JBoss, Apache, MySQL and Squid.Directly manage the senior technical team, including evaluation, compensation, hiring and RiF.Represent our technology to interested parties, partners and investors.

Resilience provides Linux-based, high availability hardware appliances with advanced recovery features and simplified UX, primarily designed for high-throughput network security applications.Repositioned corporate direction with CTO and executive team. Redirected and revitalized the Engineering organization, designed new product line and underlying technologies, established vendor relationships, and brought initial version of high-availability network security appliance to market within extreme time constraints.Increased addressable market by creating 9 additional product families leveraging a shared technology base, for 100% or greater quarter-over-quarter revenue growth and 30% average annual Engineering team growth.Defined and supported the full product life cycle and field-upgrade strategy for a complex matrix of hardware platforms, models, product lines and software releases; with world-wide deployments in Global 2000 and other mission critical environments.Expanded Engineering organization with an off-shore R&D lab in China. Established and re-tuned organizational management for efficient operation and team member growth. Hired and managed GM for local and cultural management. Maintained staff attrition rate significantly below local market average and exceeding executive team expectations.Hands-on team lead for Linux kernel and device driver development, firmware and platform component selection, performance tuning methodology, execution and presentation.Developed initial automation of third-party software installation and configuration, including web-based UI, and UX design principles to minimize operator involvement and potential error.Built vendor relationships for increased road map visibility, product sampling and decreased R&D prototyping costs.Technical presenter to industry and user groups, investors, partners and customers. Escalations representative for key customers and critical issues.

Architect and individual contributor hired for initial prototyping of demand-chain forecasting software targeted at the chemical industry. Prototyped web-based and native client interfaces to back-end servers in Java, evaluating and leveraging open source software; including Tomcat, SOAP, EJB vs POJOs, and fledgling cross-platform JavaScript libraries.Implemented and optimized complex game theory algorithms developed by in-house Ph.D. game theorists and mathematicians. Designed UX and implemented custom controls and Java-2D UI elements for a simplified interface to algorithmic tuning and utility value expression.Designed and implemented client/server authentication and authorization system.

The Tomorrow Factory was started as a technical incubator, with the initial product a client-side shopping cart for unifying the consumer purchasing experience when shopping at the multitude of Internet-based sites that sprung-up during the dot-com boom. Recruited by executive management and founding engineers to work with a small team focused on consumer software and user experience.Designed and developed cross-platform components for Microsoft Windows client application, including MFC-based user interface and space-efficient "skins" implementation, Internet-based auto-update and cryptographic bridge between OpenSSL and Microsoft CryptoAPI cryptographic key store for Secure Sockets Layer support. Implemented human factors feedback.

Sebastopol, Ca, Us

Technical reviewer, Java series titles: Java SWING Java 2D Java Performance Tuning Java Security (2nd Ed.)

London, Gb

Co-author, Java2 Programmer's Interactive Workbook, Prentice Hall PTR

Palo Alto, Ca, Us

Enterprise Services (SunService) Engineering develops technologies used as key components of worldwide support offerings for top-tier and mission-critical customers, providing near-real-time system status and predictive analysis to customer operators and Sun support technicians.Key member of R&D architecture team that designed and implemented a next-generation worldwide support offering for remote system diagnostics. Led 3rd-party technology evaluations, technology integration prototyping and comparative evaluations. Participated in architectural definition and transfer-of-information to development and QA teams.Identified relevant diagnostic data sources, relationships and utility for workstation through high-end server platforms; Implemented data collection, tokenization and schema; modeled subsystem interrelationships for graphical representation within UI. Collecting, processing and analyzing large amounts of data, this had many elements of today's "big-data" architectures. Presented technology world-wide to Sun Service geographical centers and early-adopter customers. Performed on-site installation and training for evaluators and early-adopter customers.