Building secure foundational software for critical infrastructure in Rust.Automatak was rebranded and reincorporated as Step Function I/O LLC.

Lead a team to develop automation software for micro-grids. Responsible for corporate open source software strategy.Helped release open source tools into the utility space.

Plymouth Systems was acquired by Green Energy CorpLead a team to develop a set of advanced applications that helped Duke Energy win an SEE Industry Excellence Award:http://www.theexchange.org/awardswinners08.htmlLead a team to develop turn-key automation systems for two-axis concentrating solar tracking systems, both at the monitoring and embedded level.Personally developed trade-secret techniques that coordinate a solar ephemeris with non-linear optimization to… Show more Plymouth Systems was acquired by Green Energy CorpLead a team to develop a set of advanced applications that helped Duke Energy win an SEE Industry Excellence Award:http://www.theexchange.org/awardswinners08.htmlLead a team to develop turn-key automation systems for two-axis concentrating solar tracking systems, both at the monitoring and embedded level.Personally developed trade-secret techniques that coordinate a solar ephemeris with non-linear optimization to allow embedded tracking systems to follow the sun "open-loop" accurately (0.01 deg) without solar feedback. Expert knowledge of non-linear optimization in spherical coordinate systems. Show less

Developed parallel image processing routines to analyze large datasets for a technique know as "Lucky Imaging" involving:High-speed image capture2D Fourier AnalysisFourier space (de)convolutionSignal registrationNon-linear point-spread function fittingDrizzle image reconstruction algorithms (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drizzle_(image_processing)Developed a turn-key automation system for a volume-phase holographic… Show more Developed parallel image processing routines to analyze large datasets for a technique know as "Lucky Imaging" involving:High-speed image capture2D Fourier AnalysisFourier space (de)convolutionSignal registrationNon-linear point-spread function fittingDrizzle image reconstruction algorithms (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drizzle_(image_processing)Developed a turn-key automation system for a volume-phase holographic spectrometer:goodman-spectrograph.org/about.htmlIntegration included telescope/facility telemetry, low-bandwidth remote monitoring, and dataset capture.Developed a graphical observation planning tool that allows astronomers to intelligently plan multi-target spectrographic surveys. Show less