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Retooled and expanded Engineering into a remote, distributed, talent-first organization. With teams clustered in Sweden, Spain, San Francisco, and Taipei timezones. Set metrics for reliability, telemetry, and performance, and pushed for an overhaul of the stack to meet goals. Promoted and replaced leaders, hired key talent at all levels, provided tactical and strategic clarity to the team. Instilled execution standards and adoption of best practices to increase productivity, speed, and quality, while minimizing technical debt.Proxy's mission is to make our everyday experiences in the physical world frictionless. Be known by your environment, securely, seamlessly, and on your own terms. This is done through a digital "proxy" that echos out your attributes and credentials to things around you, all the while retaining complete control of your personal data and privacy. To that end, Proxy makes devices (wearables, readers), mobile apps, and services, resulting in a diverse engineering organization that spans many technologies and cultures. All the way from the cloud, mobile apps and frameworks, protocols, BLE & NFC transports, device firmware, hardware and mechanical, wearables, and sensors.

Airspace designs develop and build specialized drones. Drones have turned the very concept of security on its head. No longer can we protect ourselves with fences and locks alone! Security has gone from 2D to 3D.Our autonomous interceptor drones, use machine vision and deep learning to detect anomalies in the sky and classify rogue drones. Once engaged, our flight system anticipates and reacts to a drone’s every move, in real-time.The codebase is an embedded high-performance visual autonomous movement platform, utilizing cutting-edge computer vision deep learning and path planning algorithms. We fly in relationship to other moving targets and interact with them! This codebase was designed to be used by many other applications in the sub-car autonomous movement category.

A revolutionary cloud service with an impact on people lives (NLP/NLU)

Working on achieving Android ecosystem differentiation through novel mobile devices and services, aiming to transform Samsung's quantitative advantage to a more defensible position against fierce Chinese OEM competition.Started Samsung Mobile User Experience Lab at Silicon Valley, responsible for creating new disruptive mobile products and services for Samsung Mobile Korea. I focused on bringing dataset value and fostering deep integration of web and 3rd party value into the mobile experience, developing new mobile sensors, and new form factors, beyond the handset and tablet, Internet-of-Things, and Wearables.

Left Apple to founded gleau Inc, to bridge the world of consumer electronics and the web by providing a TV-like user experience for web content. The gleau platform and service transformed websites from 2d + layout into a 3d + time-domain representation of content -- effectively generating "movies" from webpages, allowing TVs and Digital Frames to stream personalized web content.

Peak phase of the iPod division -- a mature organization with strong cohesion, process, and culture runs iPod programs and technology roadmaps. In parallel to project execution and roadmap work, we also support the definition and creation of iPhone technology / code-base with low-levels, NAND, power-management, media-playback, accessory protocol, iTunes client, and other iPod technologies. Promoted second-level managers and made sure the organization fits the product and technology roadmaps. Brought in a replacement in 2007 and had one year overlap for smooth leadership transition.The team I have built continued to execute into the Watch, Airpods, and outside of Apple at Nest.

The growth phase of the iPod team -- we are not a startup or a "science-experiment" anymore, we are a mission-critical, revenue stream for Apple! Reorganize and formalize the software organization in response to scale-up of projects, risk removal through process and resource depth, smart growth -- how do we keep the DNA while adding new people, etc. Investments in code-base to make sure we control critical middleware capabilities, invest in roadmap work for 1-2 years forward. Promote managers and sub-teams. Successfully transitioned product and code-base to new technologies: Color, USB, NAND Flash, games, DSP-based playback, video, etc.

Early days of the iPod team, startup culture dominates: focused on code-base buildup, team hiring, and early team organization (system, apps, comms, media). Worked with IP providers external software vendors and various Apple teams, executed projects, and streamlined new development and release process for new kind of device: mobile, mass-produced, and media centric.

Nexperia™ OS Infrastructure Team - Responsible for system and OS bring-up for Nexperia SoC (This system-on-a-chip solution uses real-time media processing in software for applications such as Datacasting, Internet browsing, interactive services, digital recording, playback and time-shifting)

NetDisplay Group, Philips Multimedia Center - Palo Alto CA Microsoft Windows CE based embedded platform for The Windows Based Terminal projectResponsible for all software and system architecture for the Product.Formulated the initial concept for a thin-client architecture for BU Monitors Digital Monitor Project; Lead the NetDisplay project from concept to product phase

Worked at Scitex (acquired by Kodak)-- see pre 2001 resume for detailshttp://www.barnahum.com/bio/resume-2001.htm