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San Francisco Bay Area

• hired to own usability on a cellular basestation product
• lobbied hard for a radical shift in how the software is delivered, in turn architecting and implementing an optimized embedded firmware (~40MB) to replace Ubuntu packages (>2GB)
• architected and implemented a licensing system to improve product monetization rates
• took over and automated release engineering, added multi-component build testing
• took over and revamped the quarterly customer and employee training: a three-day combination of lecture and hands-on workshop
• authored "Getting Started with OpenBTS" published by O'Reilly Media

Bilbao Area, Spain

We have over 15 years of experience performing all stages of product development: conceptualization, feasibility research, proof-of-concept implementation, feature development, usability polishing as well as release engineering, technical documentation and customer training.

FIX.network is creating a secure key management and transaction dispatch solution for blockchain wallets based on a novel SIM card implementation.

• hired to assist with the development of Windows, Linux and macOS daemons
• automated builds and testing for all platforms
• primary release engineer for all GUI and CLI binaries
• helped patch difficulty adjustment algorithm vulnerabilities, rollback bogus blocks and reinit the blockchain with fresh clients during a series of 51% attacks

San Jose, California

• hired to work directly with the CEO to define the company's initial VoIP offering
• assisted in hiring key resources for hardware, acoustics and UI/UX
• coordinated efforts between team members in San Jose, Los Angeles and Taipei to build an Android-based desk phone, a feature phone, a soft-phone and premise PBX
• architected and implemented the premise PBX software and data exchange APIs for all devices
• authored ODM specifications and implemented automated acceptance tests for Foxconn

Wolfenbüttel, Germany

• pitched and received funding from my employer to start a spin-off
• created an easy-to-use phone system firmware which could be installed on commodity hardware
• open sourced the development to grab market attention and engineering resources
• landed development contracts from manufacturers in the United States, Germany, Canada, Russia and the Netherlands to support their custom appliance hardware
• ported the codebase from FreeBSD to Linux and expanded architecture support from x86 to Blackfin, ARM and PowerPC
• secured white-labeling contracts from several resellers and implemented tools to automate custom branded firmware builds

Wolfenbüttel, Germany

• hired to research proof-of-concept projects for Volkswagen
• implemented an infotainment UI and remote control using Bluetooth, J2ME and WebKit
• implemented a IMS SIP messaging client and shared whiteboard application using J2ME
• automated discovery of configuration interfaces in mixed networks using UPnP and Bonjour

Huron, South Dakota

• hired to add features to embedded sensors and agricultural control software
• implemented PDA, desktop and web-based protocol endpoints using C, MFC, C# and PHP

Los Angeles, California

Redesigned and maintained company web presence. Also served as Initial contact point for online inquiries.

Bachelor’S Degree, Computer Science

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