James Safko Email & Phone Number

Stow, Massachusetts, United States

• Maintained and developed internal software tools used to tune entertainment signal processing in Bose automotive systems
• Supported a global community of system and research engineers who use entertainment tuning tools regularly to create unique audio experiences for both research and production applications

• Produced original bass music using a variety of advanced synthesis and sound design techniques in Ableton Live
• Organized, promoted, and DJed at various events and venues in Pensacola, Gainesville, and Orlando, Florida alongside many touring DJs

Gainesville, Florida Area

Gainesville, Florida Area

• Researched methods for improving post-silicon validation by improving methods such as trace buffer signal selection under Dr. Prabhat Mishra.
• Created a program that parses Verilog to a specific format of Benchmark files. Used to quickly convert large Verilog files into a format that can be validated by algorithms being tested by Dr. Mishra and his team.

Hampton, Virginia

• Created the Psychoacoustic Metrics Analysis Library, a dynamically linked C++ library which could calculate psychoacoustic metrics (e.g. loudness, sharpness, and roughness) of a.wav file over time by implementing NASA.
• Constructed an executable which could evaluate the psychoacoustic metrics for chosen.wav files as well as parse the metric data into detailed JSON and Matlab structures for data analysis

Gainesville, Florida Area

• Developed, in a small team, a prototype of a four channel guitar loop pedal and digital effects unit (including effects such as a phaser, state variable filter, and more) on a Texas Instruments TMS320f28335 using C.
• Built a skeleton, in a team of 2, for the product's user interface on an Android tablet using Java in Android Studio.

University Of Florida

• Assembled a handpicked team, delegated and led tasks of contacting potential performers, negotiating with sound equipment providers, and designing promotional t-shirts, posters, and a video.
• Built a budget approved by the UF Benton Engineering Council, obtained six diverse musical acts, instituted the inclusion of visual arts live digital visual artists, and garnered several hundred attendees.

Waynesville, NC

*Note, I was a Junior Staff June 2014 and June 2015.I led, with a staffer, 11 youth on a thirty-mile spiritual hike on the Appalachian Trail for four days.This was an amazing experience and fantastic opportunity for me to aid in youths' physical and spiritual journey by providing food, motivation, and direction.

Pensacola, Florida Area

I was responsible for the safety and cleanliness of the Roger Scott Pool center. The summer of 2015, I held the position of head guard.

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Computer Engineering

Activities and Societies: Freshman Leadership Engineering Group

Gpa 4.0

Dual Enrollment

Gpa: Unweighted 5.05, Weighted 4.00

Activities and Societies: Varsity swim team (9th, 10th), Interact Club [President] (11th, 12th), National Honor Society [Vice President.