Brand X is a small local Internet Service Provider in Santa Monica, CA. See our website at www.brandx.net.We provide DSL, websites, programming and design services, including PHP. Perl, C++, SQL, and .Net.Our customers have included the City of Santa Monica, the Archidiocese of Los Angeles, the Directors Guild of America, and many others.

I taught computer classes including internet and web design, part time, at Los Angeles City College for 9 years. I am still on the faculty list but I am not currently teaching any classes.

This Iphone game allows multiple users to play a tag game similar to laser tag, using their Iphones as weapons. Player position is determined using GPS and an SQL server keeps track of player activity and serves as referee.The game is written in Objective C, while the server is written in Ruby Rails using a MySql database. The game is fully functional and is in the final stages of programming, as we prepare for testing.The original idea came from a group of French People that play a game called "Street Wars" (www.streetwars.fr, www.streeetwars.net). When they play they have hundreds of participants assassinating each other with water pistols over a period of weeks. Each player draws a "hit" he has to kill; the last man standing wins. When I heard of this from a friend in Paris, I thought, wouldn't this be great on an Iphone?This will be the first Iphone game that will require users to go outside and run around. It should be fun.

Wrote programs in C++ using OpenCV to analyze stereo video cameras used in robotics research. Examples of some of my work may be found at http://www.brandx.net/jimp

I wrote and produced several educational computer courses related to Linux, Ruby Rails and Objective C for Plural sight. I wrote all the material and recorded and edited it. I have not produced any courses from them in a number of years, I am still receiving royalty checks. This surprises me since the shelf life of computer courses is usually only one or two years. This was a really fun job but didn't actually pay a lot considering the time invested.

Contract programming job working on ACDL, a software package to simulate stresses and loads, used in aircraft design. I've also made a number of bug fixes on other packages (Vlaero). Programming is done with Microsoft Visual Studio.AMI makes a variety of software products used by Boeing, Airbus, and other aerospace companies. They also do consulting, doing computer simulations of aircraft designs and modifications, for companies such as Fedex.AMI is a great company, nice people, and was a fun and interesting project.

At "Blue Origin", a space rocket company which belongs to Jeff Bezos fromAmazon, I did a rewrite of a system for doing rocket engine fluid flow simulation on the Amazon Cloud using hundreds of servers to process fluid dynamics problems. I didn't write the math, I took and existing simulation program from Nasa and modified it to use multiple processors, so that the calculation that previously took weeks, could be completed in hours. The savings were huge. The work was in java and "shall". This was a really fun and interesting project.