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Sunnyvale, Ca, Us

Amazon Astro2019 - present: Technical lead for the development of exploration technology (autonomous creation of maps used for navigation and localization) for Astro, Amazon's first household robot.2017 - 2018: Designed and developed human-robot interaction software for Astro.__________________________________________________________________________________________________________Amazon Fire TVMember of the software engineering team responsible for developing Amazon Fire TV. Designed and developed various aspects of the Fire TV Launcher and Systems Applications over multiple product releases.2016: Technical Lead for aspects of the 2016 Fire TV User Interface upgrade, including a new data model and presentation architecture which allows users to fluidly navigate to and browse Fire TV’s applications and games, and which allows users to browse live TV channels on Amazon’s new Fire TV 4K television sets. Also developed the context menu system.2015: Technical Lead for up-leveling the Launcher, Settings, Out of Box Experience and other system applications on the first generation Fire TV devices from Amazon’s Android 4.2 based operating system to Fire OS 5. Helped tune performance and port Fire TV Launcher and other system applications to the new 4K Fire TV box.2014: Developed the Fire TV Retail Demo System. Fire TV demo devices were installed in kiosks at Best Buy, Staples and other retail stores in the United States and internationally. The demo kiosks promoted sales by allowing retail customers to interact with Fire TV.2012-2014: Member of the original Fire TV Applications Team. Designed, developed and debugged various aspect of Fire TV’s user interface and client-side software, including initial client-server metadata downloading system and Launcher main navigation menu. Managed developers and served as technical liaison with Amazon App Store team. Efforts culminated in the Fire TV 1.0 product launch in April, 2014.

Designed and developed software as an independent consultant. One of my clients was Textnomics, an Internet startup company that specializes in data mining, machine learning and natural language processing.Technologies: Java, open source software components.

Cupertino, Ca, Us

Provided consulting services to firms involved in software intellectual property (IP) litigation. Developed software source code analysis tools in C++, C# and .NET that were used to help detect software plagiarism. Analyzed and inspected source code for copyright violation, patent infringement, and IP theft. Wrote expert reports on software IP analyses that were submitted as evidence to federal courts.Published an article in Dr. Dobb's magazine describing a programming technique in Windows for interprocess communication.Technologies: C++, C#, .NET, WPF, Visual Studio, Team Foundation Server, code analysis tools.

Designed and developed web applications using Microsoft .NET technologies.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Earned a master's degree in psychology. Worked for two years as a psychotherapist intern (MFT Registered Intern #58361) and trainee, providing psychotherapy to adults, couples and children at the CIIS Church Street Integral Counseling Center (San Francisco), CHAC Counseling Center (Mountain View), and Process Therapy Institute (Los Gatos).

Redmond, Washington, Us

Enterprise Frameworks and Tools, Microsoft Developer DivisionManaged software development teams of up to 20 engineers which produced graphical software modeling and code-generation tools for Visual Studio .NET. Managed the engineering team which developed the BizTalk Orchestration Designer (a design tool for creating Biztalk Server 2004 solutions) and portions of Visual Studio Application Designer.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Microsoft Learning TechnologiesPlayed a key role in the conceptualization, specification, design and implementation of a platform for authoring and delivering educational courseware over the internet. Directly managed a team of 5 software engineers, and managed the development schedule for a team of 12 software engineers. Established software development practices and a scheduling tool which allowed product development milestones to be consistently completed on schedule.(Windows NT, IIS, .ASP, C++, JavaScript, HTML, Sharepoint, Exchange, MS Project.)

Redmond, Washington, Us

Microsoft SoftimageMember of team which shipped Softimage | DS 1.0, a Windows NT application for non-linear video / audio editing for the broadcast market. Technical Lead for Data Management and Persistence in DS. Conceived, implemented, and integrated into DS COM-based media file management services for digital media editing, capture, purging and caching. Developed content browsing and searching technologies. Lead team which ported DS persistence to OLE compound files. Managed teams of up to 5 developers. (Microsoft Windows NT / Win32 SDK, MSDEV C++, COM / OLE).PATENT“System, Apparatus and Method for Managing the Use and Storage of Digital Information”, United States Patent 6,157,929. Awarded December 5, 2000.

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Developed Microsoft Windows and Apple Macintosh applications which allowed users to rapidly query the Corbis image database. Surveyed, selected and utilized commercially available text-indexing technologies to provide a substantial performance improvement (up to one thousand fold) over the previous generation of image query technology. Managed one SQL Server database programmer.(Microsoft Visual C++, Visual Basic, Access. PLS text engine SDK).

San Jose, Ca, Us

Represented Aldus on a multi-company committee which developed TWAIN, an industry standard software protocol and applications programming interface (API) that regulates communication between software applications and imaging devices. As member of the original TWAIN working group, participated in TWAIN protocol definition and developed the software that provides system services to all TWAIN-compliant MS Windows applications and devices. (Borland C++, MS Windows 3.1 SDK)Managed development of a multi-platform graphics file format converter by an outside vendor.

Gainesville, Fl, Us

Member of software development team which created ToolBook 1.0, an object-oriented graphical development environment for Microsoft Windows. Developed ToolBook 1.0 runtime which shipped with Windows 3.0.(Lisp and C. MS Windows 2.1 - 3.0 SDK.)Ported ToolBook graphics engine from Windows 3.0 to OS/2 PM. Participated in requirements definition, functional specification, design, and development of a financial/office application. Developed authoring tools for Computer Based Training applications.

London, Gb

Lead engineer for a robotic vehicle path planning system. The path planner showed a graphical display of digital terrain maps, provided an interactive user interface, planned collision-free routes for the robotic vehicle and dynamically displayed vehicle location.(Symbolics LISP Machines)Proposed, designed and implemented a library of terrain analysis utilities used throughout lab. Developed real-time embedded software for low-level control of robotic vehicle. PUBLICATIONS"Extracting Knowledge From a Digital Terrain Data Base.''1986 AI and Advanced Computer Technology Conference. Long Beach, CA."Natural Decomposition of Free Space for Path Planning.'' 1985 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation.Saint Louis, MO."Automatic Path Planning for a Mobile Robot.'' 1984 IEEE Conference on Artificial Intelligence Applications. Denver, CO.

Bs, Computer Science

Ma, Counseling Psychology

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