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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.

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.

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.

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.

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..

US

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.

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.

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.

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.

Bs, Computer Science

Ma, Counseling Psychology

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