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Portland, Oregon, United States

Software contracting & consulting, mostly focused in various 3D technologies across various platforms - desktop, mobile & web.

San Francisco, California, Us

Portland, Or, Us

Co-founder, CTO and board member at Torch. I manage the engineering team and processes, provide technical leadership, and occasionally get to write some code.Torch is building a mobile AR development and publishing platform that allows mobile product teams, digital marketers and experienced 3D professionals alike rapidly design, deploy, and manage interactive augmented reality applications. With Torch, a mobile designer can develop in days what currently takes a team weeks.

Plantation, Florida, Us

Lead SDK Engineer (June 2015 - Present)Senior Software Engineer (May 2014 - June 2015) (1 year)

Suitable Technologies spun out of Willow Garage in February 2011. I was a founding member, having begun work on the Texai project at Willow Garage in November 2010.* Developed the user interface for the Beam pilot client software, first alone and later leading a team of up to 4, including a designer. That team designed, developed and launched our 2.0 interface.* Designed and developed augmented-reality interface features, including what we call the Yellow Brick Road, as well as the autodocking overlay and UI.* Wrote the initial version of the Beam device UI, including in-call elements and keyboard-based WiFi setup.* Developed many of our core C++ libraries, including our threading APIs and threaded scheduler.* Owned the pilot client-side audio pipeline.* Wrote a number of diagnostics tools and APIs, including a real-time profiling system, and our crash reporting infrastructure.* Developed OpenGL and GLSL code for video rendering, as well as for the augmented-reality features described above.

Menlo Park, Us

Willow Garage was a robotics research lab, whose main projects included ROS (the Robot Operating System) and the PR2, a humanoid robotics research platform. I worked heavily on both projects.* Developed rviz, an application for visualization of robot state and sensor data in 3D, from the ground up.* Took over development and maintenance of roscpp, the C++ implementation of the ROS communication framework, as well as much of the surrounding code.* Rewrote most of roscpp, significantly improving stability, speed and API interface.* Worked on the PR2 poolshark hackathon.* Wrote many of the ROS C++ tutorials, as well as some of the supporting software such as turtlesim* Developed rosrt, a realtime-safe API for publishing or subscribing to ROS messages. As part of this, wrote the 'lockfree' ROS package, which provides a few lockfree data-structures that were necessary for rosrt development.* Began working on the Texai project a few months before we spun out to form Suitable Technologies.

Burbank, Ca, Us

* Spearheaded our "Live Update" effort to make changes in editors viewable in realtime in the game engine on the PS3.* Worked on the data builders and build pipeline, including optimization, dependency checking, and implementation of concurrent builds.* Developed a built-file caching system for distribution of asset built data based on input dependencies.* Helped design and implement interface screens in PS3 launch title Resistance: Fall of Man.

Bellevue, Wa, Us

* Worked with the Multiplayer Design Lead to prototype 3 multiplayer game-types for Halo 3* Designed and developed the tool that was then used to deploy BUNGIE.NET, using C#, ASP.NET and SQL

Cromwell, Ct, Us

Developed mobile games in Java (J2ME) and C++ (BREW).

Cromwell, Ct, Us

New Haven, Connecticut, Us