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Newton, Ma, Us

Newton, Ma, Us

Develop speaker identification, speech recognition, and speech diarization algorithms for large-scale proprietary system processing thousands of simultaneous conversations using distributed computing and nVidia CUDA accelerators.

Develop firmware for DSP-based motor controller for human assessment machine. Controller hosted by Windows PC over USB link, contains TI DSP and mixed-signal motor interfaces, and implements a variety of isokinetic, isotonic, and isometric motion profiles, a high-performance motor control system, and a redundant safety system for FDA 510(k) approval. Product applications include post-surgical limb range-of-motion assessment, physical therapy, and measuring the knee torque and power output of all NFL draft picks from 2002 to present.

Design electronics and 802.15.4 wireless link for forthcoming fitness tracker in healthcare market. Responsible for electromechanical integration with Asian manufacturing partner and device FCC certification.

Develop security system and firmware for “smart wallet” device including fingerprint biometric security perimeter audited and certified by major credit card firms.

Bedford, Massachusetts, Us

Led an iRobot R&D joint venture in the development of a sophisticated interactive consumer robot. Responsible for $2m project budget over two years, managing outsourced project team at several international sites and organizations. Led industrial design and mechanical design team, led development of onboard electronics, wireless communications, motion control, and embedded Linux software systems, authored system specifications, designed multi-modal user interaction model combining motion, voice I/O, color touchscreen, and electronic paper technologies. Also responsible for relationship management and project coordination with Asian R&D partner.

Designed and prototyped software radio transceiver for use in portable computers. Designed robust local-area wireless channel (frequency-hopped spread-spectrum, continuous-phase modulation), implemented Motorola FLEX demodulator/decoder for wide-area paging mode.

Us

Engineering ManagerLed development team responsible for conceiving and developing the ActiveX interface to ObjectStore using Microsoft OLE and COM technologies. Authored specification for object database integration with the Java programming language, accepted as ODMG industry standard.Director of Quality Assurance Started and built 12 person quality assurance department to complement existing 50 person engineering department, administering $1M annual budget for several major concurrent projects. Deployed a wide range of improved software development processes, including peer review, defect tracking, automated test administration, concurrent test design, quality metrics, online quality system.

Singapore, Sg

Designed virtual memory hardware and other architectural components for Ivory microprocessor. Designed and implemented Ivory simulator and test suite that resulted in functional first-pass silicon. Designed and developed virtual memory system, I/O hardware and software, and other operating system components for several Lisp workstations.Managed 15 person software department responsible for producing Symbolics CLOE, a PC Common Lisp product, and Symbolics CLIM, an advanced object-oriented user-interface system.