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San Francisco, CA, US

Transcoding stuff for the most popular AVOD provider.

San Francisco, California, US

Lead developer on Twitch and Amazon's IVS (Interactive Video Service) cross-platform C++ video core supporting and extending our Player SDK on Web, Android, iOS, and Consoles.- C++/Web Assembly(WASM), JS/TS- Player Architecture- Adaptive Bitrate Algorithms- Metrics/Observability- Mentoring

Burbank, California, US

Wrote the transcoder that transcodes everything you watch, for companies like: AT&T, Disney, Netflix, HBO, DirecTV, Starz, Charter, Bell, Comcast, Fox, Frontier, Red Box, Rogers, Shaw, BBC, Sky TV, and many others.If you watch any top-tier content, chances are the software I helped write transcoded it.Two separate transcoders written and supported: 1. Our.

San Diego, California, US

At DivX, I worked on various HEVC digital video and audio projects such as:- Integrating our HEVC decoding core into our desktop DivX Player.- Integrating our HEVC decoding core into our DivX Streaming Engine on Android.- Getting the DivX Streaming Engine working on the PS3.- Being a core part of our 1.0 HEVC community tools initiative where I helped.

Worked on Total Guide, Rovi's next generation set top guide and media playback software. Responsibilities included: Core program guide, media engine on DLNA stack, media engine on UPNP stack, and core media engine work on mostly Broadcomm based ICs and set top boxes.

Principal engineer involved in low level codec (MPEG2, AVC, VC1, DXVA) and display subsystem work (Direct3D) that is used in almost all Roxio and Sonic Solutions products such as our Cineplayer BluRay and DVD software player.

Redwood City, CA, US

Lead UI Programmer. Console Team at Maxis working on The Sims. Managed cross platform UI code and engine. UI's were scripted in Flash. Was the 4th console team member, and the console team grew to 150.My work consisted of working with and extending an in house Flash decoder to work on consoles such as the XBox, PS2, and Nintendo GameCube. I managed a team.

Corte Madera, CA, US

Lead engineer for web based image composition engine which used JavaScript to define, manipulate, and compose images. The composition engine would open Photoshop files and allow one to manipulate the layers through JavaScript. The engine would also allow one to load video files and apply composition operations via JavaScript. The video work was done with a.

Seattle, WA, US

MPEG software decoding technical lead. It was a VERY hard decision to leave Pixar, but I rejoined my Xing colleagues after Xing was purchased by RealNetworks, and I tried to cash-in on the dot-com(edy) boom. Continued developing the MPEG core that we developed at Xing, as well as continued integration of our MP3 and streaming technologies.

Emeryville, California, US

Worked in the Studio Tools group writing and enhancing proprietary in-house animation software. I was in charge of maintaining and enhancing Pixar's in house Spline Drawing animation tool as well as various other tools.My main accomplishment while at Pixar was the design and implementation of a distributed video encoding and playback system used to preview.

Managed Xing's software-only DVD/MPEG player engineering team. Was employee number 18 (company grew to over 100) and managed 3 full time engineers.Was involved with software MPEG decoding on Intel CPUs when it was very bleeding edge technology.XingDVD and the XingMPEG player sold into the millions of units through OEM deals and online sales.

From 1989 to 1993 (undergrad and grad school) I was involved in full time and internship work at:IBM - Scientific Center in Palo Alto - Summer Intern - X Windows/UI engineerSGI - Silicon Graphics Computer Systems in Mountain View - 6 Month Contract - X Windows Tester and EngineerLLNL - Lawrence Livermore National Lab in Livermore - Summer Intern - Nuclear.