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Developed, managed and executed a technology plan for migrating Virtual World codebase from a Second Life environemnt to OpenSim and Unity platforms. Optimized OpenSim software to run 20 times faster. Created new learning experiences in Unity 3D, JavaScript, PHP and MySQL.

Developer and team leader for virtual world training.Created virtual lab with over 70 interactive exhibits.Taught virtual world development to team.Led meetings and collaboration in virtual world.

Recognized as the authority and a visionary in the area of Virtual Worlds within Motorola. Created collaborations among various project teams across Motorola to provide advanced solutions in virtual worlds and avatar based communications. Developed use cases for enterprise and health industries utilizing virtual worlds. Created a working virtual prototype of a virtual warehouse in Second Life to demonstrate the concept of virtual experience prototyping. Developed new ways to solve problems.Managed company wide portfolio of patent disclosures and filings in the area of avatars and virtual worlds. Avatar and virtual world patent filings and issues grew ten-fold over this time.Represented Motorola to outside corporations in the area of virtual worlds and was an active member of the Virtual World Interoperability Forum.

Developer of Multimedia technologies including video communications, avatars and virtual worlds. integrated circuit design, hardware and software design and system architect. Provided thought leadership and was recognized recognized as a leader and a visionary in the area multimedia communications.

Provided project leadership, software architecture and development. Developed collaborations internal and external to Motorola. Demonstrated technology and benefits of avatars and virtual worlds.Led the development of an Avatar Framework which demonstrated the feasibility of avatar facial animation to enhance audio communications by emotive expressions and lip sync. Integrated framework with real time speech analysis and text to speech engines. Created many avatars on request for high level presentations. Used Avatar Framework to enhance kiosk developments.Created an efficient programming interface that allowed existing and new applications to easily add avatar functionality. Led development of Avatar Chat demo which provided two way avatar interaction over a 3rd Generation cellular voice call

System architect and project lead of Media TV chip, a MPEG-4 high definition video decoder plus integrated 3D graphics, ideally suited for interactive TV.Led development of a high end MPEG-4 video decoder and graphics processor.Provided expertise in video chip architecture and methodology. Refined IC architecture developed for Cheetah (see below) and applied it to several video chips in development including the chip which powered Motorola’s first mobile video phone.

The Cheetah project was the development of Motorola’s first successful two way video communications chip. This chip enabled two way video communications over normal telephone lines. A working prototype was demonstrated exactly one year after the project team was formed and 3 months later, first silicon was received and was fully functional. Cheetah provided best in class performance at typical power levels.Managed a team of 11 engineers. Developed new design methodology combining high level synthesis and rapid design prototyping which greatly reduced cycle time and simplified design.Developed new architecture that made the design more reliable and easier to verify. Successfully transferred project to product group.

Msce, Computer Engineering

Developed strong background in computer architecture, computer graphics, fault tolerance and rapid prototyping.

Bsee, Electrical Engineering