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Redmond, WA, US

Sydney, NSW, AU

Leading a team (as both a manager and individual contributor) in designing and implementing the platform that hosts the Willow Digital Twins product line, including back-end core services using Azure infrastructure. Designing and implementing Willow's Copilot system using OpenAI LLMs for RAG and graph query. C#/Python

Researched, recommended and prototyped real-time event processing and storage architectures for Microsoft to deliver to stakeholders on a project that combined Azure storage infrastructure and massive-scale data-ingest and transformation as part of video meta-data ETL and query pipeline. (C#, Python, Scala, Azure, Spark/Databricks, WinForms...)

Redmond, Washington, US

Enabled novel ways to empower teachers and students.Developed a class content management system integrated with Microsoft's core productivity offerings including Teams, and on Microsoft Learning Tools including the novel Immersive Reader, which uses text-to-speech and animation of text to help dyslexic and emerging readers successfully learn to read. (C#.

(a.k.a., Adapx Inc.) Designed, prototyped and shipped enabling technologies, tools and applications for tangible multi-modal interfaces, including support for electronic Pens, Speech Recognition, interactive dialog, and message-passing distributed systems architectures. Projects include extensions to Microsoft (Excel, OneNote, PowerPoint) and ESRI products.

US

Designed and built end-to-end 3-tier system for sale of goods and services over mobile phones. Managing off-shore dev team. Server-side components include C# / ASP.Net, MS SQL Server & O/R Mapper, web methods. PC client includes: WinForms & ASP.Net. Mobile applications: Qualcomm BREW applet in C, and a specialized Java/MIDP canvas app. that rendered a.

Research, design and write code to support an innovative, ad-hoc physical security and communications infrastructure for military and other first-responders based on wireless networks that facilitate data-staring between devices including Linda/T-Space-like data-sharing model with optional persistence layer. Developed architecture for flexible.

(a.k.a., Conversay / Conversa) First full-time technical employee of what became a 100 person company. Instrumental in bringing many products from prototype to finished, boxed products, including two Best-in-Show award-winning products. Managed small team responsible for next-generation technologies and products. Generated requirements and contributed to.

Redmond, Washington, US

Developed software (from device-drivers to tools and APIs) for first Multimedia computers (MMSDK) including early sound-card (SoundBlaster, etc.) & CD-ROM support and tools, which later became part of Windows. [Featured in New York Times magazine centerfold photo, Aug 25, 1991.] Key developer of Modular Windows, an early embedded set-top version of Windows.

Mclean, VA, US

Authored applications and tools for distributed/parallel processor architectures. Participated in research into the Future Generation Computer Architecture project, incl. massively parallel architectures. (C/C++, Lisp)

Wrote tools to support a very early speaker-independent continuous-speech dictation system on Sun workstations and home-brew 68000 multi-processor machine (C, 68K Assembly)