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...)

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#, Azure infrastructure components, Javascript/Typescript)

(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 (ArcMap) to enable speech and gesture support, a speech-driven Android application for military observations, a mobile application for mobile field workers that communicates written ink over web-services to be processed on a sever, and integration code to connect to a variety of third-party military and commercial systems. Was a member of a cherry-picked 3rd-year team building the multi-modal (speech, touch, and ink) font-end to the user-facing Commander's Associate module of the DARPA Deep Green project, transforming the user's intent into actionable planning artifacts. Designed and built a JS/JQuery/Bootstrap/etc SPA for visualization and editing of graph-structured enterprise documents. Participated in writing research papers and RFP's, lead small SWAT teams for quick-turn around customer-orientated projects. [http://tinyurl.com/ybo5ewq / http://tinyurl.com/ydcchm4 / http://tinyurl.com/ye8tbpp] .Net C#,F#/Java/Prolog/Javascript. Patents Pending: US2008065576 / US2008065574 / ...

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 domain-specific presentation XML markup language that included speech output. [ http://www.mporia.com ]

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 speech-recognition driven capability-based audio and data communications network, for human-human and human-computer interaction including dialog generation. Client apps. include integration with MapPoint on PC and GPS device on hand-held PDA.

(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 the design of custom-written speaker-independent speech recognition and text-to-speech (both parametric and concatenative) components used in PC, server and embedded applications, including the EuroFighter cockpit, automotive hands-free applications, and an early Samsung phone watch with embedded voice-controlled WAP browser. Representative at standards bodies such as W3C and ETSI and presenter at conferences such as Avios, COMDEX, Java/One. Responsible for designing tools, applications and system-level software to support speech technologies in the area of PC command-and-control, telephony and embedded voice solutions, including natural language dialog creation tools. (C, VB, Java, Prolog)[http://tinyurl.com/yag84rf / http://tinyurl.com/ye576zu / http://tinyurl.com/ydqmkp6 / http://tinyurl.com/yd9cre5] Patents pending.

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 3.1 (precursor to WindowsCE/Mobile) for the home player market - shipped in Tandy VIS system. Developed early Interactive-TV systems software drivers, demos and applications, and gave presentations at industry events. Created music-over-IP prototype using interleaved I/O NT server and player natively supported by client OS stack. (C, VB, Assembly) Granted patents: 6,266,043 / 5,808,604 / 5,687,331 / 5,673,40 / 5,510,811 ...

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)