Paul Chambers Email & Phone Number

San Jose, CA, US

Mountain View, WY, US

San Jose, California, US

Experienced consultant and advisor on technical matters. A generalist, particularly strong in consumer electronics and connected devices, including home theater, home automation, A/V streaming, VoIP and 'IoT', though projects have been as diverse as the control system for hydrogen fuel cell power systems for forklift trucks.Past clients have included.

Berlin, DE

I have made both contributions to existing open-source projects, and created a handful of my own. Please see https://github.com/paul-chambers

San Jose, California, US

One of the first new hires into a group formed to deliver subscription services as a new product segment on Netgear products. Acted as Principal architect across different software disciplines. This required establishing a common middleware software platform across (very) disparate software builds from different silicon vendors (Qualcomm, Broadcom.

Bedford, Massachusetts, US

Major rearchitecting of hardware and software systems for realtime sensor & motor subsystems of future robotic vacuum products, including hardware design & schematic capture for prototypes (using Altium). Extensive silicon vendor interaction, including roadmap input.Led cross-department design & implementation of Secure Boot & Secure OTA Updates for.

The company behind the 'Vudu Spark', a streaming media player in HDMI stick form, at a new level of affordability for the time. It was sold through Walmart (of which Vudu is a subsidiary).Managed the technical co-ordination and direction of overseas vendors and their teams. Company was geographically distributed..

Espoo, Southern Finland, FI

Chief Architect for an ambitious, high-profile research prototype within Nokia. In a nutshell, a single seamless cross-platform user experience across his/her collection of devices, transparently supported by cloud-based infrastructure and integrated with third-party services and data sources. Featured a predictive UX both for direct user interaction and.

Employee #8, reporting to founder/CTO. Technical authority for the company (except mechanical and specific hardware areas). Covered silicon selection, full software stack on client devices, through cloud infrastructure., content ingestion tools and process.Technical leadership for the engineering organization (local and off-shore). Two direct reports..

Sunnyvale, CA, US

Lab126 is a subsidiary of Amazon, responsible for the Kindle.Responsible for all audio subsystems in userspace (Audible book playback, text-to-speech, music playback, audio capture). Overhauled audio subsystems to remedy significant design and implementation quality issues. Additional core support for accessibility in UI.Point-of-contact with vendors for.

Santa Clara, California, US

Senior Architect guiding the Media Technology team responsible for media support across all Palm products.Promoted in May 2006 to become one of the two Lead Architects at Palm at the time, focused on the 'next generation OS' (which became WebOS).I was a senior member of the engineering team behind the Palm Prē smartphone and WebOS platform.Provided.

San Francisco, CA, US

Principally involved in the creation and deployment of technologies and intellectual property related to THX's primary areas of business. Provide technical direction and assistance to product development teams. Provide technical guidance to product management and business development activities.The most significant poject is unfortunately still.

Immersive Inc. was a small company creating products for the high-end home theater and HTPC markets.Being a small company, I wore many hats; from hands-on product development, through evaluating technology partners, to answering dealer and customer questions.Product development was based on embedded linux (kernel 2.4) running on a Toshiba MIPS platform..

Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, NL

Lead Architect for the group. Provided technical & architectural support to customers (product definition in particular), and technical leadership for engineering team. This group offers engineering services within Philips - all disciplines necessary to take a project from concept through transfer to volume manufacturing. Influence over all disciplines.

San Jose, California, US

Technical Lead for the UK version of the company's primary product, launched by Sky Digital (major DBS provider in Europe) & Thompson Consumer Electronics (RCA & Proscan brands in the US).Extensive work on external device infrared control issues, the #2 source of support calls at the time. Rewrote the microcontroller code, adding several new IR protocols.

US

Provide technical leadership and architectural direction for Flashpoint's sole product - Digita, an embedded operating system for digital imaging appliances. This product shipped on several popular digital cameras from Kodak and Minolta, and color inkjet printers from Epson (only available in the Pacific Rim). Strategic relationships with Hewlett-Packard.

Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, NL

The DVX-8000 was a PC-based media center that was way before its time. Imagine a cross between a home-theater-in-a-box and Windows Media Center, but running on Windows 95. Caused a stir in the Home Theater industry at launch, featured on the cover of six trade magazines.The Philips Pronto consumer IR remote was my baby, from concept & business plan, though.

Cupertino, California, US

Key engineer of a electronic publishing system for eWorld (Apple's online service), based on a distributed object store. Patent granted (US Patent #5625818)Ported a popular object-oriented Multi-User Dungeon server (LambdaMOO from Xerox PARC) from UNIX to MacOS, and interfaced it to the eWorld service (via X.25).Developed a number of extensions to the.

Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, NL

Short-term contract while I sought opportunities in Silicon valley. Steam Radio Ltd provided developer-level support to registered developers in the UK on behalf of Apple UK Ltd.Provided developer-level technical consultation to members of Apple UK's third-party developer program Implemented sections of a custom communications application being developed.

Windsor, Berkshire, GB

Key engineer on distributed virtual AppleShare file server. Product displaced the market leader in a matter of months and the company was acquired by Novell soon after. Elements of the technology found their way into versions of NetWare.Developed a mechanism to run an faceless application 'in the background' under System 6 (both single Finder and.

US

Ported SoftPC from Sun 3 to the Macintosh, the first non-UNIX version. Port was complex due to the absence of UNIX services (like virtual memory) on the Macintosh. Within six months the product contributed over 50% of the company's revenues and provided the lion's share for a number of years.Developed a new processor emulation (of the Intel iAPX 286) with.

Developed firmware for intelligent LAN cards (media access control and name service) and communications servers (LAN to X.25/X.3 and SNA) Developed various layers of protocol stacks (for two proprietary LANs) Wrote a debugger/monitor that proved popular with co-workers (embedded and TSR versions)Digital Microsystems was acquired by Apricot Computers.

Developed firmware for a desktop machine (not IBM PC compatible), including a re-entrant I/O system based on interrupt and DMA services Developed firmware to emulate IBM PC hardware by interpreting captured bus cycles Implemented ROM BIOS firmware Ported operating systems, wrote graphics and networking drivers

Developed firmware for Z-80 and 8086 S-100 systems Ported operating systems, wrote graphics and networking drivers Co-designed S-100 hi-res graphics card Supported developers at VARs and major accounts Wrote developer and end-user documentation Provided telephone support for end users