Peter Brook Email & Phone Number

Los Angeles, Ca, Us

Santa Monica, California, Us

I lead our Client Systems and Performance group, with teams focusing on improving app performance including network, battery, startup and performance tools.I also worked to make Snapchat carbon neutral by offsetting our battery drain: https://www.axios.com/snapchat-diversity-report-8a912bb5-b1e4-4010-89a6-6d83e3980d6d.htmlPreviously I led the software side of Spectacles (https://www.spectacles.com) from early prototypes through mass production.

-Facebook Home-Better Android SDK, making permissions easier for developers

Seattle, Wa, Us

Working with the PR2 robot and the Microsoft Kinect, focusing on grasping, as well as mapping and perception.

Seattle, Wa, Us

· Continuing research on improving robotic grasping strategies · Largely self-directed work · Requires knowlege of a 250+ file C++ codebase

I wrote tools to improve the machine learning infrastructure that Facebook uses to fight spam, fake accounts, and other attacks on the social graph.

Menlo Park, Us

Push the state of the art in robotic grasping and manipulation, specifically emphasizing the improvement of grasping capabilities on Willow Garage's PR2 Robot.

· Working with VirtualBox, VMWare and Python to improve the user experience and installation on Windows.

Hillsboro, Or, Us

· Worked closely with PhD researchers to improve the state of the art in robotic grasping · Created a Python application for testing robotic grasps on the robot · Created a Python socket-based interface for the GraspIt! open source grasp simulator · Worked with both the C++ and Python components of the OpenRAVE robot simulator · Developed new features in C++ for the GraspIt! simulator · Collaborated with researchers at Columbia University to upgrade, port to Linux, and maintain the MATLAB socket-based interface

Participated in my high school FIRST Robotics Team. Responsibilities were varied over the years and included leading the programming team, helping to organize fundraising events, managing the team website, presenting our robotics program to businesses and the state government, organizing outreach events to other schools and running middle school robotics competitions.

Redmond, Washington, Us

· Worked on the Visual Studio team to create a new feature for Visual Studio 2010 · Responsible for feature User Interface creation and integration into the Visual Studio application · Completed and unit-tested our feature on time

· Worked with the CEO to improve and streamline the Chamber of Commerce website · Worked with another web developer to maintain and add features to the website of the city's primary tourist attraction, Salmon Days