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• Owned the testing of the full audio/video playback pipeline for Xbox One, interacting with 3rd party vendors for the hardware encode and decode implementations, and working with overseas vendors for the Blu-ray app, while managing a team of 2 contractors and mentoring new hires.• Created test infrastructure for the unique 3 Virtual Machine Xbox One OS, solving difficult issues for the implementation of stress testing, and finding critical bugs before launch.• Wrote the H.264 encode and decode sample apps which ship in the Xbox One XDK, which are used by all game developers as the basis of their implementation for in-game video encode/decode, drastically reducing their average time for implementation.• Drove the Xbox Video Marketplace streaming playback success rate from 90%, to above 99%, while expanding the A/V streaming telemetry system to include 3rd party apps (ESPN, NFL, Hulu, UFC, Sky, and Canal+).• Owned the testing of the full playback pipeline on Xbox 360, helping add support for IIS Smooth Streaming, HTTP Live Streaming (HLS), H.264, HE-AAC, and Silverlight.

• Owned the testing of the playback pipeline, codecs, and multi-bitrate video streaming for the 2008 Summer Olympics and Zune (PC and Xbox), ensuring >75% automated testing.• Organized cross team testing between the Windows Codec, Silverlight, Zune, Expressions Encoder, and Office Communicator teams, while managing a team of 4 contractors.• Designed a test harness for multi-bitrate streaming testing utilizing network throttling tools, to find unique bugs in our video streaming apps.• Implemented an audio/video streaming telemetry system to diagnose customer issues, allowing us to take action on real customer complaints, and improve our video streaming success rate to over 90%.

• Owned the testing of audio codecs and home theater audio processing objects (APOs) for Windows and Silverlight (PC and Mac), including functional testing, stress, long-haul, fuzzing, and code coverage.• Designed and implemented a test harness which enabled testing of multiple DirectShow and Media Foundation components without writing separate harnesses for each one, reducing the team’s test code size by nearly 80%.

• Founded the business in 1992. Over $35,000 total revenue for 2003.• Booking gigs, negotiating contracts, performing as well as recruiting other performers, and providing advertising, web page design, and accounting services.• Transitioned the business to others after I moved to Seattle.

• Taught MMI 520 – Audio Technology for Musicians

• C# programming on SigmaStudiotm – Digital Signal Processing graphical design software.• MATLAB filter design and C# data compression algorithms, implementing a Digital Signal Processing command buffer compression algorithm, reducing command storage by over 50%.

• Designed an interactive Internet voice portal using Dialogic hardware, Lernout & Hauspie speech software, and Nuance Speechobjectstm, presenting prototypes to investors.• Programmed in C++ and Java using text to speech, and speech to text APIs.