Responsible for software aspects of Vy400 aircraft operation and safety.

Functional Safety Manager / Principal Member of Technical Staff • Responsible, under ISO 26262, for planning of automotive-centric functional safety activities and delivery of work products for new product division.• Collaborated across hardware and software design and implementation staff, third-party vendors, and safety industry leaders to ensure standards’ compliance.Lead Performance Optimization Engineer / Principal Member of Technical Staff• Maximized performance of… Show more Functional Safety Manager / Principal Member of Technical Staff • Responsible, under ISO 26262, for planning of automotive-centric functional safety activities and delivery of work products for new product division.• Collaborated across hardware and software design and implementation staff, third-party vendors, and safety industry leaders to ensure standards’ compliance.Lead Performance Optimization Engineer / Principal Member of Technical Staff• Maximized performance of AMD-based PC products by proactively coordinating better implementations with standards groups, benchmark vendors, and internal staff. • Led the Performance Optimization Engineering team of engineers to effect AMD wins in benchmarks extensively used by consumers or reviewers thereby creating ~$100M in net annual revenue gain.• Managed relationships between internal clients, benchmark providers, AMD engineering, and external open source communities to optimize CPU, graphics, and GPU Compute performance.• Successfully promoted AMD technology with open source projects including ffmpeg, ImageMagick, OpenCV, LibreOffice, Blender, POVray, Chrome, FireFox. Show less

Provided technical consulting for systems-oriented problems in the graphics, video, and HPC realms. Assisted with system design and implementation, driver and user-space software, and compiler issues regarding safety, security, performance and standards compliance issues.

• Transitioned all aspects of Seaweed Systems’ corporate strategy, product development, sales support and its executive, operational and technical leadership to Presagis management.• Provided strategic guidance and exploited leading-edge technologies in safety certification, human-machine interface tools, graphics drivers, content creation, simulation, and visualization.

• Founded, expanded, and sold the premier developer of graphics solutions for mission- and safety-critical military and avionics systems. Acquired customers worldwide and significantly grew revenue based on a product-focused business model and dependable execution. • Delivered first commercially available products for: embedded full X Window System stack, embedded full OpenGL stack, and embedded full safety-critical (DO-178B-compliant) OpenGL stack with safety-related… Show more • Founded, expanded, and sold the premier developer of graphics solutions for mission- and safety-critical military and avionics systems. Acquired customers worldwide and significantly grew revenue based on a product-focused business model and dependable execution. • Delivered first commercially available products for: embedded full X Window System stack, embedded full OpenGL stack, and embedded full safety-critical (DO-178B-compliant) OpenGL stack with safety-related artifacts.• Created a product that could be inserted at various levels in the ecosystem. Grew market share through relationship building, partnerships, and alliances across the industry:o Integrated software with real time operating system vendors (eg. Wind River, Green Hills),o Established distribution agreements with hardware providers (eg. Radstone, Curtiss Wright),o Supported integration through system providers (e.g., Lockheed Martin, Rockwell, Elbit, Northrop Grumman, Thales, Harris, GEC Marconi), ando Distributed hardware and provided front-line support for silicon providers (eg. 3DLabs, S3, Motorola, NVIDIA).• Led strategy, positioning, marketing, and expanded staffing to a level of 30 employees.• Sold the company to Presagis at peak market conditions. Show less

• Led a team of 4 which provided all system and graphics software for both the first color graphics X terminal product to market and the first multi-head X terminal product to market.• Contributed to the design and implement of a variety of custom graphics architectures for the terminals.• Proactively managed sales, support and partnership efforts.