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Windows video driver development and debugging for NVIDIA graphics devices. Video applications include Netflix, YouTube, and screenstreaming. Video decoding, encoding, and processing operations for DirectX (DX9, DX11 and DX12.) Video performance and power profiling and tuning.

Created various software projects related to 2D and 3D graphics for Windows 7, 8.1 and 10. Designed Win32 Windows applications for clients and for testing graphics algorithms and tools:● Application to demonstrate new method for adding 3D lighting and shading to 2D vector drawings.● Program to map flat text onto curved surfaces for a CNC wood carving tool.● Direct3D applications to test 3D functions and shaders.● Software to read and manipulate Windows enhanced metafiles.

NVIDIA is a leading maker of 3D computer graphics chips (GPUs) for PCs and mobile devices. Member of the multimedia software team for Windows drivers for video. Worked on Windows DirectX driver for DVD and MPEG-2 video playback. Updated DVD driver for new laptop graphics chips. Debugged various DirectX driver functions.Developed NVIDIA's first DXVA (DirectX Video Acceleration) driver for software DVD players.Worked closely with several outside software DVD player companies to test and upgrade DXVA driver for their players.

Made performance and feature enhancements to Windows DVD video drivers, to improve video benchmark scores and support laptop graphics chips.

S3 was a leading maker of 2D and 3D computer graphics chips for PCs. Member of the multimedia software group for Windows drivers for video. Worked on DVD hardware acceleration and DirectX drivers. Worked with the S3 architecture and hardware design groups to implement and test improved video features in graphics chips.Recommended changes to hardware video scaling algorithms that led to substantial improvements in video scaling quality for DVD and other video playback.Implemented software for DVD video deinterlacing, to improve the display of DVD video.

AuraVision was a designer of video overlay chips for television video on PCs. Developed Windows video capture, playback, and MCI overlay drivers. Created video compression / decompression (Codec) driver. Developed sample Windows applications and debugging tools for video overlay hardware.Developed the first Windows video capture driver that captured compressed video.Listed as inventor with two hardware engineers on AuraVision patent,"Data processing technique for limiting the bandwidth of data to be stored in a buffer."

Chips & Tech was a leading maker of CPU chipsets and 2D graphics chips for PCs. Developed Windows 2D graphics display drivers, VGA BIOS, and utilities for graphics chips. Created demo utilities to showcase features of graphics chips. Worked closely with hardware engineers to test and debug new hardware. Supervised five other software engineers during last year in this position.Developed first Windows display driver able to switch between portrait and landscape modes. This Windows for Pen Computing driver was developed for Microsoft, and was used as a model driver by Microsoft for this product. (Two other engineers contributed code for this project.)