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Computer Engineering specializing in System Design and Computer Architecture

Responsibilities:• Manage Engineering Transfer (to 4-year) and Engineering Technology (Technician) programs• Manage the Engineering Department's Adjunct Faculty• Manage grants and scholarships• Acquire new grants, university and industrial connections• Teach engineering classes with an emphasis on electrical

Major Assignments:● Technical Lead of MIC Scale Engineering Team. Team produced engineering articles, resolved engineering problems, and supported customers.● Project Lead and Technical Lead, 10+ engineers. Team produced: Expert-level workshop on Xeon Phi technology. Put together the team and guided project. Wrote communication section.● Technical Lead of the Alliance IoT Workshops with IBM Bluemix, Microsoft Azure, and Amazon AWS teams. Presenting Internet of Things (IoT) commercial workshops to industry and government customers. Develop embedded and IoT projects for training sites. Support Edison road shows and hackathons.● Optimization of media account applications: Pro Tools (audio filter, maximizing channel counts, tools support), Avid Pinnacle Studio (media filter, HW acceleration, MediaSDK, threading and synchronization), Avid System 6 Core Audio Engine (AVX, maximizing channel counts), Crestatech (startup), and Mirics (startup).● Tool development: PowerVisualizer and PowerInformer which evaluated the use and effectiveness of power technology in commercial applications.● Sales support: Presented technology to customers (current and potential) in the US, Australia and Brazil, including LLNC, BOVESPA and Itaú Unibanco, on Intel Xeon and Xeon Phi technologies.● Technical papers: Writing technical articles on IoT, the Xeon Phi HPC coprocessor, power management, and processor technology. Gave invited presentations at conferences and industrial forms on power management, optimization, and tools.● Awards: Black Belt for being a recognized expert by the customer engineering/ developer community. Group and Division awards for contributions to the Xeon Phi coprocessor program. Special recognitions for contributions in securing the sale of supercomputer clusters to Australian iVEC labs, and for providing Xeon and Xeon Phi advanced workshops.

Major Responsibilities:● Embedded systems middleware software development engineero Digital and analog copy protections (Designed)o Guide copy protection management (Implemented - Java, C, JNI)o Framework to support parallel stacks (Architected - PRD, SAS and projectplan)

● Principal Architect on the Myrio Video over IP Metadata project. Defined the business and technical requirements. Architected client and server-side metadata systems. Designed the metadata communication layer.● Designed the porting layer APIs for OCAP Home Networking, including an engineering analysis of the impact of Home Networking on applications, the OCAP middleware stack and the underlying porting layer.● Wrote key technical sections of the JSR 242, “OnRamp to OCAP,” specification.● Specification expert (in house) for MHP 1.0, GEM 1.0, DASE 1.0, ARIB, ATVEF,ATSC A/65B, SCTE 65, A/81, SCTE 54, OCAP 1.0, MPEG-2.

Major Responsibilities:● Designed and implemented prototype for using two flash banks for storing the OpenTV middleware. Wrote and maintained MHP Security Tests Suite contribution. Evaluated potential technology for incorporation into the OpenTV middleware.● Contributed OpenTV technical expertise to design committees for the MHP GEM Security and Application Lifecycle module. Represented OpenTV on the ATSC DASE technical committee. Chair of the DASE security working group.● Patents: Wrote and developed. Evaluated for potential acquisition.

● Researched probability theory in heterogeneous distributed HPC systems.● Co-lead a distributed research team in a 3 year project (10 direct reports, 25person team)● Taught computer system architecture courses● Managed MS and Ph.D. graduate students● Wrote and presented research proposals to national funding agencies such asDARPA, NRL and NSF.