Thomas Burnett Email & Phone Number

Austin, Tx, Us

Austin, Texas, United States

Austin, Texas Area

Chief software architect and principal software engineer/researcher with a focus on light-field technologies, 3D multi-view rendering and the natural and intuitive visualization of complex 3D data. • Principal software engineer for 3D battlespace and ship digital twin visualization research projects. Built using FoVI3D’s CRos software framework. [C++, Qt, OpenGL, ZMQ, Bullet, FlatBuffers, UE5]• Architect and developer of CRos, an efficient and portable Task processing framework that manages the processing and publication of network messages using a ThreadPool and TaskGraph architecture for the purpose of reducing the computation Size, Weight, and Power (SWaP) requirements of robotics, internet of things (IoT) and digital-twin applications. [C++, ZMQ, OpenCV, PCL, FlatBuffers]• Architect, designer, and developer for FoVI3D’s CRO MK1 Rover, a 4x2 wheeled, terrestrial robot for offroad trail/path finding and navigation research. Built using FoVI3D’s CRos software framework. The primary vision-based navigation task segments and labels RGB imagery on a mobile ARM GPU using a custom CNN developed by FoVI3D. [C++, Python, TensorFlow, CNN, OpenCV, Jetson Nano]• Created computer generated hologram rendering demonstration from point clouds. [C++, GLM, PCL]• Developer of the patented BowTie Radiance Image Rasterization algorithm for light-field rendering. A 30-120x speed improvement (in simulation) over the Double Frustum algorithm. [C++, OpenGL, GLM]• Principal engineer and patent author of the ActiveHogel, a frameless, tileable, spatial light modulator designed to accommodate large format light-field displays.• Principal engineer for the DK2 and GoodLife light-field displays. Developed rendering systems. [C++, OpenGL, GLM, OpenCL]• Principal software engineer and architect for FoVI3D’s light-field display calibration and metrology software. [C++, OpenGL, Qt]

Austin, Texas Metropolitan Area

• Developed light-field camera and display radiance image rendering and validation software. [C++, OpenGL, GLSL, OpenCV, OpenCL, Qt, GLFW]• Developed stereo pair calibration and depth from stereo pair software. [C++, OpenCV]• Developed 3D physics engine and math acceleration libraries for iOS games. [C++]• Developed and released Groundhog Assault 3D (GHA) and Tank Battle Head-to-Head for iOS. Later ported GHA to Unreal Engine 4. [C++, OpenGL ES, UE4]

Austin, Texas Area

Responsible for the day-to-day operation of the engineering team, managing the development schedule and of product delivery. At Lab7, we developed a web based application to manage the provenance and workflow of gene-sequencing research and analytics.

Austin, Texas Area

Software technology lead responsible for overseeing software engineering and architecture decisions for light-field holographic prints and motion displays. Technical liaison to commercial and defense marketing and senior management.• Principal Investigator and Director for the light-field holographic ZScape Motion Display (ZMD) (2012-2013). Voted by Time Magazine as one of the top 50 inventions of 2011.• Responsible for investigating new technology trends (such as Kinect, Photogrammetry, and iOS) to support new business development opportunities. [C++, OpenGL, OpenCL, PCL]• Interfaced with customers and stake holders to derive software requirements and risk mitigation strategies.• Contributed to light-field display patents: architecture, calibration, and rendering.Software Team Lead and Manager 2006-2011• Managed software team, graphics/artist personnel, and supervised IT group, +15 direct reports.• Responsible for project planning, resource management, and hiring.• Technical lead for software projects ranging from static hologram imager control and dynamic holographic display systems to high-speed rendering solutions. [C++, OpenGL, GLFW, Assimp]Senior Software Engineer 2004-2006• Member of the dynamic light-field display research team. Responsible for real-time, light-field display radiance image rendering. US Government/DARPA funded grant. [C++, OpenGL]• Developed static light-field imager control code. [C++]• Wrote light-field radiance rendering code to create holographic, topographic maps for the US Army reducing holographic rendering time from 5 days to 2 hours. [C++, OpenGL, GLUT, GLFW]

Austin, Texas Area

Kodak acquired Applied Science Fiction in March of 2003. Continued previous work on vector math and imaging libraries. Developed code to test the FPIM (Film Processing and Imaging, formerly known as the Digital Film Processor) hardware before final machine assembly. Digital Dust [Windows, C++, tVec]Developed an algorithm and code to remove dust and specks from digital image scans. Detected areas of high detail verses areas of uniformity and only applied dust removal in uniform regions. Dust and specks were effectively removed without blurring the image.Image Station and Field Replaceable Unit Tests [Windows, C++, MFC]Developed an application suite to test the FPIM’s robotic and imaging components for use in both assembly line and test bench scenarios.

Austin, Texas Area

Developed vector and image mathematical libraries and data paths for the Digital Film Processor, a system designed to digitally render images from undeveloped 35mm film. Digital Film Processor Image Path and Image Library [Windows, Linux, C++, tVec]Developed DFP image rendering and noise processing routines under the direction of ASF’s chief scientist, Dr. Albert Edgar. Quad-G4 Processor Daughter Card OS, Libraries and Utilities [Windows, Linux, C++, MFC]Co-Developed an embedded processor operating system for an in-house quad-G4 processor daughter card. Each processor had complete independent functionality with direct (DMA) memory-to-memory data transfer. Utilities included a Windows based monitoring and management application that could control or examine all daughter processors independently or in groups.tVec Vector Library [Windows, Linux, Mac OS, C, AltiVec, SIMD]Co-wrote and managed the development of an extensive and highly optimized vector float math library of ~100 functions. Implemented in scalar and AltiVec/SIMD intrinsics, the library detected processor level and automatically reassigned function pointers accordingly.

Austin, Texas Area

Developed borehole equipment modeling and property editing software for the GeoFrame System Components group.Graphical Borehole Equipment Modeler [Windows NT, VC++ 6.0,Visio, MFC, COM]Designed both a Visio template and an Open Inventor based application to graphically model borehole equipment as described in a borehole equipment database. Borehole Equipment Catalog [Windows NT, VC++ 6.0, Active X, MFC, Ole]Developed a catalog of borehole equipment, hierarchically categorized by job/equipment type. The catalog defined connectivity and containment rules for borehole modeling and acted as a drag source for common borehole equipment.

Austin, Texas Area

Developed and supported logic simulation tools for the Power, Power2 and PowerPC design projects. Design Logic Synthesis and Model Build [AIX, C/C++]Architected logic synthesis and optimization systems for both compiled code and event driven cycle simulators. Logic synthesis consisted of translating a box/net graph of compiled DSL, Verilog or VHDL into logic gates for a target simulator. For the compiled code simulators, this required generating executable RISC assembly to represent models. Optimizations included standard boolean logic reductions, redundancy removal, gate compaction, zero sink cone removal and assembly instruction reordering and register leveling.Graphical Logic Database Browser [AIX, Motif, C++]Developed an application to graphically display the contents of a logic design database in a levelized box/net graph. Provided trace functions and back annotation of design data such as timing and AET values. Client/Server Distributed Simulation Environment [AIX, Motif, C] Worked on a team to produce a client/server distributed simulation environment and related data and server management utilities. Server featured multiple job queues, CPU usage monitoring, job tracking, and priority job scheduling. Developed a Motif application to monitor and administer jobs, queues and machines in the distributed simulation environment.

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Computer Science

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