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Los Gatos, Ca, Us

Carlsbad, Ca, Us

New York, New York, Us

Carlsbad, Ca, Us

Business: Creation of custom software solutions.Led or contributed to the development of countless unique software solutions. Projects included many different industries, technologies, and use cases. Required extensive adaptability and problem solving capabilities. Projects typically involved cutting-edge creative solutions that customers could not implement with their own in-house resources. Examples include AI computer vision applications to detect persons-of-interest and customer demographics, an interactive visual election result explorer (CNN’s Magic Wall), machine learning predictive maintenance applications, interactive concierge and retail kiosks, augmented reality applications (Hololens and mobile), a pharmaceutical trial data-mining explorer, and many others. Individual projects typically lasted from two months to one year in duration, and as the lead I organized the efforts of the development team, architected the solutions, helped solve the most challenging technical roadblocks, and wrote code daily. Technologies included WPF (using MVVM), .NET, C#, Xamarin, JavaScript, TypeScript, Angular, D3, Go, Python, and Intel OpenVINO.

Business: Developer of immersive virtual firearm training solutions for law enforcement and military.Designed and implemented a commercial virtual firearm academy for a multi-million dollar contract. Responsible for the creation of an immersive 3D firearm range, as well as all control and customer service software for the academy. Extensive use of Unity3D, WPF (using MVVM), .NET 4.0, and Entity 4.0. See www.youtube.com/watch?v=sU7jMJkYErY for details.

Business: Provides software and hardware interactive classroom solutions.Introduced MVVM architecture to existing team of developers and designers. Responsible for design of core next-generation product, as well as underlying image tag recognition algorithms. Worked closely with designers on UX and UI.

Business: Provided an enterprise platform for fast, affordable creation of rich, interactive Flash content.Assisted in the development of Flypaper, a desktop application used for the creation of interactive Flash content. Led development of the UI, using extensive custom Forms controls for a modern appearance. Encouraged adoption of WPF, writing extensive new features in WPF. Created Silverlight controls using DeepZoom for previews of server-hosted images and documents. Extensive use of SOA design, interacting with WCF services. Worked productively with graphic designers using Expression Design and Blend.

Montreal, Quebec, Ca

Business: Developer of best-of-breed technology for rapid 3D terrain database generation and visualization.Served as the system architect for multiple applications. Designed and implemented an application framework easily extensible via plugins, using the latest .NET technologies. Designed and implemented numerous application GUIs.

Business: Developer of ‘collaborative product innovation’ software applications that aid manufacturers in early conceptual design.Architected many portions of the primary applications, including: a complex multi-threaded simulation platform, a hierarchical state-machine behavior engine, physical-assembly construction functionality, and a formulaic mechanism for “rolling up” a product’s attributes and “cascading down” its requirements. Identified customer needs and workflows, and mapped them to product specifications.

Business: Developer of 3D-modeling and visual-simulation tools for game developers, the military, and the aerospace industry.Led the development (both as lead engineer and product manager) of EasyTerrain, an innovative “world building” application used for the creation of 3D vis-sim and GIS terrain databases. EasyTerrain allowed users to quickly create polygonal representations (ITINs) of real or imagined portions of the world, accurately modeling terrain shape and populated with cultural features such as integrated roads, lakes, buildings, etc. Also assisted in other projects for 3D polygonal modeling and run-time simulation.

Business: Research laboratory investigating improvements in visual simulation through an understanding of human perception.Designed and led the development of a night-vision-goggle flight simulator for the U.S. Air Force. Also assisted the research efforts of scientists investigating improvements in visual simulation.