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San Mateo, California, Us

Manage the Avatar Creation Platform teams, using graphics and AI to enable users to create and customize digital avatars on Roblox

San Mateo, California, Us

Limnu is a collaborative online whiteboard for brainstorming, designing and just explaining complicated stuff. Drop in documents, videoconference and present to remote meeting attendees.

We built a better in-meeting collaboration experience and reduced friction to connect with peers. ZipSocket acquired Limnu and adopted the Limnu brand.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Led work on innovative mobile and cloud-based features for PowerPoint. Transitioned the team to agile development. Led the development of editing workflows for mobile PowerPoint and helped manage adaptation of core functionality to Android.

New York, Ny, Us

Responsible for all aspects of software at Perceptive Pixel. Directed development of a multi-touch and pen and touch platform, including the complete software stack: novel end-user applications for collaboration and storytelling, APIs to enable third party applications and hardware drivers. Transitioned software team to Microsoft in Sept 2012.

Glendale, Ca, Us

Manage the R&D of DreamWorks’ proprietary feature animation rendering software. Responsible for planning, tracking and communicating the progress of development with production and executive management. Grew the team from 8 to 30, transitioning from a position of trailing in many areas to on par or leading it. Overseeing a multi-year re-architecture project to improve the performance and scalability of rendering software, and the efficiency of production lighting and the render farm.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Supervised an international team of graphics engineers, ILM’s first outsourced development. Developed the software framework for visual effects and video game production. Improved scene graph connected python expressions, replaced the file format and introduced multi-threading. Added an asset management tool. Improved render farm fault tolerance and manageability.

Mountain View, California, Us

Migrated a profitable web site in-house from an external vendor. Hired and managed a nine-person software development and quality assurance team. Guided the team through all phases of product development, legacy migration, data center installation, QA, maintenance and customer support

Managed the development of a computer-vision based device for NASA to monitor moving shuttle parts. Developed a 3-D visualization tool for a portable flight recorder. Represented Microsoft & other companies in negotiations at the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) and ATSC.

Built a voice service company that launched a socializing and dating tool for mobile phones. Co-designed the product and company concept, raised over $300K, hired and managed the product development team, and recruited advisors.

Built a 3-D, computer-vision based video game prototype. Implemented authoring and run-time frameworks using experimental techniques in game production. Wrote a fast spline renderer.

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B.A., Physics & Art

M.S., Computer Graphics (School Of Architecture)

Computer Science

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