Career focus: to design, develop, and deliver innovative software.
Summary: a career of producing high-performance products, with extensive experience in 2-D & 3-D graphics, Internet, compression, multimedia, Java, C++, assembly, optimization, OOD, UI design for both novices and experts, and rapid development.
Skills include top-notch communication abilities, fluid problem solving, ability to work well under pressure, and sticking with a task until it's 100%, not just 95%, done.
Managerial skills include strategic planning, balancing requirements, motivating a team, incremental delivery, and effective communication with non-development departments.
| Year | Company | Project | Responsibilities | Team Size |
Language; Platform |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| '09 | '97 |
CodeWell* | Design and development | Architect & team lead | 1-15 | Java,C++,JavaScript, Perl,SQL,Delphi,asm; Win32,Unix |
| '96 | Worlds* | Internet 3-d virtual reality | Architect & team lead | 8 | Java; Win32 |
| '95 | '93 |
Knowledge Adventure* | Multimedia language & development environment |
Architect & team lead | 5 | C++, 68k & x86 asm; Win32, Mac |
| '92 | KA* | Movie/sound compression | Senior developer | 3 | C; Win 3.x |
| '91 | Lotus* | Graphical shell | Co-arch & co-lead | 2 | C; DOS |
| '90 | Lotus* | Magellan 2.0 | Co-arch & co-lead | 4 | C & x86 asm; DOS, Win3.0 |
| '89 | Lotus* | Internationalized Magellan | Co-arch & co-lead | 2 | C; DOS |
| '88 | Lotus* | Utility to find and view files | Co-arch & co-lead | 4 | C & x86 asm; DOS |
| '87 | '84 |
SRS | Speech recognition | Lead researcher & lead programmer |
8 | C & 68k asm; Sun Unix |
| '84 | TRW | Relational database in Ada | Co-arch & co-lead | 2 | Ada; Sun Unix |
| '83 | TRW | Text search hardware | Programmer | 4 | C; Sun Unix |
| '82 | SDS* | Full-featured spreadsheet | Sole developer | 1 | Palm asm; IBM 5110 |
| '81 | Caltech | 64-line PBX | Sole SW developer | 3 | 6502 asm; custom |
| '81 | SDS* | Printer converter device | Sole developer | 1 | 6800 asm; custom |
| '80 | SDS* | Hard disk interface | Sole developer | 1 | Palm asm; IBM 5110 |
| '79 | SDS | Full-featured word processor | Sole developer | 1 | Palm asm; IBM 5110 |
| '78 | SDS | Reverse-engineer 5110 asm | Sole developer | 1 | Palm asm; IBM 5110 |
* = developed and used a set of remote management techniques.
The links in the table above lead to an associated document that gives details of my job history.Education: BS with honors from Caltech in '83.
U.S. Patent #5,303,361: Search and retrieval system
U.S. Patent #7,370,035: Methods and systems for search indexing
U.S. Patent #7,424,510: Methods and systems for Web-based incremental searches
U.S. Patent #7,496,559: Apparatus and methods for locating data
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