Highlights of Qualifications

• Expert translator of PC software to Macintosh
• Expert Java applet programmer
• Designer and Programmer of several online collaborative 3-D worlds
• Proficient C++ Programming on Mac, Windows, and Unix
• Proficient in CGI, Perl, HTML, SQL, VRML, mod-Perl, Java Servlets.

Professional Experience

• Helped design and implement parts of the Teach the Teachers website to complement the classroom instruction given to several hundred teachers during the summer of 1999.
• Built course engine which serves online courses for yipinet.com.
• Collaborative and multi-player Java applets for learning.net and whyville.net, a web site designed to help children learn science in a collaborative environment. The overall theme is a city where users can build their own houses and communicate with one another.
  Key aspects I designed and programmed included:
  • graphical child-safe chat client in Java and back-end server in C++
  • child-safe email client in Java and back-end server in C++ and SQL
  • Java applet for building Lego-like houses for the city
  • 3-D rendering of the city to allow users to navigate around houses
  • filtering technologies to make the chat and e-mail child-safe
  • interactive educational applets to teach Astronomy, Optics, and other scientific principles
  • observer technology for watching use of applets in real-time by visitors to the web site
• Design and progammed the features necessary for child-safe web browsing using a proxy server approach with complete parental control over a child's surfing activities. Employed by eschoolhouse.com.
• Designed and programmed a Natural Language fuzzy phrase matching system based upon a hierarchical database of the English language. Used as a search tool for idealab! web sites including answers.com, kidsonline.com, and guide.com.
• Wrote CGI scripts, stand-alone servers, and databases to implement interactive idealab! web sites, including learning.net, eschoolhouse.com, and kidsonline.com.
• Designed and programmed 'ideaplay', a streaming audio Java applet to work over a 28.8 modem, much like RealAudio, but without the need to download a separate browser plug-in. Used by musicnow.com.
• Designed and programmed 'mplay', an extremely small and efficient multimedia engine Java applet much like Macromedia Shockwave, but without the need to download a separate browser plug-in. Used by whyville.net.
• Ported and enhanced three multimedia engines from Windows to Macintosh: KAV, Broadway, and Accomplish. Used to author Knowledge Adventure products including the JumpStart line.
• Designed and programmed Macintosh educational software simulations to teach critical scientific thinking skills to elementary school students. Titles included: Growing Plants, Daytime Astronomy, Evolution, and Fish Olympics.

Employment History

Education

• Graduate School, Physics, U.C. Berkeley 1991-92
• B.S. with Honors, Physics, California Institute of Technology 1987-91