achievements

• Architected and launched online social web site in fewer than 9 months. The site integrated Elasticsearch document indexing, WebSocket real-time notifications, WebRTC video capture, tool marketplace with Ogone payment processing, GitLab file sharing, Mandrill email notifications, MySQL and MongoDB data persistence, and seamless integrations of third party services such as Kontagent Analytics and AppThwack on Device Testing. Remotely managed the 6 member multi-continental interdisciplinary team. Selected tools and procedures, assigned daily team priorities, measured progress, and managed expectations to ensure goal alignment for each weekly release.
• Researched and helped select competitive feature set for launch into government sponsored online bingo market. Measured and optimized server based gaming code to support 1000s of simultaneous players.
• Implemented media manager tools such as .NET Remoting bridge to WME for video conversion, and C++/CLI interface to MTP for transfer of DRM content to portable players.
• Our group successfully ported 1.3 million lines of scientific analysis and display code in less than 2 years and subsequently launched the company’s first HIPAA compliant FDA registered commercial application. Because of visionary technical direction and excellent communication skills I was quickly promoted to the head of the engineering department where I provided guidance, long term strategic planning and managed a team of electronic, software, and industrial design engineers. Over the next 9 years the resulting MFC C++ code base smoothly evolved into two additional commercial Windows applications and formed the back end for a .NET powered, web based data reduction and scientific analysis application.
• Programmed a WDM USB 1.1 compliant mini-driver to bulk transfer 778 kilobits per second of instrument data to a Windows XP workstation. Also programmed PIC device side firmware for a USB 2.0 compliant instrument using a PLX Technology chip.
• Hired to maintain and tailor existing software to each customer's contracted specifications. We successfully applied object-oriented programming and testing techniques to reduce the number of end-user reported software errors. The improved software gained a “skinnable” GUI for greater end-user customization than previously possible, a marketing advantage in the industry.
• Implemented a software system that reduced skilled labor costs by streamlining the verification procedure for space satellite control sequences. The system leveraged existing scripting tools such as Lex and Awk as well as custom C code to pre-process satellite control sequences.
• Invented and marketed a successful voice recognition application targeted at Windows Mobile Pocket PC Phone Edition Devices. Ported Ogg Vorbis decoder to the Smartphone.
• Coded spectral analysis utilities to augment finite element analysis algorithms.