• Designed and implemented all of Leenback's server-side software. Wrote the Rails-based front end and administration tools. Managed the deployment and operations of the production site.
• Designed and administered the MySQL-based production database.
• Implemented AJAX-based DHTML controls and user-facing content on the site.
• Wrote the first version of Leenback's software in Java using Hibernate, Spring, and Stripes. Researched and recommended the switch to Rails when Hibernate limitations proved unrealistic for our two-person engineering team to work around.

• Converted Rexee's research projects into strong, deployable systems. Implemented unit testing, functional testing, and logging to ensure system stability, transparency, and prevent regressions. Wrote the build and deploy machinery in Perl, Bash, and GNU Make.
• Specified and deployed tools such as Trac, Drupal, and Subversion to improve internal communication and code sharing. Instated policies to ensure safe merging and deployment.
• Rebuilt Rexee's information infrastructure. Established high performance clustered computing infrastructure.
• Wrote a fast, space-efficient Nister vocabulary tree in C++ to serve as a highly optimized database for image recognition and classification.

• Designed, wrote, and integrated ListManager's rich content editor and "drag-and-drop" image library using AJAX technologies. press release
• Used agile development methods to deliver a complete, usable product from informal specifications on a highly accelerated schedule.
• Prototyped in PHP for agility, then rewrote to deploy into Lyris's tcl/C++/Postgres-based back-end.
• Worked remotely from Boston, MA.

• Created a fast TCP layer 7 stream rewrite engine for the NetScaler kernel. Designed a simple programming language to specify rewrite operations and wrote the corresponding compiler and kernel-space bytecode interpreter.
• Wrote a web-based management console for NetScaler arrays using Perl, HTML::Mason, Apache mod_perl, and RRD.
• Wrote a web-based Java applet that interpreted Bash-like command scripts to simplify the installation and reconfiguration of individual NetScaler servers.

• Helped write and maintain i-drive's Java/JSP and XSLT-based page generation. This included creating DHTML templates, implementing efficient database schemas and administering the Oracle database.
• Moved file storage from the Oracle database to cost effective NAS arrays. Helped rewrite portions of the Java-based file download and audio streaming infrstructure in C with asynchronous I/O.
• Other tasks included writing the task scheduler, rewriting the database connection pooling, and compliance and load testing.

• Maintained OpenTV's embedded real-time operating system. Worked on everything from the low-level MPEG streaming to the high-level user interface.
• Redesigned and rewrote the MPEG-2 demultiplexing and DVB-SI engine.
• Development was on Sun/Solaris workstations. Production environments included QNX, VxWorks, Mach-based and custom microkernels.
• Lived in France for six months performing engineering support and hardware bring-up for OpenTV's French customers.

1996 - 1997

• Designed the low-level graphics architecture for the Be Operating System. Worked with VESA and third-party developers to ensure it was fast, secure, and easy to use.
• Managed the full life cycle of Be's graphics driver collection. This included market analysis to determine which cards and features to support given Be's limited engineering resources, creating and maintaining professional relationships with hardware vendors, writing specifications, writing and maintaining the drivers themselves, supporting third-party driver authors, bug tracking, and technical support.
• Used trade show presentations, Internet mailing lists, and newsletter articles to present and evangelize new BeOS technology to third-party developers and customers.

• Wrote drivers and acceleration for the Javelin video card for Macintosh. This involved the PCI driver, firmware driver, F-Code driver, QuickDraw acceleration, and QuickTime codecs.
• Brought up the Power3D PCI card. Wrote the low-level drivers and QuickDraw 3D RAVE hardware acceleration.
• Created the software for a working prototype of a Macintosh audio/video capture and playback card based on the Philips Pantera chipset.

• Graduated with a Bachelor of Science, Electrical Engineering and Dean's Honors.
• Emphasis was VLSI and signal processing with intensive use of MATLAB.