Software Engineering Management

Software Engineering / Product Development / Executive Management

Objective: leadership role in an innovative software company – establishing technical vision, developing product roadmaps, and restructuring organizations as necessary to meet business objectives.

Accomplished: successfully built and led diverse organizations comprised of hardware and software engineers, program management, artists, designers, system/network administrators, technical support, technical writers and quality assurance engineers – to produce timely, high-margin, award-winning products and technologies.

Track Record: on-time design/implementation/delivery of award winning 2D/3D/video software: embedded appliances, drivers, SDKs, desktop apps and online services.

Management Highlights

· GRAPHCOMP – Founder and Principal Consultant                         1982-Present
Founder of Graphcomp and its subsidiary Grafman Productions, creating custom 2D/3D/video software and services for Fortune 500 companies and municipalities in the U.S., Canada and New Zealand – including McDonnell Douglas , Data General , AT&T , DEC , Unisys. and eBay/PayPal.   Led 3 employees + contractors.

2D/3D/video software development for embedded appliances and mobile devices, desktop apps, browser apps (Ajax/Flash), and highly-scalable online services. 

Platforms: Win32/Linux/MacOS.

Languages: C/C++/Objective-C, Java, Object-oriented Perl/Python/Ruby,
JavaScript/ActionScript.

Scalable Database Architectures: MySQL, MS SQL-Server, SQLite

iPhone Development - OpenGL-ES, multi-touch, accelerometer, camera, networking:

o eBay’s PayPal App – OpenGL animation

o Clydomania (available on App Store) – sole designer/developer

o BugEyes - skin/face/feature detection (in Beta) – sole designer/developer

o Peer-to-peer photo-sharing and chat (under contract)

o TiVo photo/music-sharing (in Beta) – sole designer/developer

      Open Source Contributions:

o POGL: Portable OpenGL 3D (written in C) – Primary Contributor

o ImageMagick: 2D Imaging (written in C) – Optimized OpenGL APIs

o Ffmpeg: video libs (written in C) – compositing plug-ins

· APPSCIO – CTO                                                                                    2007-2008
Service startup for Actionable Video Intelligence.  No direct reports.

Developed an open source roadmap for a portable service platform based on an abstracted video pipeline to support plug-in analytics for government agencies, enterprise and online consumer applications.

Led technical advocacy to video analytic vendors, researchers and OSS communities.

Hands-on development in C/C++/Java, GStreamer, Flex/Flash/ActionScript - Linux.

· FABRIK – VPE / Technologist                                                              2005-2007
Founding member of an embedded Web 2.0 media appliance startup.

We completed all software for our embedded media appliance, from start to finish, with 4 engineers within 4 months.  OEM’d and launched by Maxtor/Seagate as ‘Fusion’ in Q3 2006.  I designed/implemented all our DB and imaging/video systems, as well as our UDP publish/discovery system.

We ported our embedded media-sharing system to an online service (myfabrik.com).  I created a new color space model (IHC), optimized for visual recognition – used in our video indexing/searching feature.  I also created a Flash/FLV compositing plug-in for FFmpeg.

Hands-on development in C/C++/ObjectiveC, object-oriented Perl, JavaScript/AJAX, Apache, MySQL, ImageMagick/ImLib2/FFmpeg – Linux, Win32 and MacOS.

· ADOBE – Sr. Engineering Manager / Sr. Computer Scientist           2002-2005
Led 20+ software engineers, in San Jose and Seattle, plus dotted-line reports in India.

Increased Adobe’s revenue opportunities by establishing Adobe’s Application Management Technologies team – driving a vision, roadmap and architecture to support “mix&match suites” – resulting in Adobe’s Creative Suites and Video Collections desktop products.  This allowed Adobe, for the first time, to share installed products and components across suites.

As an individual contributor, designed/implemented a scalable/distributed image server architecture for an Adobe seed project.

Hands-on development in object-oriented Perl, Java/Spring/JavaScript, Apache/Tomcat, MySQL – Linux, Win32 and MacOS.

· CLUB PHOTO – Vice President of Engineering                                 2000-2002
Led Club Photo, a privately funded, online print fulfillment company, to profitability during a time of industry consolidation in 2001.  Led teams in San Jose and Austin to develop e-commerce services, print lab systems, and desktop/handheld products.

Achieved 500% revenue growth per year and 50% reduction in operating costs by 1) restructuring Engineering, 2) dropping products that were not key to our business, 3) converting our manually-operated printing plant into a high-margin, automated digital plant, 4) working with Marketing to establish a product roadmap and MRD process and 5) establishing efficient engineering and production standards.

Hands-on development in C++, object-oriented Perl, JavaScript, Apache, MySQL – Linux.

· PHOTOLOFT – Vice President of Production and Engineering       1999-2000
Transitioned PhotoLoft, a publicly traded company, from a dot-com advertising model – to a B2B photo-ecommerce Application Service Provider model – resulting in securing major retail partners, and eventual acquisition by Canon USA.  Led 20+ engineers, web designers, QA, support and IS.

Achieved significant revenue growth, and accelerated development of custom-branded photo-ecommerce sites up to 20/month, resulting in over 150 partner sites in a 6-month period.  This was achieved by 1) reorganizing the Product Management Ecommerce, Web Development and Engineering teams, 2) establishing R&D, QA Operations and Support teams, 3) and driving the roadmap and development of a low-maintenance, high-margin photo-ecommerce engine.

Hands-on development in C++/ASP-VBScript/Java/JavaScript, IIS, SQL-SERVER – on Win32.

· ISD CORP – Director of Engineering                                                  1998-1999 Executed the personnel and technology merger of our acquired Cirrus Logic Graphics Division – resulting in a new Video and Consumer Devices division that successfully created wireless, embedded web and graphics solutions for Sun Microsystems, Ericsson and HP.  Led 20+ HW/SW engineers.

Achieved Microsoft WHQL-compliance for Cirrus Logic, Intel, IBM and other video system vendors.  Successfully executed on-time delivery of boot/kernel/driver code and porting JavaOS for a wireless Ericsson PDA.

Hands-on development in object-oriented Perl, Apache, MySQL – Linux.

· LIVE PICTURE – Director-level Manager                                         1997-1998
Executed the personnel and technology mergers of multiple M&A and office consolidations at Live Picture, a John Sculley company - resulting in the timely deployment of several award-winning and innovative shrink-wrapped 3D web authoring products, such as Reality Studio, PhotoVista and Mobster.  Personally designed/prototyped Reality Studio and Mosbster products.  Led 50+ employees.

Achieved increased productivity through product focus and process by 1) working with Marketing to establish product roadmaps, 2) establishing Program Management, managing various Engineering teams, Art design/development, Technical Publications, QA and Support.

Hands-on development in C++ - Win32.

Other leadership roles:

· NETMANAGE – Senior Ecommerce and Crypto Engineer                   1995–1996

· BORLAND INTERACTIVE – Senior R&D Engineer 1994–1995

· NOVELL / STI – Graphics and Networking Architect                          1990–1994

· GRAPHCOMP INTERNATIONAL – Founder & Principal               1986–1990

· MCDONNELL DOUGLASS – Product Marketing Engineer              1984–1986

· DATA GENERAL / SYSCOMP – 3D Systems Engineer                    1983–1984

Published Works

OPENSOURCE CONTRIBUTIONS

· CPAN OpenGL: Portable 3D Module, written in C – Primary Owner

· ImageMagick: Portable 2D Imaging library, written in C – OpenGL Contributor

· FFmpeg: Portable Video Library, written in C – v-hook Contributor

BOOKS

· Laura Lemay's Web Workshop: 3D Graphics and VRML 2

· VRML & 3D on the Web for Dummies

· Elements of Web Design

WEB SITES SOLELY DESIGNED/IMPLEMENTED BY ME

· Graphcomp - http://graphcomp.com

· POGL: Perl OpenGL Developer’s Site – http://pogl.org

Personal Technology Highlights

· 1973 – Designed and developed “industry-first” 3D textured/scalable font engine.

· 1976 – Authored algorithms for specular reflectance on curved mirrors.

· 1979 – Created 3D system for solar energy absorption, shading and heat radiation.

· 1982 – Designed and developed a 2D/3D vector graphics library in C.

· 1984 – Created original optimized 3D routing algorithms for cable wiring paths, used by BellCore, PacificBell and SouthWesternBell.

· 1986 – Designed and developed a 2D/3D raster/vector graphics library in assembler.

· 1991 – Created “industry-first” method of extending Windows GDI beyond a 32K memory segment, allowing Faster-Than-Windows BLT’g in Win3.x.

· 1993 – Created “industry-first” portable, transport-independent named-pipe solution.

· 1994 – Designed and published “industry-first” WinSock-based MUD client,  with multi-threading on Win3.x, scripting language, and triggers – within a 32K footprint.

· 1995 – Designed and developed first deployed client-server SLL DLLs independent of Netscape.  Clean-room - all original code, including math libraries.

· 1996 – Designed and published “industry-first” 3D/VRML file-system web server.

· 1997 – Designed and developed “industry-first” LOD-adjustable 3D/VRML library.

· 1998 – Designed and published “industry-first” web-based, photo-realistic 3D/immersive authoring tool.

· 2003 – Designed and developed a portable TiVo-compliant media server.

· 2004 – Designed and developed a web-based playlist generator.

· 2005 – Created a portable image rendering server solution.

· 2005 – Created a scene-graph export library for NVSG, D3D, VRML1/2.

· 2006 – Created a new color space model, optimized for image recognition.

· 2007 – Designed and developed a 3D Captcha authentication system.

· 2007 – Designed and developed a scalable, distributed OpenGL server.

· 2008 – Designed and developed an OpenGL-based panorama stitcher.

· 2009 – Designed and developed peer-to-peer media-sharing for the iPhone.

· 2009 – Created optimized face/skin detection algorithms.

Technical Expertise

Platforms     Win32/Win16/DOS, Unix/Linux, VMS, AOS, MacOS-X/iPhone

Languages   C/C++/Objective-C, Perl, Java, Python/Ruby, VB, FORTRAN, Prolog, APL, Forth

Assembly      i80x86/7 cpu/ndp, i8237 dma, i8251 uart, i8253 clock, various video chipsets

2D/3D primitives, OpenGL/DirectX, ARB/Cg/GLSL/CUDA, VRML, OpenCV, CAD, video

Networking  UDP/TCP/IP, IPX/SPX, HTTP/FTP, SMTP/POP, client/server, peer-to-peer, others

Security            PKI/RSA-PKCS/Diffie-Hellman/DES/MD5, SSL, OpenSSLeay, CryptoAPI

Database       MySQL/SQLite/MS-SQL, ODBC/ADO/DBI, ecommerce/authentication transactions

WebServer   IIS, Apache/Tomcat/LightTPD (Win32 & Linux), SOAP/REST/SaaS

WebDesign   CGI/ISAPI, HTML/XML/CSS, Perl/PHP, JavaScript/ActionScript/Flex, ASP/VBScript,
UI design, graphic art, audio, video, 3D animation