Objective

To obtain a challenging position as an architect or technical lead and use my skills to bring exciting, cutting-edge products  to life.

Skills

Shrinkwrapped product experience through the entire product lifecycle.  Experience participating in international standards organizations.  Design and architecture skills.  Ability to mentor and direct younger engineers.  Ability to coordinate deliverables with 3^rd parties.  Multiple platform experience (primarily Win32 but also Red Hat and embedded Linux, along with Mac OSX).  UPnP, network programming, Ethereal, digital media authoring, parsing, and streaming experience.  Experience with content protection such as DTCP-IP and Cardea.  DirectShow filter and graph development; real-time streaming audio/video decoding and rendering; digital video capture and encoding; C, C++, Java; MFC, DirectX, COM, Win32 SDK, internet technologies (ActiveX, DHTML, Javascript, DOM). Excellent UI and graphics skills.

Interests

Streaming media, digital content, HDTV, home theater, video games, classic console gaming, emulation, graphics, interactive tools, and multimedia in general; for PCs (DirectDraw, Direct3D), and embedded devices / game consoles. Non-computer-related interests include motorsports (road racing, autocross, offroading), digital photography, model building, bicycling, military aviation, and scuba diving.

Experience

5/02 - Present

Digital5 Inc, Lawrenceville, NJ.  Technical Lead.

Tech Lead for Digital5 server-side middleware, encompassing Windows server shipped with network-enabled CE devices, embedded Linux servers on several NAS platforms, and cross-platform SDKs.   Responsible for deliverables as well as architectural and technical decisions.  Coordinate and oversee several teams of engineers located in the US, India, Japan, and Russia.  Represent the company and its products at DLNA interoperability events held around the world.  Coordinate schedules and deliveries with company technology partners.   Retained responsibility for earlier core technical competencies.

10/99 - 2/02

e-Vue Inc., Iselin, NJ. Senior Software Engineer.
Lead MPEG-4 Applications group, responsible for schedule, design, architecture, and implementation of MPEG-4 standard audio/video authoring tool, player and reusable components. Created DirectShow source, parser, and transform filters to enable MP4 playback within Windows Media Player. Created XCOM plugin architecture, a lightweight cross-platform COM surrogate to form the basis of our application architecture. Created MPEG-4 plugins for RealPlayer G2 to allow for streaming of MP4 content over Real Networks systems.

5/97 - 10/99

C|Net -- The Computer Network, Bridgewater, NJ. Senior Software Engineer.
Created several Windows client-side internet products. Wrote a MAPI DLL shipping with Snap-branded IE5 that sets web-based email.com to the default mail client; created a Java-based three-tier harvester monitoring application. Created desktop utilities for the snap.com internet startup kit CD. Co-authored the Snap! Online IE4 channel in DHTML. Created an ActiveX menu control that includes PNG rendering (visit my sample page).

11/95 - 5/97

Dialogic Corp., Parsippany, NJ. Software Engineer.
Created applications and utilities for Dialogic telephony products (e.g. PBXpert). Added new features to system software and SDK. Created a simplified board configuration utility to integrate with Windows' Device Manager. Created sample applications for SDK (e.g. SC-BUS fax demo) and industry tradeshows (e.g. unified voice/fax messaging in Exchange). Platforms included Windows 95 and Windows NT (x86 and AXP), tools included MFC & Visual C++ 4.x.

1/95 - 11/95

Jersey Cow Software Co., Franklin Park, NJ. Software Engineer.
Developed shrink-wrapped multimedia educational titles including Kaplan Roadtrip '96 and Who is Oscar Lake?. Highlight components include an RTF rendering engine, advanced GDI rendering, a game network engine and a common utilities DLL.

3/93 - 1/95

United Parcel Service, Mahwah, NJ. Software Engineer.
Created message queue infrastructure to link OS/2 workstations to other OS/2 Workstations, other IBM platforms, and Novell Netware servers. Created various OS/2 Presentation Manager utilities. Created second-generation message queue system with Novell Netware NLMs and DOS clients. Protocols included APPC and IPX, platforms included OS/2 2.x, Netware 3.x, and MS-DOS.

Education

9/91 - 1/93

M.S. Computer Science, New Jersey Institute of Technology. GPA = 3.40.

9/87 - 5/91

B.S. Computer Science, cum laude, New Jersey Institute of Technology. GPA = 3.41.

Honors

Tau Beta Pi, Upsilon Pi Epsilon, Dean's List