• C++ and C
• 80x86 Assembler
• Windows 9x/ME/2000/XP Development
• Object-Oriented Design and Implementation
• GUI Framework Design and Implementation
• Image Processing and Computer Vision
• Multithreaded and Asynchronous Systems
• Profiling, Optimization, and Debugging
• Robotics, Automation, and Motion Control
• Software Installation
• Graphics, Network, and Audio Programming
• Customer Support and Communications
• Documentation

• July 2001 - August 2003
  Line 6, Incorporated. Agoura Hills, CA
  Senior Software Design Engineer
  
  At Line 6 I worked primarily on the GuitarPort project. Approximately 75% of my time was spent as a full-time telecommuter from Ann Arbor, Michigan.
  My work included designing, developing, and maintaining several subsystems including the following:

  • Metronome code and interface for 2.1 and above
  • CD Ripping engine for 2.0 and above
  • Networking engine for 1.14 and above
  • Installation of the application and drivers
  • Crash handling, automated reporting, and internal debugging
  • Resource, string, and font management for 2.0 and above
  • Embedded Web Browser library and web integration
  • Guitar Tuner user interface
  • System Requirements and Diagnostics
  • Automated build systems

• April 2001 - July 2001
  Art and Logic, Inc. Glendale, CA
  Software Engineer
  
  I contracted through Art and Logic to Line 6 to work on the GuitarPort project.

• Aug. 2000 - March 2001
  Dimension Data, Inc. Farmington Hills, MI
  Lead Software Engineer
  
  At Dimension Data I maintained and enhanced DynIcon, a Windows-based 3D acquisition and inspection application that supported a wide array of 3D scanning hardware. I also completed a 3D laser scanning system.

• 1997 - 2000
  Intelligent Reasoning Systems, Inc Austin, TX
  Senior Software Engineer
  
  At IRSI, I joined a small team of developers and scientists working on a PCB automated optical inspection system (AIMS) as it was being ported from SGI's to Windows NT/2K. My accomplishments included:

  • Developed fiducial matching algorithms for PCB alignment
  • Converted the scanning and processing system from linear to multithreaded and optimized it.
  • Designed, implemented, and maintained the acquisition subsystem when we converted the system from being multithreaded on a single system to a multi-machine distributed design.
  • Developed analysis and diagnostics tools
  • Developed and maintained image processing and analysis
  • Converted several existing image processing algorithms from Matrox Genesis to hand-coded MMX / 80x86 assembler, resulting in speed increases of up to a factor of ten for serial processing.
  • Implemented several GUI enhancements both in TCL/Tk and MFC
  
  I moved to Chung-Li, Taiwan for several months to find and resolve both hardware and software issues and to tailor the software to our customers's needs in Taiwan and China.

• 1996 - 1997
  Progressive Systems Technologies. Austin, TX
  Software Engineer
  
  At PST, I worked with the semiconductor team on wafer handling and inspection systems. I developed robot-side software for various controllers, custom interfaces and logic controls, maintained and enhanced the legacy code for both an inspection system and our core wafer handling systems, and provided on-site support and customization for domestic and international customers.

• 1995 - 1996
  Terminal Java. Austin, TX
  Software Engineer
  

• 1994 - 1995
  Texas Workers' Compensation Insurance Fund. Austin, TX
  Computer Technician
  

Contributed to U.S. Patent #6,597,381 - User Interface for Automated Optical Inspection Systems

I spend much of my free time coding and tinkering with hardware, and sometimes make my software available on http://www.codevis.com.

One of the pieces, VidCapture, is open source and may be downloaded from http://sourceforge.net/projects/vidcapture. I also enjoy working with metals and wood, cooking, and traveling.