Experience

Reliant

• United States
• IT System Custom Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Artificial Intelligence Architect

  • Dec 2017 - Present

  Developing an intelligent symptom checker diagnostic tool to provide recommendations based on user provided symptoms.



AnSem

• Belgium
• Semiconductor Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Owner

  • 2005 - Present

  Greater Denver Area Ansemond provides consulting services for video compression and image recognition algorithms, optimization services, and development of C/C++/Objective C/Haskell/Python software for third parties. A recent project was to build a tool to vectorize pictures drawn by hand on paper, captured by a cellphone, for an undisclosed startup. Previously Ansemond provided end-user Mac software ("Find It! Keep It!", a webbrowser to save live webpages to a database that can be searched) and… Show more Ansemond provides consulting services for video compression and image recognition algorithms, optimization services, and development of C/C++/Objective C/Haskell/Python software for third parties. A recent project was to build a tool to vectorize pictures drawn by hand on paper, captured by a cellphone, for an undisclosed startup. Previously Ansemond provided end-user Mac software ("Find It! Keep It!", a webbrowser to save live webpages to a database that can be searched) and iPhone software ("Tetratile"). Show less



Ubiquity Broadcasting Corporation

• Senior Research Scientist

  • Nov 2011 - 2014

  Developed Computer Vision Algorithms for Video Analysis.

• Video compression R&D as a consultant

  • Oct 2009 - Nov 2011

  Weav video compression technology



Backflip Studios

• Optimization Consultant

  • Oct 2009 - Jan 2010

  Optimized the physics engine of the iPhone hit Ragdoll Blaster II such that it runs around 5x faster.



Pearson Education

• Book Author

  • May 2009 - Sep 2009

  Wrote a book about iPhone programming called "Teach yourself Cocoa Touch Programming in 24 Hours". ( http://www.amazon.com/Teach-Yourself-Cocoa-Touch-Programming/dp/067233125X )



Computational Solutions LLC

• Associate

  • Feb 2009 - Apr 2009

  Desktop Mac Software for Biological/Medical Imaging.



Earthscape

• Software Engineer

  • Feb 2007 - May 2008

  Part time: Routing and Javascript API.



AMD

• United States
• Semiconductor Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• MTS Software Engineer

  • 2003 - 2005

  * Optimized software & hardware FPU performance (wrote a pipeline simulator, hand optimized x86 assembly code, recommended silicon changes) * Wrote an OS Independent Profiler * Co-wrote a tool to infer the program an x86 was running from the electrical activity occuring on the x86's pins.



National Semiconductor

• Semiconductor Manufacturing
• 400 - 500 Employee

• MTS Software Engineer

  • 1999 - 2003

  * Architected and participated in co-writing a tool to infer the program an x86 was running from the electrical activity occuring on the x86's pins: state extractor. * Informal technical lead for the Silicon Validation Team's software efforts * ICE/Debugger: ported Cyrix' Dowser debugger to 6 generations of Geode CPUs, and rewrote more than half of it. * Created a Binary Parser tool to specify hardware bitfields in a grammar, improving the maintainability of our debugger… Show more * Architected and participated in co-writing a tool to infer the program an x86 was running from the electrical activity occuring on the x86's pins: state extractor. * Informal technical lead for the Silicon Validation Team's software efforts * ICE/Debugger: ported Cyrix' Dowser debugger to 6 generations of Geode CPUs, and rewrote more than half of it. * Created a Binary Parser tool to specify hardware bitfields in a grammar, improving the maintainability of our debugger and state extraction tools. * Championned the development and feature set of over 7 silicon debugging features such as the Geode's internal logic analyser, DMI exceptions, etc. AMD patented some of these inventions. * Audio Software Engineer (see Cyrix). Show less



Cyrix

• Semiconductors
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Software Engineer

  • 1997 - 1999

  * Ported and improved SoundBlaster emulation Firmware to over 36 chip combinations. This software shpped over 5 million copies.



ESAT Software

• Freelance software consultant

  • 1990 - 1991

  * Wrote the fastest general purpose SoundTracker player on the Atari ST, and licensed the code for inclusion in HMS Soundracker. * Implemented a 127 byte driver for the mouse, keyboard and joystick in 6301 code.