Experience

Transcend Air Corporation

• United States
• Airlines and Aviation
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Chief Software Officer

  • 2018 - Present

  Responsible for software aspects of Vy400 aircraft operation and safety. Responsible for software aspects of Vy400 aircraft operation and safety.



AMD

• Boxborough, MA

• PMTS Software Development Engineering

  • Aug 2012 - 2018

  Functional Safety Manager / Principal Member of Technical Staff • Responsible, under ISO 26262, for planning of automotive-centric functional safety activities and delivery of work products for new product division. • Collaborated across hardware and software design and implementation staff, third-party vendors, and safety industry leaders to ensure standards’ compliance. Lead Performance Optimization Engineer / Principal Member of Technical Staff • Maximized performance of AMD-based PC products by proactively coordinating better implementations with standards groups, benchmark vendors, and internal staff. • Led the Performance Optimization Engineering team of engineers to effect AMD wins in benchmarks extensively used by consumers or reviewers thereby creating ~$100M in net annual revenue gain. • Managed relationships between internal clients, benchmark providers, AMD engineering, and external open source communities to optimize CPU, graphics, and GPU Compute performance. • Successfully promoted AMD technology with open source projects including ffmpeg, ImageMagick, OpenCV, LibreOffice, Blender, POVray, Chrome, FireFox. Show less



Schulman Associates

• Concord, MA

• Owner

  • Dec 2011 - Aug 2012

  Provided technical consulting for systems-oriented problems in the graphics, video, and HPC realms. Assisted with system design and implementation, driver and user-space software, and compiler issues regarding safety, security, performance and standards compliance issues. Provided technical consulting for systems-oriented problems in the graphics, video, and HPC realms. Assisted with system design and implementation, driver and user-space software, and compiler issues regarding safety, security, performance and standards compliance issues.



Hiatus

• Chief of Opportunities

  • Feb 2011 - Nov 2011



Presagis

• Canada
• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Corporate Research Director

  • Sep 2009 - Feb 2011

  • Transitioned all aspects of Seaweed Systems’ corporate strategy, product development, sales support and its executive, operational and technical leadership to Presagis management. • Provided strategic guidance and exploited leading-edge technologies in safety certification, human-machine interface tools, graphics drivers, content creation, simulation, and visualization. • Transitioned all aspects of Seaweed Systems’ corporate strategy, product development, sales support and its executive, operational and technical leadership to Presagis management. • Provided strategic guidance and exploited leading-edge technologies in safety certification, human-machine interface tools, graphics drivers, content creation, simulation, and visualization.



Seaweed Systems

• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Founder and CEO

  • Jul 1993 - Aug 2009

  • Founded, expanded, and sold the premier developer of graphics solutions for mission- and safety-critical military and avionics systems. Acquired customers worldwide and significantly grew revenue based on a product-focused business model and dependable execution. • Delivered first commercially available products for: embedded full X Window System stack, embedded full OpenGL stack, and embedded full safety-critical (DO-178B-compliant) OpenGL stack with safety-related artifacts. • Created a product that could be inserted at various levels in the ecosystem. Grew market share through relationship building, partnerships, and alliances across the industry: o Integrated software with real time operating system vendors (eg. Wind River, Green Hills), o Established distribution agreements with hardware providers (eg. Radstone, Curtiss Wright), o Supported integration through system providers (e.g., Lockheed Martin, Rockwell, Elbit, Northrop Grumman, Thales, Harris, GEC Marconi), and o Distributed hardware and provided front-line support for silicon providers (eg. 3DLabs, S3, Motorola, NVIDIA). • Led strategy, positioning, marketing, and expanded staffing to a level of 30 employees. • Sold the company to Presagis at peak market conditions. Show less



Jupiter Systems

• Alameda, CA

• Manager of Software Development

  • 1988 - 1993

  • Led a team of 4 which provided all system and graphics software for both the first color graphics X terminal product to market and the first multi-head X terminal product to market. • Contributed to the design and implement of a variety of custom graphics architectures for the terminals. • Proactively managed sales, support and partnership efforts. • Led a team of 4 which provided all system and graphics software for both the first color graphics X terminal product to market and the first multi-head X terminal product to market. • Contributed to the design and implement of a variety of custom graphics architectures for the terminals. • Proactively managed sales, support and partnership efforts.