Experience

iPlant Collaborative

• United States
• Biotechnology
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Software Engineer

  • May 2012 - Present



Large Binocular Telescope Observatory

• United States
• Research Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Software Architecture and Design Leader

  • Mar 2009 - May 2012

  LBT Observatory This is a continuation of my previous responsibilities with the anticipation that I would design the second generation telescope control system. This project was canceled before it was started.

• Software Engineer

  • Aug 2006 - Mar 2009

  Tucson, Arizona Area * developed and deployed a high throughput telemetry logging system consisting of multi-TB-scale MySQL database able to handle 1000 queries/second from 400 simultaneous sources, a high performance C++ library for defining data sources and sending telemetry, web services for querying the database, and GWT-based web clients for viewing the telemetry * presented work at SPIE telescopes conference in 2010 * developed a requirements management process for the software group



ARANZ Medical

• New Zealand
• Medical Equipment Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Application Software Engineer

  • Feb 2005 - Jul 2006

  Christchurch, New Zealand * primary maintainer of the FastSCAN software application (in C and C++ using Windows API and OpenGL) that was designed to interface with a handheld 3-D surface scanner * managed the adaptation and re-branding of FastSCAN, including liaison with corporate customers and the supervision of an off-site software engineer * designed and implemented an object-based C library to interface third-party applications with FastSCAN hardware. * centralized and organized the company’s data… Show more * primary maintainer of the FastSCAN software application (in C and C++ using Windows API and OpenGL) that was designed to interface with a handheld 3-D surface scanner * managed the adaptation and re-branding of FastSCAN, including liaison with corporate customers and the supervision of an off-site software engineer * designed and implemented an object-based C library to interface third-party applications with FastSCAN hardware. * centralized and organized the company’s data repository and improved the company’s computer network, by setting up a VPN, SMB file server, version control system, and remote back-up capability Show less



Self Employed

• Software Engineering Consultant

  • Sep 2003 - Mar 2006

  Christchurch, New Zealand continued working for Data Fusion Corporation as a consultant



Data Fusion Corporation

• Research and Development Engineer

  • Jun 2001 - Aug 2003

  Northglenn, Colorado * refactored a simulator’s architecture from a procedural to object-oriented design * implemented XUnit for Matlab * designed and implemented an object-oriented library of GUI components * converted a planar targeting model to a one on an oblate spheroid * developed and encoded a set of mathematical operations on covariance when directional variances may be zero or infinite * designed and analyzed algorithms for automatic target recognition using X band radar and laser vibrometry



Micro Analysis & Design

• Defense and Space Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Systems Engineer

  • Feb 1999 - May 2001

  Boulder, Colorado * added models of human performance under various stressors to a massively distributed simulator using C++ * designed and implemented a relational database for soldier performance data * implemented a Java client for viewing discrete event simulations