As of September, 2009 I have accepted a new job working for the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, MA as the Director of Biodiversity Informatics. I believe it is an ideal job for me and I am not interesting in pursuing any alternatives at this time. I am keeping this resume online simply as reference for people who want to know more about me.

Professional Experience

• R&D Software Project Manager - Managed projects and staff for:
  • RDF-based Film Production Database.
  • Art production asset management.
  • Software build and management system.
  • Software intellectual property license conformance for international collaboration.
  • Department-wide transition from Perl to Python.
  • Production tracking database system.
  • Art asset revision control system.
• Technical Lead
  • RDF-based Film Production Database.
  • Architected and implemented distributed software build and management system for thousands of tools across multiple, simultaneous film projects.
  • Decided on new software development tools for use throughout studio.
  • Managed multiple major internal software transitions including single precision to double precision, 32-bit to 64-bit hardware and incorporation of GPU techniques.
  • Led software infrastructure and configuration management team.
  • Ported significant portions of principle internal animation software pipeline to Linux.
  • Championed appropriate use and support of open source technologies in a complex environment of third-party and competitively critical internally developed software.
• Film credits: Monsters vs. Aliens, Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa, Kung Fu Panda, The Bee Movie, Shrek 3, Flushed Away, Madagascar, Shark Tale, Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron, The Road to El Dorado, The Prince of Egypt
• Invited keynote speaker at II Encontro Nordestino de Software Livre, Aracaju, Brazil; Open Source Symposium 2006, Seoul, South Korea; RedHat Summit 2006, Nashville, TN; LatinoWare Mercosul 2005, Curitiba, Brazil; and GUADEC 2005, Stuttgart, Germany.

• Managed and designed two original technology projects - one focused on efficient network game management and the other on 3D real-time game-play. Network engine was targeted at Windows, Macintosh and UNIX platforms, prototyped in Java and implemented in C++. 3D engine was targeted at Windows and written in C++.
• Handled all budgeting and producing responsibilities for these projects.
• Created GUI and utility libraries for projects.
• Made hardware and software recommendations for entire department, reviewed candidates, and solved production issues for projects within department and across facility.

• Implemented scripting system used in Barbie Fashion Designer's on-line help.
• Designed and implemented core technical aspects of Digital Domain web site including using the C preprocessor to produce multiple versions tuned for different browsers from a single source. Wrote custom monitoring tools in Perl.
• Sole compositor for MechWarrior 2 intro movie.

• Created interface between an Apple developed multi-media development environment (SK8) and the standard Apple scripting language, AppleScript.

Teleos Research was a robotics and AI research and consulting firm with contracts to NASA, other government agencies, and several commercial organizations that has since been acquired by AutoDesk.

• Designed and developed workgroup organization tools for a major software company.
• Provided consulting services to Apple Inc. with regard to creating a goal-based language extension for Lisp-like languages.
• Directed development for the languages Rex and Gapps which enforce real-time disciplines for production of robotics control software.
• Developed real-time robotics systems with high-level reasoning and control systems, as well as camera head and arm motion control code.

• Designed and implemented major parts of the primary product, Iconicode, a graphical development environment for image processing developed in C++. This was an outgrowth of work done at Teleos Research.
• Participated in productizing, documenting, marketing and supporting Iconicode.

• Worked on the Flakey robotics project at the SRI Artificial Intelligence Center.
• Wrote machine language back-end for Rex.
• Developed navigation control software.

Computer Skills

• Preferred Languages: Python, Ruby (on Rails), C++, Common Lisp
• Preferred Operating Systems: Ubuntu Linux, RedHat Linux, MacOSX Apple Macintosh
• Higher Level Experience: Open Source Project Management, Distributed Software Delivery, Language Design, Computer Graphics: 2D, 3D and Animation, Database Design, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence.

Education

• MS in Computer Science, University of California, Santa Cruz June 1994
• MA in Psychology, Cognitive Psychology, University of Pennsylvania June 1987
• BA in Psychology, Reed College May 1986

Open Source & Creative Commons Projects

• EOL.org - Member of the Learning and Education Advisory Committee for the Encyclopedia of Life.
• MushroomObserver.org - Community site for identifying mushrooms.
• Site For Evolving Art - Creative commons art project.
• Name (collectivesource.com/taxy/name.html) - Follow on to Taxy focused on representation of scientific names.
• Taxy (collectivesource.com/taxy/taxy.html) - Part of Master thesis at UCSC on Computer Identification of Biological Species.
• MacPICT - Summer project at Reed College

References available upon request.