Work history
Technical Director
tags:
management
• coaching
• technical sales
• leadership
• vision
• hiring
How would you describe your time at AOL/Tegic?
Led the T9 text input development team of 30+ engineers, a team that ships over half a billion copies per year. I was responsible for hiring, reviews, team organization, product direction and roadmap. Created the product vision for XT9 and succeeded in establishing it as the next generation of mobile text input.... 
Director of Program Management
tags:
communication
• vision
• management
• program management
• schedule
• leadership
• partner collaboration
How would you describe your time at Wildseed?
Led the program management team in the development of a Linux-based mobile operating system. Drove decision making, design and feature tradeoffs, specifications, schedule. Responsible for communication and coordination with engineering partners, suppliers, customers.
(company acquired by AOL Tegic)...
Group Program Manager
tags:
evangelism
• vision
• multimedia
• program management
• leadership
• management
• api design
How would you describe your time at Microsoft?
Technical program management for the Windows multimedia team. Responsible for the initial design of DirectSound in DirectX 1.0, subsequently responsible for the DirectX 3.0 release which established that product as the premiere gaming API. Led the design and release of Chromeffects (Silverlight precursor) through release of version 1.0....
Software Design Engineer
tags:
api design
• audio compression
• software
• development
• c
• c++
How would you describe your time at Microsoft?
Software engineer in Windows Multimedia team. Ported Video for Windows audio subsystem to Windows NT. Completed implementation of MIDI support in Windows 95. API design and interface implementation for DirectSound 1.0.
sony
August 1991 to September 1993
Research Engineer
tags:
psychoacoustics
• audio compression
• unix
• algorithm design
• c
How would you describe your time at sony?
Developed, implemented, and evaluated digital audio compression algorithms for the MiniDisc.
Assisted in the development of Super Bit Mapping (SBM), which provides 20-bit perceptual sound quality on a normal 16-bit compact disc. Researched new areas of psychoacoustics and audio coding techniques.
Education
Systems Design Engineering
tags:
engineering
• c
• signal processing
• unix
• assembler
How would you describe your time at University of Waterloo?
Honours BASc at Canada's leading engineering university. Awarded Alumni Silver Medal for Systems Design Engineering, plus various scholarships.
