Specialties

iPhone, Cocoa Touch, Objective C, Flex, Actionscript 3, C++, Win32, Rich Internet Application Development, Windows Multimedia/Desktop Application Development, Video Editing and Music Production.

Phanai Media Group

Computer Software industry

January 2009 – May 2010 (1 year 5 months)

Phanai Media Group is a Boston based interactive agency and independent record label. Check out for http://www.phanai.com for more info.

• 1st place Award winner for MIT’s Linked Data Product Development Competition. Jan. 11-19, 2010. (http://dig.csail.mit.edu/2010/LinkedData) Sir Tim Berners-Lee and industry experts of Semantic Web / Linked Data judge teams demonstrating uses of Linked Data. Was member of three person team called LocalFocus and developed the client, a location based iPhone application.
• Winner of iPhone category and overall finalist in Boston Music Hack Day (www.musichackdayboston.pbworks.com/Projects), sponsored by Microsoft New England Research & Development Center Nov. 22, 2009. Developed an iPhone client, the “Phanai SoundCloud app” using www.SoundCloud.com API for streaming audio.
• Developed text display rendering engine for a poetry e-reader (www.textflows.com).
• UI design and development for Irish based Grab Radio (www.grabradioworld.com), a streaming radio aggregate iPhone app featuring the use of Google’s MapKit for locating radio stations. Was a featured app in the Apple UK Store mid-November 2009.
• UI design and development for www.AndrewSwaine.com.
• Sound design for www.Tapulous.com.
• UI design and development for www.ZoomHotts.com.
• Music marketing apps for music recording artists that include sample audio discographies, photo galleries, YouTube channel feeds and Twitter feeds.

Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry

November 2006 – October 2008 (2 years)

Allurent (www.allurent.com) develops rich Internet applications and solutions for the entire ecommerce shopping lifecycle, from browsing to choosing to buying products.
• Collaborate closely with graphic and user interface designers to programmatically implement visual mockups, wireframes and gestural behaviors using Actionscript 3, Adobe Flex and Flash.
• Exercised MVC design patterns.
• Executed GUI development for home page interactive applications the “Magic Shelf” for Borders Books (www.borders.com) and “Phone Carousel” for Arkansas based Alltel Wireless (www.alltel.com)
• Developed Adobe AIR apparel catalog application for Anthropologie.
• Prototyped Flex audio applications and audio user interfaces.
• Implemented Endeca based faceted navigation.
• Flash FLV and Apple Compressor video encoding.
• Produced music sound track for marketing demos.

Privately Held; Market Research industry

September 2003 – November 2006 (3 years 3 months)

Compete (www.compete.com) is an Internet web predictive analytics company that is pioneering the analysis of consumer online behavior to predict consumer purchasing, both offline and online.

• Graphic user interface design and development of windows desktop application for Sprint Wireless, to allow for the download of mobile content.
• Developed Flash based applications as visual prototypes for desktop applications for companies including Daimler Chrysler, Teva Pharamceuticals, and ESPN Mobile.
• Architected Compete’s first generation Internet Explorer event sink data collection agent.
• Browser Helper Object (BHO) toolbar development for Internet Explorer.
• Developed IE toolbar user interface Compete and UPromise toolbars.
• GUI design/development of Win32 application for Sprint Nextel for downloading mobile content.
• Developed automatic website screen capture utility.
• GDI image display painting for MSN style alerting.
• In-house graphic designer.

May 2002 – June 2003 (1 year 2 months)

Picasa, formerly Lifescape (www.lifescapeinc.com), was an IdeaLab venture that develops Windows software for digital photo management. The office of IdeaLab Boston closed July 1, 2003.

• Developed MFC client application for XML based photo-processing ecommerce solution.
• Developed FTP based uploader of digital images.
• Secure HTTP XML request/response processing.
• GDI/Raster image display painting for ecommerce solution.

Public Company; Computer Software industry

February 2001 – January 2002 (1 year)

Elsevier Science (www.elsevier.com) is a leading publisher of scientific literature. Member of an international research and development team to develop next generation distributed web architecture for company’s vertical web services.

• Successfully prototyped web service using Java, SOAP and WSDL in Tomcat.
• Converted CD ROM product into a web service
• Prototyped Web user interfaces in HTML, JavaScript, JSP, and XSLT.

Computer Software industry

November 2000 – July 2001 (9 months)

Sonicbids (www.sonicbids.com) is an online marketplace for the live-music industry.

• Provide vision and define company’s IT strategies and goals.
• Assisted in developing site in HTML and ASP.
• Incorporate music production insights to work with executive management team in product development.

February 2000 – January 2001 (1 year)

iCAST was a CMGI company that offered online broadband entertainment content through streaming media. Responsible for multimedia client development for the iCASTER TM, a Windows application.

• C++ OOP design and implementation of CD Digital Audio Extraction at SCSI/ASPI layer.
• Implemented third party API/SDK MP3 and Windows WMA audio compression codecs for audio playback.
• Coded within existing ATL/COM infrastructure and graphical skinning architecture.
• Researched Digital Rights Management.
• Designed and provided functional specification for GUI for an Internet radio tuner.

Public Company; VIA; Computer Games industry

October 1996 – February 2000 (3 years 5 months)

Harmonix (www.harmonixmusic.com) has roots from the MIT Media Lab and specializes in interactive music software and games for electronic entertainment. They are the developers of Guitar Hero I/II and Rock Band.

• Fourth employee and first full time engineer hired.
• MSVC C++ OOP design/implementation for all projects.
• Port Mac to Windows DirectX-DirectSound coding for multiple buffer audio streaming.
• Win32 mmsystem programming for MIDI and timing services.
• MFC development for in-house sound design tools (DLS) and test bed applications.
• Coding of linear audio compression and 3d positional audio.
• 2D graphics programming with GDI and Realimation.
• MFC based Graphic User Interface design for metagame.
• Software synthesizer instrument and sound design for a Disney Epcot Installation.
• Developer Relations (1996-1998) with Microsoft, Creative Labs, Aureal Semiconductor, Sonic Implants, Yamaha, VLSI Technology, and Staccato Systems.

Computer Software industry

June 1994 – October 1996 (2 years 5 months)

Cakewalk (www.cakewalk.com) is a leader in the developmet of music desktop production tools for MIDI and audio on the Windows platform.

• Sole developer of the Virtual Jukebox TM, a multimedia playlist application.
• Developed first generation of Cakewalk’s DirectX reverb plug-in (1996).
• Project lead in localization for five languages.
• Audio data file management system.
• Release engineering using Installshield.

June 1991 – September 1992 (1 year 4 months)

APS developed manufacturing facilities for the production of photovoltaic panels for solar energy.

• Analog and digital electronics design. CAD printed circuit board design.
• Project lead involving developing instrumentation measuring power output of solar cells biased by xenon strobe flashes.