Adobe Systems Inc. 2008-Present
Principal Scientist, Firefly Engineering Technology Group
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Principal Staff Engineer for Adobe Firefly, a cutting-edge
generative technology playground.
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Leveraged expertise in React, TypeScript, and Canvas to build a
generative typography effects module for Firefly.
Principal Design Technologist, Adobe Design Prototyping
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Collaborator on a novel design-with-data prototype allowing
visual designers to quickly and easily author infographics and
data visualizations.
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Leveraged Google Skia, WASM, WebGL, TypeScript and Web
Components to craft a reuseable web-based authoring tool to use
for various ongoing prototypes.
Senior Computer Scientist Lead, Design and Publishing
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Founding engineer on Adobe's next-generation UI design and
prototyping tool called Adobe Experience Design (Adobe XD).
Responsible for the GPU based compositor and renderer.
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Developed cross platform accelerated design surface for OSX,
iOS, Windows 10 UWP, and web platforms. Leveraged C++11, C++/Cx,
XAML, Objective C, and Open GL. Responsible for many other
features of the tool written in our ECMA standard JavaScript app
layer.
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Ported the Google Skia based renderer, animation engine, and
compositor to web using Emscripten and WASM. Net result was a
playback engine on web capable of presenting high fidelity GPU
accelerated vector and raster based interactives and animations
via WebGL.
Senior Computer Scientist, Web Products
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Created a web based comp-to-code tool that allows web developers
to extract images, text, geometry, and CSS from Adobe Photoshop
files.
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Developed a responsive web design tool dubbed Reflow using CEF
(Chrome Embedding Framework), HTML,and Javascript. The
application interface is similar to other Adobe Creative Suite
products but built entirely on the browser stack.
Senior Computer Scientist, Gaming Enablement
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Ported Epic Games' Unreal Engine 3 to the Adobe Flash platform.
To facilitate, authored an OpenGL ES2 to "Stage3D" adapter for
Flash 11.
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Supported other Epic partners (such as Trendy Studios) in
porting their games to the Flash 11 platform.
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Assisted in the development of Adobe Alchemy, an LLVM to AVM3
(ActionScript VM) compiler and SDK.
Senior Computer Scientist, Flex SDK Platform
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Architected many features of Adobe's Flex 4.0 SDK including view
states, design layers, and animated pixel shader transitions.
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Responsible for all aspects of improving and monitoring the SDK
and Flash Player's runtime performance throughout the 4.0
development cycle. Routinely identify enhancements to the Adobe
Flash Player C++ runtime and coordinate with player team to
implement said enhancements.
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Maintain and extend the Java based MXML compiler as required for
new features and improvements.
AOL LLC. 2007-2008
Platform UI Architect, AIM Design Team
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Assisted in the development of www.circavie.com. Focused
primarily on the development of an interactive Flash-based
dynamic timeline component which allowed for rendering and
adaptive layout of arbitrary multimedia annotated event feeds
(video, photos, etc.). Created the administrative UI for the
site and supporting Rails controllers and views.
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Created a Flash Lite interactive for the Chumby (chumby.com)
device.
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Created an extensible AIR based instant messaging client. The
focus of the prototyping effort is to compare and contrast Flex
based AIR interactives with hand coded Actionscript/CS3.
Revolution Health Group LLC. 2006-2007
Platform UI Architect, Portal Core Team
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Built a Flash Actionscript based charting framework utilized in
RHG's 'Tracker' suite, targeted at generating dynamic, animated
graphs of user health metrics.
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Principal author of a graphical, Ruby on Rails based, health
risk assessment application.
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Initiated the re-factoring of all CSS within the company's
portal into a single reusable archetype.
America Online LLC. 2001-2006
Systems Architect, Client Engineering and Technology Division
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Architect and co-inventor of a next-generation user interface
toolkit called "Boxely".
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Boxely is a declarative language and runtime geared towards
enabling construction of highly dynamic UIs (animations,
transitions, desktop compositing) for AOL applications service
wide. Boxely provides for the ease of scriptable, procedural,
composited interface, ala Macromedia Flash, but is geared
towards RAD authoring of desktop applications, ala XUL, WPF, or
Apollo.
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Authored many unique features of the rendering engine including
but not limited to SMIL- based animation support, cascading
style engine (CSS for desktop UI), data binding, script engine
integration, and vector graphics support.
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Designed, authored, and shipped a production AIM client (dubbed
AIM Lite) leveraging the Boxely engine.
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Core member of the AOL Member Experience Team providing product
consultation to the President, AOL Products.
Systems Architect, Advanced Communications and Community
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Designed a WYSIWYG content authoring tool for members, a design
surface allowing drag and drop manipulation of rich text,
images, pre-built AJAX/DHTML components (polls, quizzes, etc.)
and rich media objects.
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Extended Internet Explorer to facilitate live inline image
editing within the context of an HTML document. Utilized
DirectX, GDI+, IE Rendering Behaviors, and custom IE DOM
manipulation.
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Designed and developed a rich media blogging product. Allowed
for audio and video annotations as well as traditional photo and
text centric entries.
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Implemented an AOL 9.0 photo album and scrapbook feature for
email.
Principal Software Engineer, Client Engineering and Technology
Division
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Co-lead UI engineer for the America Online 7.0 email feature.
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Designed and developed a generic auto complete (type ahead)
system for the AOL 7.0 interface. The functionality was reviewed
favorably by Walt Mossberg of the Wall Street Journal.
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Selected for 2002 innovation leadership team. Developed several
next-generation online service prototypes. Presented a strategy
for integration of rich media and dynamic interface within the
AOL service to the company executive leadership team.
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Lead engineer for the AOL 8.0 Desktop Companion. Utilized
Windows Scripting Host, ATL, Winsock, and Macromedia Flash.
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Pioneered a method of rendering Macromedia Flash content as an
antialiased, alpha- blended layer on the OS (Windows 2000 and
XP) desktop.
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Winner of the corporate IdeaSpeeder contest for the AOL Journals
concept.
Kodak Inc. 1998-1999
Senior Software Engineer, Medical Imaging Division
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Served as senior Windows NT developer for a state of the art
PACS medical imaging system.
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Designed an image processing pipeline for the Cemax-Icon AutoRad
product. Focused specifically on a memory management engine used
throughout the application. Utilized Corba and Objectstore to
integrate with the rest of the PACS system.
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Developed a compact image editor and viewer that allowed
developers to browse through device independent bitmaps hundreds
of megabytes in size. Implemented a feature allowing technicians
to view selective details of a 64bpp DICOM derived medical scan.
Applied Materials Inc. 1997-1998
Senior Software Engineer, Medical Imaging Division
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Designed core UI framework for a Windows based real-time
distributed control system. Architecture was based on various
Microsoft technologies including MFC, DCOM, and ActiveX.
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Served as technical consultant for several industry standards
organizations including OPC and OBEM (Object Based Equipment
Model).
Secret Level Inc. 1995-1996
Game Tools Consultant, In-House Development
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Computer game programmer responsible for developing graphics
based in-house design tools.
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Developed a 3D texture mapped polygon prototyping environment
for the Sega Saturn which was capable of importing both 3D
Studio and Alias Wavefront model sets.
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Assisted in the design and implementation of a Win95/MFC
truecolor tile editor, which was used to generate height-field
landscapes. The product was later licensed to Atari Corporation.
University of Maryland 1992-1995
Senior Software Engineer, Communications and Telephony
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Designed and implemented software for real-time PBX data
acquisition and graphical presentation of call data from several
AT&T DEFINITY G2 and G3 switches. These applications were
commercially licensed as a stand-alone package.
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Engineered various databases including a client-server knowledge
base system for department-wide local area network and an online
directory assistance database for the University's Campus
Information Department.
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Assisted in the development of a voice recognition and response
application capable of forwarding internet email messages to
voice mail.
