The next thing.

Skydeck is a secure online service that manages cell phone records and address books to extract a user's true social network.

Developed features for the initial beta release and subsequent public release, including address book import and synchronization.

Jambo is an innovative social networking application, using wireless local area network presence to introduce users who share common interests.

Designed and implemented the end-to-end Jambo system, including the web site, database, match processor, synchronization server, Windows and Pocket PC client applications.

Initial working prototype completed in five weeks.

Jambo was officially unveiled at DEMO@15.

Contracting on J2ME and BREW projects.

Researched and implemented novel techniques for compressing J2ME applications using Java bytecode transformation. The release version typically achieved a 20% size reduction on obfuscated code.

Design and implementation of J2ME/BREW consumer applications.

Second engineering hire at one of the world's leading location-based services companies. Vindigo was the leader in its market, receiving rave reviews on a wide range of platforms.

Assumed responsibility for all Palm client development leading to v1.0 launch, including user interface design.

Led object-oriented redesign/rewrite from C to C++.

Designed and implemented networking API, hybrid online/offline resource architecture for wireless clients, GPS support.

Implemented desktop synchronization software for Windows and OS X clients.

Extensive experience developing for Palm, Pocket PC, BREW and J2ME clients, Java/MySQL server.

Formed limited company to provide consulting services.

Retained to build LiveNote, a Windows application providing real-time access to testimony in trials. LiveNote and related products now comprise a full suite of tools, including sophisticated full-text search and retrieval, document markup, synchronized text and video, and secure access to testimony in real-time over the Internet.

The Internet server scales to hundreds of simultaneous sources fed to thousands of clients. It uses a custom UDP-based protocol that supports access control, encryption, graceful degradation, failure recovery and resynchronization.

Solely responsible for all aspects of the design and implementation of LiveNote and related applications, from concept through deployment.

LiveNote is the leading product in its market, used by over thirty thousand customers at sites worldwide including courts in the US and UK, government inquiries in the UK and Hong Kong, and major law firms in the US.

LiveNote has received extensive coverage in both the trade and general press.

Founding member of a new division formed to exploit research into 3D graphics software (later spun off into Criterion Software Limited, vendors of RenderWare).

Responsible for specification of the API, integration into window systems, development and support issues.

Produced demonstration software for internal and external marketing.

Member of a 3-person research team building VPL, a visual programming language for image processing. VPL is a distributed, interactive system allowing users to perform sophisticated tasks without programming.

Designed and implemented the user interface, including a graphical workspace for assembling programs and related tools for viewing and manipulating images.

Presented a technical paper on the design and implementation of VPL at Visual Languages '91 Conference, Kobe, Japan.