Engineer Software

John Calcagni

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DURHAM, NC *****

PHONE: 919-***-****

E-MAIL: *********@*****.***

SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS

GOVERNMENT-CLEARED TECHNICAL LEADER WITH DEEP EXPERIENCE DESIGNING

HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE EMBEDDED SOLUTIONS WHICH OPTIMIZE PERFORMANCE

WITH LARGE IMAGING SENSORS THAT PUSH HARDWARE DATA RATE LIMITS.

IMAGE PROCESSING SOFTWARE EXPERTISE, STRONG BACKGROUND DESIGNING

MULTIPLE HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE SYSTEMS, FROM EMBEDDED TO SERVERS.

UNDERSTAND SYSTEM OPTIMIZATION AND HARDWARE ACCELERATION, WITH

WORKING KNOWLEDGE OF LUSTER AND CUDA. TECHNICAL EXPERTISE IN MEDIA

PLAYBACK SYSTEMS, WITH DESIGN WIN THAT PERFORMED FIFTY TIMES FASTER

THAN CURRENT DEFENSE INDUSTRY STANDARD. EXTENSIVE EXPERIENCE WITH

ONSITE TECHNICAL SUPPORT FACILITATING PROBLEM RESOLUTION BOTH IN

MILITARY ENVIRONMENTS AND FOR MAJOR TELEVISION NETWORKS (ABC, NBC);

TEAM MEMBER RECEIVING ASSOCIATED EMMY FOR CONTRIBUTION TO SUNDAY

NIGHT FOOTBALL.

Technical expertise includes: C/C++, Java, Linux, Matlab,

Optimization, Algorithms, IPP, HPC, GPUs, CUDA, TCP/IP sockets,

10GbE, XAUI, SAN, SSD, RAID, Luster, Storage, Agile, Video Encoding,

Embedded, and uTCA

Professional Experience

AUGUST 2007 - PRESENT LOGOS TECHNOLOGIES INC

Image Processing Software/Systems Engineer

Designed low power GPU accelerated server based system to provide

image stabilization and full scene tracking for a Wide Area

Persistent Surveillance System onboard a small aircraft. Acted as

technical lead in Agile development cycle. Wrote code in C++ to

capture imagery from 10GbE and archive to SSDs for a system that

tested capable of sustaining write speeds of 2800 MB/s.

Servers on aircraft ran Linux and ground based clients were Windows.

Led team of 5 engineers in charge of getting a large imaging system

qualified for deployment on Shadow unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV).

Directed team using Agile methodologies in writing software to

verify hardware systems functionality, providing real time feedback.

Led team in designing and executing test plans to verify hardware

design and to meet the military standard acceptance testing

procedures. Payload included custom hardware and software systems

providing integrated storage and real time streaming video with

command and control executed over a web interface. Processing

components included FPGAs, DSPs and X86 processors running embedded

Linux.

Led project design of a massively parallel processing array based

(Tilera many RISC core processor) microTCA embedded system prototype

to prove the capability to deliver wide area persistence

surveillance from a small UAV. Specified system architecture and

managed subcontractor providing custom hardware. Wrote software in

Tilera's custom embedded Linux kernel in C++ to capture sensor data

on 10GbE interface and made available for other processes to exploit

the data, providing content to web based windows clients. Forwarded

data to X86 processing board running embedded Linux and archived to

SSDs. Made tools to visualize data on Linux desktops using C++ and

OpenGL.

Acted as test director, providing onsite support and troubleshooting

at multiple product demonstrations.

Implemented ability to encode and export videos from airborne

surveillance viewer (C++ on Windows Server operated on aircraft with

Windows client running in Java on ground)

Designed and coded geo-registration and compression of images in

forensic persistent surveillance viewer (C++ wrapped in JNI for Java

application on Windows)

April 2005 - August 2007 SportsMedia Technology Corporation

Production Engineer

Led teams of up to 5 engineers onsite at remote events to facilitate

smooth transitions with new customers or new products

Conceived, designed and developed hardware and software for Sports

Times Ohio (STO) pitch tracker system used on Indians Baseball

Broadcasts. (C++)

Provided onsite support for over 75 events including the Super Bowl,

Monday Night Football on ABC, Sunday Night Football on NBC, Peach

Bowl, Sugar Bowl and Stanley Cup Final

Led design of NBC Sunday Night Football's 1st and 10 system

architecture

Influential in design and coding of NBC's Big Picture and

SportsMedia Telestrator (C++ )

Wrote Keyable applications and Scoreboard Data Parsers including for

the NHL, NCAA tournament and NFL (C++ ActiveX controls with VB

interface)

January 2005 - April 2005 Southern States Nissan

Sale Associate

August 2003 - January 2005 Cardio Vascular Fluid Dynamics Lab at

Georgia Tech

Research Assistant for Dr. Yoganathan

Wrote and used Matlab scripts to segment MRI sets of post-operative

Fontan patients creating 3D anatomical reconstructions and regularly

meeting with radiologists and cardiologists to discuss findings.

April - August 2003 North Carolina Department of

Environment

& May - August 2001 and Natural Resources

Assistant LAN Administrator

Managed a network of 30+ computers, 3 printers and 2 web servers

Ported cold fusion code to ASP.NET for interactive database (2003)

Designed and built password protected survey site using SQL (2001)

January - May 2002 Georgia Institute of Technology

Object Oriented design / Java TA for College of Computing

Education

July 2004 Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta, GA

Bachelor of Science, Computer Science

Accomplishments

Sports Emmy

2007 Outstanding Technical Team Remote with Sunday Night Football

Security Clearance

Top Secret Active

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