Engineer Development
Resume:
Christopher V. Malley
PixelZoom, Inc.
Boulder, CO
*******@*********.******.*********.***
TECHNICAL INTERESTS
user interfaces
software architecture
graphics (2D & 3D)
digital audio & video
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
PixelZoom, Inc. - Boulder, CO.
(President, 7/1990-present)
PixelZoom Inc. provides software design, development and consulting services. Areas of
expertise include computer graphics, digital audio & video, broadcast & interactive
television, user interfaces and object-oriented design on a wide range of platforms. In
1998, PixelZoom was incorporated as a Colorado S-corporation. Clients and projects are
described below.
University of Colorado, Physics Education Technology (PhET) project - Boulder, CO.
(Contractor, 9/2004-present)
Development of interactive science simulations, using Java, Java2D, Piccolo, JFreeChart,
Jmol and Flash. Visit the PhET website at phet.colorado.edu.
I was responsible for implementing the following simulations:
Glaciers
Capacitor Lab
Faraday's Electromagnetic Lab
Molecule Polarity
pH Scale
Acid-Base Solutions
Balancing Chemical Equations
Reactants, Products and Leftovers
Fourier Transforms
Optical Quantum Control
Quantum Tunneling
Quantum Bound States
Models of the Hydrogen Atom
Optical Tweezers
Color Vision
Molarity
Beer's Law Lab
I was also responsible for designing and implementing Translation Utility, an application
that allows end-users to translate PhET simulations into their native language. PhET
simulations have been translated into over 60 languages using this application.
Various musicians - CO.
(Contractor, 5/2004-present)
Web site design and development for various musicians.
EMC2 - Denver, CO.
(Contractor, 4/2003-5/2004)
Designed and implemented administration tools for EMC's IDM (Intelligent Data Management)
product. GUI and CLI for administration of data management policies and DVD libraries.
Developed under Solaris and Windows using Java (Swing, JDBC, JAXP), Oracle 8i, XML and
XSLT.
Interact-TV - Boulder/Westminster, CO.
(Contractor, 3/2003)
Evaluated a third-party set-top box. Installed Red Hat Linux and tested various hardware
drivers, including Tvia CyberPro 5300 graphics chip and Sigma Designs NetStream EM8400
MPEG decoder.
(
Contractor, 7/2000-5/2001)
Developed various components of "Telly", a Linux-based interactive television platform,
including: video I/O, audio I/O, graphical user interface widgets, MPEG player, DVD
player, audio CD recorder, ISO9660 CD recorder. Development using C++, Video-for-Linux
(V4L), SDL (Simple DirectMedia Layer), and Sigma Designs NetStream 2000 MPEG board.
G.W. Hannaway & Associates - Boulder, CO.
(Contractor, 9/2001-12/2002)
Developed applications and middleware for an asset management system, including (1) a set
of web services that provides client applications with access to assets stored in a
distributed database, and (2) a highly-threaded scheduler that handles system management
tasks. Development on Linux and Windows platforms using Java, Visual C++, SOAP, Tomcat,
Oracle and MySQL.
(
Contractor, 4/1996-5/2001)
Various small projects in the areas of: MPEG-4, digital media (video, audio, image
compression), risk analysis, UNIX systems administration, SGI systems engineering.
Hypercube Media Concepts - Boulder, CO.
(Contractor, 6/2000-7/2001)
Consulting on a wide range of digital media topics, including: texture generation &
mapping, image processing, MPEG, DVD, audio, video, and software integration. Development
on SGI IRIX using C++ and Perl.
RT-SET America - Arvada, CO.
(Software Engineer, 6/1998-6/2000)
Software products for broadcast television effects, including 3D animation and effect,
character generation, and virtual sets. Responsible for adding new features to existing
products. Technical lead for next-generation product development. Responsible for the
following product features: video texturing using IRIS Performer and OpenGL, plug-in API
for digital video effects, port to SGI O2 platform. Development on SGI & Linux machines
using C++, X/Motif, Qt, OpenGL, OpenInventor, IRIS Performer and SGI's Digital Media
Libraries.
SimAuthor Incorporated - Boulder, CO.
(Contractor, 4/1999)
Provided a class library that handles playback of QuickTime movie files using the SGI
Movie Library.
(Contractor, 9/1998)
SimAuthor's FlightViz product provides the aviation industry with a high-performance,
interactive analysis and performance assessment environment for aircraft "blackbox" and
simulator data. Their software is extensible via a plug-in architecture, utilitizing
dynamic libraries and C++ subclassing. I developed a digital audio/video plug-in. This
plug-in displays live video (from a camera or other input source), with optional
synchronized audio, and is used for adding commentary or supplemental demonstrations to a
FlightViz analysis. Development was done on an SGI O2 using C++, X/Motif, OpenGL and SGI's
Digital Media Libraries.
Evolving Video Technologies Corp - Arvada, CO.
(Contractor, 2/1996-5/1998)
Enhancements to Antero (a realtime character/graphics generator for broadcast television)
and development of a video clip store prototype. Antero enhancements included: (1) port to
SGI O2 for The Weather Channel, (2) compositing with live video (no external keyer), (3)
Motion JPEG support, (4) a "crawl editor" for Fox Television to streamline the process of
displaying scores and statistics for their Fox Sports News program, and (5) a plug-in API
for creating IRIS Performer-based effects. Video clip store included: a system for capture
and scheduled playback of video clips based on SGI's VCP-Recorder product. Development
done on SGI machines using OpenGL, IRIS Performer, C++, SGI Digital Media libraries,
X/Motif, RapidApp, and Perl.
Inroads Interactive - Boulder, CO.
(Contractor, 7/1994-6/1997)
Designed and developed CD-ROM titles for the educational and entertainment markets.
Services included cross-platform programming and authoring (using Macromedia Director),
conceptualization, user-interface design, storyboarding and CD mastering. Titles include a
popular "pet series" (Dogs, Cats, Bugs, Horses and Exotic Pets) distributed by Broderbund
Software. Dogs & Cats were included in Computer Shopper magazine's 1995 "Top 10 List" of
things to buy for Christmas.
Silicon Graphics Inc. (SGI) - Mountain View, CA.
(MTS/Contractor, 7/1995-2/1996)
SGI's entertainment division, Silicon Studio, built the DreamWorks Digital Studio, a
digital production studio for creating, storing, managing and retrieving creative content.
I assisted in the design of StudioCentral, a set of object-oriented APIs, user-interface
components and data models for multimedia "asset management". Prototyping was done using
C++, ViewKit and RapidApp.
Tabor Visual Media - Denver, CO.
(Contractor, 12/1995-1/1996)
Provided consulting services for a corporate multimedia production, including: review of
production plans and designs; periodic reviews of work for quality, organization and
progress.
Sun Microsystems - Colorado Springs, CO.
(Subcontractor for BHI, 9/1993-7/1994)
Requirements analysis and user-interface design for Sun's "Solstice DiskSuite" (formerly
"Solstice Volume Manager"). DiskSuite is used to administer RAID and other large storage
devices. Responsibilities included: project leader, requirements analysis, user-interface
design and prototyping using storyboarding techniques, project management and preparation
of contract bids.
Ericsson Raynet - Menlo Park, CA.
(Subcontractor for BHI, 11/1992-11/1993, 8/1994-4/1995)
Developed a GUI for RIDES, a Network Management application for maintenance and
provisioning of fiber-in-the-loop telecommunications facilities. Development on Sun SPARC
platform using C++, C, Ingres/ESQL, and X/Motif. Responsibilities included: requirements
analysis, database development, integration with customer-supplied libraries, software
configuration management and maintenance.
Bolder Heuristics, Inc. (BHI) - Boulder, CO.
(Contractor, 11/1992-4/1995)
Subcontracts for Ericsson Raynet and Sun Microsystems, as described above.
AT&T NSC Performance Laboratory - Denver, CO.
(Contractor, 7/1990-9/1993)
Responsible for the design, development, documentation, and maintenance of software
systems to support the management and maintenance of AT&T's long-distance network.
Designed and implemented (1) a GUI for interfacing with intelligent network elements (Echo
Cancellers), (2) a highly-parallelized application for collecting and reporting data
received from intelligent network elements, (3) a reporting system for referring network
troubles to RBOCs (local telephone companies), and (4) a multimedia training application
for maintainers of legacy software. Development was done on a wide variety of UNIX
machines using C, C++, INFORMIX, X/OPENLOOK, and Macromedia Director. Projects combined
advanced concepts in the areas of database, user-interface design, UNIX inter-process
communication, distributed applications, networking, interactive multimedia, and system
administration.
MaeSoft - Hollywood, CA.
(Principal, 2/1990-6/1990)
Designed and implemented Q-Edit, an editor for the Alesis Quadraverb digital audio
effects processor. Q-Edit allowed simultaneous access to all programmable Quadraverb
parameters using the MIDI communications protocol. Programming in C on Atari 1040ST.
SMV Recording Studios - Studio City, CA.
(Recording Engineer, 10/1989-1/1990)
Built and maintained a Macintosh-based music production studio, controlling several
digital synthesizers on a MIDI network. Implemented a sound library/database. As a
recording engineer, I was responsible for 24-track recordings of musical groups,
songwriter demos, and voice-overs.
AT&T Bell Laboratories - Warren, NJ.
(Member of Technical Staff, 6/1984-8/1988)
Software research and development in the areas of (1) telecommunications, (2) expert
systems, (3) distributed databases, (4) graphical user interfaces, (5) performance
modeling and simulation of software systems, and (6) C++. Also responsible for
administration of various computers and networks. Recipient of Exceptional Contribution
Awards in 1986, 1987, and 1988. Development done using C, Pascal, OPS5, X/OPENLOOK,
SunView.
EDUCATION
M.S. Computer Science (Brown University, 1985)
Concentration in database, artificial intelligence, and programming languages. Thesis
project in the application of artificial intelligence and logic programming techniques to
database query processing. 4.0 GPA.
B.S. Computer Science & Engineering (University of Connecticut, 1984)
Senior project in robotics and natural-language processing. 3.75 GPA.
Vocational Music diploma (Musicians Institute, 1989)
Graduated with highest honors in the guitar program.
Other education:
Commercial Graphics Design (University of CO, 1991-92)
Animation on the Macintosh (University of CO, 1990)
NeXT developers' seminar (NeXT, Inc., 1990)
UNIX System Internals (AT&T Bell Labs, 1988)
GENERAL EXPERIENCE
Languages:
Java, C++, C, Perl, Actionscript, Lingo, Prolog, Lisp, OPS5, Pascal, XML, HTML, VRML.
Systems:
Linux, Macintosh, Windows, IRIX, Solaris, Sun OS, Atari, AT&T 3B, PDP-11, IBM/370.
Integrated Development Environments:
IntelliJ IDEA, Eclipse, SGI CASEVision/Workshop, Microsoft VisualStudio, Sun SPARCworks
GUI toolkits:
Java AWT/Swing, Qt, X11, OSF/Motif, ViewKit, SDL (Simple DirectMedia Layer), OPENLOOK.
GUI builders:
BXJava, UIM/X, Builder Xcessory, SGI RapidApp.
Graphics APIs:
Java2D, OpenGL, OpenInventor, Piccolo, IRIS Performer, ImageVision
Digital Media APIs:
SGI Digital Media libraries (VL, AL, IC, movielib), Video4Linux (V4L).
Web:
Apache, Tomcat, SOAP, XML-RPC, HTTP, XSLT.
Misc. tools & APIs:
GNU, JFreeChart, RogueWave, STL, ATL, COM, Ant, CVS, SVN.
Database systems:
JDBC, Oracle, MySQL, INFORMIX, Sybase, Ingres, SGI StudioCentral.
Networking:
Java RMI, TCP/IP, NFS/NIS, UUCP, AT&T DATAKIT.
OOA&D:
Jacobson, Rumbaugh, Booch, Wirfs-Brock.
Creative tools:
Adobe/Macromedia Flash, Macromedia Director, GIMP, Adobe Photoshop, Alias Wavefront
PowerAnimator, misc. others.
Documentation:
Javadoc, Doxygen, Adobe FrameMaker, Microsoft Word, OpenOffice.
PUBLICATIONS
AWARDS
Exceptional Contribution Award, AT&T Bell Laboratories, 1986, 1987, and 1988.
PERSONAL
Excellent communication skills.
Creative, organized, self-motivated.
Accomplished musician (see www.chrismalley.com)
Enjoy bicycling, telemark skiing, hiking, camping and reading.
REFERENCES
Available on request.
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