Engineer Manager

Location:

Redwood City, CA

Posted:

December 10, 2012

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Resume:

Earl Levine

****@**************.***

http://www.zillabit.com/earlresume.html

Work Experience:2000 - present -

Zillabit LLC -

Principal of consulting firm.

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Private client -

Designed and built web application for client's internal use. Used Ruby on Rails, jQuery/Javascript,

MySQL, constraint programming (Gecode), custom native Ruby gems, Node.js, RabbitMQ (AMQP),

and Hudson/Jenkins (continuous integration). Deployed on AWS EC2.

2009 - 2011 -

Jawbone (Aliph) -

Consulting engineer. Developed C/C++ and Java software for communication, control, and

updating of Jawbone hardware devices via Bluetooth and USB, on Android, RIM,

iOS, Mac, Linux, and Windows. Used libusb, wxWidgets, libcurl, mongoose,

NSIS (Windows installer), PackageMaker (Mac installer).

Created device firmware for Jawbone Era product flash storage feature, using CSR SDK.

Built and used test mechanisms with device for both end-user and factory software.

Set up continuous build and integration system (buildbot/Python) for both

software and device firmware.

2003 - 2008 -,

Redwood City, California -

Co-Founder and Vice President of Engineering.

Technology solutions for people with hearing loss.

Created Mac/Windows/Linux client software using ffmpeg, wxWidgets, libcurl, NSIS (Windows installer).

Client provided cross-platform audio and video playback with custom DSP and synchronized variable speed.

Designed and created virtual hearing aid software for partner company's use by their employees.

Created server (Tomcat, J2EE/Struts and MySQL) for synchronizing client data, and allowing

access by a care provider in a HIPAA compliant manner.

Build/bring-up for embedded Linux system for ARM (Xscale) SOC based device with display and custom serial input

hardware, using buildroot and uboot bootloader.

2003 - 2010 -

Back Office Music -

Co-Founder and Technology Manager.

Built and deployed system for custom branded, digital media download stores for Grammy award winning bands,

using Tomcat, J2EE/Struts, and MySQL.

2004 -

MusicGremlin -

Technical advisor, consulting. Provided key advice to the founders at an early stage on

technical strategy for their portable music device and back-end service.

MusicGremlin was acquired by in 2008.

2003 - 2004 -

Senior engineer, consulting. Developed various software components for embedded Linux multimedia set-top boxes:

audio and DSP, ALSA and audio device driver,

CD ripping, custom serial device interface, personal audio recorder application,

interfacing with external satellite tuner.

Mediabolic was acquired by Rovi (formerly Macromedia) in 2006.

2004 -

Technical advisor, consulting. Identified and evaluated potential solutions for SIP soft-client

for this VOIP company, following which the company executed based on my recommendation.

Identified and evaluated possible wireless SIP handset solutions.

2003 -

Rentfair -

Technical lead. Co-developed prototype web service for movie rental by mail using Tomcat, J2EE/Struts,

Torque (ORM forerunner to Hibernate etc.) and MySQL.

2002 - 2003 -

PieStorm,

Palo Alto, California -

Co-Founder with

of company developing advanced technology for 802.11. Development of 802.11

baseband PHY (including OFDM) in C model and MATLAB (via Mex).

2002 -, Austin, Texas -

Consulting engineer developing applications for embedded Linux platform,

including H.323 recording application and live HTTP streaming for audio.

2000 - 2001 -

Sony / Unsurface,

San Francisco, California - Lead Software Engineer - consulting.

Architecting, managing, and implementing key software technologies for

startup in online media space. Providing strategic

and technical direction. Key technologies used in implementations

included signal processing and signal detection algorithms, Java, Java

Security, HTTP, XML (DOM and SAX parsers), JDBC/SQL,

C++/COM/ActiveX/ATL, Windows Media SDKs (DRM, Format, Encoding, Device

Manager), Resin, IIS/ASP, VBScript, Perl, Install Shield, Wininet,

various Win32 interfaces, ASPI, Cygwin, and Javascript.

2001 - Trinity Signal, Menlo Park, California -

Senior Technology Consultant. Providing strategic and technical direction of

engineering effort for early stage startup in wireless space.

2000 -

Ikimas, Campbell,

California - Chief Technical Officer, Acting. Providing strategic and technical

direction and management of engineering team for early stage startup.

2000 -, Redwood City,

California - Consulting engineer. Integrating Microsoft Digital Rights Management into the myplay

"locker" online music storage system using Java and JBDC.

1997-2000 -, Redwood City,

California - Chief Scientist and Manager of Authoring Tools and DSP Group.

Architect of company's audio and signal processing technology.

Implemented, optimized, and/or integrated all the signal processing components in

Liquid Audio's system:

audio codecs (MP3, AAC, ATRAC3, AC-3, Lossless), audio watermarking,

equalization, dynamic compression, sample rate conversion, etc.

Inventor of majority of company's intellectual property, with 11 patents filed.

In management role, led engineering and testing teams that developed industry-leading

authoring tools (encoding) products for Windows, Macintosh, and command-line

(DOS and Unix) platforms.

Participated in entire life-cycle of development of three major releases of the

system of server, client, and authoring tools.

Frequent mentor and advisor to entire engineering team.

Software work done using C++ / object-oriented design in cross-platform development

environment (Microsoft Developer Studio, Unix, Macintosh).

Architect of build procedures and source code control administrator and guru.

Technical evangelism: lectured on AAC audio codec (at Audio Engineering Society)

and watermarking (at UC Berkeley).

Participation in MPEG standards committee.

1997 -, Sunnyvale,

California - Senior Engineer, Compression Group. Research and development

for video and audio compression components of internet streaming

media technology. Thorough knowledge of video and audio compression

systems

(H.263, HVQ, CELP, G.723.1, TwinVQ) as well as general signal processing

methodologies (resampling, color conversion, preprocessing) and real-time

streaming over the internet.

Involvement in the MPEG standards committee. Software implementation, integration,

and optimization using C++ / object-oriented design in cross-platform development

environment (Microsoft Developer Studio and Unix). In August 1997 Vxtreme was acquired

by Microsoft and integrated into its Windows Media (then called Netshow) division in Redmond, WA.

1994-1995 -, Milpitas,

California - Digital Design Consultant - Digital designer

for hard drive PRML read channel ASIC. Designed using Verilog HDL and Synopsys.

Sole designer for key system components.

1991-1995 -

Research Assistant

to Professor David Rumelhart - investigating new neural

network structures and applications.

1992 -

Ricoh Research and

Development Center,

Yokohama, Japan - Researcher - neural network

applications for optical character recognition.

1991 (Summer) -,

Menlo Park, California - Researcher - project on neural network

lipreading system for improved speech recognition.

1989-1990 -

Teaching Assistant

- classes in EE department: Fourier Transforms and

Analog and Digital Laboratories.

1989 (Summer) -,

Austin, Texas

- Engineer - developed debugger (including assembler

and disassembler) for TI DSP product for Macintosh

computer.

Education:Ph.D., Electrical Engineering - Stanford University - 1996. GPA 3.96.

Research Supervisor: Prof. Robert Gray -

Signal Compression and Classification GroupStudied: video compression, audio compression, speech compression,

standards (MPEG, MPEG2, JPEG, H.261, H.324, H.263, G.723, Dolby AC-3, CELP, etc.),

VQ, lossless coding (Huffman and Arithmetic),

digital communications,

digital design for ASIC (Verilog HDL, Synopsys), computer architecture, RISC,

DSP programming, C++, C, UNIX Dissertation:

Stochastic Vector Quantization

Using Neural Networks.MSEE - Stanford University - 1992.

BSEE with High Honors - University of Texas at Austin - 1989.

Publications and Patents:Kearby, G., Levine, E. & Modeste, R.Personal hearing suite.

US Patent Number 8010366, issued August 30, 2011.

Brownell, J., Ansell, S., Devine, P. & Levine, E.Security mechanism for computer processing modules.

US Patent Number 7549173, issued June 16, 2009.

Brownell, J., Ansell, S., Devine, P. & Levine, E.Security mechanism for computer processing modules.

US Patent Number 7225330, issued May 29, 2007.

Levine, E. & Wiser, P.Server-side watermark data writing method and apparatus for digital signals.

US Patent Number 7185200, issued February 27, 2007.

Brownell, J., Ansell, S., Devine, P. & Levine, E.Security mechanism for computer processing modules.

US Patent Number 6965994, issued November 15, 2005.

Levine, E.Robust watermark method and apparatus for digital signals.

US Patent Number 6345100, issued February 5, 2002.

Levine, E.Determination of a best offset to detect an embedded pattern.

US Patent Number 6330673, issued December 11, 2001.

Levine, E.Secure watermark method and apparatus for digital signals.

US Patent Number 6320965, issued November 20, 2001.

Levine, E. & Brownell, J.Robust watermark method and apparatus for digital signals.

US Patent Number 6209094, issued March 27, 2001.

Levine, E.Efficient watermark method and apparatus for digital signals

US Patent Number 6219634, issued April 17, 2001.