Engineer Software

Kevin Morgan

Credentials Contact Information

email: *****@******************.***

MSEE, PRINCETON UNIVERSITY (GPA 3.9)

portfolio: squideyemultimedia.com

BS, CLARKSON UNIVERSITY (GPA 4.0)

twitter: @SquidEyeStudio

THE RESPONSE NETWORK

I acted as consulting designer/developer for this company s web-based

law enforcement training system. Delivered on over five dozen projects,

including:

Established a streaming video server and added support for streaming

Technologies

video to the company s media player.

(Adobe Media Server, Apache, Linux, ActionScript, Flash)

HTML, CSS, Javascript, jQuery, Ruby on Rails,

Added closed-captioning support to the company s media player, in ActionScript/Flash, AJAX, XML, C#, C++.

compliance with Section 508 government accessibility standards.

Cinema 4D, modo, ZBrush, Adobe

(ActionScript, Flash)

Production Premium (After Effects,

Established a web-based digital asset management system for course Premiere Pro, Photoshop, etc.), and Logic

production and archiving. Studio.

(PHP, open source, Apache, Linux) Third party add-ons (e.g., VRay, Trapcode

Suite, Magic Bullet Looks).

Designed and produced graphics, motion graphics, and videos for the

A 230GB library of media assets (textures,

company s courses. Compressed them for web delivery.

models, sound beds, etc.).

(Cinema 4D, modo, After Effects, Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere Pro)

Mac, Linux (including Apache setup and

Designed and implemented ecommerce for the site, including subscriber

admin), Windows

acquisition, payment, and provisioning for course-taking.

(Ruby on Rails, Javascript, jQuery, MySQL, CSS, HTML, Photoshop, Fireworks)

Designed and implemented subscriber course and administration web

applications..

(Ruby on Rails, Javascript, jQuery, MySQL, CSS, HTML, Photoshop, Fireworks)

Designed and implemented a subscription promotion site feature

(limited time discounts), including administrator pages and end-user ad

pages..

(Ruby on Rails, Javascript, jQuery, MySQL, CSS, HTML, Photoshop, Fireworks)

Replaced the aging learning management system with a new one fully

and seamlessly integrated with the main web site portal

(PHP, open source, Apache, Linux, XML, SOAP, Ruby on Rails, Javascript, jQuery,

MySQL, CSS, HTML)

There are at the time of this writing over 10,000 users of the company s

training programs.

Credentials (cont d)

MUSICPLAYGROUND

As chief designer and engineer, I pioneered advancements that enabled

high quality interactive music software for education and entertainment. I

designed the prototype that inspired Rock Band and Guitar Hero. Projects

include:

Designed and co-developed the core audio/video engine. This consisted

of a reusable, multithreaded object architecture that rendered fully

synchronized and seekable streams of audio, video, midi, graphics, and

text; a real-time interactive performance engine that triggered audio

and graphics via custom USB device input; and significant

enhancements to audio and visual fidelity over previous industry

technologies.

(C++, DirectX, COM, and Win32)

Designed the security system for the protected delivery and use of the

company's media assets. This included a seekable, streaming encryption

system, digitally signed media and executables, and a licensing system

that implemented business rules on the permitted use of content.

(C++, DirectX, COM, and Win32)

Specified a complete e-commerce website, which permitted purchase

and fulfillment of hard goods and real-time, secure fulfillment of

software and media.

(ASP.NET, SQL Server)

Improved the efficiency and reliability of the company's software

development and media production processes, resulting in a complete

product development cycle of two weeks (including QA), and a scalable

media production system that produced over 1000 interactive songs,

videos, and slide shows.

Troubleshot and solved many problems company-wide, including

significantly improving input latency, increasing reliability of the master

clock, USB driver issues, synchronization issues among media streams,

and website implementation issues.

Results: Published seven interactive music products, including a joint

project with Brian May (of Queen), and a project for the movie Rock

Star (Mark Wahlberg/Jennifer Aniston). Endorsements and praise from

Roger Daltrey of The Who, Steven Tyler and Joe Perry of Aerosmith, and

Paul McCartney (among other artists).

Credentials (cont d)

THE INTERACTIVE MEDIA LABORATORY AT DARTMOUTH

Designed and developed the interactive multimedia framework for IML s

healthcare education programs (C++, Win32, QuickTime). Based on this

work, Simon and Schuster published several titles, including HIV&AIDS, a

training program for medical professionals. These programs were praised

by the US Director of the CDC for their educational and emotional impact.

THE SYNCLAVIER COMPANY

I designed the next-generation object oriented framework for a line of

professional audio and video software in the Synclavier product family.

The modern digital sampling workstation was invented at Synclavier/New

England Digital, and it has been used by professionals around the world

(e.g., Sting, Stevie Wonder, and George Lucas on the Star Wars films).

BELL LABORATORIES/BELLCORE

I conducted research into the applications of artificial intelligence for

education. I also designed the software for a real-time telephony network

signal processing and test system. It was the largest working object-

oriented software architecture at that time. It received international

attention and influenced the evolution of the C++ language and modern

object-oriented development principles/practices. I spoke at national and

international conferences and published several papers on this work.

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