Engineer Software

Matthew Michael Cowan

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

SUMMARY: Nearly twenty

years of experience designing, implementing and bringing software projects to

market. Experience

on a variety of platforms, languages, project sizes and markets. Usually operated as

either a technical team leader or, more recently, a senior manager growing a

large international team.

SKILLS: Management Strengths

Interviewing,

qualifying and hiring talented software engineers

Scheduling

software development and driving tasks to completion on time

Interacting

with Marketing departments and iterating on technical requirements and

feasibility

Technical

leadership and mentoring

Application

development processes and life cycles

Software Engineering Strengths

Audio,

video and image DSP

Algorithms,

optimization, SIMD and multi-threaded application programming

GUI

design and implementation (MFC)

API and software architecture design

Programming Languages and Environments

Very proficient in C, C++ and scripting

Expert at SIMD enhancements, optimization and multi-threaded programming

Experienced in Perl and assembly languages

Knowledgeable in VB, Java, Objective C, PHP, SQL and many other languages

Able to efficiently use MSVC++, gcc,

Xcode and many other compilers

Comfortable on any UNIX, Windows, MacOS

or embedded environment

EDUCATION:

8/1990 5/1994

Washington University, St.

Louis, Missouri

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science

Minor of Fine Arts in Graphical Design

EXPERIENCE:

8/2004 present

Audience

Inc., Mountain View, California

Senior Manager, DSP Platform Software Engineering (2008 to present)

Managing a highly-skilled DSP software engineering team. Growing the team

from four engineers to sixteen (and increasing) distributed across offices in

California, Colorado and India. Creating schedules and holding engineers

accountable for on-time deliveries. Designing

resource and quality metrics in which the engineers develop towards. Evaluating

team members performances and mentoring junior members and team leaders.

Contributing to product feature reviews, requirements documentation and

engineering specifications. Reporting

to the Vice President of Software Engineering.

Principle/Staff/Senior

Audio Software Engineer (2004 to 2008)

Implemented,

ported and integrated custom audio DSP software from Matlab floating-point

reference to proprietary DSP hardware. Converted floating-point reference

code to quantized data types and quantified the impact. Architected many

areas of the core codebase for the flagship products. Designed and

implemented GUI-based utilities still heavily relied upon across the company.

Installed, organized and maintained the Perforce revision control

server. Wrote official release

engineering build scripts with full logging and traceability as well as

designed a web front-end to these scripts. Worked on embedded operating

system software engineering tasks. Developed Android demonstration

applications. Used C, C++, Matlab, Assembly, Perl, PHP and Java.

1/2001

5/2004

Brocade

Communications, San Jose, California

Senior Software Engineer - Developer Support

Supported partner software engineers in developing applications that

utilized Brocade's APIs. Isolated and debugged critical race conditions and

defects in the APIs. Developed sample and demonstration applications

exhibiting the capabilities of these APIs. Contributed to the design and

specification processes of the APIs often being the authority for final

design decisions. Developed several utilities for Brocade switches to help

end users and developers manage Brocade switches. Worked with multiple

development platforms including Solaris, Windows, AIX, HP-UX, Linux and vxWorks.

1/2002 3/2003

iMove, Inc., Portland, Oregon

Contract Software Engineer

Contracted to write a custom, ultra high-speed video codec conforming to

their specifications. Used JPEG techniques to develop a proprietary video

codec for an undisclosed product. Performed intense optimizations and

incorporated SSE2, MMX and AltiVec code to meet

aggressive performance targets. Worked independently from San Jose with

engineers in Portland, OR to develop an API for seamless integration of the

codec. Completed contract ahead of time and under budget.

6/2000 - 12/2000

Media100/Terran

Interactive, Los Gatos, California

Senior Software Engineer

Operated as the technical lead for a group in place to provide extreme

acceleration to existing software products. Wrote a JPEG/MJPEG decoder from

scratch, and optimized it to run at peak speeds on several architectures.

Added optimizations to an existing DV codec. Modified, ported and optimized

existing code modules for accelerated applications. Contributed to software

architecture and API designs. Contributed expertise in digital video

processing including MPEG, Motion JPEG, DV, filtering, multiprocessing and

synchronization.

1/1995 5/2000

HEURIS

& HEURIS/Pulitzer, St. Louis, Missouri

Engineering Manager (1 year)

Coordinated and managed programmers and software engineers. Developed

rigorous development schedules for software projects and organized the

engineering staff to complete it. Maintained channels of communication with

the corporate staff in order to synchronize engineering efforts with

marketing and sales. Made critical decisions regarding features and quality

on software projects. Interviewed and hired prospective programmers.

Senior Software

Engineer/Software Engineer (4 years)

Programmed primarily in C and C++ for Windows 95/98/NT, MacOS and UNIX operating systems. Worked with MSVC and

CodeWarrior to help develop and maintain commercial MPEG encoding software

published by HEURIS. Wrote custom DVD and MPEG analysis utilities for

internal use on Solaris, Linux and IRIX. Wrote lightweight DVD authoring

services. Specialized in video/image processing, multi-threading and code

optimization (including MMX, SSE, AltiVec and VIS).

Systems

Administrator & Webmaster (3 years)

Maintained UNIX (Linux/Solaris), Windows 3.x/95/NT and Macintosh machines

on TCP/IP LAN. Coordinated backups, installed software and assembled

hardware. Maintained and configured TCP/IP network. Wrote shell scripts for

system maintenance, and managed a firewall..

Utilized Samba, Netatalk and NFS to maintain a

cross platform file server. Installed, configured and maintained NCSA HTTPD

server. Designed and created entire company website. Used C and shell scripts

for elaborate CGI-enhanced web pages.

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