Film Cut List Tool

A major component of Avid Technology's Media Composer family of professional video editing software, the Film Cut List Tool generates instructions for (human) film negative cutters. Film cutting is a destructive process, so the generated cut lists must be absolutely accurate and correct.

Work included customer collaboration, architecture, UI design, design of complex data analysis algorithms, implementation, and testing.

Personally responsible for writing & maintaining 75k lines of cross-platform C++ code (Windows & Macintosh).

Satin

A second-generation test automation system for Avid Technology's Media Composer family of professional video editing software. 60k lines of Java, with some C++ in the application under test. Features included:

• automated testing of a large & complex GUI application
• remote testing of multiple target machines over TCP/IP using custom OO/RPC mechanism
• multi-platform support: Windows, Macintosh OS 9, Macintosh OS 10 (Unix)
• automatic execution of tests against nightly builds
• database of test results
• complete documentation of testing API and test scripts

Database Code Generator

This development tool generates source code for the C# or VB.Net class that represent database tables and records, along with SQL stored procedures to support database access methods. Enables rapid development of database applications.

Personally responsible for conception, design, implementation, documentation, and support. 31k lines of VB.Net code.

Music Database

A networked Windows database application for organizing music files of various types, including audio, MIDI, scores, and lyrics.

• Database objects include File, Track, Album, Piece, Person (artist), Group, Playlist, Category.
• Central database and audio files are available to any machine on a LAN.
• Static or dynamically-generated play lists, with various kinds of randomization.
• Remote control of players on other machines.
• Unlimited user-definable categories.
• Rich UI optimizes common tasks; ubiquitous drag-and-drop for establishing relationships.

Personally responsible for conception, design, implementation, documentation, and support. 50k lines of hand-coded C# and VB.Net code, with another 40k lines of generated VB.Net and SQL code.

• Designed and implemented components of a medical database system under severe deadline pressure.
• Designed and implemented a set of standard UI controls for use throughout a large WinForms application.
• Technologies included Technologies included C#, Visual Studio 2005 (.Net 2.0), Infragistics NetAdvantage.

• Maintained & enhanced a distributed medical results management system.
• Technologies included C#, VB.Net, C++, VB6, Java, SQL, COM+, InstallShield, multithreading.

• Designed and implemented components of a .Net database system for a magazine distribution business.
• Work included front end (UI), back end, stored procedures, and automated unit tests.
• Designed & implemented a code generator for automatically generating sophisticated database access classes in C# or VB.Net and associated stored procedures.
• Technologies included VB .Net, C# .Net, SQL, remote objects, and multithreading.

• Developed an XML standard for pipe organ specifications, including DTD.
• Developed tools in Java and C# .Net to support the XML standard, including design, implementation, testing, documentation, and support.

Satin   (2nd-generation test automation system; see Softography)

• Provided technical leadership and mentoring to a team of 8-10 engineers.
• Evaluated commercial Java courses and selected one for team training.

Feature Tree Manager   (system for tracking test coverage by product feature)

• Designed, implemented and documented an MFC C++ application for entering and viewing test results, organized by product feature using a combination of hierarchical (tree) and table views. Used Microsoft SQL database for storing test results.
• Patent application initiated.

Test Automation

• Architected Avid’s first test automation system using Segue’s QA Partner (Silk) on the Macintosh.
• Established and maintained standards for software development.
• Led and mentored automation team that grew to 10 people.
• Wrote interactive web-based training curriculum for QAP and in-house automation API’s.
• Documented all 4Test API’s on intranet web site.
• Ported test automation system from Macintosh to Windows NT and maintained cross-platform automation code base.
• Helped design SQL database for storing automated test results.
• Oversaw test automation effort through a dozen major product releases.

Film Cut List Tool (see Softography)

• Worked with customers to develop and enhance the tool.
• Ported from Macintosh to Windows NT; maintained common cross-platform code base.
• Tool was hailed by customers as complete, 100% accurate, and easy to use. Still in use after 7 years.
• Team was awarded the 1998 Technical Academy Award of Merit (Oscar).

Yale University - B.S. in Computer Science

1995-2000 : designed and implemented in C++ a programmable MIDI filter/processor for live performance.

1990 : designed and built hardware (TTL) and software (C++, assembler) to interface an organ pedal keyboard to a PC to control a MIDI synthesizer.