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Matthew Michael Cowan
<address omitted> · <phone ommitted> mcmar10@moviequote.net · http://www.moviequote.net |
| OBJECTIVE: | To keep my presence available in case anyone wants to make me an offer I can't refuse. :) |
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General Strengths Software architecture and design Application development processes and life cycles Technical leadership and mentoring Multi-platform development Programming Strengths API and software architecture design Audio, video and image processing Floating-point and fixed-point math MPEG, JPEG and MJPEG encoding and decoding; DVD authoring Algorithms, optimization, SIMD and multi-threaded application programming GUI design and implementation (MFC) Web based programming (HTML, CGI, XML, Javascript) Programming Languages and Environments Very proficient in C, C++ and Bourne shell scripts Expert at SIMD enhancements (MMX, SSE/2, AltiVec, VIS, MVI) Experienced in Matlab, Perl and assembly languages Knowledgeable in VB, Java, Pascal, Lisp, Scheme and Ada Able to efficiently use MSVC++, gcc, CodeWarrior, cc/Forte and many other compilers Comfortable on any UNIX, Windows, MacOS or embedded environment |
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EDUCATION: 8/1990 - 5/1994 |
Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri Bachelor of Science in Computer Science Minor of Fine Arts in Graphical Design |
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8/1986 - 6/1990 |
Eielson H.S., Eielson AFB, Alaska; Redlands H.S., Redlands, CA Member of California Scholarship Federation, Member National Honor Society |
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EXPERIENCE: 8/2004 - present |
Audience Inc., Mountain View, California Manager, DSP Platform Software Engineering Managing a highly-skilled DSP software engineering team. (more detail omitted) Principle/Staff/Senior Software Engineer Audio software porting and integration. Software architecture design. Floating-point to fixed-point conversion. Audio signal processing design. GUI design and development. Software configuration management. Embedded software engineering Used C, C++ and Matlab. (more detail omitted) |
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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. |
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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 to develop an API for seamless integration of the codec. Completed contract ahead of time and under budget. |
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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. |
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1/1995 - 5/2000 |
HEURIS & HEURIS/Pulitzer, St. Louis, Missouri Maintained several different positions as this MPEG encoding software company developed.
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