Mike Andrews

Software Engineer

rocko@gweep.net
Stow, Massachusetts 01775

Recent Work Experience

Principal Software Engineer, Team Lead

Core Filesystem, Configuration, and NFS Support

Senior Software Engineer, Team Lead

Media Application Server (MAS)

A modular, plug-in architecture for platform-independent Internet audio and video. Slated to be incorporated into the X Window System standard to provide desktop audio and accessibility functionality.

• Primary contributor, team lead for 100K line C/C++ open-source and proprietary codebases.
• Directed the technical staff in implementations of DSP algorithms, audio hardware control, and platform-specific optimizations for Solaris, Linux, and Microsoft Windows.
• Prepared and delivered product demonstrations at Linux tradeshows (LinuxWorld, ALS)
• Chaired the audio task force in the X Window System standard organization X.org.
• Managed software releases, feature prioritization, and scheduling.
• Collaborated on the design of open source business models and licensing strategies.

Delivered technical Conference Presentations on MAS:

Alexandrian Authority

Provides document repository and e-mail discussion list access for geographically separated groups.

• Designed a filename-based versioning scheme that requires no special client-side software.
• Integrated Solaris and Linux systems-level services: sendmail, majordomo, DNS and bind, apache, mod_perl, and shell scripting.
• Designed and developed the HTML user interface and back-end modules in Perl/CGI.
• Hired and trained new technical staff to take over maintenance and new development.

Education

Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI)

Worcester, Massachusetts

Member of Tau Beta Pi (engineering) and Eta Kappa Nu (electrical engineering) honor societies.

Skills

Machine Vision Research

An Information Theoretic Hierarchical Classifier for Machine Vision

A high-speed decision tree for image recognition.

• Researched information theory, high-dimensional space data representation, data visualization, and numerical processing techniques.
• Developed an exemplar grouping technique, designed for flexibility in hypothesis construction, and applied to achieve rotation- and translation-independence.
• Developed a model training process for automated generation of translation- and rotation-invariant imagery.

Research Assistant

Advanced Machine Vision Tool Set (May, 1998)

• Developed an object-oriented image recognition library in C++, featuring vector correlation and pyramid processing.
• Developed Hough transform line and circle detection and matching algorithms.

LSD/DOA Automatic Target Recognition System (Textron Grant; June, 1997)

• Implemented a suite of shell scripts and C image processing applications.
• Developed a constant false-alarm rate detector.

Electronics Engineering Experience

Bose Corporation, Framingham, Massachusetts

• Developed a precision multi-spectrum noise source for transducer testing, currently in use in laboratories and product durability test bunkers throughout Bose.
• Developed an automobile switching amplifier final assembly test station.

Audio Research and Projects

XUDP: A Real-Time Multimedia Networking Protocol

• Designed and implemented a multimedia transport protocol with lossless, loss-tolerant, and timed-obsolescence modes.
• Conference Publication: "The XUDP Protocol for Timely Multimedia Transport" In Conference on Telecom. R&D, Massachusetts Telecommunications Council. (November, 1997)

Acoustical Analysis of Spaulding Recital Hall

• Drafted plans for both permanent and temporary acoustical renovations.

Independent Term Projects

• Developed a PC-controlled, multi-channel audio mixer and cue system used in WPI theatre shows.
• Designed and tested a power MOSFET, class A, high-fidelity audio amplifier
• Constructed a "Blumlein Shuffler" analog stereo imaging processor.