Sep 2006 – Mar 2012 · 5 yrs 6 mos

• On webOS, I held lead, design and development roles on various projects (primarily email, messaging, facebook, phone, ODBII car kit, and the location services component). I was responsible for the email front-end for the initial release of the Palm Pre. I designed the architecture and 3rd-party API for the messaging app as well as leading the implementation for webOS 2.x. The facebook app's sleek UI was praised by Facebook's review team.
• On Palm's last Windows Mobile phone, I lead systems-level optimization of power consumption. This involved direct analysis and coding as well as working with teams to identify and resolve inefficiencies in their components.

May 2003 – Sep 2006 · 3 yrs 4 mos

• Platform Team:
• Lead the initiative to improve the power consumption of Good's heavily data-centric application. This included power profiling, designing simulations to test various scenarios, and working with counterparts at Palm and Motorola.
• Improve Good's cross-platform layer, with responsibility for Windows Mobile phones. This includes working with OEMs to resolve bugs in their firmware and hardware.
• Data Access Team:
• Developed a web services client that provided access to corporate data on smartphones. Responsible for client-side architecture and design/development of the networking module in C++.
• Continued development of the Neomar mobile browser technology that Good acquired. Primarily responsible for client-side networking and database modules.

Apr 2000 – Apr 2003 · 3 yrs

• Designed and implemented features for a cross-platform microbrowser running on Palm and PocketPC devices. Coding is primarily C++ with a prototype J2ME browser as well. This requires significant care to keep the codebase small and efficient due to the limited resources available on these phones.
• As development lead, implemented basic engineering processes (design documents, design reviews and code reviews).

Jul 1998 – Apr 2000 · 1 yr 9 mos

• + Developed features in C/C++ for Family Tree Maker, a Win9x application.
• + Managed the engineering team of the Data Acquisition group. This entailed juggling an aggressive production schedule with process improvement projects.

Jun 1997 – Oct 1997 · 4 mos

• Developed an application running on the Nokia 9100 smartphone that used SMS to receive and display weather information and alerts.

Sep 1993 – Jul 1998 · 4 yrs 10 mos

• + Geoworks developed a mobile operating system for PDAs and smartphones including the Nokia 9000 and 9100.
• + Project lead for C++ and Java applications included with GEOS SDK.
• + Assisted customers' engineers (in America, Europe, and Japan) in all aspects of designing and developing applications and libraries.
• + Created and presented training material for the GEOS operating system.

Feb 1993 – Sep 1993 · 7 mos

• Helped companies localize their software to DOS/J and Windows/J