Resume

Promoted through series of progressive positions. Initially hired as consultant to adapt Visicon's existing software to the latest motion control technology. Upon successful completion, placed on full-time assignments.

• Challenged to transform a bloated and buggy legacy code base with limited functionality into the foundation of a highly efficient platform capable of Automatic Optical Inspection of stents and other medical devices for defects. Exceeded Expectations. Single-handedly put forth the extra effort needed to rescue company from failure.
  • Fixed hundreds of bugs, reduced number of steps needed to measure a part from 3 to 1, increased scanning speed 4-fold, and increased image processing speed 3-fold.
  • Refactored the majority of the code base, increasing stability, reducing complexity and decreasing the overall lines of code by 15% while simultaneously adding new features.
  • Integrated new cameras and motion control hardware into the Finescan system while preserving backwards compatibility with older H/W.
• Challenged to efficiently capture and process very large images. Exceeded Expectations. One of Visicon's largest customers was able to decrease the inspection time on their most complicated part from 1 hour to 3 minutes.
  • Led the conversion of Visicon's code base from 32 to 64 bits and became a beta test site for both video and motion libraries from vendors who were also porting their code to 64 bits.
  • Parallelized algorithms, decreasing time to threshold large images from 2 minutes to 30 seconds.
• Challenged to save multimillion-dollar customer, a medical device manufacturer providing half of Visicon's revenue. Exceeded Expectations. Salvaged and nurtured relationship, leading team to reduce the system's inspection time of a typical stent from 2.5 minutes to 30 seconds. Project success led to securing future projects continuing to lead to 50% of Visicon's revenue over the next several years.
  • Spent several weeks at customer's facility designing new interface to their specifications.
  • Redesigned original system, integrating a new CAD comparison module developed by India office.
  • Stayed in constant contact with customer, traveling frequently to facility to demonstrate progress and get their feedback on system's features and performance.
• Challenged to generalize the software capability to support new markets. Exceeded Expectations. Led the engineering effort to produce an automated inspection system for the medical tube industry. The result was the first Visicon system capable of intelligently self-configuring itself.
  • Partnered with marketing to visit prospective customers and gather requirements.
  • Transformed concept to clean sales demo for a major trade show, with a very high level of sustained effort, over a short six-month time frame.

Recruited due to knowledge of key technologies and ability to work with multiple developers. Integrated hardware device drivers and libraries developed in the U.S. with an open standard multi-vendor library developed in New Zealand.

• Challenged to marry different code bases across the U.S. and internationally with the 2 principal ones located in New Jersey and New Zealand. Exceeded Expectations. Produced connection libraries to handle voice call transfer, conferencing, voice recording, etc. These all operated without dropping calls and provided complete traceability to other layers within the overall architecture.
  • Helped the California-based team to achieve its objective of creating the lower-level API functions while working with engineers in New Zealand to marry the 2 code bases.

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