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Patrick Austin Malone
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BrainGlue Created the BrainGlue™ Technology engine for test-prep products on mobile devices. Also Implemented an automated online store to handle orders and fulfillment. The BrainGlue product series includes products for aviators who are preparing for the FAA exams, and for medical students who are studying for their shelf exams during clinical rotations in hospitals. The medical software
uses content from the popular PreTest® books licensed from McGraw-Hill.
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Applications
Engineer Lead Software Engineer
on Rachel Ray’s Recipes on the Run, a recipe and shopping list
application. Also Co-lead engineer on Top Chef Challenge, a game in
which the player starts as a dishwasher and works his way up become Top Chef
of a five-star restaurant. Applications were typically written in J2ME and
BREW, then ported to all cellphones supported by the major US carriers
(Verizon/ATT, Sprint, Alltel, Boost, Virgin…) Innovations
included developing the company’s first mobile networked application
and its first mobile game to use 3-D graphics (in orthographic projection).
Also developed a 2-D game physics system using fixed-point arithmetic to
enhance performance.
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Lonely Scribe Created the Lonelyscribe Online Authoring System, a technology which combines mailing list features with an automatically generated online book and photo album. Lonely Scribe is currently used to publish newletters for families, clubs, churches, and travelers on a monthly subscription basis. To view some examples, visit www.LonelyScribe.com |
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Spanish Translator Volunteered for two brief stints as a translator accompanying a small group of doctors, nurses, and dentists to medical relief missions in rural villages of Honduras |
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Senior Software
Engineer As part of a small project team, developed several educational software products for children, including Interactive Math Journeys, the Reading Development Library Series, and Reader Rabbit 1, the world’s top-selling reading program. There products were written in C++ for both Macintosh and Windows computers. Some projects also involved 3D graphics and multiplayer network capabilities. Also helped implement
the company website as part of a development team in Israel.
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API
Test Engineer Responsible for testing Macintosh prototype hardware in certain areas of the Application Program Interface (API) used by developers to create new software for the Macintosh platform. |
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Firefighter
Structural Interior Firefighter and Hazardous Materials First Responder for the City of Greenwood. Graduated first in class from South Carolina Fire Academy. |
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Computer
Programmer Developed a C program on a UNIX system for noise reduction of digital signals from data gloves. These gloves were part of a human/machine interface which also included an eye-tracking headset and a speech recognition system. |
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Research
Engineer Designed a digital filter for the parallel computer of "VITA", an vehicle which drives itself using a videocamera to watch the road and other vehicles. At the time, this computer-stuffed delivery truck held the world speed record for autonomous vehicles - about 50 mph. Substitute
Schoolteacher Taught junior high grades 7-9 in various subjects including English, Geometry, Chorus, Chemistry, and Biology. |
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Whitewater
Raft Guide Guided multi-day river trips on the Rio Grande through the desert canyons of Big Bend National Park. Skills developed as a raft guide include cooking, First Aid, desert plant and wildlife lore, working with people, and common sense. Relational
Database Designer Created a database & scheduler for the firm’s computer training courses. |
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Bachelor
of Science Relevant courses include Structural Mechanics; Unified Engineering (Structures, Dynamics, Fluids, Thermodynamics, Propulsion); Principles of Guidance & Navigation; Space Systems Engineering; Feedback Control Systems; Probability and Statistics; Circuits & Electronics; Microprocessor Architecture, Interfacing, and Control; Structure & Interpretation of Computer Programs; Digital Design Lab; 3-D Computer Graphics |
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Computer SkillsMore than 20 years experience in design, management, and engineering of software development projects.
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Equipment
Skills & Ratings 620 hours total/500 hours taildragger (mostly C-185 Skywagon)
Industrial Design
& Manufacturing Skills ·
manual
and CNC milling machines ·
CNC
plasma cutter ·
arc/MIG/TIG/gas
welding ·
laser
cutter ·
sheet
metal fabrication ·
carbon-fiber
fabrication ·
ARM
microcontrollers Heavy Equipment
Skills ·
bulldozer ·
backhoe ·
crane truck ·
tractor Well-versed in the
manner of Duct Tape. |
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LanguagesEnglish primary, German secondary. Some Spanish, Portuguese and French. |
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