Richard Michael Grantham Wesley

Trusted Media Networks, Inc. April 2002 to present. Director of Client Software Development. Responsibilities included:

• Designed client/server protocol for background content delivery system; created prototype client to implement the protocol; ported prototype system libraries to facilitate cross-platform development of production client; implemented Macintosh versions (Classic and OSX) of the client. Developed cross-platform unit test for all client platforms.
• Developer for TrustCast server. Designed database tables; fixed defects; implemented features; retrofitted comprehensive unit test suite; built web application for managing content subscribers.
• Responsible for overall system security and tracking cost/benefit analysis of various potential attacks.

Electric Fish, Inc. January 1996 to March 2002. Co-president and Senior Development consultant. Projects included:

• Nova Development. Reengineered Print Artist as a new application Print Explosion 1.0. Abstracted internal database interface; implemented AppleScript development extensions; coded threaded drawing model; converted code base to run under Carbon and OS X (Print Explosion Deluxe). Refactored code base to support multiple products including T-Shirt Factory 1.0 using VOODOO variants and Design Patterns.
• Microsoft Corporation. Ported Proofing Tools for Microsoft Office 2001 (US and Japanese) and Microsoft Office X (German).
• Amazon.com. Generalized and extended back end shipping tables for large scale e-commerce system. Designed data structures and tables for internationalization and localization of the web site.
• Perforce, Synergex and Electric Fish, Inc. Wrote CodeWarrior version control plug ins for Perforce, PVCS, MPW Projector and GNU CVS version control systems. Maintained the online resource Macintosh Version Control.

Punch Deck Consulting. January 1992 to April 1992., February 1994 to December 1995. Self employed as software development consultant for various clients. Projects include:

• Real Networks. Contract engineer on Macintosh client application for TCP/IP based audio on demand system (RealAudio). Wrote freeware client and service daemon in Metrowerks PowerPlant; ported core engine from Windows and made it reentrant for asynchronous I/O; improved speed by a factor of three by recoding decompression engine in 68K assembly; reworked source for compression engine to allow real-time encoding on a PPC 601/66.
• Deloitte and Touche. Contract engineer on Macintosh client application for social worker case management system. Made virtual memory subsystem stable and responsive; removed compiler dependencies from object swapping mechanism; improved performance by generalizing linked list interface to support array, splay tree and keyed searching implementations.

Alki Software. April 1992 to January 1994.

• Expanded functionality of company file search Desk Accessory (Alki Seek) to include Indexed, Wu-Manber (approximate), Soundex (phonetic) and Boolean proximity text matching. Used genetic algorithms to design index hashing function.

Bright Star Technology. January 1989 to November 1991.

• Project Leader and Chief Architect for text-to-speech system. Developed data-acquisition tools and speech rendering engines, awarded four patents ( 5,278,943; 5,613,056; 5,630,017; 5,689,618). Hired project's technical staff.

A complete project list is also available.