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Worked remotely (from Calgary) with a small, distributed team on toktok (a system akin to Google Voice in many ways).

During this time I took a self-imposed sabbatical to pursue personal interests that weren't possible while working full-time at Call Genie: train to run a 40 minute 10k; learn to play piano; catch up on reading; work on some personal programming projects; and learn a bit about some programming languages than interest me (notably the many functional languages that have been gaining an audience: Erlang, F#, Scala, Haskell).

During this time I also developed That Word, a word-finding game for iOS (née iPhone OS) devices.

During this time, Call Genie acquired BTS Logic, in Århus, Denmark, and PhoneSpots, in San Francisco. I participated in the technical due diligence of these acquisitions. I continued to manage Call Genie's Canadian development teams in Calgary and Toronto, and for a brief time, also managed the development team in San Francisco.

During this one year period I was the Development Manager at Call Genie. I continued to contribute to the design and architecture of Call Genie's flagship product, and managed the development team which grew three-fold during this period to about 20 developers.

As part of a small development team, I participated in the design and implementation of Call Genie's voice-enabled business directory service, and was the prime developer of its VUI (voice user interface) and a variety of related production tools.

Kojents is a software consulting and development firm, formed by the core development team of E-Zone Networks. Kojents explored the PDA gaming market, developing three games. Today, Kojents provides consulting services in the Calgary market.

I played an active role in software development, and was the principal architect of Kojents' gaming library, and developed Kojents' first commercially available game for the Pocket PC platform. I also managed the accounting duties of the corporation from 2001 to 2007.

As a member of a four-person development team, I participated in all aspects of designing and implementing software for a multimedia Internet appliance, delivering audio, video, and web features to end-users. In additional to the multimedia components, the system included networking and database back-end components. The system was implemented with Microsoft's COM/DCOM technology.

In February 1998 I founded Reaction Software Inc. to commercialize optical music recognition software I developed while at the University of Calgary for my master's degree. Though this original effort never materialized as a commercial product, I did develop several other commercial products, in addition to consulting for several companies.

In 2009, Reaction Software developed That Word, a word-finding game for the iPhone and iPod touch.

In 2002, Reaction Software implemented an optimized dictionary compressor for Zi Corporation (now part of Nuance) that is used to build compact dictionaries for Zi's predictive text entry cellphone software. In 2003, Reaction Software was a principal developer of Zi's eZiTap FEP for the Symbian-based Sony P800 smart-phone; in 2004 this application was named “Best Productivity Application” for Symbian devices by Handango.

Between 1997 and 2000, Reaction Software provided consulting services to Clynch Technologies Inc., the University of Calgary, and the Alberta Children's Hospital (in association with the McCaig Center for Joint Injury and Arthritis Research). I implemented 3D laser imaging and surface reconstruction software for a medical research project on diagnosing scoliosis.

In October 1999 Reaction Software began development of software for the Palm platform. Reaction Software launched Express Sync in March 2000. Express Sync was the first contact synchronization software available for Palm devices and the Windows Address Book.

As a member of a small development team, I designed and implemented image processing and 3D rendering software for a propriety system that converts digitized full-motion 2D video into 3D stereoscopic video.

As a member of a two-person research and development team, I designed and implemented numerous software applications for a CAD/CAM system for the design and manufacture of prosthetic and orthotic devices. Some of the software systems I implemented include 3D surface reconstruction software, network software for data transfer between remote sites, motor control software for an automated full-body laser imaging system, and 3D tool path programming for a CNC milling machine.

Developed network-based technology for creating and maintaining fully indexed distributed digital libraries for the New Zealand Digital Library.

Specialized in computer vision. Designed and implemented an optical music recognition system that “reads” scanned images of music scores. I placed second, out of 657 eligible candidates, in the Governor General's Gold Medal competition for my research and thesis work.