Steven Thomas Schwarz

Resume

March, 2008

schwarz@schwarz-consulting-services.com

Objective: Software development engagements,

with a focus on the following specialized areas:

Application platforms in consumer devices

Secure web services

Embedded Java™ virtual machine ports

Image recognition, image conversion, image processing

Education:

• National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Research Fellowship – Laboratory for Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, July 1982 - August 1983

• PhD in Mathematics (Mathematical Logic) – Department of Mathematics, University of Chicago, June 1982; Thesis title: Quotient lattices, index sets, and recursive linear orderings

• McCormick Foundation Graduate Studies Fellowship – Department of Mathematics, University of Chicago, September 1977 - June 1980

• MS in Mathematics – Department of Mathematics, University of Chicago, June 1978

• BS in Mathematics with Distinction and Departmental Honors – Department of Mathematics, Stanford University, June 1977

• Phi Beta Kappa – Stanford University, June 1976

Positions:

• Principal Development Engineer – California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (CALIT2), July 2007 – present (50% time staff research position)

  • Research on systems for new and emerging media technologies

• Self-employed – Schwarz Consulting Services, September 2003 – present

  • Engagement: TiVo, through Solekai Systems (September 2007 – October 2007)

    • Working on a simulation platform to be used to develop testing software.

  • Engagement: Sensus Metering Systems, through Solekai Systems (August 2007 – present)

    • Working on various simulation tools for testing a Java-based backend system for wirelessly networked utility meters

  • Engagement: DIRECTV, through Solekai Systems (February 2007 – May 2007)

    • Working on a new Java-based testing framework in which set top box firmware methods are remotely invoked from test code, with stubs and skeletons automatically generated by software analyzing the firmware source

  • Engagement: Sensus Metering Systems (December 2006 – July 2007)

    • Working on a Java-based backend system for wirelessly networked utility meters

  • Engagement: TiVo, through Solekai Systems (April 2006 – February 2007)

    • Working on Java-based PVR software as part of the TiVo-Comcast partnership

  • Engagement: DIRECTV, through Solekai Systems (February 2006 – June 2006)

    • Developing a test harness for some of the software in a Java-based PVR

  • Engagement: TiVo, through Solekai Systems (July 2005 – Febrary 2006)

    • Working on an upcoming TiVo box release

  • Engagement: DIRECTV, through Solekai Systems (March 2005 – July 2005)

    • Validating a third party's Java™ virtual machine port

    • Working on next generation bitstream generation tools

  • Engagement: TiVo, through Solekai Systems (June 2004 – May 2005)

    • Prepared reference ports for parts of TiVo’s new hardware portability framework

  • Engagement: Wind River Systems (November 2003 – July 2004)

    • Provided trouble-shooting services for various customers using Wind River Java virtual machine technology, including Samsung

  • Engagement: DIRECTV, through Solekai Systems (September 2003 – June 2004)

    • Designed and built an enterprise Linux system that hosts a secure web application for use by third-party manufacturers of DIRECTV set-top boxes

    • Designed and implemented conditional access components in a new version of their set-top box security kernel

• Principal Technologist (previously, Senior Member of Technical Staff, Senior Design Engineer) – Wind River Systems (formerly Doctor Design, a subsidiary of Integrated Systems), August 1996 – August 2003

  • Responsibilities:

    • Technical lead for several technology lines used in Wind River products and platforms for digital consumer, automotive, and industrial devices:

      • Embedded Java virtual machine implementations

      • Embedded Graphics and Multi-media libraries

      • Embedded Graphical User Interface (GUI) frameworks

    • Representative for Wind River on Java Community Process Expert Groups:

      • Connected Device Configuration

      • Foundation Profile

      • Personal Profile

      • Personal Basis Profile

      • PDA Profile

  • Samples of previous projects for Wind River (and Doctor Design):

    • Flamenco – A new PersonalJava AWT toolkit designed especially for Wind River’s Graphics and Multi-media library

    • BigFoot – AWT and memory management components for a PersonalJava-based web tablet designed with Intel

    • KVM Research – an architecture-independent port of CLDC 1.0 and MIDP 1.0 to VxWorks, with complete implementations for two reference platforms (Pentium PC and the Wind River StormPad); ultra-compact graphics and audio libraries were designed and implemented for this project

    • PersonalJava for pSOS – a set of four architecture pSOS ports (PPC, ARM, MIPS, SH) of PersonalJava

    • Kanabo and Altair – two wireless PDA prototypes designed and built for Mitsubishi; application platforms were based on JDK 1.0.2 and PersonalJava

    • LittleFoot – a complete native GUI framework designed and built for Spyglass to use for their embedded browser

• Senior Research Engineer (previously, Senior Software Engineer) – Altris (formerly Alpharel-Trimco, Alpharel, Optigraphics), February 1989 - August 1996

  • Software research and development in image recognition and conversion, employing techniques from computational artificial intelligence

  • Software development for a document automation system designed for large documents such as architectural drawings, geological survey maps, oil well logs

• Software Development Coordinator (previously Systems Analyst) – Talaris Systems, September 1986 - February 1989

  • Supervision of junior members of the software development department; coordination of schedules and timelines for the department; establishment and enforcement of software quality standards for the department

  • Analysis, design, and implementation of software systems used with laser printers and graphics previewing terminals

• Assistant Professor of Computer Science – Department of Computer Science, Tufts University, September 1983 - August 1986

• Visiting Scientist – Laboratory for Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, July 1982 - June 1986

• Lecturer in Mathematics – Department of Mathematics, University of Chicago, September 1979 - June 1982

• College Fellow – The College, University of Chicago, September 1978 - June 1979

Publications:

• Vincent Perrier and Steven Schwarz, A Reality for Java Embedded Computing, Java Developer’s Journal 6:10 (2001)

• Steven Schwarz, Index Sets Related to Prompt Simplicity, Annals of Pure and Applied Logic 42:3 (1989)

• Steven Schwarz, The quotient semi-lattice of the recursively enumerable degrees modulo the cappable degrees, Transactions American Mathematical Society 283:1 (1984)

• Steven Schwarz, Recursive automorphisms of recursive linear orderings, Annals of Pure and Applied Logic 26 (1984)

Talks:

• Embedded Java – Efficiency under Pressure (Moderated Panel Discussion with four industry colleagues), Java Developer’s Conference 2001

• Coping with the Limitations of CLDC-based Devices (Technical Session), Java One 2001

• Java Performance Acceleration through the Use of Embedded DRAM (Birds-of-a-feather Session), Java One 1999

• Proving before/after assertions about programs: a survey

  • Northeast Set Theory Seminar, Smith College, March 1984

  • Theory of Computation Seminar, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, June 1983

• Quotient lattices, index sets, and recursive linear orderings

  • American Mathematical Society Summer Institute in Recursion Theory, Cornell University, July 1982

  • Los Angeles Logic Conference, University of California, Los Angeles, January 1982