David M. Rector

Senior Software Engineer

Active Motif Corporation, Carlsbad California ( previously TimeLogic Corporation, Incline Village Nevada )

April 1997 to Present

• Responsible for maintaining, and enhancing the company’s search accelerator product as well as designing program architectures and implementation strategies.
• Implementation of new search algorithms and various supporting code in C++.
• Design of software optimizations and enhancements to improve current search algorithms.
• Windows device driver for hardware communications with custom accelerator hardware.
• Inter-process communications for job load sharing across multiple computers.
• Project management of Windows NT development and Unix port of the product.
• Cross platform development to support Linux, Solaris, and Windows versions of the product.
• Management of small engineering team.

Software Engineering Consultant

Financial Psychology Corporation, Incline Village Nevada

1996 to 1997

Responsible for overseeing the complete rewrite of the company’s commercial software package for Windows 9x in C++ This included a new graphical user interface as well as database management and printing support.

Vice President, Software Development

Lyrix Corporation, Incline Village Nevada

1995 to 1997

Cofounder of a company building an audio preview system for music stores. The system utilizes wireless devices for retail customer browsing.

• Multitasking operating system design and implementation for proprietary hardware.
• SCSI disk drive support, file system, database management, and radio communications.
• Multitasking communication system for simultaneous transmissions.

Software Engineer

General Parametrics Corporation, Berkeley California

1993 to 1995

Responsible for the development of a Windows-based multimedia presentation authoring system.

• Order and time based editing of graphic, animation, audio, and video information.
• Graphic and animation file import and graphic file editing.
• VISCA compatible digital video player software.

Senior Software Engineer and Cofounder

Impact, Chatsworth California

1990 to 1993

Key software engineer for a startup company doing video compression hardware and multimedia authoring software for a stand-alone device and a PC based video compression card.

• Non-linear video editor with advanced audio editing support.
• Software interface to proprietary video compression hardware.

Software Engineer

Pleasant Hawaiian Holidays, Westlake Village California

1988 to 1991

Software Engineer

FutureNet Corporation, Chatsworth California

1986 to 1988