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Michael Darweesh
E-mail: mjd AT darweesh DOT org
LinkedIn Profile
http://www.darweesh.org/~mjd/resume
Pittsburgh, PA
Work Experience:
  Pittsburgh Knights                                    April '17-Present
  Chief Technology Officer (CTO)
    esports startup technology strategy advice
    Executive level business collaboration
    Product idea evaluation

  Legalsifter                                           April '16-April '17
  Director of Software Engineering
     Cross Discipline Communication 
     Project Planning
     Technical Mentoring
     Managed Team of ~6 Software Engineers and Designers

  Hiatus, Vacation, and Travel                          July '14-March '16
     Planned Time Off

  General Dynamics C4 Systems                           Nov. '12-June '14
  Viz
  Senior Staff Software Engineer
     New Product Development
     Prototyping, Java, Javascript, Design, Team Leadership

  Google Incorporated                                   March '08-April '12
  Technical Lead/Senior Software Engineer
     Co-founded the project which became Google Hangouts.
     Led the prototyping of 3 major new Google properties using
     Google Web Toolkit, Java, and Javascript.
     Designed and Implemented Instant Previews front-end and service features
     in C++, Java, HTML, CSS, and Javascript.
     Responsible for feature/defect prioritization, and team tasking.
     Involved directly with recruiting and personnel performance evaluation.

  Mars Space Flight Facility                            Feb. '04-March '08
  Software Development Team
  Senior Software Engineer
     Led the development of new map server software through full life-cycle.
     C/C++ multi-threaded, WMS compliant, caching, planetary, client-server.
     Implemented interactive web map using cgi, SQL, C++ and HTML/CSS.
     Various minor system administration tasks.

  Microsoft Incorporated                                March '98-Dec. '03
  Content Security Business Unit
  Software Design Engineer
  Interim Team Lead
     Designed, implemented, and maintained Digital Rights Management
     features. Developed DRM APIs and ActiveX controls on Windows, Linux,
     and WindowsCE using C/C++. Wrote Linux and Mac software to emulate
     parts of the Win32 API.
     Instructed and scheduled team's security code-reviews.
     Interim Development Team Lead

  Macintosh Business Unit
  Software Design Engineer
     Designed, implemented, and maintained new features in the Macintosh
     version of Microsoft Office mostly in C/C++.
     Implemented Mac Office file UI for over 100 file dialogs using OSX API.
     Revised and maintained Japanese features.
     Implemented and maintained UI for ftp server navigation.

  Autometric Incorporated                               Oct. '95-March '98
  Creative Visualization
  Lead Software Engineer
     Automated virtual human generation from computer artist assets and
     speech scripts in C/C++ and Perl.
     Developed tools to assist in the creation of Alias/Wavefront
     model data including OpenAlias plug-ins.
     Various minor system administration tasks.
     Clearance: DoD Top Secret

  American Management Systems                           Dec. '94-Oct. '95
  Management Systems and Technology
  Programmer/Analyst
     Created detailed design specifications for financial reports.
     Programmed reports according to specifications. Documented use and
     maintenance requirements. Maintained report programs.

  Ice Bird Enterprises                                  Jan. '89-March '98
  Macintosh Shareware Programmer and Computer Consultant
     Designed graphics and algorithms for Macintosh programs in C and Pascal.
     Consulted clients with Unix and Macintosh questions.
     Programmed custom perl and C/C++ for clients.


Skills:
Programming Languages:
  C/C++ Programmed commercial applications, tools, and shareware.
  Javascript Production Google web properties.
  Java Prototyping and maintaining GWT and client/server products.
  Perl Created and maintained build and CGI scripts.
  Assembly Tuned 68000 and x86 compiler output.
  Also XML, HTML, SQL, Ruby on Rails


Platforms:
  Unix/Linux/Irix Wrote system level server software in C/C++.
     Programmed graphical tools to create virtual humans. 
     Wrote CGI scripts in perl to access MySQL for HTML/CSS sites.
     Primary development environment for Java and Javascript work at Google.
  Windows Programmed system software and client/server software.
  Macintosh Programmed Mac Office features, games, and shareware.


Product and People Management:
     Screening and Interviewing technical candidates.
     Scrum and Agile process implementation.
     Product roadmap and work prioritization.
     Cross discipline communication and conflict resolution.


Publications:
  Illumination Videocassette. G. Dismond, G. Afton-Bird, M. Darweesh,
     K. Wallace, M. Walsh, ACM SIGGRAPH, 1997

  The Creation of Realistic, Talking Computer Generated Humans Panel.
     Gwen Afton-Bird, Michael Darweesh, Gregory Dismond, Melissa Durley,
     Kimberly Wallace, Michael Walsh, Association of Medical Illustrators
     Conference, Baltimore, Maryland, 1997

  Patents:
     System and method for manifest generation
     Debugging and application that employs rights-managed content



Education:
  State University of New York at Buffalo - Bachelor's of Science in Computer Science