Visio Pro

Created several proof-of-concept webapps in 2017 experimenting with ideas that will make virtual meetings more immersive. Our approach was largely inspired by the Star Wars™ films. If you remember, the Jedi Council held meetings in which remote participants were sitting in seats using holographic projections of themselves and vs. versa. I prototyped the same two-way immersive meeting idea using WebGL 3-D and WebRTC in web browsers.

[I know, this section just echos the same stuff as on the résumé. I plan to expand later.] Worked with PhDs, staff and university interns researching disruptive technologies. Barco Labs deliverables are research papers, patents and demos. Any research that might become a viable product in 2 to 5 years is then passed off to one of the product divisions. (Due to the trade secret nature of this research some details cannot be revealed.) Accomplishments:

Developed several browser-based video playback and video device management applications. Some examples (in reverse chronological order): [I know, the section below is too wordy. I'll improve later.]

Engineered the high-performance tile-map server technology for the company that provided all the custom map overlays displayed by the universal map applications (above). Features included:

Used the GDAL and MapServer libraries to style and generate map tiles from Esri

FlyteComm wanted to put the map tile servers under that same RSA SecurID gateway as the ASP .NET servers but the company's server infrastructure did not allow that plus there were known scalability issues. To demonstrate to IT there was a better way, I setup a VMWare virtualized system to prototype a better server infrastructure. The system consisted of:

Many of FlyteComm's customers had proprietary map overlays that they didn't want others to see. However, FlyteComm's array of virtualized map tile servers were shared among all customers. I updated my FastCGI tile server C++ code to authenticate every tile request using MD5 HMAC authentication using secret keys known only to the tile servers and ASP .NET app servers.