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Kevin L. Gong
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OBJECTIVE
C/C++ programmer with 9 years of industry experience shipping high-profile consumer Internet software. Experience on Macintosh, Windows, and UNIX platforms, including cross-platform development. Excel at rapid development of high-quality software.
WORK EXPERIENCE
| Danger Research, Palo Alto, CA |
10/02 - present
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Senior software engineer
Software engineer on Danger HipTop operating system, an OS for mobile
devices such as the T-Mobile Sidekick. [Java, C++ code]
| Toltec Engineering, San Carlos, CA |
07/02 - 10/02
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| Contractor for Netscape Communications |
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Senior software engineer
AOL Communicator: Software engineer on a set of
integrated applications including AIM, address book, and secure e-mail client [C++ code, using wxWindows]
| Excite@Home, Redwood City, CA |
11/99 - 2/02
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Senior software engineer, @Home Client Software
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Excite Messenger: Lead software engineer on Macintosh version of
Excite Messenger, an application providing instant messaging, a
sharing platform called Buddy Card (which lets users share contact
information, photos, and links), and all the features of the
Excite Assistant (see below). Solely responsible for programming
design and implementation. Part of team responsible for user
interface design and feature set specification. Coordinated release
of application to the web. Developed Mac OS Classic and Carbon
versions. Over 90,000 downloads of Macintosh version. [C++ code] |
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Excite Assistant: Lead software engineer on Macintosh version of
Excite Assistant, an application providing easy access to Excite
personalized content, including e-mail, news, TV listings, stock
quotes, weather, and Internet radio. Solely responsible for
programming design and implementation. Coordinated release of
application to the web. Over 110,000 downloads of Macintosh
version. [C++ code] |
| Apple Computer, Inc., Cupertino, CA |
6/94 - 6/99
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Senior software engineer, Interactive Media Group
Software engineer, Communications Products & Technologies
Intern, Advanced Technology Group |
10/96 - 6/99
2/95 - 10/96
6/94 - 2/95
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Projects:
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QuickTime Streaming: Software development. Worked on streaming portion of QuickTime
4 release. Responsible for packetization (hinting) of media, including
H.261, H.263+, Pure Voice audio, and generic QuickTime media including
text and MIDI. Responsible for reception of Pure Voice audio.
Helped third party codec vendors work on hinting software. [C
code] |
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QuickTime TV Broadcaster: Lead software engineer. QuickTime TV Broadcaster allows users
to easily broadcast audio and video over a network. Responsible
for user interface design, feature set specification, implementation,
and installer. [C++, PowerPlant code] |
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Apple Media Conference: Software development. Apple Media Conference provides video
conferencing and collaboration. Application was shipped on all
Power Macintosh 8500/120 computers. Part of team responsible for
implementation, user interface design, and feature set specification.
[C code] |
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QuickTime Conferencing shared whiteboard: Software design and development. The shared whiteboard is used
for collaboration between networked users. Whiteboard included
in Apple Media Conference and versions of Apple VideoPhone. Responsible
for complete design and implementation of whiteboard. Part of
team responsible for user interface design. [C code] |
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QuickTime Conferencing: Software development. QuickTime Conferencing is a Macintosh
system software extension for networked multimedia and is the
basis for QuickTime TV Broadcaster, Apple Media Conference, and
several other applications. Part of team responsible for maintenance
of several components of the extension written by other engineers.
[C code] |
| UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA |
8/92 - 5/94
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Graduate Student Instructor, Computer Science Division
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Teaching Assistant for upper division algorithms course, 3 semesters
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Teaching Assistant for entry-level machine structures course (assembly,
C), 1 semester |
EDUCATION
University of California at Berkeley
M.S., Computer Science, May 1994
3.7 GPA |
University of California at Berkeley
B.A. Mathematics and Computer Science, May 1992
High Honors in CS; Highest Honors in Math; 3.8 GPA |
Projects:
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Master’s Project: Software development for the Berkeley MPEG-1 video
encoder. Software compression done in parallel on a network of UNIX
workstations communicating via UNIX TCP sockets. Implemented and
compared several motion vector search algorithms. System used by
thousands of users. |
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Computer Science Senior Project
: Enumeration of polyominoes using
12-processor shared-memory machine. |
OTHER EXPERIENCE
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Shareware programmer since 1986. Author of the following programs:
- Chess Browser -
view/edit chess files [Mac OS X (Cocoa)]
- Polyominoes -
strategy game [Mac OS Classic, Mac OS X (Carbon), Windows, and Java versions]
- Unite -
strategy game [Mac OS Classic, Mac OS X (Carbon) and Windows in development]
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TECHNICAL SKILLS
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Languages: C, C++, Objective-C, Java |
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APIs: Win32 API, Mac OS Classic APIs, Mac OS Carbon APIs |
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Frameworks: Cocoa (Mac OS X), PowerPlant, wxWindows |
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Programming Environments: Metrowerks CodeWarrior, Microsoft Visual Studio, UNIX development tools |
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