Objective

Work Experience

• July 2002-March 2003 Software Manager, Sony-Visual Products Europe, Basingstoke, UK
  

  Managed development of a multimedia email feature for a UK TV model (AE-7D) using Java-based technologies. Coordinated effort between multiple companies (Sony-VPE, Sony NetServices, So-net, Philips, ANT) in multiple locations (Basingstoke, Weybridge, Cambridge and Southampton, UK; Salzburg, Austria; and Stuttgart, Germany).
  
  

• April 1997-July 2002 Senior Engineer and Planner, Sony Electronics Inc., San Jose, CA
  

  Developed Interactive TV prototype (ComTV) using HTML, C, and VxWorks. Coordinated User Interface creation and implementation for DTV set-top box product (DTR-HD1) using C and pSOS. Managed black-box software QA for DTR-HD1. Planner for hand-held, wireless, LCD TV accessory R & D effort (became Airboard, IDT-LF2). Planner for interactive module (A/V streaming, JPEG record/playback, internet functions) project.
  3 Patents Awarded:
  1) 6,314,454 - ''Method and apparatus for certified electronic mail messages'' (Filed: July 1, 1998; Awarded: November 6, 2001)
  2) 6,374,404 - ''Intelligent device having background caching of web pages from a digital television broadcast signal and method of same'' (Filed: December 16, 1998; Awarded: April 16, 2002)
  3) 6,442,593 - ''Methods and apparatus for transmitting prioritized electronic mail messages'' (Filed: February 1, 1999; Awarded: August 27, 2002)
  --7 Additional Patents Pending--
  
  

• December 1995-April 1997 Software Engineer, Embark.com, San Francisco, CA
  

  Developed CD-ROM product (CollegeEdge '96) using Visual Basic and SQL. Developed sections of www.Embark.com website using HTML, VB Script, and SQL. Developed college admissions administrators' end of web-based college application system (apply.Embark.com) for high school seniors using HTML, VB Script, and SQL.
  
  [NOTE: www.Embark.com was acquired by www.PrincetonReview.com]

• September 1994-December 1995 Research Assistant, University of Michigan - Mechanical Engineering Department, Ann Arbor, MI
• September 1992-August 1994 Graduate Teaching Fellow, Boston University - Mechanical Engineering Department, Boston, MA

Education

Graduate

• September 1994 - December 1995 Ph.D. Program in Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, MI)
• September 1992 - August 1994 M. S. in Mechanical Engineering, Boston University (Boston, MA)
  M.S. Thesis: Numerical Simulation of Electronic Chip Cooling

Undergraduate

• Mechanical Engineering, Boston University (Boston, MA)
• Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, MA)

Activities

• Member, BayCHI - Bay Area Computer-Human Interface Special Interest Group
  - Seminar lecturer (March 16, 1999) to Usability Engineering group on UI process for DTR-HD1 project
• Boston University Alumni Services - Interview Bay Area HS students interested in BU
• Sony Softball Team - Player/Coach (2 Championships)

References

• References furnished upon request.

©1999-2003 David Wang
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Revised: March 30, 2003