Matthew Amann

MATTHEW AMANN

416-671-5906

34 Winston Grove, Etobicoke, Ontario

PROFILE

Proven ability to effectively lead key projects and manage team members
Extensive experience developing applications, middleware and device drivers
10+ years experience in technical leadership and development positions
Graduate of University of Waterloo, Bachelor of Mathematics, Honours Computer Science / Information Systems Option

EXPERIENCE

Smiths Detection, Senior Software Team Lead
Dec 2006 – Present

Manage the software and firmware development for Radiation detection programs with the US Department of Homeland Security.
Responsible for managing a diverse team including two Team Leads, firmware and software developers and verification testing.
Embedded Systems and Instrument Control (SPI, I2C, IPC)
Scientific Analysis / Graphical Interfaces
Development platforms include Windows CE 5/6, Windows Desktop variants and UNIX.

ATI Technologies Inc., Senior Engineer
Feb 2005 – Nov 2006

Lead development of the ATI Remote Wonder family of products (RF USB remote control for the PC).
Lead development of the ATI Multimedia Center (MMC) TV / PVR application
Develop ATI Installer for Vista (C++, IPC, design patterns)
Design and implement Microsoft Vista Media Center extensions (ActiveX, ATL, C++, C#, JavaScript, .NET, XML)
Create animated 3D special effects for Vista version of Microsoft Movie Maker (C++, Direct3D 9.0, Vertex / Pixel Shader HLSL, XML)
Develop multimedia demo applications to showcase ATI hardware features
Responsible for planning, budgeting and negotiating with vendors for executing team building events

ATI Technologies Inc., Engineer
Apr 2001 – Feb 2005

Architect of award winning Remote Wonder
- Fully responsible for all phases of software development lifecycle for three generations of devices
- Negotiated architectural and interface definitions with third party vendors
- Deployed publicly available SDK for creating Plug-Ins
- Managed team members during new-feature development
Lead Designer in MMC (C/C++/MFC/COM/DirectShow). Major projects included:
- Closed Captioning decoder and renderer
- Ability to view content using Video-In (S-Video/Composite)
- Lead MMC’s development for European market. Designed TV Guide, support for European television standards (PAL/SECAM), Teletext decoder and renderer, channel scanning algorithms
- Managed team members during design implementation
Architect of analog and digital (HDTV) channel management functionality of MMC
Project Management success in critical projects including Remote Wonder and HDTV
Initiated process improvements to increase team success
- Lead presentations for cross-training team members and Lunch ‘N Learn sessions on key architectural areas
- Introduced engineer driven post-mortems
- Created design document template, code review standards and OOD guidelines

ATI Technologies Inc., Associate Engineer
May 2000 - Apr 2001

Developed Windows device drivers for display (Radeon graphics cards) and analog capture devices (TV Wonder, All-In-Wonder) (Assembly, C)
Customized MMC to cover new hardware releases
Provided timely and effective support for existing products in retail and OEM space

NCR, Co-Op

Ported image recognition software from UNIX to Windows
Implemented a multi-process, multi-threaded application for real time processing of cheques (C, IPC, UNIX)
Expanded test harness to validate image processing algorithms

IBM, Co-Op

Created UNIX shell scripts to automate internal product deployment
Developed custom installation program for DB2 (Win32 API)
Expanded and validated automated testing procedures for DB2 (C, Shell Scripts, SQL)

Hummingbird Ltd (formerly Andyne Computing), Co-Op

EDUCATION

University of Waterloo
Bachelor of Mathematics, Honours Computer Science / Information Systems Option
Sept 1995 - May 2000

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