iPhone Application Developer
Greater Boston Area
- Current
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- iPhone Application Developer at JamWithIt.com
- Public Service Director & Radio Show Host at WMFO Tufts Freeform Radio 91.5 FM
- Past
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- Chief Software Architect at WebEx / Cisco
- Cofounder and Chief Technology / Marketing Officer at Remembering Them Forever, Inc.
- Consulting ASP.NET Programmer at Creative Data
- Systems Architect at LifeFX
- Contract Systems Architect at Lotus Development
- Principal Engineer at Open Data Corporation
- Project Leader at Intersolv
- Lead Engineer at Grumman Aerospace
- Education
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- Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
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Edward Beuchert’s Experience
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iPhone Application Developer
JamWithIt.com
(Computer Software industry)
January 2009 — Present (11 months)
My first iPhone application is now available from Apple. It's an Internet listener app for WMFO (91.5 FM in Medford) that allows users to listen to the web stream, view the live playlist and access other promotional features for the station. Version 1.1 is now available for free from the iTunes App Store. Version 2.0 will include a "Tab Bar Controller" interface and seamless viewing of web content from within the application. To download it, just go to iTunes and search for WMFO (or click the link next to "Websites" up above *8^!)...
My second iPhone application is a much more sophisticated paid app called “Jam With It!” which will let users remix music live on their iPhone and iPod Touch.
I'm actively enrolled in the Apple iPhone Developer program and I've been working through the various SDK examples and documentation to learn all aspects of iPhone programming including Objective-C, the Cocoa Touch, Media, Core Services and Core OS APIs. -
Public Service Director & Radio Show Host
WMFO Tufts Freeform Radio 91.5 FM
(Computer Software industry)
2004 — Present (5 years )
I host a weekly radio show on WMFO, 91.5 FM in Medford, Tufts Community Freeform Radio (wmfo.org). I actually have three different shows that I alternate between in my Friday 8 pm to 10 pm time slot, named "Plastic Sushi, Strawberries and Time," "Tears of the Gods" and "Plastic Strawberries." Each is a two hour "sound collage" that mixes together music that matches the weekly theme, plus audio clips from speeches, lectures, movies and TV shows. There are well over a hundred archived podcasts of previous shows in MP3 format posted on the show web sites:
http://PlasticSushi.org
http://TearsOfTheGods.org
http://PlasticStrawberries.org
I also volunteer as WMFO's Public Service Director, processing, coordinating and maintaining all Public Service Announcements (PSAs) for the station.
Finally, I also help out with various other activities at the station, such as recording voiceovers for promos and audio engineering live bands... -
Chief Software Architect
WebEx / Cisco
(Public Company; csco; Computer Software industry)
April 2006 — May 2008 (2 years 2 months)
Originally hired as the Chief Software Architect for the WebOffice online collaboration suite, a C# and XSLT .NET-based “Software as a Service” product with 325,000 users.
As a key member of the WebOffice Vice President of Engineering’s Management Team, I helped deal with many of the technology integration issues between WebOffice and the WebEx Meeting Center family of products, including the challenges of developing software across a vastly geographically distributed team. Designed XML Web Service APIs, wrote and reviewed specifications, produced presentations and helped plan product strategies.
After WebEx was acquired by Cisco, I worked as an Architect on the Connect project, designing and writing AJAX, JavaScript and Java code on a platform for developing collaborative Web 2.0 applications. -
Cofounder and Chief Technology / Marketing Officer
Remembering Them Forever, Inc.
(Internet industry)
January 2005 — April 2006 (1 year 4 months)
Cofounder and Chief Technology / Marketing Officer for an e-commerce startup focused on the funerary niche market through three commercial web sites: RestingOrbs.com, RoadsideRemembrances.com and RememberingThemForever.com
Researched, wrote and reiterated on a business plan. Developed multiple web sites using ASP.NET, C# and PayPal technologies. Designed and produced marketing materials including brochures and other product literature to support Direct Sales efforts. Worked with suppliers, vendors and other business partners. Implemented a Google AdWords-based Search Engine marketing and advertising campaign. -
Consulting ASP.NET Programmer
Creative Data
(Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)
2003 — 2004 (1 year )
Designed and implemented an integrated ASP.NET-based Project, Budget and Timesheet tracking application based on a suite of three legacy FoxPro applications. Wrote ASP.NET and VB.NET code that integrated with a SQL Server 2000 database.
The architecture was heavily based on User Controls and customized DataGrid controls to display, edit and drilldown through data. Extensive use of JavaScript to perform client-side computations and provide users with a responsive and easy to use Web application. Primarily responsible for the User Interface, which communicated with the database through stored procedures. -
Systems Architect
LifeFX
(Internet industry)
2000 — 2001 (1 year )
Systems Architect for the LifeFX Player, an ActiveX/COM/ATL-based facial animation system that renders “digital human beings” for Internet email (FaceMail) and CRM applications.
LifeFX developed technology that Ray Kurzweil demonstrated as his Ramona female alter ego at the 2001 TED Conference -- Ray also served on the LifeFX Board of Directors.
I designed the overall product architecture and implemented it with a team of other engineers. Took prototype algorithms designed by researchers at the University of Auckland and developed them into the production version of the LifeFX animation engine. Built the first version of the installation utility. Set up the source control system (initially SourceSafe and then CVS) and worked with another engineer to implement an automatic nightly build process and smoke test for the product. Managed Release Engineering. Worked with Sales, Marketing and customers to determine their needs and deploy solutions that met their requirements. Responsible for development of the LifeFX Software Development Kit (including documentation and JavaScript code samples).
Primarily Visual C++ programming under Windows 98/NT/2000. -
Contract Systems Architect
Lotus Development
(Public Company; IBM; Computer Software industry)
1995 — 2000 (5 years )
Contract Systems Architect on the 1-2-3 spreadsheet for the first 32-bit release (1-2-3 97), and the subsequent follow-on versions (9.0, 9.1 and 9.5).
I was originally hired to work on the 1-2-3 “Framework,” which serves as the core object-oriented windowing and C++ class library for the product. Later served as technical lead for the system. Worked across virtually all areas of the product including low level Windows graphics rendering, event handling, file system, OLE, DDE, LotusScript language interpreter, memory management and error and exception handling. Designed and coded algorithms that increased LotusScript and macro execution performance by 600%. Produced a prototype port of 1-2-3 running under Red Hat LINUX. Helped solve problems in the SmartSuite Shared Components and sister products such as Notes, Approach, and Freelance.
Extensive use of the Win32 API, including multi-threading. Visual C/C++ programming under Windows 95/98/NT/2000, with significant use of UNIX tools. -
Principal Engineer
Open Data Corporation
(Computer Software industry)
1991 — 1995 (4 years )
Principal Engineer of the FindOut! data access product’s forms and reports design system. Ported the company’s original OpenBooks product from OS/2 to Windows, and then took on responsibility for improving the End User interface.
I worked with the President/CEO, Technical Documentation and QA to redesign all of the product’s menus and dialog boxes, and then produced a prototype which was taken and demonstrated to customers. After incorporating their feedback wrote a final spec and worked with other engineers to implement it. Wrote specifications, produced schedules, designed, coded and worked with customers to increase usability.
Primarily C/C++ programming under MS-DOS, Windows 3.x, Windows NT and OS/2. -
Project Leader
Intersolv
(Public Company; ISLV; Computer Software industry)
1988 — 1991 (3 years )
Originally hired to implement the print and font subsystems of the Index Technology “Virtual Terminal,” a platform independent windowing system and WYSIWYG graphics programming environment. Subsequently promoted to Project Leader of the six engineer team.
The VT provided portable “MacApp”-like functionality to twenty-two client subsystems which comprised the Excelerator Series II CASE tool. Wrote specs, coded, worked with internal clients to solve their issues and scheduled tasks for team members. Single handedly completed feasibility port of the VT to Windows 3.0.
Object-oriented C programming under UNIX/X Windows and OS/2-Presentation Manager. -
Lead Engineer
Grumman Aerospace
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Defense & Space industry)
1985 — 1988 (3 years )
Lead Engineer for the COSM project, a prototype system to Check-Out, Service and Maintain the space suits and Extra-Vehicular Mobility Units for NASA’s space station. This involved a network of three Sun workstations, one that simulated a space suit, another the EMU and a third that functioned to diagnose and assist astronauts maintain each of the other two components. Responsible for large portions of the overall software system design, development of network communication routines and user interfaces. C and POSTSCRIPT/NeWS programming under UNIX.
Programmer for TENA, the Test ENgineer’s Assistant, a Grumman productivity tool to automatically generate diagnostic strategies for analog avionics. Artificial Intelligence and frame-based modeling techniques in C and LISP.
Edward Beuchert’s Education
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Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
B.S., B.S. , Computer Science, Philosophy , 1980 — 1985
I was (and continue to be) very interested in Artificial Intelligence, and earned dual B.S. degrees at Rensselaer in order to better understand this field.
