Lawrence Spracklen

Lawrence Spracklen

Senior Software Engineer at Nvidia

San Francisco Bay Area

Current
  • Senior Software Engineer at NVIDIA
Past
Education
  • University of Aberdeen
  • University of York
Connections
224 connections
Industry
Computer Hardware

Lawrence Spracklen’s Summary

Processor design, performance analysis, Multi-threaded software optimization and scaling, security, hardware accelerators and application-specific (rich media etc) instruction customization. Development of optimized video codecs and performance primitive libraries.


Lawrence Spracklen’s Experience

  • Senior Software Engineer

    NVIDIA

    (Public Company; NVDA; Computer Hardware industry)

    August 2009Present (4 months)

    SW optimization, performance analysis, compiler development.

  • Senior Staff Engineer

    sun microsystems

    (Public Company; JAVA; Information Technology and Services industry)

    November 2007September 2009 (1 year 11 months)

    Processor architecture. Architect of UltraSPARC RF HW security accelerator. Performance analysis. Application scaling.

  • Staff Engineer

    Sun Microsystems

    (Public Company; JAVA; Information Technology and Services industry)

    October 2003November 2007 (4 years 2 months)

    Processor architecture research. Application scaling & performance optimization. SPARC Solaris cryptographic performance tuning.

  • Performance Engineer

    Sun Microsystems

    (Public Company; JAVA; Information Technology and Services industry)

    November 2000September 2003 (2 years 11 months)

    Multimedia library development (MPEG2/4 kernels). Compiler development. SIMD ISA extensions.

  • Software Architect

    Sun Microsystems

    (Public Company; Computer Hardware industry)

    September 2000November 2000 (3 months)

  • Software Architect

    United Nations

    (Non-Profit; Computer & Network Security industry)

    September 1999September 2000 (1 year 1 month)


Lawrence Spracklen’s Education

  • University of Aberdeen

    Ph.D. , Electronic Engineering , 19952000

    Thesis title : SIMD Systems and Communications Applications

  • University of York

    B.Sc. , Computational Physics , 19911994

    Honors project title : Image recognition using Kohonen Feature-Map Techniques


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