Lawrence Spracklen

Current

• Senior Software Engineer at NVIDIA

Past

• Senior Staff Engineer at sun microsystems
• Staff Engineer at Sun Microsystems
• Performance Engineer at Sun Microsystems

• Software Architect at Sun Microsystems
• Software Architect at United Nations

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Education

• University of Aberdeen
• University of York

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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 2009 — Present (4 months)

  SW optimization, performance analysis, compiler development.

• Senior Staff Engineer

  sun microsystems

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

  November 2007 — September 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 2003 — November 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 2000 — September 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 2000 — November 2000 (3 months)

• Software Architect

  United Nations

  (Non-Profit; Computer & Network Security industry)

  September 1999 — September 2000 (1 year 1 month)

Lawrence Spracklen’s Education

• University of Aberdeen

  Ph.D. , Electronic Engineering , 1995 — 2000

  Thesis title : SIMD Systems and Communications Applications

• University of York

  B.Sc. , Computational Physics , 1991 — 1994

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