Tom Whipple

Current

• Partner at Walki-Talki.com
• Computer Engineer at NAVAIR

Past

• Graduate Technical Intern at Intel
• Software Engineer at Nistevo
• Network Administrator at Znet Telecom

see less...

Education

• University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
• University of Minnesota-Twin Cities

Connections

2 connections

Industry

Defense & Space

Websites

• My Website

Tom Whipple’s Experience

• Partner

  Walki-Talki.com

  (Entertainment industry)

  February 2009 — Present (10 months)

  Walki-Talki.com is a producer of audio walking tours for mp3 players, iPhone, and other consumer devices.
  
  Primary responsibility is development of iPhone and web content.
  Secondary responsibilities include marketing and everything else involved in running a small business.

• Computer Engineer

  NAVAIR

  (Government Agency; Defense & Space industry)

  September 2007 — Present (2 years 3 months)

  - Currently developing Hardware in the Loop (HiL) test capability for an electronic warfare RF receiver.
  - Lead Technical Point of Contact for two SBIR technology development projects involving digital wide band RF receivers.
  - Developed a maximum likelihood algorithm for classifying signals.
  - Wrote real-time control software for custom built RF signal generation hardware for a missile system HiL environment.

• Graduate Technical Intern

  Intel

  (Public Company; INTC; Semiconductors industry)

  May 2006 — August 2006 (4 months)

  Designed and created an open source application test suite for the 1.0 release of xdg-utils. As part of the freedesktop.org Portland project, the xdg-utils are designed to provide a set of controls to providers of Linux software that work regardless of distribution or desktop environment.

• Software Engineer

  Nistevo

  (Privately Held; Computer Software industry)

  2000 — 2003 (3 years )

  - Developed a new XML based test framework for QA.
  - Undertook a variety of build automation tasks in support of product integration.
  - Served as lead report developer for a Brio/Hyperion SQR reporting package and web portal.
  - Administered an enterprise integration package (SeeBeyond eGate) during the go-live period. Created automated monitoring and recovery tools.

• Network Administrator

  Znet Telecom

  (Internet industry)

  1997 — 2000 (3 years )

  Served as a lead network & system administrator for a growing WAN, including:
  - Coordinating & supporting installation of WAN lines delivered by telecom carriers.
  - Delivering new technologies to customers when it became available. (e.g. DSL, VoIP & WiFi).
  - Maintaining servers required to run an ISP.
  - Custom web development.
  - Consulting to customers.

Tom Whipple’s Education

• University of Minnesota-Twin Cities

  MS , Computer Science , 2005 — 2007

  -Studied computer vision, machine learning and robotics.
  -Thesis project involved multi-resolution classification of contours formed by shape outlines. Contours are represented with a B-spline and decomposed with a wavelet analysis.

• University of Minnesota-Twin Cities

  BS , Mathematics , 2003 — 2005

  - Undergraduate thesis was a survey of size functions. (Size Functions were developed to recognize occluded objects in images.)
  - Participated in Solar Vehicle Project as lead strategist and embedded software developer. Developed software infrastructure to incorporate a solar energy model to make race time decisions. As a result, the UMN team was a very close runner-up to a team with a budget estimated to be 5 times larger.

  Activities and Societies:

  Solar Vehicle Project

Additional Information

Tom Whipple’s Websites:

• My Website

Tom Whipple’s Contact Settings

Interested In:

• career opportunities
• consulting offers
• new ventures
• job inquiries
• expertise requests
• business deals
• reference requests
• getting back in touch