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    "name": "Rob Arnold",
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    "email": "rob@loci.net",
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    "summary": "I like discovering things, solving problems, and creating value in all forms.  My career has largely been doing so through successive startup companies and new product or service initiatives in existing companies, interspersed with occasional troubleshooting/turnaround engagements with existing challenges.\n\nMy background is in company infrastructure building, real time software, embedded environments, IP networking, security, media software, MPEG, kiosk software, consumer and IoT devices, Linux, system programming, platform engineering and DevOps.",
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      "address": "United States"
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      "name": "Loci Consulting",
      "position": "Founder",
      "startDate": "1993-12-31",
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      "summary": "Software, network, and general technology consulting and engineering.  This is my consulting company I've kept active for many years.  Between other engagements, I take on projects that interest me and to which I can bring significant, unique value from advisory work to startup/management, to hands-on coding.\n\nSample work:\nWork for major drive camera fleet system tracing down a hard-to-find bug related to multithreading/race condition\nSensor programing for very low power environmental sensors used in industrial monitoring.  RTOS based with a tiny footprint\n.NET UI/UX for PowerPoint broadcast implementation for major cloud/CDN provider, working with Microsoft and the client to coordinate and make sure the feature was ready for the big launch demonstrating the new Office functionality\nPoint of Sale information kiosks, computer based learning interactive discs, etc. for many companies\nSystem Administration for mixed platform environments including MS Active Directory, Exchange server admin, Open Directory / UNIX / MacOS, and desktop as well as MDM provisioning and setup\nCompany infrastructure planning and implementation for startups, from communications, network provisioning and management, to DevOps, process control, deployment planning, etc.\nStatic Site Generator workflows with git, Gitlab, Github, and their CI/CD variants, Docker, Netlify, AWS, Firebase, etc. for documentation sites, personal websites, and serverless themes for groups including voice/chat, comment sections, mailing list handling, etc. (Hugo, Go, etc.)\niOS project for peer to peer, serverless mobile streaming and screen sharing with chat, session browsing, etc. (Swift, Obj-C++, C++)\nMacOS utility for managing and copying music libraries and iTunes/Music playlists in a Tesla friendly fashion. (Obj-C++, C++)\nVanity address generator for Stellar (C++, trivial but fun)\nEncrypted chatbot to dynamic, serverless website updating via cloud deployed docker setup (in progress)",
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    {
      "name": "Coin Cloud",
      "position": "Vice President, Products & Systems; Enterprise Architect",
      "startDate": "2020-01-31",
      "endDate": "2022-12-31",
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      "summary": "Building out the digital currency on-ramp for everyone.  Next-gen finance on defi and DLT rails with an intuitive UI.",
      "url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/coincloud/"
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      "summary": "We founded Shyft Systems to create groundbreaking new camera technologies for capturing live events and action of all kinds, \"Shyft Systems captures action like never before; everywhere and all the time. You'll never miss the perfect shot.\"\nWe did the initial work on some really cool tech hardware and services, though ultimately we decided not to actively continue development due to changes in the founders' other commitments and interests.  Though the work is paused, it remains some of my favorite stuff I've worked on.\n\nBasically whatever needed done, I did.  Here's a sampling of the variety of work:\nAll the filing and legal work in starting the company, setting up corporate structure, cap table, option pool, agreements, etc.\nR&D, vendor selection and evaluation for camera sensors, SoC/SoM modules & boards, proof of concept code (real time, distributed data store, massive IO needs to validate both mathematically and prove in code) on Linux/Android with customized AOSP work, project architecture and documentation, HEVC implementation/capability R&D as part of capabilities scaling and product design drivers\nSplash page initial website, CSS/js, etc. responsive layout for mobile/tablet/desktop, Google firebase hosting, AWS, gitlab, and github workflows for CI/CD site and doc building, using static site generators (Hugo primarily)",
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      "location": "Southern California"
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      "name": "Telanetix",
      "position": "CTO, VP Engineering",
      "startDate": "2001-12-31",
      "endDate": "2010-09-30",
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      "summary": "Created the Telanetix Digital Presence System, an immersive, seamless, multiple-screen MPEG-4/HEVC based video conferencing system, including data collaboration features, DVD/video tape remote viewing, wireless simple-to-use control panel, and multicasting multipoint capability.\nThe system was built on our customized Linux platform in an embedded environment. I did the initial exploration, system design, software and network architecture (C++, C#, and a variety of tools and tech from system and kernel tweaking to protocol development to web sites).\nI largely recruited, hired, and managed the engineering, operations, and NOC teams, as well as assisted in fund raising, marketing, and sales, as well as built the company infrastructure including phone, network, email and web services, etc.\nAbbreviated sample technology list:  Linux/SELinux/LLVM, SSH, Nagios (+hooks/integration to NOC and DevOps), Git (with hooks, workflow triggers), VPRN  design, deploy, manage; GPU/FPGA codec acceleration, testing & integration lab with deployment tooling and instrumentation",
      "url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/telanetix/"
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      "name": "RedDotNet, a Digital On-Demand company",
      "position": "Director, RedDotNetwork; Director, Systems; Senior Architect",
      "startDate": "1998-08-31",
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      "summary": "Created the RedDot Network, a nationwide high-speed network engineered for the purpose of providing music and multimedia previews and full CD data, including liner notes and album art, to retail entertainment stores for creating CD#s on demand, in-store.\nBuilt the RedDot Network, Network Engineering and Management department; recruiting top network engineers and project managers to meet 24/7 service needs.\nCreated and maintained network security infrastructure to meet the requirements of both the music industry and multiple, separate retail companies.\nDesigned transaction and data security protocols and methodology using public key cryptography, secure message signing, and public key infrastructure.\nLed lossless music compression algorithm research, which was used to reduce storage requirements for CD master storage without compromising quality.\nLed vendor analysis, requirement specifications, negotiations, and ongoing relationships for most systems and infrastructure.",
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      "name": "Uniden SRC",
      "position": "Senior Engineer",
      "startDate": "1997-12-31",
      "endDate": "1998-12-31",
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      "summary": "Led team in the porting the Unwired Planet (later Phone.com) Handheld Device Markup Language (HDML) browser and platform for the Uniden Email Phone (C and C++ in embedded real-time environment using the Microware OS-9 RTOS).\nLed ongoing development of the Uniden Email Phone. Led software and hardware engineering, testing, and management interfaces, as well as software release to Uniden QA in Japan and Dallas, TX.\nLed a research team designing technology components of a next generation line of Java based Internet Appliances, wired and wireless, at a variety of targeted price points. Worked with JavaOS and Java Chip initiatives as part of this R&D effort. My favorite and the main focus was a consumer focused small tablet with wireless (including cellular) - basically think (ancient) iPad.\nLed team of engineers prototyping key components of the above Internet Appliances, and in bringing up development boards for testing and demoing our components using WindRiver's VxWorks RTOS and their Tornado development environment.\nLed a team in designing and developing a Java based WAP gateway and proxy server.",
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      "name": "Van Koevering Company",
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      "summary": "First employee - literally a basement start! Created company infrastructure including communications (PBX and CTI selection and integration); network infrastructure, including remote offices; engineering, manufacturing, and management workstations and software; and intranet and Internet connectivity. Listed as chief inventor on patents concerning the Van Koevering Interactive Piano, including hardware and software specification, and software design and development.\nDesigned and implemented the Van Koevering Music Mall client and server applications and systems using embedded systems programming, touch screen interface, RAS, TAPI, ActiveX, embedded browsers, Win32, and MFC. Imagine the App Store, but on the touch screen on the piano, for songs, sheet music, instructional courses, etc. In 1995…",
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      "name": "Interactive Resources",
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      "summary": "First employee - literally a garage start! Built engineering team from scratch (and I love to see the amazing stuff the team members have gone on to do since we were all here).\nLed company in implementing maintainable and marketable software libraries, reusable code, and version control techniques.\nChief architect for larger projects, managed engineering teams. Primary technical contact for clients.\nTook projects through the product creation process of design, implementation, testing, documentation, product review and employee evaluation, and product stream integration.\nAdministrated network of Sun, DEC, SGI, Windows, Macintosh, and OS-9 systems\nCreated many internal utilities for project management, network backup, disc burning, MPEG processing and asset manipulation, etc.\nLed team which created internal multimedia authoring tool for CD-i and David interactive TV platforms, including an object-oriented front-end language, extensible and portable small footprint runtime engines (message passing virtual machine architecture), and API for engine and extension communication.",
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  "references": [
    {
      "name": "Bob Alford",
      "reference": "Rob worked for me at three different companies. Doctor Design, RedDotNet and Telanetix. He is one of the very best engineers I know. I could always count on him to get the job done, on time and under budget, no matter how challenging. He also proved to be an excellent manager, nurturing and mentoring his staff to improve their skills and abilities to get the very best results for the company. I am now retired, but if I were back in the business, Rob is the first engineer I would try to recruit."
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    {
      "name": "Nathan Day",
      "reference": "Rob is one of the most influential people I have ever worked with.  I learned, under his directions,  many of the traits and values I use today.  Rob pushed me to think outside the box and explore the limits of technology.  He is one of the brightest and most talented engineers I have worked with.\r\nI wholeheartedly recommend Rob as a true asset to any company."
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      "name": "Jason Hoover, MBA",
      "reference": "Rob was a creative, methodological, and innovative software engineer that really knew his craft.  He was not only a competent engineer but a great problem solver and designer.  However, what made Rob exceptional was his ability to communicate and mentor."
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    {
      "name": "Fabio Soto",
      "reference": "I endorse Rob's accomplishments at Telanetix without any reservation."
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    {
      "name": "Gary Snethen",
      "reference": "Rob did a fantastic job of managing our company's technology and information infrastructure and creating a highly customized embedded browser for our entire line of interactive digital pianos."
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    {
      "name": "Gary Snethen",
      "reference": "During his time at IR, Rob was a very dedicated manager and the primary driving force behind the company's adoption and development of new technology."
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    {
      "name": "Ali Akgun",
      "reference": "I worked with Rob for 2 years at Interactive Resources where Rob was instrumental in building and running the engineering team. He is a very talented software engineer and a very creative systems architect who is highly analytical, very collaborative, and great to work with. Rob is one of the few people I know who are very strong individual contributors who also possess great leadership skills."
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