Ken Rimey
rimey@iki.fi
http://www.iki.fi/rimey/
Objective
- Looking for a technologically challenging software development project in the Helsinki area.
Skills
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I enjoy hands-on software development and have substantial experience managing talented professionals.
My recent interests have included highly scalable decentralized systems, cloud computing, and data synchronization.
I also have a long-standing interest in highly interactive nontraditional user interfaces.
Much of my recent work has been with the Python programming language,
but I have experience with many others too.
Experience
- Helsinki Institute for Information
Technology (HIIT). Senior Research Scientist, 5/2002 - present.
Led the HIIT team contributing to the EU FP6
P2P-Fusion project,
which addressed the legal creative reuse of audio and video media in the Internet environment.
One of the results of our work is the Peerscape
experimental peer-to-peer social network
demonstrating the feasibility of basing a decentralized social network on replicated data
not tied to particular computers.
Led the ITEA Services for All (S4ALL) project at HIIT,
where we prototyped a number of tools and applications for
mobile phones in support of the project's web-services vision.
Led the Personal Distributed
Information Store (PDIS) project, studying next-generation data
synchronization. This project produced an update-anywhere replicated
XML database for personal devices and a variety of
useful open-source
software. It was an important early-access user of Nokia's
Python
for S60.
- Perceptual Robotics, Inc.,
Chicago. R&D Manager, 9/1998 - 6/2000.
Designed and implemented novel interfaces for controlling
pan-tilt-zoom web cameras from any Java-enabled browser. Managed
camera deployments in e-commerce and Internet-based marketing for
several Fortune 500 companies. Saw the company grow from 8
employees to 35.
- Nokia Research Center,
Helsinki. R&D Manager, 2/1995 - 6/1998.
Led a hands-on research group investigating new software
platforms for network equipment, software architectures for
Internet routers, and techniques for achieving high availability
in distributed systems. Experience in negotiating major software
licensing agreements. Helped formulate the research center's
strategic view on the evolution of IP networking.
- Unda Oy, a Scitex company,
Helsinki. Senior Software Engineer, Project Manager, 1/1992 - 11/1994.
Developed a new software engine for use in interactive Macintosh
and Unix applications for retouching of color images for offset
printing. Developed advanced techniques for multiresolution
editing of very large images and fast screen display of CMYK data.
- Helsinki University of
Technology. Acting Associate Professor, 9/1989 - 12/1991.
Presented courses on computer graphics, operating systems, and
compiler construction, as well as seminars on computer algebra and
advanced topics in programming language implementation. Launched
the Kaava project investigating the design of
user-extensible direct-manipulation computer algebra systems.
Supervised research in parallel ray tracing and radiosity.
- University of California,
Berkeley. Research Assistant, 2/1985 - 8/1989.
Designed and implemented a software development environment for
use with the Lager silicon compiler in hardware/software
codesign of digital signal processors. Developed techniques for
generating open horizontal microcode for these processors.
Education
Miscellaneous
- Native English speaker; fluent in Finnish.
- US citizen.
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