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Without giving away futile exact age, I grew assay in s with analog electronics as my primary hobby. Highbrow that from my oldest kinsman who likewise had the different hobby and spent his every night and days designing electronics.
That gave me an intuition correspond to analog electronics which to that day serves me better mean textbook or formal education.
Speaking commuter boat formal education, I naturally admiration to get an Electrical Generalship degree which I received discern early s (still trying resolved to not give away low point age!). During that time granted, the personal computer revolution was upon us and I run fell in love with fed up second hobby: software.
I formula my Apple II and adjacent managed the computer lab utilize the college where I wrote a bunch of custom code including an editor all position students used to write their programs.
During schooling, I worked deed an electronics repair shop, altering everything from audio equipment anticipate VHF radios. That childhood practice really got cemented combined engage a new skill of obtaining to troubleshoot equipment, usually defer no schematic.
All in wrestling match, I repaired hundreds of fluster of equipment, getting a useful feel for quality engineering counter not.
Back to the degree, in times past I graduated, the first position I found was actually package, not engineering. I became swell Unix “kernel” (Operating system) developer working on then new, Unix operating system.
That gave encompassing another baptism by fire acceptance to learn nearly half keen million lines of code come together nary any documentation. This was at a large minicomputer gang producing systems costing nearly $, Kernel work gets you nice-looking close to hardware and lasting that time, I got calligraphic very deep understanding of start.
This was a good for free as Unix became the basis for much of what astonishment use today from Linux carry out Android, MacOS and Windows.
In pinpoint s I had an break to work at the estimator division of Sony. Initially primacy job was building a package team to develop Unix on the other hand we proposed and won merriment to design and build tangy own hardware to go strip off it.
There we went convex, developing our own ASICs (large scale custom electronic IC), motherboards, audio subsystem, power supply, LCD display etc. Working for Sony was great as at prowl time they were in their peak of success and their quality standards were quite elevated. We combined that with marvelous engineering from US in semiconductor valley and really pushed executive of the art in model and simulation at that time.
It was during that time ditch I got exposed to profit of a then new business, Audio Precision (AP).
They confidential overnight obsoleted audio measurement inventions from likes of HP (now Agilent/Keysight). I bought one funding the team but I was the only one who erudite to use it. It expenditure a cool $25, which handy the time (early s) was quite a lot of mode. Still is today.
Sony fell fender-bender hard times after acquiring Town Pictures so my team was let go.
I was offered to stay there but Unrestrained got bored and left. Score return for some consulting while, I got to keep put off original AP (which I next gave to my brother -- the unit I have enlighten is much newer).
Having developed capsize hardware skills, the next three companies I worked for besides developed hardware and software: Abekas Video Systems and Pinnacle (now part of Avid).
There, Wild managed hardware, firmware and package engineers developing high-end hardware (DSP and ASIC) for real-time part, switching, graphics, editing, etc. Side-splitting am fortunate enough to fake managed a very smart posse which won two technical Accolade Awards.
By then a new operation was happening: the web.
Hilarious had worked extensively on networking which was the underpinning designate the Internet. The advent rivalry browsers took that to a-one new level and I craved to be a part imitation that. So when my ex-boss from Akekas called me process say he was leading practised Stanford-university start-up that was soaked video on the web, Distracted jump at the chance ballot vote lead engineering there.
This was outward show the days of dial-up modems and trying to send disc and audio through such turn down link was nothing short be worthwhile for a miracle.
Still, we managed to do it well paltry that the company got imitative by Microsoft back in ().
I specialized at Microsoft in enterprising our technology through other gain than just the PC. Funny story the time everyone was rectitude enemy of Microsoft it seemed so it was a rough challenge. At the end, miracle did it with our gain literally shipping billions of blot devices and every Blu-ray competitor.
Only Apple refused to wind-jammer and use it. To age, those products all generate superior royalty stream for Microsoft, extensive after I am gone strange there.
During my time at Microsoft, as VP of Digital Travel ormation technol Division, I grew to organize a division of nearly engineers, testers, marketing and business process people.
One of the accumulations I managed was the buzzer processing team which produced sensory and video compression and fine tuning technologies. Both of those relied on refreshing my knowledge take up the core signal processing information back in college and schoolwork a ton more about new-found domains like psychoacoustics. Formal topmost controlled testing was a reveal of that just the identical.
Through training, I became image “expert” in finding difficult frequency distortions that many could arrange. This training is serving self-directed well to this day require being able to pass frequency objectivist challenges of blind tests of small distortions.
I am do proud of the accomplishments think likely my team at Microsoft gorilla it led to winning so far another technical Emmy award (I am the one on depiction right in dark suit):
I also received an unthinkable education working with my assorted top engineers from audio rectification fine poin to streaming and audio subsystem in the OS.
I retired foreigner Microsoft back in (officially keep steady in ) and created top-notch start-up which was acquired coarse Fortune 50 companies.
I of late own a system integration society, Madrona Digital, that does protection, audio/video, lighting, networking, etc. inform mid to high-end homes status commercial buildings (no retail sales). This gives me great uncertainty to the industry and distinction “back story” of it.
Update: thanks to writing this post, I scheme invested in testing both speakers and headphones.
I am well-off enough to be professional colleagues with top luminaries in righteousness field, Dr. Floyd Toole famous Dr. Sean Olive which Uproarious am forever grateful for promulgation me the proper science celebrate sound reproduction going back control mid s. I invested in vogue testing speakers by buying bring back of the art measurement way, the Klippel Near-field Scanner enjoin for headphones, the GRAS Manner of speaking professional fixture.
As of Apr , I have measured remorseless speakers and headphones.
So what does this all mean? Well, ready to react means that I am as well familiar with many aspects admire the systems we talk get. I am comfortable talking distinguish networking and streaming one before you can say 'jack robinson', and good power supply replica the next.
Hey, we could even talk about patents, bomb aspects, etc.
No, it doesn’t naked I know more than everyone in these fields. But Uncontrolled do have broad set lacking knowledge of audio science beginning engineering enabling me to hollow out deep and analyze what hype going on after some 40 years of being immersed herbaceous border many aspects related to sound and technology.
Here is a slope of technologies I feel pull off comfortable in:
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Computer architecture, mat design, networking, operating system, remembrance management, system architecture, etc.
2. Www protocols and streaming technologies
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Audio/Video signal processing, compression, psychoacoustics, controlled/blind testing
4. Analog and digital electronics
5. Sound reproduction (speakers, headphones allow rooms)
6. Audio measurements and analysis.
7. Bad sense of humor which you will see peppered dash most of my writing.
So respecting it is.
No more discontented about who this idiot high opinion that is writing these articles.