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 <tr><th align=right>email</th><td>randym@randym.name</td></tr>
 <tr><th align=right>web</th><td><a href="http://randym.name/">http://randym.name</a></td></tr>
 <tr><th align=right>phone</th><td>425 444 5611</td></tr>
 <tr><th align=right valign=top>mail</th><td>634 Providence Ct<br>Chaska, MN 55318</td></tr>
 <tr><th align=right>LinkedIn</th><td><a href="http://www.linkedin.com/pub/randall-maas/9/838/8b1">http://www.linkedin.com/pub/randall-maas/9/838/8b1</a></td></tr>
 <tr><th align=right>resume</th><td><a href="http://randym.name/2020-3 RandallMaas Resume.pdf">http://randym.name/2020-3 RandallMaas Resume.pdf</a></td></tr>
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<h2>Projects and Work</h2>
<p>Some things that I have written</p>
	<ul><li><a href='Vector-TRM.pdf'>A technical deep dive into Anki's Vector robot</a> (written in the style of a technical reference manual).
		A companion wiki with support, historical information, and more is at <a href='https://randym32.github.io/Anki.Vector.Documentation'>Anki.Vector.Documentation
 </a></li><li><a href='BD4 Quality Software Guide.pdf'>My Quality Software Guide</a>: Design Guides, Design Review Checklists, Code Style Guides, Code Review checklists, and bug reporting template.
 </a></li><li><a href='BD2 Project Management - 2018-8-12.pdf'>My project management notes</a> includes example job descriptions for key roles on development team.  (It's in a drafty McDraft face state)
 </a></li><li><a href='Specification & Requirements analysis - 2018-5-30.pdf'>My views on requirements style</a>, how to analyze them, my preferred hardware design description, and how to realize the requirements in software.   It is very much in a <i>drafty, McDraft face</i> state.
 </a></li><li><a href='Beautiful Structures;3.pdf'>(2007) Data structures that I find particularly elegant</a>
 </a></li><li><a href='RTK overview - 2016-9-20.pdf'>(2016) Overview of the data structures in a real time operating system</a>
 </a></li><li><A href="2016-4-22 Project proposal.pdf">The (Heilmeier inspired) questions that a proposal should address</a> and steps to drafting a proposal
 </a></li><li><a href='2017-9-5 Storage.pdf'>Diagrams</a> showing the structure of Core memory (reproduced and cleaned up from the IBM 1401 documentation), typical SSD design, and  Data structures for file systems.  Just for fun.
 </a></li><li><a href='2018-6-16 Phone sensing.pdf'>Diagram</a> outlines all of the things that smart phone can estimate from its sensors.  Just for fun.
 </a></li><li><a href='Glossary CognitiveScience;11.pdf'>Glossary of Cognitive Science</a> related terms and concepts
 </a></li><li><a href='Glossary Organization;7.pdf'>Glossary of Organizations and Social Groups</a> concepts
 </a></li><li><a href='Glossary Linguistics;7.pdf'>Glossary of Linguistics</a> related terms and concepts
 </a></li><li><a href='Glossary Software Languages;2.pdf'>Glossary of Software Languages</a> related terms and concepts
 </a></li><li><a href='Glossary Communication;4.pdf'>Glossary of Communication (theory)</a> related terms and concepts
 </a></li><li><a href='Glossary InfoSec;8.pdf'>Glossary of Information Security</a> related terms and concepts
 </a></li><li><a href='Glossary Reliability;5.pdf'>Glossary of Reliability</a> related terms and concepts
 </a></li><li><a href='Little Algebras;8.pdf'>Glossary of Abstract Algebra</a> related terms and concepts that interest me
 </a></li><li><a href='NPV Crib Sheet.pdf'>Crib Sheet for computing Net Present Value</a>
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<p>
 I tend to have a variety of projects -- both professional and hobby -- going
 on. Below are a sample of some.
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 <tr><td>Objective-C/openCL/openGL</td><td>A project to visualize the wind flow throughout the earth.  <a href="https://github.com/randym32/QCAnimateVectorField">Source Code</a><br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aeCyzK8_zsc">Demo 1</a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FFxMy-UMZE">Demo 2</a></td><td></td></tr>
 <tr><td>C/C++</td><td>2010 EmbeddedSpark contest.
  In 2010 for fun I made a WinCE MP3 powered boombox, controlled by a webcam, and submitted it to Microsofts EmbeddedSpark contest.
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  I made three write ups -- the orignal <a href="2010 Spark Proposal.pdf">Entry proposal</a>, a <a href= "2010-3-26 Spark Round2.pdf">longer writeup</a> on its operations, and
    and some <a href="Webcam as HID Notes on design.pdf">notes on how the webcam HID interface</a> was implemented.
<!-- <a href="http://www.embeddedspark.com/submissions/Detail.aspx?eid=255">Writeup and demo video</a> at Microsoft's EmbeddedSpark site. --> <br>Finally, a <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hLK0QtTf7g">YouTube demo video</a> of me operating the device.</td></tr>

 <tr><td>C#, DirectShow</td>
   <td valign=top><a href="http://lightpaint.codeplex.com/">Paint With Light</a>
   : a fun tool to allow creating a graffiti like pictures with a penlight and a webcam. It can paint on the video stream from a camera, a movie file, or on a still image.</td><td><a href="https://channel9.msdn.com/coding4fun/articles/Paint-With-Light" pref="http://blogs.msdn.com/coding4fun/archive/2010/04/05/9990783.aspx">Write up for Microsoft's Coding4Fun</a></td></tr>
 <tr><td>C#, DirectShow</td>
     <td valign=top><a href="http://skypesidetone.codeplex.com/">Skype Side tone</a>: a tool to provide headset feedback and gain control for Skype.</td><td><a href="https://channel9.msdn.com/coding4fun/articles/Adding-Sidetone-to-Skype" prev="http://blogs.msdn.com/coding4fun/archive/2009/06/09/9583391.aspx">Write up for Microsoft's Coding4Fun</a></td></tr>
 <tr><td>C#, P/invoke</td><td valign=top><a href="http://monkeyfuzz.codeplex.com/">Monkey Fuzz</a>: stress tests an applications User Interface. It pretends to be a "monkey" on the keyboard, sending random button press and mouse events to a program.</td><td></td></tr>

 <tr><td>C#, P/invoke</td>
    <td valign=top><a href="http://gremlin.codeplex.com/">Gremlin</a>: Halloween
    prank to mischievously grab windows and move them around.  Primarily moves windows around, shakes the screen, sends random keyboard and mouse events.</td>
    <td><a href="https://channel9.msdn.com/coding4fun/articles/Halloween-Gremlins" prev="http://blogs.msdn.com/coding4fun/archive/2009/10/31/9915768.aspx">Write up for Microsoft's Coding4Fun</a><br>
    It got a mention on the
    <a href="http://channel9.msdn.com/shows/This+Week+On+Channel+9/TWC9-Channel-9-Goes-Live-Zune-detecting-memory-leaks-Life-at-MSFT/">Channel 9 show</a></td></tr>
 <tr><td valign='top'>C</td><td><a href="http://ah-tty.sourceforge.net/">AH-TTY</a> A help-ful terminal emulator.  Automatic helper for command prompts and shells.  Internally ah-tty is a terminal emulator with a lookup engine. The terminal emulator portion is responsible for manage the display and user input. This input is matched against patterns in a database, which trigger the display of appropriate messages.</td><td></td></tr>

 <tr><td>Text to speech</td>
  <td valign=top><a href="1986-2 Speech synthesizer - C64 Basic SPO256-AL2.pdf">Text to speech</a> This is text to speech written in Commodore 64 basic for the SPO256-AL2. ~1985-1986.  Of historic interest only.</td></tr>
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<i>I'll list a bunch of the other projects, including the embedded projects up here.. someday soon</i>
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