Joshua D. Boyd
89 Marticville Rd., Apt. #4
Lancaster, PA 17603
(717) 871-8777
jdboyd@jdboyd.net

Qualifications

• Wide range of skills and interests
• Passion for programming, video, and music

Skills

• Languages: C; C++; Scheme; Java; Python; assembly language for SPARC, Intel IA-32/x86, and Renasas SuperH; Perl; and Verilog

• Graphics: OpenGL; Sense8's World Toolkit; and CCIR-601 digital video

• Audio: In-depth understanding of AES audio and Dolby Digital (AC3, ATSC A/52)

• Embedded systems: eCos embedded RT-OS; JTAG flash programming; realtime Linux and Irix

• Development tools: CVS; Bugzilla; Emacs; vi; gcc; gdb; valgrind; and lexx

• Operating systems: Linux, Solaris, Irix, NetBSD, OpenBSD, and Windows (including installation, networking, and routine system management);

  Internals and driver development for Linux, NetBSD, and eCos

• Enterprise systems: PostgreSQL, MySQL, Visual Basic, Crystal Reports, SQL Server, and Web and document management applications

• Other: L^ATEX, Photoshop, After Effects, 3D Studio Max, and Shake

Experience

Engineer		Apr. 2003 - Present
Sigma Electronics		East Petersburg, PA

• As lead software engineer, I was responsible for the development and production of the following:
  • Software, including a real time video scene change detector, for an automatic digital audio and high definition video delay compensating system that won two awards at NAB2005

  • Linux driver for a custom PCI AES digital audio card

• Wrote software for in-circuit JTAG flash programming.
• Ported eCos from a reference design to a custom SH3 board
  • Wrote interrupt driven serial port and flash drivers for eCos.
• Wrote serial communications code, using a packet based network over RS485, for a serial control board, digital audio mixer and digital audio delay board.
  • These products are now in use by Turner, NBC Burbank, Laser Pacific, and others

• I manage the IT department. Prior to that I performed system administration tasks including:
  • Setting up and running CVS and Bugzilla
  • Installation of a NetBSD NAT/firewall device
  • Installation of a OpenBSD network traffic shaping system

Programmer		Jun. 2001 - Apr. 2003
Armstrong World Industries		Lancaster, PA

• Wrote software to report laboratory test results using Excel and Visual Basic for Applications
  • Replaced paper report distribution by generating Acrobat files for distribution
• Wrote a test lab report management system to replace a legacy dBase implementation
• Migrated the legacy Access 2.0 programs for conformance to corporate standards

Programmer/Intern		Jan. 2000 - Aug. 2000
Warner Lambert/Pfizer		Lititz, PA

• Debugged and updated the replenishment system in Visual Basic and SQL Server
• Replaced a paper transport process with a system in Visual Basic to move data from the replenishment system to remote warehouse management systems

• Corrected and maintained documentation in accordance with the FDA GMP regulations

Personal

I run jdboyd.net.

• jdboyd.net is a co-located Sun Ultra 5
• Solaris 9, Apache, Postfix, Mailman, Dovecot, Postgres, Mysql, ipf, DSPAM
• Shell server to support free software porting and testing including people working on:
  • Asterisk (a PBX), STKlos (scheme language), Icarus Verilog (verilog simulator/synthesizer)

I run a small test lab including:

• Mac OS X, Irix, Solaris, Linux, Mac OS 8
• MIPS, UltraSPARC, Intel, PowerPC
• Gigabit ethernet, FDDI, Fast ethernet

Education

Millersville University		Millersville, PA
B.S. in Computer Science, December 2002
Departmental Honors, Spring 1999

As a research project my senior year, I implemented a framework for developing haptic simulators in C++. The framework provided:

• A retained mode scene graph rendering engine
• Model loading from 3DS files and Wavefront .OBJ files
• Collision detection and force feedback calculations to drive a haptic laparoscopic surgical simulator

Publications

• Roger Webster, R. Haluck. G. Zoppetti, A. Benson, J. Boyd, N. Charles, J. Reeser, S. Sampson, "A Haptic Surgical Simulator for Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy Using Real-Time Deformable Organs", Proceedings of the IASTED International Conference on Biomedical Engineering (BioMED 2003), June 25-27, 2003, Salzburg, Austria.

• Roger Webster, R. Haluck, D. Hutchens, G. Zoppetti, A. Benson, J. Boyd, N.Charles, D. DeSanto, J. Reeser, S. Sampson, "Integrating Haptics into an Undergraduate Computer Science Curriculum", National Science Foundation (NSF) Instrumentation and Laboratory Improvement Program Poster Exhibit, National ACM SIGCSE Conference (ACM/SIGCSE '2003). Sponsored by the Association of Computing Machinery and the Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education (ACM/SIGCSE), Reno, Nevada, February 19 - 22, 2003.

• Roger Webster, Ph.D., Randy S. Haluck, M.D., Betty J. Mohler, Jeremy Sheaffer, Jon Reeser, Joshua Boyd, Aaron Benson, David DeSanto, "A Surgical Simulator for Multiple Skills in Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy", Poster presentation at the Medicine Meets Virtual Reality Conference, Newport Beach, Ca., January 22-25, 2002.

• Lanniece Freeman, W.B. Murray, S. Vaduva, R. Webster, J. Boyd, D. Jensenius, "3D Anatomy Tutorial Template: A New Teaching Method Using Virtual Reality", Poster presentation at the Annual Society for Education in Anesthesia Conference, Washington, D.C., May 19-29, 2000.