CEO @ From October 2015 to Present (3 months) London, United KingdomCo-Founder and CTO @ From 2013 to 2015 (2 years) Co-Founder and CTO @ From 2013 to 2015 (2 years) Directory of Technology @ From July 2013 to January 2014 (7 months) Technical Director @ Research, design, develop and prototype of the core product, a state-of-the-art real-time musical-audio analysis engineering environment, using advanced MIR algorithms, machine-learning and patented in-house techniques. From December 2011 to September 2013 (1 year 10 months) Consultant @ Project for Microsoft Research Cambridge: Consultation and development of advanced API/environment for media-analysis and (re-)synthesis using C++11.
Project for Microsoft Research Cambridge: Consultation for networked audio system; prototyped using C++/CLR and C# with Windows Forms.
Project for Confabulate: Consultation for architecture & implementation.Cross-platform, scalable, graphical VoIP/conferencing/messaging system. Rewrote client using Qt4/C++, adapted proprietary network protocol for use on big-endian.
Private research project: Research and development of C++ language workbench. A cross-platform, WebKit-based language workbench created as proof-of-concept in Qt4/C++. From August 2007 to November 2011 (4 years 4 months) Engine Sublead Programmer (Audio) @ Researched, designed and led the development of the audio portion of Frontier Developments 'next-generation' cross-platform game engine across all three platforms. Conceptual design accepted for publication at international conference (DAFX) From December 2005 to February 2007 (1 year 3 months) Programmer @ Web-interface and back-end for administering DNS records remotely.
Reverse-engineering existing application's database to allow feature addition. From 2000 to 2001 (1 year)
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Music Visualisation for Human Computer Interfacing, Pass @ University of York From 2002 to 2005 Master of Engineering (MEng), Computer Systems/Software Engineering @ University of York From 1998 to 2002 Lancaster Royal Grammar School From 1991 to 1998 Gavin Wood is skilled in: Research, Teaching, Public Speaking, Photoshop, C++, Boost, C, Javascript, HTML5, CSS3, Qt, SQL, Linux, Windows, Mac OS X
Websites:
http://respectthebeard.co.uk,
http://insightsintoamodernworld.blogspot.com