| Email: | Jim.Burrows@Eldacur.com |
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| LinkedIn: | linkedin.com/in/jimburrows |
Systems Architect, Engineer and Researcher experienced in software, secure communications, networks, human factors, consumer electronics, information systems and operations. Career spans pure and applied research, design, advanced and product development, systems management and technical operations.
Currently conducting research into machine ethics, the social behavior of autonomous systems and artificial intelligence.
Started by building a feasibility prototype of the secure texting app, Silent Text, and went on to build and lead the Engineering, QA and Release Engineering teams during Silent Circle’s startup phase, and more recently led Advanced Development.
Designed & led an international team to build secure communications (text, voice, file, alerting for iOS, Android, Windows & web) for a company specializing in communications for first responders. Coded a majority of the web client in JQuery Mobile. Represented F4W at the Coalition Warriors Interoperability Demo.
Various including F4W, above, and:
Led the technical team, (Web, iOS, and Android development), designer and developer of Ruby on Rails-based web application. Founding member of the management team and the managing partner on the compensation committee.
Did the initial protocol and server redesign, then detailed server design, and was one of the server developers. Once the first release was built, took the role of Technical Operations Manager, responsible for a network of 800 second tier servers driving 10,000,000 end user devices.
Designed and developed server portion of Meeting Space, an early and innovative on-line meeting tool based on textual virtual reality technologies.
Pioneered Usability Engineering, developed the Eve text editor, led the Apple/Digital joint development team, built two advanced development prototypes that resulted in strategic engineering projects, designed the inverse-T arrangement of the keyboard arrow keys, author of the original User Interface Architecture for VMS/DECwindows.
Hiram College, Hiram, OH, B.A. in Philosophy. Magna Cum Laude with departmental honors. Minor in Social Psychology. Phi Beta Kappa.
Team building & leading, software design & architecture, user interface & graphic design, usability engineering, software & web development, C, C++, Javascript, SQL, Ruby/Rails, agile methods.