Erik Frey - Resume


Contact Information:

Erik Frey

Email: work@fawx.com
URL: http://fawx.com/


Core Skills:

    Fuzzy neural networks, recommendation systems, audio
    processing/fingerprinting, GIS.
  
    C#, C++, Ruby, Javascript, Assembly.
  
    XML, HTTP, SOAP, HTML, Flash.
  
    Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, SQLite.
  
    Windows, Linux, cross-platform UI (primarily Gtk).
  

Employment History:

    Lead Software Developer
    Soundflavor (San Francisco, California, USA)
    2006-present
    
    Soundflavor, Inc. [1] is a Bay Area startup that provides music
    search and recommendation services to businesses and consumers.
    
    I'm one half of the two-developer team that built Soundflavor DJ [2]
    (reviews: Lifehacker [3] , ABC News [4] , Pollstar [5] ), a music
    player companion for Windows and Mac OS X. I built Soundflavor DJ's
    song recommendation engine, its audio fingerprinting library, and
    accompanying web services to power its song identification and
    recommendations.
    
    While continuing to work on Soundflavor DJ, I'm now managing
    development of the upcoming soundflavor.com, an online
    music/playlist sharing platform, designed in conjunction with
    Adaptive Path [6] .
    
    
    
    Software Architect/Developer
    Energy, Minerals, and Resources Department (Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA)
    2002-2005
    
    Designed and built a suite of Windows applications to manage all
    aspects of New Mexico's massive [7] mining regulation program: earth
    science data collection and analysis, electronic permitting,
    geographic analysis, and geotechnical engineering. Managed its
    design, coding, testing, documentation, and marketing, resulting in
    the most powerful mining regulation system in the country, and
    saving the division $120,000 annually.
    
    
    
    Web Developer
    Los Alamos National Laboratory (Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA)
    Summers: 1998, 1999, 2001
    Re-engineered the lab's industrial and radioactive waste tracking
    system for web capability. Produced public and secure websites;
    created web-based content management tools to ensure their upkeep.
    Helped eliminate thousands of gallons of lab waste water per year
    using systems dynamics models.
    
    
    
    Developer/Network Installer
    New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology (Socorro, New Mexico, USA)
    1997-1998
    
    Designed and built the university's first online invoice
    application.
    
    
    
    Programmer/Courier
    travel.com.au/Fare Finder, Inc. (Sydney, NSW, Australia)
    Summers: 1994, 1995, 1997
    Hired as a courier but ultimately migrated to software developer.
    Created a Windows application for tracking and reporting frequent
    flyer miles. Became part of the team that created Australia's first
    internet airfare search engine: travel.com.au [8] .
    
    

Volunteer/Open Source Work:

    Organic Farm Worker (Russia)
    2005
    Volunteer, Bolotovo Farm: Russia's only organic, biodynamic farm.
    Taught local schoolchildren about biodynamic farming. Shepherded
    cows, cared for calves and pigs, cleaned stables, milled and
    filtered grain, laid electric fence, picked apples, sorted potatoes,
    made cheese.
    
    
    pflog
    2004
    A Flash world map [9] with controllable timeline to display animated
    travel routes. pflog is used by various web sites, including a
    travel blog service [10] .
    
    
    ljArchive
    2004
    Application for downloading, browsing, and analyzing [11] online
    journals. ljArchive has a user base of a few thousand people
    worldwide, and has been adopted as a SourceForge project since my
    departure [12] .
    
    
    SimpleMIDI
    2003
    A .NET class library for manipulating MIDI files [13] .
    

Education:

    BS in Computer Science (minors in Math and Electrical Engineering),
    December 2001. Received the 4 year Silver Scholarship Award.
    Graduated with honors.
    New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology (Socorro, New Mexico,
    USA)
    

Interests:

    * World travel. Completed a year-long tour of the world [12] in
      early 2006.
    * Electronic voting
    * The outdoors
    

Miscellany:

    This document is available in the following formats : text [14] ,
    HTML [15] , PDF [16] and XML [17] .
    

References:

    Available upon request.
    


External links:

     1.  http://www.soundflavor.com/about/
     2.  http://www.soundflavor.com/
     3.  http://www.lifehacker.com/software/itunes/download-of-the-day-soundflavor-dj-windows-211388.php
     4.  http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/ZDM/story?id=2701544
     5.  http://www.pollstar.com/news/viewnews.pl?NewsID=7364
     6.  http://www.adaptivepath.com/
     7.  http://fawx.com/pictures/chino/chino3
     8.  http://www.travel.com.au
     9.  http://fawx.com/software/pflog/
    10.  http://www.mylifeoftravel.com/
    11.  http://fawx.com/ljArchive/
    12.  http://fawx.com/travel/
    13.  http://fawx.com/software/simplemidi/
    14.  http://fawx.com/about/resume/erikfrey-resume-en.txt
    15.  http://fawx.com/about/resume/erikfrey-resume-en.html
    16.  http://fawx.com/about/resume/erikfrey-resume-en.pdf
    17.  http://fawx.com/about/resume/erikfrey-resume-en.xml



Last modified 17 December 2006.