Christopher Brian Cox

ccox@adobe.com, ccox@mindspring.com

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Education

Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh PA
Physics major with a minor in Art, currently one class short of earning degree
Memphis State University, Memphis TN
Unclassified student (during medical leave from CMU, Spring 1989-Spring 1991)

Work Experience

Adobe Systems, Inc.: September 1996 - present
Computer Scientist, Imaging and Video group
Primarily responsible for performance in Photoshop, also working on color features, advanced features, and performance in other applications
Adaptive Solutions, Inc.: March 1995 - August 1996
Principal programmer for the PowerShop prepress accelerator board
Arc Vertuel (Telecommunication Art group)
Consultant and systems administrator for Macintosh and SGI systems
REST-Frame project, Carnegie Mellon University
(a rendering system incorporating Special Relativity)
Main programmer, coordinated efforts of other programmers; also wrote and edited several papers for conferences and publication
The Daily Helmsman, Memphis State University: Spring 1989 - Summer 1991
Maintained computers, provided assistance to personnel using computers; also helped with graphic art production, page paste-up, and typesetting
Center for Art and Technology, Carnegie Mellon University: Fall 1988
Programmer and maintainer of Macintosh computers; also wrote a color printer driver using stochastic screening

Skills

Very experienced with C/C++ programming language in UNIX, Windows and Macintosh environments
Very experienced with computer graphics programming and applications
Very familiar with Macintosh, MS-DOS, Windows, and UNIX operating systems
Very familiar with computer and network installation, maintainence, and repair
Much experience with graphic design, color separation, photography, and technical art production
Familiar with Assembly, Pascal, PostScript, and FORTRAN programming languages
Working knowledge of electronic design, construction and repair
Experience with film, video, and sound editing
Type upwards of 60 words per minute

Miscellaneous

Eagle Scout earned 6/86
Brother, Alpha Phi Omega (national coed volunteer service fraternity)
served as First Vice President, Fall 1993
Work as volunteer with local charities and non-profit organizations
Hobbies: Camping, Hiking, Photography, Electronics, Painting, Gem and Mineral collecting

Partial List of Publications

Detection of Damaging Effects of Radiation upon Fiber Optic Materials by ESR and TSL Techniques
Recovery of Radiation Damage in Plastic Scintillation and Light Pipe Materials
The Presence of Twinning Type Defects in High Tc Superconductor (HTS)-Based Substrates as Detected by Thermally Stimulated Luminescence (TSL) Technique
Proceedings of the 1991 Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Section of the American Physical Society, November 1991
( These were written in conjunction with M. Shah Jahan, David Ermer, and Eric Klumpf of the Memphis State University physics department )
Wide-band Relativistic Doppler Effect Visualization
Proceedings of Visualization 90 (San Francisco), October 1990
Doppler Color Shift in Relativistic Image Synthesis
International Conference on Information Technology (Tokyo, Japan), October 1990
( These were written in conjunction with Ping K. Hsiung (and other project personnel) at Carnegie Mellon University )

Major Programming Work

Photoshop CS
Photoshop 7.0
Photoshop 6.0
Photoshop 5.5
Photoshop 5.0
Photoshop 4.0
PowerShop
A Photoshop and prepress accelerator board using a 64 processor SIMD array; wrote devices drivers, SIMD microcode, Photoshop bottlenecks and plug-ins
MacZephyr CMU
a Macintosh client for the MIT zephyr message system
REST-Frame rendering system
ray-tracing and zbuffer rendering programs incorporating Special Relativity, plus file translation utilities
Photoshop Plug-Ins
I lost count at somewhere around 200....

References available upon request

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