Michael Everett


New York, NY | meverett.nyc@gmail.com   |   www.MikeEverett.com


Objective	To quickly develop unique solutions to an array of challenging problems.
	  Specifically: designing tools and applications that rethink how computers and 
	  humans interact in the attempt to enhance the user’s experience and expectations.	 	


Experience        

LimeWire LLC  New York, NY, Feb 10 – present
Senior Software Engineer: Tech Lead					         	
* Oversaw a quarterly product release cycle of the LimeWire Desktop Application leading 
	a team of 4 developers & working closely with a research team.
* Worked with Product Owner, Developers & Marketing to define product goals.
* Ensured changes were within scope and delivered on time.
* Created a new Desktop Application for a new internal project. Presented a fully working, 
	fully skinned application after a week of work. 
* Prototyped an Android application for new internal project.

LimeWire LLC  New York, NY, May 07 – present
Senior Software Engineer					         	
* Developed Core Java & Swing for the LimeWire Desktop Application which sees 15 Million 
	unique users/day & 40 Million unique users/month. LimeWire consists of 1 Million 
	lines of Java and C code developed over the last 10 years.
* Rewrote a large portion of the User Interface in Swing.
* Developed & Debugged Network, Native, Core Java, and UI aspects of the Desktop Application.

Communication Analysis & Design Lab  Boston, MA, May 06 – May 07
Research Associate -  Northeastern University					         	
* Researched effects of prosody and salience on text-to-speech synthesis in noise
* Designed a new voice morphing algorithm for use with text-to-speech synthesis and 
	disordered speakers
* Developed a game in Java to study improvements of speech in people with speaking disorders, 
	consisted of 20K lines of code written/tested in 3 months
					
		
Challenge And Response  Boston, MA, Summer 06
Freelance Developer	        	         						
* Designed and implemented the UI for the UnomiDetector Project for an MIT startup company 
* The UnomiDetector is used to detect fake websites and phishing schemes
* Incorporated an embedded Object database to store/display data
			

Communication Analysis & Design Lab  Boston, MA, Aug 05 – April 06
Research Assistant  -  Northeastern University		        	         		       	
* Developed a text-to-speech synthesizer that models human speech in noise 
* Generated/conducted  studies to test the intelligibility of the new synthesizer


Northeastern University  Boston, MA, Jan 06 – May 06
Teaching Assistant   					              	         	 
* Proctored two introductory Scheme programming labs
* Supervised and provided assistance to struggling students 


Select Projects	All projects are available at http://www.MikeEverett.com/vault 

Pitch Extractor  (http://www.MikeEverett.com/vault/pitchextractor.html) 
* A real-time pitch extractor written in Java. Given an audio input source, it extracts 
	amplitude and pitch of the signal > 10 times a second. Currently being used in 
	HoodGame @ CADLab and the Human Speechome Project @ MIT MediaLab 

Loudmouth  (http://www.MikeEverett.com/vault/Loudmouth.html)  
* A highly modified version of FreeTTS, a java based text-to-speech synthesizer. 
	Modifications allow for virtually unlimited control over speech synthesis for 
	research purposes, especially geared toward speech in noise and pitch contour 
	generation.
	

Skills		 
Languages: Java, Android, JNI/JNA, C/C++,  Scheme, javascript, ActionScript
OS:        Windows, OSX  & Linux flavors
Other:     Ant, Maven, Ivy, Yourkit, JProbe, CVS, SVN, Git


Publications/ Conferences

* Presented: Berlin, Sam & Everett, Michael. LimeWire: Swing for the Masses. JavaOne, 2009.
* Patel, R., Everett,. M., and Sadikov, E.. Loudmouth: Modifying Text-to-Speech Synthesis in Noise. Assets ’06, October 22-25, 2006. 


Awards
#11 of Top 24 presentations at JavaOne 2009: http://in.sun.com/training/catalog/courses/WJOB-200.xml


Education	

Northeastern University, Boston, MA       2004 – 2006
Master of Science in Computer Science     3.96 / 4.0				

Central Connecticut State University, New Britain, CT 1999 - 2004
Bachelor of Computer Science                          3.68 / 4.0