Randall Maas

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email	randym@randym.name
web	http://randym.name
phone	425 444 5611
mail	634 Providence Ct Chaska, MN 55318
LinkedIn	http://www.linkedin.com/pub/randall-maas/9/838/8b1
resume	http://randym.name/2020-3 RandallMaas Resume.pdf

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Projects and Work

Some things that I have written

A technical deep dive into Anki's Vector robot (written in the style of a technical reference manual). A companion wiki with support, historical information, and more is at Anki.Vector.Documentation
My Quality Software Guide: Design Guides, Design Review Checklists, Code Style Guides, Code Review checklists, and bug reporting template.
My project management notes includes example job descriptions for key roles on development team. (It's in a drafty McDraft face state)
My views on requirements style, how to analyze them, my preferred hardware design description, and how to realize the requirements in software. It is very much in a drafty, McDraft face state.
(2007) Data structures that I find particularly elegant
(2016) Overview of the data structures in a real time operating system
The (Heilmeier inspired) questions that a proposal should address and steps to drafting a proposal
Diagrams showing the structure of Core memory (reproduced and cleaned up from the IBM 1401 documentation), typical SSD design, and Data structures for file systems. Just for fun.
Diagram outlines all of the things that smart phone can estimate from its sensors. Just for fun.
Glossary of Cognitive Science related terms and concepts
Glossary of Organizations and Social Groups concepts
Glossary of Linguistics related terms and concepts
Glossary of Software Languages related terms and concepts
Glossary of Communication (theory) related terms and concepts
Glossary of Information Security related terms and concepts
Glossary of Reliability related terms and concepts
Glossary of Abstract Algebra related terms and concepts that interest me
Crib Sheet for computing Net Present Value

I tend to have a variety of projects -- both professional and hobby -- going on. Below are a sample of some.

	Project/Source code	Articles
Objective-C/openCL/openGL	A project to visualize the wind flow throughout the earth. Source Code Demo 1, Demo 2
C/C++	2010 EmbeddedSpark contest. In 2010 for fun I made a WinCE MP3 powered boombox, controlled by a webcam, and submitted it to Microsofts EmbeddedSpark contest.	I made three write ups -- the orignal Entry proposal, a longer writeup on its operations, and and some notes on how the webcam HID interface was implemented. Finally, a YouTube demo video of me operating the device.
C#, DirectShow	Paint With Light : a fun tool to allow creating a graffiti like pictures with a penlight and a webcam. It can paint on the video stream from a camera, a movie file, or on a still image.	Write up for Microsoft's Coding4Fun
C#, DirectShow	Skype Side tone: a tool to provide headset feedback and gain control for Skype.	Write up for Microsoft's Coding4Fun
C#, P/invoke	Monkey Fuzz: stress tests an applications User Interface. It pretends to be a "monkey" on the keyboard, sending random button press and mouse events to a program.
C#, P/invoke	Gremlin: Halloween prank to mischievously grab windows and move them around. Primarily moves windows around, shakes the screen, sends random keyboard and mouse events.	Write up for Microsoft's Coding4Fun It got a mention on the Channel 9 show
C	AH-TTY A help-ful terminal emulator. Automatic helper for command prompts and shells. Internally ah-tty is a terminal emulator with a lookup engine. The terminal emulator portion is responsible for manage the display and user input. This input is matched against patterns in a database, which trigger the display of appropriate messages.
Text to speech	Text to speech This is text to speech written in Commodore 64 basic for the SPO256-AL2. ~1985-1986. Of historic interest only.

I'll list a bunch of the other projects, including the embedded projects up here.. someday soon