Contact Information Abe Megahed 2010 Monroe Street Madison, WI 53711 (608) 245-1253

Abe Megahed's
Resume

Employment Experience

• 3D Technology Manager
  Orbital Technologies Corporation
  8-01 to present, Madison, WI
  Lead a small group of graphics programmers and 3d artists to develop Hypecosm technology and training systems for NASA astronaut training applications.
  

• Founder, CEO, CTO
  Hypercosm Inc.
  8/98 to 5/01, Madison, WI, San Jose, CA, and Walnut Creek, CA
  Founded Hypercosm to become a leader in instructional 3D graphics technology for the Internet. Hypercosm employed over 30 people at its peak and I had the opportunity to work closely with people such as board members Howard Charney (Cisco VP) and Ken Coleman (SGI VP). I also had the opportunity to meet with numerous industry leaders including Mark Andreesen (Netscape cofounder), Bruce Dunlevie (Benchmark partner) and Jaron Lanier (VR pioneer). Published and spoke at industry conferences. Duties included technical direction, product design and development, business development, application and market strategy, marketing, management of content creation, and sales.
  
  
• Interface Designer and Programmer
  Leapfrog Inc.
  8/95 to 5/96, Subang Jaya, Malaysia
  Created a Video on demand interface in Visual Basic under contract with the National Phone Company of Malaysia. This interface merged user interface elements from Visual Basic with design elements created using 3d graphics.
  
  
• Game Programmer
  Gravity Inc.
  2/95 to 7/95, San Francisco, CA
  Wrote a DOOM like game featuring the Swedish Chef from the Muppets (which was finally released in 1996 as 'Muppets Inside' from Starwave).
  
  
• Founder and President
  Cosmic Software Corp.
  10/93 to 12/94, Madison, WI
  Established this graphics software company to develop and market a high performance photorealistic 3D graphics system based on a high level interpreted language interface. Duties included technical direction, software implementation, advertising, customer relations and distribution.
  
  
• Graphics Programmer
  UW Madison Psychology Dept.
  8/92 to 6/93, Madison, WI
  Developed a 3D system used in psychology experiments involving stereoscopic display for evaluating the relative effectiveness of various depth cueing techniques.
  
  
• Graphics Researcher
  IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center
  6/91 to 1/92, White Plains, NY
  Developed techniques for sectioning solids and detecting interferences using Z-buffer hardware. Received 2 patents. Published in Siggraph 1992. Worked with Jarek Rossignac, Alan Norton, and Jim Kagiya.
  
  
• 3D Graphics Programmer
  Point-Line CADD
  6/89 to 8/90, Madison, WI
  Wrote a simple ray tracer for the Point-Line Cadd package to read in polygonal drawings created by their modeler and render them for presentation purposes.

Education

B.S. in Computer Science, University of Wisconsin, Madison May 1991, 3.1 GPA

Technical Experience

• Fluent in C++, Delphi (Object Pascal), some Java
  
• Successful at managing large scale software projects involving hundreds of thousands of lines of program code and teams of programmers
  
• Experienced in designing programming languages and implementing compilers and interpreters
  
• Skilled in technical writing and desktop publishing including writing, graphics creation, and layout Technical

Patents and Publications

• Patent #US05428716 - 6/27/95
  Solid Clip Methodology and Architecture for Clipping Solid Models and Displaying Cross Sections Using Depth Buffers
  
  
• Patent #US5497453 - 3/5/96
  Method and Apparatus for Detecting and Visualizing Interferences Between Solids
  
  
• Patent #US6426748
  Data Compression of Interactive Figures for Electronic Book
  
  
• Siggraph 1992 technical paper
  "Interactive Inspection of Solids: Cross-sections and Interferences"
  
  
• Siggraph 1999 technical sketch
  "Real Time Shadows, Reflections, and Transparency using a Z buffer / Ray Tracer Hybrid"
  
  
• Siggraph 2000 Web 3D Roundup article
  "Hypercosm: Making 3D Programming Accessible

References

Professional:

• Tom Crabb
  founder of Orbital Technologies Corporation (ORBITEC)
  1212 Fourier Drive, Madison, WI 53717
  (608) 827-5000
  
  
  
• Theodore Krumbach
  Orbital Technologies Corporation (ORBITEC)
  1212 Fourier Drive, Madison, WI 53717
  (608) 827-6929
  
  
  
• Laura Francis
  CFO, Promega Corp.
  former Hypercosm CFO & Treasurer
  17 Larch Circle Madison, WI 53705
  (608) 238 - 8502
  
  
• Bengt-Olaf Schneider Ph.D
  Nvidia Corporation
  515 Croton Heights Road
  Yorktown, NY 10598
  (914) 962 - 8328

Personal:

• Emily Cusic
  Member Services Coordinator United Way of Wisconsin
  2059 Atwood Ave. Madison, W 53704
  (608) 246-8282
  
  
  
• Rosalind Woodward
  1443 Mound Street
  Madison, WI 53711
  (608) 251-1074
  
  
• Barton Miller Ph.D
  UW Computer Sciences Dept.
  Madison, WI 53706
  (608) 238 - 4310
  
  
• Dan Mather Ph.D
  Mather Consulting 4337
  Mineral Point Rd
  Madison, WI 53705
  (608) 231 - 2357