Conrad David PARKER

Designed a Linux multimedia architecture for the SH-Mobile processor series. This involved specifying userspace device driver interfaces and developing support infrastructure to use multimedia-related hardware blocks, and co-ordinating open source development with partners and contractors. The interfaces allow customers to use hardware codecs (encoding and decoding of MPEG-4, H.264 etc.) and video processing blocks. The software stack includes OpenMAX IL components, GStreamer plugins, and custom streaming servers.

Wikimedia Foundation

Senior Software Engineer January 2009 - July 2009

Implemented improvements in HTTP transport and seeking of Ogg media in Mozilla Firefox, and integration with the oggz-chop server. This also builds on earlier work from the Annodex project, where we specified an optimized byte-range redirection protocol for accessing temporal segments of video.

CSIRO Australia

Senior Software Engineer 2002 - 2006

Co-invented Annodex networked media system. Active involvement in IETF standardisation, lead developer of associated Open Source reference implementation. Published papers in international journals and scientific conferences. Involved with Open Source projects Xiph.Org (Ogg Vorbis, Speex, Theora) and xine. CMWeb project received CSIRO/CMIS Divisional Chief's Innovation Award (2003).

Software Engineer 1999 - 2001

Developed a prototype video communications system for multinational client. Developed Gnome user interface for MPEG audio analysis toolkit. Contributed to research consultancy on 3D audio and acoustic localisation techniques.

Pixar Animation Studios

Contracted developer 2000

Developed enhancements to Sweep required for use in production of animated feature films.

Fujitsu Australia, Ltd.

Software developer (P/T) 1995 - 1996

Designed and implemented secure Internet commerce and data distribution services for local clients.

University of New South Wales

Tutor (P/T) 1998 - 1999

Tutored 3rd year undergraduate classes in Operating Systems (COMP3231) and Computer Networks (COMP3331), and 1st year introductory programming.

ACAY Network Computing

Software developer (P/T) 1995, 1998 - 1999

Developed accounts management system, integrating billing services and automation of authentication systems.

Quinn Technology

Contracted developer 1997 - 2000

Education

Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University

PhD Candidate, October 2006 - September 2009

Bachelor of Engineering (Computer Engineering)
University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia 2001

Bachelor of Science (Mathematics)
University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia 2001

Publications

Book chapters

Continuous Media Web: Hyperlinking, Search & Retrieval of Time-Continuous Data on the Web (25 pages) S. Pfeiffer, C. Parker, A. Pang in Managing Multimedia Semantics. Hershey, PA: IRM Press. [ISBN: 1-59140-569-6] (2005)

Journal articles

The Continuous Media Web: A Distributed Multimedia Information Retrieval Architecture Extending the World Wide Web ACM Multimedia Systems, Special Issue on Systems and Architectures of Multimedia Information Retrieval, 2005. (15 pages) S. Pfeiffer, C. Parker, A. Pang
Video Blogging: Content to the Max IEEE MultiMedia Magazine, IEEE Computer Society, No. 2, April-June 2005 pp 2-6 (5 pages) C. Parker, S. Pfeiffer, A. Pang

Conference Proceedings

Demonstrating a Video and Audio Web Proceedings of the 12th ACM International Conference on Multimedia, October 2004 New York C. Parker, A. Pang and S. Pfeiffer
Challenges of Networked Media: Integrating the Navigational Features of Browsing Histories and Media Playlists into a Media Browser Proceedings of the 12th ACM International Conference on Multimedia, October 2004 New York pp. 480-483 A. Pang, C. Parker and S. Pfeiffer
Annodex: A Simple Architecture to Enable Hyperlinking, Search & Retrieval of Time-Continuous Data on the Web Proceedings of the ACM Multimedia Conference 2003, 5th Intl. Workshop on Multimedia Information Retrieval (MIR) November 2003 Berkeley, pp 87-93 S. Pfeiffer, C. Parker, C. Schremmer
Sweep: Real-world Audio Editing on Linux LinuxTag 2003, July 2003 Karlsruhe, Germany C. Parker
Sweep: Real-world Audio Editing on Linux UKUUG Linux 2003 Conference, August 2003 Edinburgh C. Parker
bewdy, Maaate! Australia Linux Conference 2001, Sydney, Australia S. Pfeiffer and C. Parker

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