Have Skills, Will Travel Charles Armour

Stress-less

The last two weeks have been very pleasant and enjoyable, but I feel like I’ve been idling at 10% throttle, which is far short of normal for me.  This site and blog are an effort to keep the world informed about my hobbies, research, and profession.  I don’t expect too many readers as I don’t plan to promote or advertise in any way, but I will send prospective employers, contractors, friends, and family to this page rather than boring them (and myself) with repetitive updates.

Professionally, I am an entrepreneurial  software and systems architect focused on distributed and peer to peer systems.  I recently left my position as Vice President of Systems Operations at Brand Asset Digital, LLC in order to maintain creative freedom and to explore other paths in computer science.  Brand Asset Digital is transitioning from development to sales and support, and I prefer to develop new technologies rather than maintain existing ones.  My position was eating most of my time and preventing progress on my research, so I am looking for new employment in the 40-60 hours per week range rather than the 60-80 hours per week range.

Please check my resume and give me a call if you are interested in my skill set.  Pensacola is not the best locale for a career based on technology, so I am prepared to interview and move out of state or work remotely.

At the moment, I am working on five projects.  Two are iPhone Apps that I won’t discuss on here due to a very competitive atmosphere.  I’m also working on temporally aware video codecs, massively concurrent real time analytics, and distributed (as in peer to peer) computation.  Setting aside the iPhone applications, which I consider possible money makers, my research and development is focused on hard problems.  Making money off solutions to these problems is not my forte, so I work with others to do so.

I’ll keep this post short so as to save some content for tomorrow.  I’ll try to maintain daily posts as long as possible.