Aaron Toney's Resume

Aaron P. Toney

aaron.toney(at)hhhh.org

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Summary
	Engineer with twelve years experience developing software for emerging mobile devices, and three years as a member-manager driving small research and development teams with a mobile focus. Background includes a PhD in Computer information technology focused on exploring developing user interfaces for new device form factors. Seeking a position exploring the tremendous potential for emerging mobile devices.
Contact Information
	Current contact information is maintained at the following URL: http://www.hhhh.org/~joeboy/contact_info.html.
Education
	B.S. in Electrical Engineering, University of Washington, 1998 Ph.D. in Computer Information Technology, University of South Australia, 2008 Presidential Scholar 2003 - 2007 Thesis title: Garment Integrated and Deployable Technology
Experience
	Purple Crayon Issaquah, WA January 2009 - Present Company co-founder I co-founded of Purple-crayon, a startup developing a line of combination milling machine, 3D scanner, and 3D printer targeted at the home consumer market. In addition to developing all the custom embedded hardware for the project, I am responsible for the initial mechanical engineering and product assembly.
	Consulting at Microsoft Hardware, Redmond, WA October 2007 - December 2008 Member of Emerging Product Group Member of a small group tasked with developing and evaluating technologies that could be rapidly integrated into existing product lines. My role was to develop new ideas from concept to working prototypes. I was specifically responsible for two new mouse wheel detent mechanisms, a method for magnetically tracking the mouse wheel, and several low power mechanical actuators. When not developing a new idea I acted as a firmware troubleshooter - researching algorithms, developing software concept prototypes, and helping developers find and work through problems in their code.
	Wearable Computing Laboratory, UniSA Adelaide, Australia March 2003 - March 2007 Ph.D. Student, Presidential Scholar PhD Student researching user interfaces and applications suitable for future generations of mobile devices. Authored firmware, shared libraries, and a small footprint RTOS in C and C++ as generic infrastructure for developing prototypes based on MSP430 microcontrollers. Authored machine vision software library in C++ and C# using .NET. Authored a machine learning library (HMM based) for C# Taught special sections of "Computer Security Fundamentals" and "C++ for Java programmers". Designed and conducted user studies observing existing device and application usage, then applying the results to generate original application and device concepts. Developed adaptive software algorithms to predict patterns of usage for user interfaces and dynamically adjust the subsequent presentation of user interface elements. Work primarily focused on user interfaces for large horizontal interactive display surfaces. Copies of my publications are available on my web pages at: http://www.hhhh.org/~joeboy/publications/publications.html.
	Independent Consultant Seattle, WA August 2002 - February 2003 Self Employed Consultant During this period I worked on a variety of small embedded systems projects. With a typical contract length of one to three months these contracts ranged across such diverse projects as juggling equipment able to detect and respond to the current pattern being juggled, to more main stream re-engineering and maintenance of existing custom embedded systems.
	AppliedTheory Bellevue, WA June 2000 - July 2002 Senior Wireless Consultant I cofounded the wireless consulting group at AppliedTheory Corporation, Seattle. My work at AppliedTheory primarily focused on rapidly prototyping applications as part of the bidding on large contracts.
	CircusSystems Seattle, WA July 1999 - March 2001 Corporate officer / Research and Hardware Development Manager I cofounded Circus Systems; a Seattle based wearable computing company. As a corporate officer I was one of two officers responsible for fundraising, specifically obtaining first round funding for the company. In additional to fundraising and managerial responsibilities I lead the hardware design efforts for Circus Systems. In this capacity I developed a number of small embedded systems and an Intel StrongARM based single board computer for use in wearable and palmtop computing.
	IBM Almaden Research Center San Jose, CA July 1998 - July 1999 User Interface Gadgeteer (Electronics Researcher) As part of IBM research's USER (User Systems Ergonomic Research) group I was responsible for a number of rapid prototypes and demos as well as two long term projects. The first of the projects built a system of configurable wireless sensors designs with which to instrument the group's office space. The second project developed a chameleon card for use in "SmartWallets" The card was capable of mimicking any magnetic stripe card.
	UW Medical Center, Surgery Dept Seattle, WA June 1997 - September 1997 Summer Internship Designed a custom ultrasonic transceiver. The transceiver was used to research the technique of inducing cavitation bubbles within the bloodstream to act as an ultrasonic contrast agents.
	NorthWestNet Bellevue, WA June 1996 - July 1998 Systems Engineering Intern Authored custom administration tools in Perl for managing ISDN customers' accounts.
Journal Publications
	Special Issue of Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, Springer-Verlag London, 2003 Designing to Minimize the Social Consequences Arising from Technology Use by the Mobile Professional A. Toney, B. Mulley, B. H. Thomas, W. Piekarski
Refereed Conferences
	Special Issue of Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, Springer-Verlag London, 2003 Designing to Minimize the Social Consequences Arising from Technology Use by the Mobile Professional A. Toney, B. Mulley, B. H. Thomas, W. Piekarski Sixth International Symposium on Wearable Computers, October 7th - 10th, 2002 Minimal Social Weight User Interactions for Wearable Computers in Business Suits A. Toney, B. Mulley, B. H. Thomas, W. Piekarski Seventh International Symposium on Wearable Computers, October 21st - 23rd, 2003 A Shoulder Pad Insert Vibrotactile Display Aaron Toney, Lucy Dunne, Bruce H. Thomas, Susan P. Ashdown Tenth International Symposium on Wearable Computers, October 11th - 14th, 2006 Managing Smart Garments A. Toney, B. H. Thomas, Wynand Marais OzCHI, November 20th - 24th, 2006 Applying Reach in Direct Manipulation User Interfaces A. Toney, B. H. Thomas Australian User Interface Conference, January 30th - February 2nd, 2007 Modeling Reach for Use in User Interface Design A. Toney, B. H. Thomas
Refereed Workshops & Forums
	First International Forum on Applied Wearable Computing, March 24th-25th, 2004, Bremen, Germany Subtle Garment Integration of Technology: A Case Study of the Business Suit Lucy Dunne, Aaron Toney, Susan P. Ashdown, Bruce H. Thomas First IEEE International Workshop on Horizontal Interactive Human-Computer Systems, January 5th-7th, 2006, Adelaide, South Australia Considering Reach in Tangible and Table Top Design Aaron Toney, Bruce H. Thomas
Unrefereed Publications
	International Symposium on Wearable Computers: On-Body Sensing Workshop October 18th-21st, 2005, Osaka, Japan The potential for real time posture detection through garment-integrated electrostatic sensors Aaron Toney, Bruce H. Thomas
Invited Presentations
	GSM World: Smartphones 5th-6th December 2000, Vienna, Austria "What is a Wearable Computer?", Metrics for Assessing Wearable Devices Presented by Joshua Klein and Aaron Toney - Circus Systems TechnoPol October 2000, Sion, Switzerland The Market for Wearable Computing Presented by Joshua Klein and Aaron Toney - Circus Systems
Awarded Research Funding
	UniSA Division of Information Technology, Engineering and the Environment Special purpose grant 2005, $10,00 Project: Development and Testing of Garment-Integrated Mobile Interfaces UniSA Division of Information Technology, Engineering and the Environment Small Grant Scheme 2005, $3,000 Project: Researching Mechanisms for Recharging and Synchronizing Smart Garments UniSA Division of Information Technology, Engineering and the Environment Small Grant Scheme 2006, $1,500 Project: Deployable mobile user interface technology to support ad-hoc meetings in public spaces
Paper Reviewing
	IEEE International Symposium on Wearable Computers 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006 ACM and IEEE International Symposium on Mobile Augmented Reality 2005 ACM Symposium on User Interface Software Technology 2003
Conference Program Commities
	Publication co-chair, IEEE International Symposium on Wearable Computers, 2004

Email -- aaron.toney(at)hhhh.org