David Bender's profile:
"Perfection is achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away" - Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Work:
- Please see the Benegon page for my most recent professional work.
- My open source projects at github; highlights:
Pre-Benegon Experience:
- Project Engineer, 1/06 to 2/07; CASurgica Inc, Pittsburgh, PA
- Developed software to track ultrasound probe and needle to acquire and intercept targets via ultrasound visualization
- Enhanced existing method for registering coordinate frame of ultrasound image with coordinate frame of 6DOF tracker attached to us probe
- Developed experimental apparatus for testing computer tracked surgical tools for prenatal cardiac intervention
- Independent Consultant for the eView embedded Web Server, 6/03 to 4/05 Cutler-Hammer, a division of Eaton Corp. Pittsburgh, PA
- Developed HTML/Jscript interface for an embedded data monitor system
- Developed DHCP, SMTP, and POP3 clients for the PIC (NPView Project)
- Developed HTML/Jscript interface tuned for Windows Mobile
- Research Assistant, 05/00 to 12/05; Biorobotics Lab, CMU, Pittsburgh, PA
- Worked on a path planning system to trace topological maps using sensor based information
- Developed a snake motion planning system using follow the leader techniques
- Produced demos and animations of various robotic path planning scenarios
- Summer 04: Led a team to rewrite motion planning software (optimized 3D calculations, software design improvements)
- Summer Internship, 6/97-8/97; Procter & Gamble Corporation, IT division, Cincinnati, Ohio
- Developed software to migrate email between different server platforms
- Evaluated mass storage devices for enterprise use.
- Performed workstation maintenance and system/security testing
Personal: