Sam Dicker

About Sam Dicker

Principal Software Engineer with over 40 years of experience developing industry-leading interactive multimedia products. Experienced in overcoming seemingly insurmountable odds to push the limits of hardware, with dramatic marketing results. For example, developed a software upgrade for the Creative Labs Sound Blaster Live, which provided 32 sources of 3D sound on hardware only designed for 8, allowing Creative to maintain a market lead. Experienced in planning research and development tasks for teams of engineers to meet project milestones and delivery dates.Specialties: DSP software, hardware and tools for 3D audio spatialization, panning and mixing, algorithmic and sampled sound analysis, synthesis and music sequencing, voice communication and telephony, 3D graphics and animation with hierarchical models, motion blending, texturing, antialiasing, video game design, tuning, scoring, diagnostics and player internet integration, multi-tasking kernel, 2D graphics and image processing, 2D and 3D collision detection, sound, image and animation data compression

Experience

1. Senior Audio Software Engineer

   Apple

   Aug 2020 — Present · US

Skills

• Perl
• Embedded Systems
• Hardware Architecture
• Sound
• Fpga
• Embedded Software
• Audio
• Asic
• Digital Signal Processing
• Software Engineering
• Microprocessors
• C++
• Soc
• Usb
• Consumer Electronics
• Hardware
• Processors
• Microcontrollers
• Image Processing
• 3d
• Device Drivers
• Electronics
• Perforce
• Debugging
• Multithreading
• System Architecture
• Verilog
• Software Design
• Audio Engineering
• C
• Programming
• Digital Signal Processors
• Analog
• Video Games
• Dsp
• Windows
• Matlab
• Visual Studio
• Arm
• Vhdl