John Alan McDonald
                   916 10th Ave E #C Seattle WA 98102
                              206 325 7371
                           jamcdonald@att.net
                     http://jamcdonald.home.att.net
                              2004-05-09

                       Employment and education

2004--     Principal Software Engineer, Quantigraphics, Inc., Seattle WA
1997--2004 Research Scientist, School of Medicine, U. of Washington.
1995--1997 Co-Founder, Second Language Software, Seattle, WA
1988--1997 Research Associate Professor, UW Statistics
1988--1997 Adjunct Research Associate Professor, UW CSE
1985--1988 Research Assistant Professor, UW Statistics
1983--1985 Research Associate, CS and Statistics, Stanford
1982--1983 NSF Postdoc Fellow, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
1977--1982 PhD, Statistics, Stanford University.
1975--1976 Research Assistant, Harvard and National Museum of Kenya.
1971--1975 AB, Physics, Princeton University.

                                Skills

Image processing, computer vision, machine learning, computer-aided
language learning, internationalization and localization, subdivision
surfaces, mesh optimization, surface reconstruction, 3d scanning,
computer graphics, object-oriented design, numerical optimization,
scientific computing, programming environments, data visualization.

OpenGL, JOGL, Java, J3D, JAI, Swing, Common Lisp, C++, C, ISO 9000, Visual
Studio, Fortran, Visual Basic, XML, HTML, VRML, SQL, X-windows,
Unix, MS Windows.

                         Selected Publications

"Ventriculogram segmentation using boosted decision trees", JA McDonald
and FH Sheehan, SPIE Medical Imaging 2004.

"Piecewise Smooth Surface Reconstruction." H Hoppe, A DeRose, T Duchamp,
M Halstead, H Jin, JA McDonald, J Schweitzer, and W Stuetzle, SIGGRAPH94.

"Painting multiple views of complex objects." JA McDonald, A Buja, and
W Stuetzle, OOPSLA/ECOOP'90.

"Object-oriented programming for linear algebra." JA McDonald OOPSLA'89

                                Patents

2003: Segmentation of left ventriculograms via boosted decision trees,
JA McDonald, FH Sheehan (pending).

2002: Automated delineation of heart borders and surfaces from images,
RK Johnson; JA McDonald; FH Sheehan. (pending)

1998: Reconstruction of labeled piecewise smooth subdivision surfaces,
JA McDonald, FH Sheehan, ME Legget, and EL Bolson