Peter Kootsookos

Peter kootsookos

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  • Timeline

  • About me

    Engineering & Computer Science Innovator

  • Education

    • Bgs

      1978 - 1982
      High school (senior) cert astronomy

      Activities and Societies: Computer, Astronomy, Fencing, and Lapidary clubs

    • The university of queensland

      1987 - 1989
      Masters of engineering science electrical engineering

      Activities and Societies: Played team handball with the UQ team. Thesis "A Critical Examination of Time-Frequency Filtering" examined the notion of using time-frequency representations (e.g. the short-time Fourier transform or the Wigner-Ville 'Distribution') to do filtering in time and frequency domains simultaneously.

    • The australian national university

      1989 - 1991
      Phd systems engineering

      Activities and Societies: Edited "Antitheses" the postgrad newspaper of PARSA. Thesis "FIR(q) filter designs using H-infinity techniques" applied H-infinity control ideas (optimal Hankel norm approximation) to the design of MIMO FIR filters.

    • The university of queensland

      1983 - 1986
      Bachelor of engineering - be electrical engineering first class honours

      Activities and Societies: Played team handball with the UQ team. Undergrad project "A Head-up Display for City Map Following" investigated how in-car computer maps could be used for navigation.

    • Mit sloan school of management

      2005 - 2006
      Grad. cert. system design & management

      Completed the graduate certificate in System Design & Management at the Engineering Systems Division through distance / video hook-ups and two residential on-campus workshops.Capstone project was with Hamilton Sundstrand [Space, Land & Sea] to work towards their CMMI Level 3 assessment of processes.

  • Experience

    • The australian national university

      Jan 1993 - Jan 1997
      Research engineer

      Investigated condition monitoring for the steel industry and modeling and control for the sugar industry.

    • Mvt, inc

      Mar 1997 - Oct 1998
      Senior sw engineer

      Developed the 3D solder paste inspection subsystem for the SP-X series of machines (the SP-1 was the first model). While much has changed, Agilent's SP-50 Series 3 is the latest in this series of machines (MVT was acquired by Agilent).

    • Emuse technologies

      Oct 1998 - Oct 2001
      Vp research & development

      Developed the technology and architecture that allowed eMuse to become one of the most successful interactive television companies worldwide.

    • The university of queensland

      Feb 2002 - May 2004
      Associate professor / senior lecturer

      Presented graduate and undergraduate courses in software engineering and computer networking. Conducted research in signal/image/video processing, with application to 3D. Supervised or co-supervised 3 successful PhD students.

    • United technologies research center

      Jun 2004 - May 2006
      Staff engineer

      Individual contributor to a variety of UTC initiatives, primarily remote service for UTC Fire & Security.

    • Utc fire & security

      May 2006 - Nov 2010
      Project / engineering lead

      Engineering lead responsible for systems, software development and quality assurance in new products for access control and intrusion detection. Project leader responsible for successful identification, development and deployment of business opportunities in remote services.Developed software in C, C++, and C# in a combination of bare metal, embedded Linux, and server-side Windows development environments.Helped UTC Fire & Security business units understand engineering processes to apply uniform standards across the business. Show less

    • Emuse technologies

      Nov 2010 - Dec 2018
      Tbc

      Developed emuse's Advertisement Decisioning System (ADS) component of Raven. The system is designed to serve out IAB-compliant advertisements to set top boxes and mobile devices at scale. The peak daily hits seen to date are 24M with a peak rate of 800 ads per second.

    • University of new haven

      Sept 2011 - Jul 2022
      Adjunct

      Taught graduate courses: - DSP I - Introduction to digital signal processing (ELEC6634-01-W14) - DSP II - Adaptive Filtering (EE635-01-F11,F12, / ELEC6635-F13) - Image Processing (EE653-02-W12 / CS665-01-W12) - DSP Lab (EE670CC-01-S12) - Wireless Communications (EE649-01-S13 / ELEC6649-01-S14)Teaching Spring 2022:- CSCI4556 / CSCI6656 iOS Development- CSCI6610 Intermediate C/C++- CSCI6622 Database SystemsTaking a break from teaching as an adjunct while I start up at MxCC. Show less

    • Noster mobile

      Feb 2013 - Dec 2018
      Software architect

      Helping to kick off Noster in the personal, contextual, & local space. Collated venue information and social media interactions for 20M+ venues. Created system capable of generating up to 10,000 bespoke videos about each specific venue in a chain using video compression standards for display on Android, iOS, and desktop environments. Sentiment analysis and artificial intelligence (AI) is used to improve client outcomes.

    • Fairfield university

      Jan 2017 - Aug 2021
      Visiting assistant professor / adjunct

      Worked as an adjunct at Fairfield University teaching in their software engineering program. From Fall 2020 until Spring 2021, employed full-time at Fairfield as a Visiting Assistant Professor.Courses include all aspects of the software development process: requirements, design, project management, and delivery.F17, F18, F19: SW421 / SW321 Software Project Management, a course on the management of software project activities from conception to completion based on best practices. S18,S20: SW416/CS0305 Mobile Application Development, a course using Xamarin to develop Android and iOS applications.S17,S19,F20: SW201 / SW300 / SW400 / SWEG 3301 / SWEG 5301 Software Engineering Methods, a course on requirements elicitation, analysis, and design.F20: SWEG 3351 : Computer Science Junior Clinic I : business ideas and concepts that generate software projects.F20: SWEG 6961 / 6962 : Capstone Professional Project I / II : Capstone projects for masters students. Show less

    • Central connecticut state university

      Sept 2017 - May 2022
      Adjunct

      I was an adjunct at CCSU in the Computer Engineering & Graphics Technology department. During the Fall 2018 semester, I taught digital electronics as a full-time temporary assistant professor. During Fall 2019 and Spring of 2020, I taught as a full-time assistant professor.F19,S20: CET179 Basic Network Administration.S19,F19,S20,F20,S21,F21,S22: CET-497/498 Capstone Project I/II.F17, S18, F18, S19,SM19,F19,S20,SM20,S21,SM21,S22: CET-236, Introductory Circuit Theory.F18: CET-363 Introductory Digital Design. F18,F20,F21: CET-466 Logic Design Show less

  • Licenses & Certifications

    • 06/09/25 12:00 pm et blended youth mhfa - maryann fusco-rollins

      Mhfa
      Jun 2025
    • 2024 ieee membership outstanding recruitment performance

      Ieee
      Sept 2024
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    • Program evaluator

      Abet
      Oct 2023
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    • Best practices for online pedagogy (bpop)

      Ct state middlesex
      Nov 2022
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    • Teaching techniques: creating effective learning assessments

      Linkedin
      Jan 2021
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    • The data scientist’s toolbox

      Coursera course certificates
      Mar 2015
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    • R programming

      Coursera course certificates
      Jan 2016
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    • Getting and cleaning data

      Coursera course certificates
      Mar 2016
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  • Honors & Awards

    • Awarded to Peter Kootsookos
      President's Award for Product Innovation UTCS President, Bill Brown Jan 2009 In recognition of the digital video recorder project having the highest new-product sales within UTCFS in 2008.
    • Awarded to Peter Kootsookos
      2008 Talbert Abrams Award (honorable mention) ASPRS Jun 2008 For authorship and recording of current and historical engineering and scientific developments in photogrammetry, for the paper "Detection and Vectorization of Roads from Lidar Data," PE&RS 73, (5), 517-535.
    • Awarded to Peter Kootsookos
      Best Poster Presentation of a Paper by a Full-time Student ISSPA Aug 1990 ISSPA'90 Best Poster Presentation of a Paper by a Full-time Student: International Symposium on Signal Processing and its Applications prize for paper entitled A Critical Examination of Time-Frequency Filtering.
  • Volunteer Experience

    • Moderator

      Issued by Stack Overflow on Apr 2013
      Stack OverflowAssociated with Peter Kootsookos
    • Various

      Issued by IEEE on Jan 1990
      IEEEAssociated with Peter Kootsookos