denniscronin.net

I reside in Scottsdale, Arizona and used to work for a tiny Seattle-area software company called Microsoft as a developer on things related to the Xbox Video service, primarily working in web, C#, C++, and SQL. When I lived up in Seattle I was a manager guy there with various lofty sounding titles but when I moved down here I became what you call an "individual contributor" developer. Currently I work for a medical software company STC Health.

Prior to Microsoft I worked briefly at Spyglass (which was acquired by OpenTV and then NAGRA) doing browser work and before that, Central Data Corporation where I designed hardware, wrote firmware, did Unix and NT device drivers, and helped invent a chunk of their product line.

• freecell.net - popular addictive online solitaire (used AJAX long before it was christened AJAX)
• wsolitaire.com - familiar Klondike solitaire with mods to make it 100% winnable
• jezzball.net - twitch game using HTML5 <canvas> and Javascript
• cinqo.freecell.net - 5 letter word game using knockout.js and MVVM
• flagpd.com - play designer for flag football using the Javascript Raphael drawing framework
• matchstickrockets.com - my first web site circa 1995.

Nine or ten years ago I became interested in Spanish and began studying it. I now can say I speak Spanish really pretty well. To achieve true fluency I think I'd probably need to spend a little time living in a Spanish speaking country. Spanish then led to Portuguese and I also can read/write that fairly well and at least defend myself in conversation. Now I'm working on Norwegian as I have family over there.

• DSP guitar effects demo - on $50 STMicro ARM 7 eval board
  
• Audio Digital Signal Processing - effects work in VST format.
  
• Music - I've been dabbling in song writing all my life
  
• High school Showman Amp Project - I built a Fender Showman in high school.
• Hifi Preamp Project - little super simple project for you technically inclined hifi tweaks out there
  
• Go Kart - set up a go kart track out in the back yard.
• misc. old domains - they used to be domains but now they're just mothballed
• Morse code practice - news headlines converted to variable speed Morse code
• photos - Flickr and Google photo albums
• ChewingAluminumFoil - old youtube videos
• dennis.cronin - youtube channel

I went to highschool in Springfield, Illinois at Springfield High. I studied E.E. at the University of Illinois and was a rather unlikely frat rat at Sigma Nu. I started a family rather young, dropped out of school, and then later went back to the university in C.S., but got sucked in by the big money and high pressure schedules of technology jobs and the rest, shall we say, is history. Dennis Cronin
Scottsdale, Arizona
dennis.croningmail.com