Thomas M. Stoll- --- 14521 Hollywood Ave Cleveland, OH 44111
kitefishlabs.com - github.com/kitefishlabs
Software developer with a broad range of experience developing complex projects for artistic
and research projects. Strong advocate for functional programming, open source, and the
complementary nature of the arts and technology, especially for education. View extensive
record of personal coding/research projects at Github and on my personal site, listed above.
Experience
OCAML/C++ FREELANCE DEVELOPER — 2015-PRESENT
OCaml developer working on a complex, evolving set of software tools for a TV/film
composer. Responsible for automatic analysis of thousands of audio samples, automated
orchestration, mapping of complex scoring data from JSON/MIDI input to audio rendering.
POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCHER, DARTMOUTH COLLEGE - OPENCV/PYTHON —-
Research, development, and implementation of ACTION (NEH Grant #HD-)
project: visual and audio feature extraction and analysis framework for a corpus of 200+
feature films. Also served as Technical Director of Bregman Music Studio and taught
electronic music courses.
IOS/ARDUINO/PYTHON FREELANCE DEVELOPER, —-
Developer of Arduino and augmented reality (ARIS) software supporting installation work
for media artist Stephanie Rothenberg. iOS developer of software for four sound walk
compositions for media artist Teri Rueb. Developer of several personal apps—-a synthesizer
and sound walk compositions—- using sophisticated sound synthesis and location tracking,
as well as more standard functionality. All were successfully published to the App Store.
PERSONAL/RESEARCH SOFTWARE, —-
Researched, designed, coded, and wrote about several corpus-based audio systems
(MaxMSP, Ruby, SuperCollider, Python) as well as a video/image corpus system (ImageDB).
All were part of or followed from graduate work in computer music composition.
Education
University at Buffalo (SUNY) — PhD., Music Composition, 2010. University of Illinois,
Urbana-Champaign - Bachelor of Music; Computer Science Minor, 2003.
Skills
OCaml, Clojure/script, Python, Objective-C, C++/OpenFrameworks, OpenCV, sclang
(Smalltalk variant), LISP, JS/HTML/CSS. Extensive teaching background, including
introductory programming. Excellent written and oral communication, including published
papers and conference talks.
