Dipl.-Ing. Martin Wolters, MBA |
Phone: +49 (911) 322 63 52
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Campestr. 19
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90419 Nuremberg, Germany
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OBJECTIVE
To apply my research, engineering and management skills in
a position related to digital speech and audio signal processing.
SKILLS AND QUALIFICATIONS
- Management: MBA, operations management, customer
relationship management, team leading/building, strong communication
skills,
project management, hard- and software development, prototype
development
- Technologies: Audio
compression (lossy and lossless; research, development
and implementation), audio modification (time- and frequency domain),
DSP
and SoC (System-on-Chip) design, relational databases, collaboration
and CRM software tools, Lotus Notes
- Programming: Matlab, C/C++ (embedded and host), Assembler
(Motorola
56k, proprietary DSPs), Java
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
Director, Licensing Engineering Dolby
Laboratories, Inc. acquired Coding Technologies in late 2007. I am managing the engineering team in Germany (5 groups) since mid of 2008.
Manager Operations Coordinate
group-wide organizational matters incl.
- Building up group-wide human resources activities and standards
- Organizing contract execution and related standards, procedures,
and policies
- Responsible for administration and IT (4 direct reports)
- Manage facilities in Germany
Group Manager Customer Support
Coordinate, supervise, and
participate in technical support activities.
- Formalize customer support efforts by starting a dedicated
customer support group (3 direct reports)
- Conception, evaluation, selection, and introduction of a customer
relationship
management tool (CRM)
- Design, prepare,
and conduct multi-day workshops and presentations related to embedded
implementations of Coding Technologies' products
Senior DSP Software Engineer Support and consult various
groups
inside Creative on audio compression and DSP technology. Develop new
algorithms
and assist in effective technology transfer for product
implementations.
- Develop new lossless and lossy compression technology as well as
audio
signal enhancement algorithms.
- Assess and recommend new compression technology for Creative
products.
- Technical assistance on compression related topics and liaison to
FhG,
Erlangen.
- Assist VLSI teams during the design phase of custom DSPs and SoCs.
- Project management and team leading in the Audio Research
Department.
- Mentor and coach fellow engineers.
- Represent the Audio Research Department in various
interdepartmental
planning
teams.
Research & Development Engineer Responsibilities
include defining, managing, and implementing various projects in both
hardware
and software. Act as liaison to outside companies responsible for
circuit
board layout and manufacturing.
- Development of a microphone processor for broadcasting (ToolVox)
Product definition, algorithm development, DSP implementation (Motorola
DSP56303), and project management. The product received three awards:
BE
Radio Pick Hit, Pro Audio Review's PAR Excellence Award, Radio World
2000
"COOL STUFF" Award
- Design of a real-time multi-DSP algorithm
development system
Hardware platform, software tools, and integration of the different
components.(Including work with ptolemy
design software).
- Ongoing assistance with various
implementations of MPEG hardware
encoders.
DSP software engineer AAC real-time implementation on
Motorola
DSP56303. Optimizing and modifying the standard reference encoder to
run
efficiently on a fixed point processor. Basic research utilizing
Matlab,
simulation using reference C code, and implementation in assembly
language.
Part time employment during studying |
1990 - 1997
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Institute
of computer science V at Aachen University of Technology (Germany)
Programmer Design, implementation, maintenance and documentation
of database software.
Self employed
Operated a recording studio, designed custom devices for recording
studios. Designed and programmed database software, trained users and
programmers.
Thum + Mahr Audio GmbH,
Mohnheim/Langenfeld
(Germany)
Service technician and assistant in designing analog and
digital
equipment for broadcast studios.
EDUCATION
PUBLICATIONS
On Management: Human Capital Reporting and Customer Support
On Audio Compression Technologies
- A closer look into MPEG-4
HE-AAC
Proc. 112th AES Convention, New York, October 2003 (pdf)
- Enhancing Perceptual Audio
Coding through Spectral Band Replication
DAGA '03, 29. Jahrestagung für Akustik, 18.-20. March 2003, Aachen
(Germany) (co-author) (pdf)
- Post-processing
and Computation in Parametric
and Transform
Audio Coders
AES 22nd International Conference on Virtual, Synthetic and
Entertainment
Audio, Espoo, Finland 2002, (co-author) (pdf)
On Speech Processing for Broadcasting
On Sibilants and De-Essing
- The Acoustical Properties of Sibilance and New Basic
Approaches
for
De-essing Recorded Speech
Tonmeistertagung Karlsruhe
(Germany),
November 1998 (pdf)
- Adaptive Algorithm for Detecting and
Reducing
Sibilants
in Recorded Speech,
Proc. 104thAES Convention
, Amsterdam, Preprint 4677, May 1998 (pdf)
- Reducing Sibilants in Recorded Speech using Psychoacoustic
Models
ICA/ASA-Meeting, Seattle, 1998 (co-author) (pdf)
On Feedback Delay Networks
OTHER ACTIVITIES