
The Salk Institute for Biological Studies
Vision Center Laboratory
www.salk.edu | www.vcl.salk.edu
NIMH CORTEX
www.cortex.salk.edu
NIMH CORTEX is a program developed by the National Institute of Mental Health Laboratory of Neuropsychology for data acquisition and real-time experimental control of neurophysiological experiments, and used in neuroscience institutions around the world.
Scientific Software Engineer
07/2004 – 04/2007 and 05/2001 – 08/2003
Major Contribution:
• Responsible for all phases of the software development life cycle for the Windows version of CORTEX.
• Designed and implemented the graphical user interface in C++ with MFC to interface with an existing C program written to run in DOS.
• Production and distribution of new releases, including authoring documentation and creating Install Shield scripts.
• Maintained and updated the CORTEX website using PHP, PHP Bulletin Board, HTML, CSS and MySQL.
• Provided technical support and customized features to CORTEX users.
Technology Used:
• Microsoft Visual Studio
• Microsoft Visual Source Safe
• Install Shield Developer
• MySQL Control Center
• Windows Driver Development Kit
• Norton Ghost
• C++
• HTML
• CSS
• SQL
• PHP
• SQL
• Touch Screen
• Function Generator
• Oscilloscope
• Data Acquisition Boards