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Rochester, Minnesota Area

Rochester, Minnesota Area

• Spearheaded development for Remote Control component of Flex System Manager / FSM. Remote Control provides remote consoles for any blade in any chassis managed by an FSM through a JNLP / Java Network Launching Protocol.
• Met critical release dates by quickly resolving several complex defects while learning a new component and environment.
• Received a patent filing for solution to a potential log overflow attack.

Rochester, Minnesota Area

• Developed firmware and open source for next generation server project. Updated Linux Kernel, driver, open source, uBoot, and user space trace functions.
• Solved a series of very difficult communications issues by collaborating with Freescale, Windriver and the SIMICs support team in Austin.
• Orchestrated setting up the necessary environment with the hardware test group in Raleigh to verify the solutions.
• Improved trace performance 20% by utilizing memory mapped buffers.

Rochester, Minnesota Area

• Directed function testing for z/OS Unicode Services component.
• Decreased operating expenses significantly by creating automated test tool that eliminated 118 person-hours per week and allowed only 1 escape in 2 years.

Rochester, Minnesota Area

• Held various positions in iSeries including I/O Designer, Tape hardware component team leader and Backup Recovery Management Services / BRMS application developer.
• Designed and coded a new Machine Interface using C++ and Object Oriented Design principles to be used by the Device Configuration component.
• As Team Leader, collaborated with testers and device driver coders to provide a high quality tape hardware driver in the new operating system.
• Rewrote significant portions of BRMS in C++ utilizing Object Oriented design principles.
• Developed set of macros in EZ editor that accessed the content management system and the compiler.