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Location: Santa Rosa, California, United States 73 work roles 3 schools
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Jonathan Tester previously worked as Staff Software Engineer at Northrop Grumman and Linux Architect at Technicolor. Jonathan Tester holds Bsc, Computer Science from The University Of Sheffield.

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Listed skills include Linux, Perl, Unix, System Architecture, and 46 others.

73 roles · 45 years

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Staff Software Engineer

Falls Church, Va, Us

Staff Software Engineer Advanced ProductsAgileEmbedded Linux (Wind River, Redhat)File Linux kernel File System Security patent.Virtual Oracle (ovs), ZFS, XEN, clusters, live update, virtual boxSelinux, Host Based Security System (HBSS) iptables. Label ipsec, cipso,Hardware bring up, C/C++, livecd. Develop Wind River Embedded Linux Secure file system (kernel). Multiple Independent Levels of Security (MILS), Separation Kernel. Ipxe, pxe, Pxeboot, tftpboot.Install and config, Graphite, collectd and ipmitool to collected status of board.Wind River,Vmware hypervisor (esx). Host are fedora and ubuntu. Involved kernel areas file systems, device drivers, modules, proc, syslog, ipv6, stacked/layered file system, kernel communications, cache memory, subversion. Add collectd and ipmitool hardware diagnostics.Port some drivers to Fedora 11,12, make rpm, spins, livecd. Kickstart, Tilera Board, stretch card.Gstreamer, plugins, c/c++, python. XML Hack iso, to produce new iso disk.

Jan 2010 - Aug 2020

Linux Architect

Los Angeles, Us

Nov 2009 - Jan 2010

Senior Embedded Software Engineer

Firstprint

Embedded Linux kernel eReader (Marvell), Low Level kernel,Battery Device Driver, power management , physical user interface (kernel input), svn, GPIO, MFP, SOC, qemu,, led drivers,ARM/pxa/zylonite.Development was done on ubuntu, Sys admin.

Jun 2009 - Aug 2009

Senior Principal Software Engineer

San Diego, Ca, Us

Nov 2008 - Feb 2009

Consultant

Harris Broadcasting

linux

Sep 2008 - Oct 2008

Consultant

Harris Broadcast Communications

Embedded Linux gui, using glade, libwww, libghttp. ltib and gtk, XML. FedoraDevelopment was done in VMware, C/C++, Freescale Coldfire. Sys admin and development was done on ubuntu.

Aug 2008 - Oct 2008

Consultant

Entree Wireless

linux

Apr 2008 - May 2008

Consultant

Entrée Wireless

Help get the project started, 802-11s Mobile wireless mesh networking

Apr 2008 - May 2008

Principal Consultant

Transport Data Systems

Drivers and kernel

Oct 2007 - Apr 2008

Consultant

Transport Data Systems

Port a linux 2.4 pci/dma/SMP device driver to Fedora 2.6, create rpm's, create rpm's with mysql, ocr application.Integrate New Camera API (Point Gray, level 7). Use Perl and C++, ACE , dc1394, interface with Oracle and mysql , ups, CVS, anaconda for the system software, serial interfaces, and basically get the whole release together.

Sep 2007 - Apr 2008

Project Leader/Architect

Magna Forte

Embedded Linux System audio mixing system, port to Nokia n800 palm. Development was done on ubuntu.Design and architect the whole system HTNL, PHP, XML, LAMP, The n800 was configure as a HTML apache server.

May 2007 - Jan 2008

Project Leader

Magna Forte

linux team leader

Mar 2007 - Jan 2008

Consultant

Louisville, Co, Us

Fix linux fedora kernel device driver, bug, use kgdb.Dec 2006 - Feb 2007 Mushroom NetworksEmbedded Linux, Distributed wi-fi, Debian linux kernel, lockstat, kerneltop, readprofile, dstat and oprofile, iptables, 802.11 protocols. Arm, ucLinix, embedded, minicom, bringup, madwifi, build Tool Chain, cc, build romfs etc.

Aug 2007 - Sep 2007

Consultant

Louisville, Co, Us

linux

May 2007 - Sep 2007

Consultant

San Diego, Ca, Us

Linux networking, kernel, bringup, profiling

Dec 2006 - Apr 2007

Consultant

La Jolla Networks

FreeBsd driver

Sep 2006 - Nov 2006

Consultant

design and write a 2.6 shim distributed nfs, file system used was SuSE 9.3,10.0, debug with UML (user mode linux - virtual linux os similar to Vmware, or xen). Set up virtual networks, on one machine. Peer to peer but on NFS and in the kernel. Do project completely from conception to completion. Aug 2006 ILTS -port small application from windows to linux (weekend work

May 2006 - Sep 2006

Consultant

Broadcast Microware Systems

linux driver

Jun 2005 - Mar 2006

Consultant

Deepnines, Multi
Aug 2004 - May 2005

Sr Principal Software Engineer

San Jose, California, Us

Unix, linux kernel

Sep 2002 - Aug 2004

Senior Principal Software Engineer

Gmon, Cmon, Valgrind

Develop Host Intrusion Detection System (HIDS), design and write intrusion shim device driver for Linux (kernel, device driver). Hook system calls and do Process Blocking, set up and supervise (design) AIX, Solaris and HPUX kernel projects, to port the Solaris driver, do reverse engineering on HPUX, AIX. Do lot of work on vnode and file systems. Port kernel driver to Linux (RedHat) and use kgdb for debugging Design the file, allowing least performance degradation with maximum security. Design and implement buffer overflow protection in the kernel. Architect the Solaris/AIX/HPUX/Linux HIDS system. Design automatic test of HIDS package. Linux SMP (kernel). Design File and Process Blocking. Mentor Junior engineers. Stack, heap and libc buffer overflow in userland. Use Perforce for source control. Some work done in Windows .NET, C++. C++ on Linux 2.6. Dynamic libraries in C++. Linux 2.4 and 2.6. 64 and 32 bit.Multiply releases from specification and patents to qa/product release.

Sep 2002 - Aug 2004

Unix Kernel Developer

Entercept Security (Mcafee)

Develop Host Intrusion shim Detection System (HIDS), to harden an OSSolaris kernel (mutex) set up debugging tools (gdb, ksld_kadb), Do Linux kernel port. Convert Solaris kernel security SMP device driver from 32 bit to 64 bit (2.7, 2.8, 2.9). This involved many modifications to the core kernel, system tables, ioctl etc. File/directory protection, buffer overflow, this was done in loadable module. This product would both prevent and record Hacker attacks (Intrusion protection).Use gdb to debug the Solaris applications and Linux (RedHat) kernel.Help make common source solaris/64/32/Linux.Profiling (lockstat) for performance tuning and finding bottlenecks in system.Login security (PAM).Process chains in the kernel, using vnode/inode and proc structureAssembler stack manipulationDevelop kernel security system for HP-UX 11.0 (use q4), Have to figure out manyHPUX internals without the source code (reverse-engineering). Stack traces, memory protection. Full absolute path, vnode, and lookup, get user pc from kernel, memory allocation in kernel. Kernels threads and multiply re-entrant processes. Mutex and kernel locking of global data.Buffer Overflow Prevention (memory management). Multiply releases from specification and patents to qa/product release.

Nov 2000 - Sep 2002

Kernel Engineer

Entercept - Mcafee

unix kernel

2000 - 2002 ~2 yrs

Consultant

Nishan Systems

linux

Jul 2000 - Nov 2000

Kernel Engineer

Nishan Systems

Port SCSI storage gigabit fiber channel device driver (SAN) to Linux (2.4) from windows, set up. Make much of the code common between windows and Linux. Use gdb, serial line debugger to debug driver, need to modify lifo, step though the kernel. All work done on PC (x86). Loadable module (insmod). Different way of putting Networks into SCSI. Memory Management (mmu). Virtual memory. Completely ported product to linux.

Jul 2000 - Nov 2000

Consultant

Hanoi, Hanoi, Vn

linux

Jun 2000 - Nov 2000

Consultant

T

Set up and design wireless (802.11b) router on Linux (redhat), write perl scripts for network management.

Jun 2000 - Nov 2000

Consultant

Espoo, Southern Finland, Fi

Oct 1999 - Jul 2000

Consultant

Espoo, Southern Finland, Fi

Design and implement SNMPv3 system, on FreeBSD, Design Web based Security. Port all the MIBS to SNMPv3, modify the user interface to be compatible with the Nokia one, Internet routing group. Enhance UCD SNMPv3 for the Nokia FreeBSD system, design whole project completely. Multiply projects.

Oct 1999 - Jul 2000

Consultant

Resilience

linux bonding driver

May 2000 - Jun 2000

Consultant

Isd

Дніпро, Ua

May 1999 - Sep 1999

Consultant

Isd/Ibm (Lynxworks)

Port a SCSI disk driver to Solaris (DDI) and HPUX from AIX. Use gdb to debug Solaris driver (2.6

May 1999 - Sep 1999

Consultant

Be

Apr 1999 - Jun 1999

Consultant

Us

Mar 1999 - Apr 1999

Consultant

Clairvoyant Software

Write remote monitoring system using Perl, C++, SNMP, and system ran on Linux.

Nov 1998 - Mar 1999

Consultant

Us

Oct 1998 - Jan 1999

Consultant

Us

Produce a small RMON Monitor application in MFC,VC++ and SNMP++ to run on Windows 95.

Sep 1998 - Oct 1998

Consultant

Wytec
Dec 1997 - Sep 1998

Consultant

Santa Clara, California, Us

Nov 1997 - May 1998

Consultant

Acuson (Siemens Medical)

Port Acuson embedded SCSI driver to current version of LynxOS RTOS.

Jun 1997 - Aug 1997

Consultant

It

Jun 1996 - Aug 1997

Consultant

Northern Telecom

System Admin on Solaris May 97 Scientific SoftwareDebug, fix and test Windows/NT/95 Device Drivers

May 1997 - Jun 1997

Consultant

Meeker Group
May 1997 - May 1997

Systems Admin

Xxxx

/Greystone Peripherals/MenageryDevelop interface on PCMCIA bus between embedded VX-Works RTOS and Windows/95 driver, Development was done on Windows/NT

Mar 1997 - Apr 1997

Principal Consultant

Isd/Technically Elite

Port (Hifn) RMON SNMP to i960, development was done on Windows 95 and embedded RTOS system.

Jan 1997 - Apr 1997

Consultant

Auspex
Sep 1996 - Mar 1997

Principal Consultant

Auspex

Develop part of fault-tolerant NFS system, quotas, and Perl script, multicasting.

Sep 1996 - Mar 1997

Principal Consultant

Isd/Technically Elite/Hitachi (Lynxworks)

Ported RMON SNMP to embedded VX-Works RTOS, on Hitachi

Sep 1996 - Oct 1996

Principal Consultant

Houston, Texas, Us

Port debugger to 64 bit hardware, Multi-Processor, Networking, TCP/UDP/IP internals, Develop Embedded Ethernet Device Driver, bootp, RIP, tftp, rarp, on HP RTOS. Hardware bringup.

Jan 1996 - Aug 1996

Xxxxx

Axil Computers

Implement Patches on Solaris Kernel.June 96 KLASolve problem with inetd

Jun 1996 - Jul 1996

Principal Consultant

Sun/Arbor

Port a database package (essbase), from Visual C++ (Windows) to Solaris.

Nov 1995 - Feb 1996

Consultant

Photon Dynamics

Modify drivers for ATE, Design RS232 interface for Robotics and X-Windows, diagnostics, system was done on Sun.

Mar 1995 - Sep 1995

Consultant

Sun
Jan 1995 - Jun 1995

Principal Consultant

Amdahl (Fujitsu)

Develop Systems Admin client-server application using C++, Visual C++, RPC, Novell, Solaris and DOS, Windows.

Jul 1994 - Dec 1994

Principal Consultant

Kubota Graphics

Simulate Hardware. Use TCP/IP, RPC, write graphics device driver on OSF/1, Alpha. Modify Kernel. Rebuild Profiling Kernel. Context Switching, Memory management, DMA.

Sep 1993 - Jun 1994

Principal Consultant

Signal Science

Cellular base station (CDPD) design and implementation. Wireless communication. TP4, CLNP, MDLP, TCP/IP, X.25, LAPD, Frame Relay. This was all done with byte-based sockets (SOCK

Jun 1993 - Dec 1993

Principal Consultant

Trw Financial Systems

Network design. Evaluate ATM/FDDI/Fast Ethernet vendors. Develop tests for TCP/IP, UDP and NFS, Write file system utility, performance analysis.March 93 ZD (Ziff Davis) Labs, Verity, Data Storage SystemsGeneral UNIX Consultancy, fix bugs, enhancements etc.

Mar 1993 - Jun 1993

Xxxxx

System Industries

Hired sub-contractor and put together a consulting team to design and implement a tape Librarian robot system on a SUN IPX. Write streams device driver for Legato Networker.

Sep 1992 - Mar 1993

Xxxxx

Aurora/Cmx

Solved NFS speed problems, Fixed many bugs in SunOS paint program. Ported UNIX drivers, Ported paint program from Silicon Graphics (Mips) to pSOS.

Jan 1992 - Nov 1992

Consultant

Icl
Jun 1992 - Sep 1992

Principal Consultant

Next Computers

Apple)Port serial device driver to 486 from 68000. OS was NeXTSTEP(Mach).

Jul 1992 - Aug 1992

Xxxxx

Amdahl Computers

Designed and implemented TCP/IP client/server network connection to a real time UNIX Port windowing package to UTS and develop RPC network.

Jul 1991 - Jul 1992

Software Engineer

Nixdorf Computers
1990 - 1992 ~2 yrs

Senior Software Engineer

International Computers Limited

TCP/IP, Ethernet on UNIX V.4 (486 computer)

Apr 1991 - Jun 1991

Principal Software Engineer

Siemens Nixdorf Information Systems Inc

Network layer and portions of transport layer for OSI/OSI-like, streams GATEWAY on 486 UNIX V.4 system. Wrote streams based module. Kernel modifications. Analyze and fix many Kernel crashes in areas of interrupts, priorities, overwriting memory, inodes, I/O subsystem etc, on a RISC based multi-processor computer. Wrote Daemons to monitor the device drivers, Wrote DLPI network device driver with streams.

Feb 1988 - Apr 1991

Xxxxx

Aydin Radar

Designed and implemented systems architecture and the HDLC I/O processor link with the radar.

Jul 1987 - Jan 1988

Senior Software Engineer

Equatorial Communications Co

Develop Satellite network, HDLC (X.25 project). Implement all protocols in firmware.

Oct 1984 - Oct 1986

Senior Software Engineer

Equaltorial Communications
1984 - 1986 ~2 yrs

Software Engineer

Motorola/Four

Develop internal software tools, including the design of a UNIX based cross assembler,

Feb 1982 - Oct 1984

Principal Programmer

Four Phase
1982 - 1984 ~2 yrs
3 education records

Jonathan Tester education

Bsc, Computer Science

The University Of Sheffield

Advanced Certificate In Computer Science, Computer Science

Aylesbury College

Education record

Aylesbury Grammar School
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Jonathan Tester has worked for Northrop Grumman, Technicolor, Firstprint, Nexaira, and Harris Broadcasting.

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