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Santa Clara, Ca, Us

San Diego, Ca, Us

Responsible for pre-silicon (emulation environments) bring-up of Microsoft Windows on an ARM Server platform/SOC.

Austin, Texas, Us

As a member of the Oracle VM Server development team, my primary contributions are enhancing and maintaining the Windows Paravirtualized device drivers, and investigating and fixing Linux kernel issues related to Xen and KVM virtualization. I’m involved with the Microsoft WHQL logo testing/certification of the Windows PV Drivers. Given my extensive distributed/clustered storage background, I also was selected to investigate the use of Ceph and Pacemaker for VM storage for the Oracle VM products. I have also recently been involved with various virtualization projects involving libvirt, oVirt, and KVM.

Austin, Texas, Us

Contributed to the development of a new multi-platform Cluster File System. My work involved kernel and device driver work on the Linux, Windows, AIX, and Solaris operating systems. Implemented the Logical Volume Manager device driver for the AIX platform. Work with the other team members to enhance and maintain the Logical Volume Manager device driver, and Cluster File System for all 4 supported platforms. Expertise with crash dump analysis on AIX and Windows, also very strong skills crash dump analysis skill on Linux and Solaris.

Burlington, Ma, Us

Individual contributor to Avid's next generation storage products(s). My main focus was on taking a very experimental prototype and completing is colet the product design and implementation of RAID5 and RAID6 storage protection for a complex distributed/clustered file system tuned for video editing, capture, and playback. This software ran in embedded storage blades. 1-16 storage blades and 1-2 switch modules made up an ISIS storage chassis/crate. At the time, an ISIS system consisted to 1-12 rack-mounted storage crates interconnected via the switch module(s) in each chassis/crate modules. For large storage demands, clients, running video editors, or video capture and/or playback software, can use the storage on multiple ISIS systems. Since the project leader wanted to work on something new/different at Avid, I was being groomed to take over project leadership of the storage blade software.

Littleton, Ma, Us

Within months of joining the Marathon engineering team, I made significant contributions to a new High Availability product variant that had an aggressive six month time-to-market schedule. Management and the other engineering team members were aware that I had been 'thrown into the fire' and had to make new product enhancements at the same time that I was still learning the existing product. I'm a excellent self-starter, and was able to make my contributions with little interruption to the other engineering team members, many of which have been working on this complex systems software product for 10+ years. The new product shipped on time. My major technical contribution to the new product was to add SMP support to the Virtual Server and CoServer Fault Tolerant IO subsystem. Since the product has close ties to the Windows operating system, and we provide a custom HAL for the Virtual Server component, and provide several drivers on the IO CoServers and Virtual Server; this was much a much more complex task than simply adding a few spinlocks. In addition to working on Marathon's new High Availability product, I also contribute to maintaining and enhancing the flagship Fault Tolerant product. Most recently, I have been the project leader of a project that integrates Marathon's two products via a common codebase. For this project I was directly involved in debugging Marathon's custom HAL, and x86 assembly/instruction-level programming and debugging.

2004-2005 Oracle Rdb Engineering and HP OpenVMS Engineering Senior Consultant/Project Leader, Oracle/HP TAC contractor Operating system and network stack internals expert consulting with Oracle's Rdb Engineering team on the port of the Rdb database product to the Itanium platform/IA64 architecture. In addition to consulting with Oracle's Rdb engineers on Itanium platform and IA64 architecture issues and associated changes to the OpenVMS operating system that impact the port of Rdb to this platform/architecture, I was directly involved with the coding and debugging of the platform specific Rdb components on the Itanium/IA64 platform. Acted as a liaison between HP's OpenVMS Engineering organization and Oracle's Rdb Engineering team in resolving issues impacting Rdb under OpenVMS on the Itanium platform. Provided the Oracle Rdb Engineering team with my expertise on the IA64 architecture and Calling Standard, and exception/condition handing under OpenVMS on the Itanium platform. Analyzed process and system crash dumps and provided a detailed analysis of the cause of such crashes. Assisted in analyzing Rdb test system failures on the Itanium for the Oracle Rdb engineers. Gained experience with pthread exception handling, SQL, and Rdb operational procedures.2002-2003 OpenVMS Engineering - Software Engineering Consultant Designed and implemented Condition/Exception handling for the OpenVMS operating system running on the Itanium/IA64 architecture. Worked as a team member of one of the best operating system development groups in the industry to port the OpenVMS operating system to the IA64 architecture. Joined the team early on and was involved in design decisions, implementation, initial debug, and first boot activities.

Project Leader and Windows NT/2000 platform consultant for the ClusterCATS Web clustering server components. I joined Bright Tiger Technologies early on in the startup phase of the company to work on the IP fail-over component of the product. Allaire Corporation acquired Bright Tiger Technologies after having already bundled a subset of the ClusterCATS components with the Enterprise version of Allaire's Cold Fusion server. The ClusterCATS components are now also available with the Enterprise version of Allaire's JRun product. I represented Bright Tiger's development/engineering group during visits to several customer sites for product demonstrations, installations, and troubleshooting complex problems. Prior to Allaire's acquisition of Bright Tiger, I was one of the points of contact between the engineering groups at Allaire and Bright Tiger for the ClusterCATS components bundled with Allaire's Cold Fusion product. Some of the technologies/products used in developing and supporting the ClusterCATS product. o Windows NT/2000/XP, Linux, and Solaris o ISAPI, NSAPI, and Apache Web server filters/modules o TCP/IP, ARP, HTTP, LAN packet capture/analysis tools o C, C++, Intel instruction set (debugging), Java o Visual Studio, SourceSafe o COM o InstallShield o Profiling and performance monitoring tools

Houston, Texas, Us

Individual contributor responsible for the design and development IP address resource failover subsystem of the Digital Clusters for Windows NT product. This subsystem allows Web servers (Microsoft IIS and Netscape) and Lotus Notes servers to migrate to the surviving server of the cluster should one server fail. Made several major enhancements to the event logging subsystem of the Digital Clusters for Windows NT product. These enhancements greatly improved the usability and stability of the event logging subsystem. Contributed to maintaining and enhancing the naming, client, and networking subsystems of the Digital clusters for Windows NT product.

Houston, Texas, Us

Software Principal Engineer/Software Senior Engineer.Project leader for the Session Control layer of the DECnet/OSI product. Led two other engineers in maintainingand enhancing the Session Control layer and the associated$QIO and $IPC interfaces. Provided consultation on OpenVMSinternals to team members working on all components of theproduct. I was often called upon for consultation on troubleshooting difficult to solve problems in all areas of the product. Reviewed the first volume of the OpenVMS Alpha V7.0 Internals and Data Structures book for the authors of the book. Received an acknowledgment in the book for being a reviewer. Project leader and architect of the DECnet/OSI for OpenVMS64-bit project. Designed, implemented, and tested 64-bit virtual address support. Led two other engineers as theyassisted in some of the coding and testing effort. Project/technical leader for DECnet Phase IV on the OpenVMS Alpha platform. Co-authored a paper about porting DECnetto the OpenVMS Alpha platform. This paper was published in Volume 4 Number 4 of the Digital Technical Journal.Provided technical consultation to the engineers startingto port DECnet/OSI (Phase V) to the OpenVMS Alpha platform.Individual contributor to the effort to port DECnet Phase IV from the OpenVMS VAX to the OpenVMS Alphaplatform. Most of the team was unfamiliar with OpenVMSoperating systems internals so I provided technicalleadership to the project leader and other team members.The team received an Alpha Achievement Award, from theAlpha Program Office, for early completion of projectcommitments. This achievement was recognized in the Q2/Q3FY93 issue of FOREFRONT. Designed and implemented C2 security support for DECnetfor OpenVMS (Phase IV). This work was included in theOpenVMS cluster configuration evaluated by the NCSC (National Computer Security Center). I made a presentation on DECnet security features to the NCSC.

Houston, Texas, Us

Master Of Science (M.S.), Systems Engineering

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Computer Science