Software Engineering Leader with over 20+ years of international software development, experiencing all aspect of software development in that journeyI possess a proven track record in setting up, motivating, and leading large, distributed engineering teams. My extensive experience includes successfully restructuring and reinvigorating teams, understanding and implementing improved processes and inter-team communication, and managing change within technical organizations.I am passionate about understanding organizations, identifying misalignments in mission, process, or motivation, and facilitating their realignment.

Restructuring organisations to achieve agile product developmentTeam building, silo reduction, opportunity identificationChair of EDGE and Windows segemnt focus groups

Director for the Core Development teams in Linaro (Kernel, Power Management, Security and Virtualization).

Manage recruiting, hiring, scheduling and coaching of Engineers, addressing discipline and appraising performance as appropriate of a geographically diverse team.Ensure complex technical objectives are met, using tools such as Jira and various other metrics.Planning to meet the the program needs including infrastructure purchase.Forward planning and outreach to related open source projects and coordination with stake holders to support brand development.

Technical management and project leadership for teams working on the OpenDataPlane initiative, Linux real-time, virtualization and Linux kernel isolation features. Delivering deadline driven validated software for the Enterprise and Wireless Networking sectors.

Project Management for the wider LNG group of thirteen member companies. Initially tasked with bootstrapping LNG, and then managing the ongoing technical direction and delivery on requirements.Technical lead for the Foundational and continuous integration of the real-time and kernel optimizations supporting data plane acceleration for ARM SoCs

Managed platform support software from initial System on a chip (SOC) SW design, to delivery, ensuring consistent boot performance and adherence with industry standards.Work closely with verification teams to develop the validation platform hardware , ensuring it supports the SW development needs and deliver tools that will integrate seamlessly with it. Provide direct on-site support overseeing the integration of the LSI devices with the primary customers initial bring up and the integration with other vendors. Architecture for cross platform and OS independent booting tool that allows LSI devices to boot without NOR Flash when a host is available; independently booting up to eight cores can take less than 1.5 seconds in the loader application with hardware acceleration. Architecture for cross platform and OS independent library that allows LSI devices to have their extensive control API, be driven via the host bus using a very fast lightweight protocol. Architecture for very high performance logging mechanisms in DDR3 that can be recovered via the host bus even while the part is in reset after a catastrophic failure; less severe failures may interrogate the logs for debugging in real time with recovery over Ethernet. Company wide recognition for delivering the Architecture for the latest 8 core ARM Network Framer and mapper MCM, including Supporting a Major international customer on site during their integration with other vendors.

Managed LCP UBoot, Linux and system framework technical development, guiding the design and coding within the laid out architecture. Software System Architect for the LCP dual core ARM Multi-protocol Network processing Engine. Worked with the Alpha customer to specify their system needs and then oversee their initial integration. Linux Kernel driver development for GPIO,SPI, I2C, and host bus, Interrupt controller for the ARM distributed interrupt controller. Introduced automated system builds from source code control, for released, stable and nightly development paths. Introduced automated Lint static analysis and reporting from source code control. Introduced Automated software quality tracking with McCabe metrics. Introduced automated standard source code formatting to ease cross team migration for developers. Co-author of the LSI software process document. Co-author of the hardware design guide lines for microprocessor interfaces to LSI's chip designs. Presented SW quality metrics to major LSI customers.

Architecture for Agere device driver object oriented abstraction layers, allowing one porting layer to support many devices on any hardware or operating system combination. Author of abstraction drivers for the Linux Kernel and the vxWorks real time operating system. Mechanism that allows remote execution of the software via a multi-threaded, client server socket protocol for register access to aid silicon debug. Developed C abstraction to accommodate changes in register layouts between silicon versions seamlessly to the compiler. Introduced strict use of all available compiler warnings. Introduced Doxygen to unify and automate the documentation of delivered code. Introduced the use of GNU __attributes__ to ensure compliance with function interfaces. Introduced the widespread use of asserts to ensure state at the entry and exit of functions during development. (contract programming)Member of company wide pannel to improve standards.

Lead architecture for new VLSI devices for a team 6 developers. Defined the System SW specification, moving the team from a library of C functions approach to a cohesive and flexible system of object libraries. Generated tools (now patented) to extract data from the RTL that allowed the generation of SW tools. Co authored and event handler that used an object oriented approach that allowed significant manipulation of acyclic graphs so that they were of use to a software model. Introduced the concept of initializing and destructing objects (in C) to support reliable drivers across platforms.

Developed a Object Oriented (C++) abstracted protocol independent messaging subsystem for the Lucent wide band cellular radio project. Combined Arcnet, serial, Ethernet protocols into one framework.

Developer for the Lucent Microcell Series II TDMA products. Work primarily with the front-end analog to digital signal conversion to the digital domain via Lucent DSP1627 and DSP1620 devices.Author a micro kernel to handle the scheduling of hard real time DSP tasks for the radio.Developed novel power-saving algorithms to allow cell phones to power down when speech was not present.

Developed torpedo tracking and classification algorithms for the Surface ship torpedo detection project for the US and UK Navies. Developed Object-oriented (C++) libraries to perform processing math including Fast Fourier Transforms (FFT), Lloyds mirror analysis, Statistical probability of threat. Developed inter-process communications for the 8 core Solaris-based processing cards with a transparent RPC communication abstraction for card to card communication..

Designed 3 node Transputer processing array for military sonar data processing.Designed digital image processing card to re-size images on the fly (state of the art in 1995) for use in submarine periscopes. Implemented with Xilinx FPGA and dedicated silicon for core algorithms.