SUMMARY:

• Extensive Enterprise Platform Development experience at Servergy Systems (Linux PowerPC), Eucalyptus System Inc.(OpenStack compatible Cloud IaaS provider), Idera Corporation (Linux Storage Backups), Tandem/Compaq/ Confidential along with experience at IBM Corporation in the AIX kernel development group.
• Outstanding problem solving techniques with experience on a variety of system architectures and administrator duties with regards to UNIX, Linux+Windows with Storage, SAN, networking, Cluster/High Availability Computing/Cloud infrastructures.
• Experienced in SDLC software Storage device drivers for OS platform enablement in Windows, Linux, UNIX.
• Extensive experience as an Enterprise Software Developer and Platform Engineer supporting mission critical businesses.
• Frequently active in direct customer facing roles for product bring - up, issue resolution, and technical consultation for large Fortune 500 companies.
• SDLC Experience in software development creating/maintaining deployment tools for Intel/AMD servers at Compaq/HP Server Division.
• SDLC Experience writing C, C++, device drivers, utilities, and bash scripts in development roles creating Enterprise Software Product releases.
• SDLC experience in UNIX, AIX, Red Hat/SuSE Enterprise Linux versions incorporating vendor branded software components and value added solutions:
• Linux Cloud platform developer on Eucalyptus cloud product
• OS (Kernel) Platform Developer: Fault Tolerant, High Availability, UNIX/Linux systems
• OS (Kernel) Platform Development for IBM (AIX/Unix) Deep Blue Cluster expansion.
• OS (Kernel) Software Developer on UNIX Clustering UnixWare 7.x (Compaq Nonstop Cluster)
• Software Product Developer: Linux IP Failover product in a Cluster environment (Apache/NFS).
• Proficient in driver development of multi-threaded software on Linux/Unix
• Experience in debugging system level software and hardware issues.
• Ability to analyze performance issues at a system-level and component-level focus.
• Proficient in IEEE 802. X protocol and analysis using network trace tools
• Primary software developer for HP Blade iSCSI SAN (Windows and Linux) deployment and System Imaging based on Altiris using Kickstart.
• Vendor/OEM Network Software technologist for VMWare/Linux KVM features.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• C C++ Perl
• bash shell scripting
• J Tag debugger
• Barebones install
• kickstart
• system profiling
• x86/RISC/Power PC Assembly languages
• data scopes
• embedded firmware
• BIOS
• logic analyzers
• IEEE 802 protocol analysis
• 1st Class FCC Radio Communication License
• Radar Endorsement
• experienced hardware engineering technician.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Dallas, TX

Linux Platform Developer

Responsibilities:

• Linux Platform Developer on Servergy's PowerPC OpenCompute Server ; Created new U-Boot features for menu driven disk boot setup, USB keyboard support, BCM 5718 + IPMI, bug fixing, and iSCSI boot from SAN; Ubuntu Kernel defect analysis for Free Scale P4080-e500mc SoC (Primary C, bash );
• Linux+Windows Developer: Primary responsibilities were software sustaining and new feature development for IBM’s ISS Proventia Security Products (X-Force security) for Red Hat (CentOS), SuSE, and Windows. Back ported Linux Netfilter 3.10 performance driver fixes to 2.6.32 kernels(Primary C), Unit tested Proventia support for CentOS 6.4.
• Linux Software Engineer: Primary responsibilities were software sustaining (Primary C, C# Windows Studio, and Java) in Customer Product Engineering. Triaged customer issues and provided source code point fixes. Participated in QA and release cycles. Eucalyptus product is an AWS-compatible Cloud product similar to Openstack and utilizes KVM/libvirt functionality for VM management.
• Linux Software Developer: Responsible for CDP (R1 Soft Continuous Data Protection Backups) Linux block storage driver (primary C) and related software modules (C, C++, Java) . Added per-user directory restore feature based on LXC, Windows 2010 OutLook SQL snapshot.

Confidential, Houston, TX

Network and Storage Infrastructure

Responsibilities:

• Vendor/OEM Software Product Engineer - Defined software specifications and requirements for network components used in HP Blades including definitions of SMBUS, CLP, SMASH, SR-IOV (VMWare/KVM), CNA storage interfaces (10GbE, and 40GbE IEEE 802.x).
• Technical (HW & SW) liaison with OEM vendors for new form factor PCI-E network adapters for the next generation of HP Servers.
• Conduct and report on new trends in TCP/IP network adapter technology to be included in future programs such as FCoE RAID, CNA (Converged Network Adapters) and SR-IOV virtualization.
• Joined the SNI (Storage, Networking and Infrastructure) Network Performance Team researching High Performance Network adapters that feature SR-IOV, 10GbE, and 40GbE solutions, and forward looking multifunction network and interconnect technologies such as FCoE.
• (Senior Software Developer) Designed a proprietary API that enables PCI-e I/O adapters to gather and report environment health and statistics via a side band communication IPMI+I2C paths. The telemetry data is collected by off board service processors BMC for system analysis.
• Created several automated network IEEE 802.x performance suite that maintain accurate vendor summaries for VMWare ESX 4.0, Linux RH KVM, and Linux. Suite were provided to vendors for qualification of software deliverables .
• Developed a Linux performance tool “netsar” (C) that monitors TCP/IP IEEE 802.x network activity at a per-process level for system and support analysts.
• Contributed to Linux TCP/IP IEEE 802.x network and kernel debugging expertise to a HP Blade/switch project based upon a Neterion SR-IOV embedded architecture.
• Program Project/Engineering contact for all Windows Servers software issues w/ Broadcom series of 1GbE and 10GbE Multifunction adapter(s)/LOM(s) between HP and Broadcom Corp.
• Created Windows/Linux software install tool entities that include newest drivers, and worked product issues between various server teams and network OEM vendors.
• Authored an Network Vendor Requirements Document for 1GbE, 10GbE, and 40GbE components that defined preferred network proprieties for HP Servers to ensure commonalty was achieved.
• Created the HP iSCSI iBoot Product for the Broadcom series of Multifunction adapter(s) / LOM(s (2008) that provides a means to install and boot Windows 2003 and 2008 on the HP family of Blade servers.
• Contributed to an HP iSCSI Boot project with Microsoft Corporation that resulted in a MS iSCSI 2.05 MSI releases that incorporates support for iSCSI Boot and Crash dump to iSCSI RAID targets for Windows 2003/SP2( C and C++).
• Created an RDP (Remote Deployment Program, Altiris) adaptation that incorporates an iSCSI boot from SAN RAID for diskless Blade Servers(C, bash).
• Windows 2003 HP-iSCSI developer responsible for creating an iSCSI product based on Broadcom Netflex-II ASIC. This was an intermediate MiniPort driver that encapsulated SCSI requests to iSCSI messages that were offloaded to the adapter.
• Created an Open Source Linux iSCSI driver and added additional software features for HP’s Industry Standard Intel server’s iSCSI project. The HP/UNH iSCSI project is hosted at to support the first HP iSCSI array product.
• Created an automated software install tool kit for SuSE Linux that permitted newly deployed servers to be quickly configured and installed with SuSE Linux from HP’s RDP (Altiris) workstation.
• Created a Linux Cluster Failover offerings based on Steel Eye Computer Corporation product for a failover solution on HP BL200 and ML300 series servers.
• Ported SCO’s LPK (Linux Personality module) to incorporate those functionality into Compaq’s Non-Stop Cluster OS release permits Linux executables to run on SCO UNIX.
• Maintained Veritas VxFS file system and Veritas volume manager subsystem (device drivers and utilities) for Compaq NonStop Clustering Project.
• Technical lead on Compaq NonStop Clustering Project that incorporated SCO UNIX 7.x releases and Servernet High Speed inter- connects that provided single name space operating system running over multiple Compaq servers. A unique feature incorporated a custom implementation of Veritas VxFS file system and Veritas volume manager within a Cluster, multi-node implementation.
• Member of the AIX Development Group responsible for AIX bring up on new hardware.
• Implemented AIX OS platform changes to support the new M80 series of servers that enabled 64bit I/O addressing for all internal PCI configuration and adapters freeing up enormous memory space below 4Gb. These were the first Power PC 6000 platform running at 1 GHz.
• Extended AIX platform device support in the PCI-X space enabling the number of adapters in large enterprise servers to support 65,000 devices in 1024 I/O cabinets ( i.e.: Deep Blue Cluster support).

Confidential, Austin, TX

Software Developer

Responsibilities:

• Kernel technical lead responsible for productizing Locus Computing TNC product (Transparent Network Computing) Cluster Technologies to Tandem’s a MIP’s based Integrity SVR4.2 Servernet High Speed interconnect servers. This work was used as the basis for the Compaq Clustering Project that incorporated SCO UNIX 7.x releases and Servernet High Speed inter- connects in 2001 and 2002 that provided single name space operating system running over multiple Compaq servers.
• Responsible for designing, implementing, and leading variety of UNIX software projects for new features such as new platform changes, environmental/cabinet system (firmware) improvements, debugging tools, resolving technical issues, and customer requested enhancements.
• Frequency traveled to Telco customer sites of AT&T (IL), Bell Labs (NJ, IL), Ericson (Sweden), Nixdorf (Germany), and Motorola (IL), to be a on site engineering support for products issues (debug) resolutions.
• UNIX generalist in many parts of the kernel (platform specific subsystems, TCP/IP, IEEE 802.x, UDP, DNS, DHCP, VM, streams, IPC, process management, device driver changes for SCSI-2, dual SCSI, tape and disk devices, and asynchronous controllers), commands, scripts, Veritas VxFS, Veritas volume manager, libraries, porting activities, product builds and packaging. Gcc, compiler, assembler skills.
• Analyst in Tandem's System Support Group, a second level support organization handling customer reported product issues Tandem terminals, PCs, and a variety of UNIX systems. Provided fly and fix support when needed.