Harvard, Massachusetts, United States
I have designed and programmed operating systems for 50+ years, working on the Multics and Stratus VOS/OpenVOS operating systems. In that time I worked on several compilers, helped write and then maintained an APL interpreter, wrote an assembler, command processor, command macro processor, and a binder. I co-designed a transaction-based file system and co-designed and project managed the implementation of National Language Support (double-byte characters). I designed and implemented many system enhancements. I am the architect of POSIX support for Stratus VOS and personally wrote much of the runtime support. I ported many open-source and licensed packages to the Stratus OpenVOS environment, including OpenSSL, OpenSSH, MySQL, WebSphere MQ, GPG, Curl, Perl, NTP, Subversion, Git, and many, many more. I'm presently working with a team of engineers porting a new release of GCC to OpenVOS. I have been a first and second-level manager, an internal consultant, and achieved the highest technical grade at Stratus (Sr. Technical Consultant). I recently managed a team of Professional Service engineers. I continue to contribute to the software development effort. When I was working full-time, I frequently met with customers in both pre-sales and post-sales roles, including new product introduction, direct support and crisis resolution. I enjoy meeting and helping our worldwide base of customers. I volunteer as a fund-raiser for my university and I participate in various local activist organizations. Specialties: Compilers, Operating Systems, Customer/Engineering Liaison, Software Architecture, Software Development Process, Software Testing, Professional Services, Consulting Services.
I volunteer as a mentor/advisor to MIT sophomores in the UPOP program. We help the students gain practical skills so that they can be immediately productive when they enter the workforce.
Jack-of-all-trades, helping to get OpenVOS Release 18.0 wrapped-up and out the door.
Consultant to the Stratus Cloud initiative, which is striving to make the cloud environment safe for legacy high-availability applications.
Assumed responsibility for the Professional Services activities for our VOS / OpenVOS customers. Managed several professional services consultants, and was also personally involved in a number of consulting efforts. Continued to perform my previous duties as a Sr. Technical Consultant.
For 9 years, I have served as a mentor to sophomores taking a week-long, intensive class in various professional skills, such as team building, inquiry, advocacy, time management, presentation skills, and so on. I really enjoy working closely with the students; contact me if you are an MIT alum and are interested in helping out.
As a member of the initial team of engineers, I helped to create the VOS Operating System that provided the basis for the initial success of Stratus. My work focused on the software development tools (assembler, compilers, linker) and on the command environment. Later, I was a first and second level manager, and took on the challenge of resolving critical customer situations.