Andy — Senior Staff Software Engineer

Senior Staff Software Engineer, Intel Corporation; 1999-2018 Conceptualized, architected, designed, developed the following technologies and projects: - CPU/FPGA integration: Led performance, power and thermal management architecture and development for Intel first CPU/FPGA integrated system. See technology info at: itpeernetwork.intel.com/intel-processors-fpga-better-together. - HPC (High Performance Computing, a.k.a. Supercomputing): Developed numerous technologies for enhancing and optimizing performance and energy efficiency. Authored numerous patents. Paper: ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7016384. - HWPM (Hardware Power Management, a.k.a. Intel Speed Shift Technology): It allows optimized performance vs. power management w/o OS support (much slower and typically outdated). I have received several Intel recognitions and awards for this invention. See description of the technology at: software.intel.com/en-us/articles/intel-xeon-processor-scalable-family-technical-overview. - BMC/IPMI: New types of platform telemetry: Volumetric Airflow and Outlet Temperature sensors. These features are indispensable today for power/thermal/density management from rack to datacenter levels in Cloud and HPC industry. See: OpenStack Nova documentation and/or paper: ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/6526836. - NM (Node Manager): NM is present on all Intel servers now and is an indispensable feature of power, performance and thermal management, from individual system, through rack, to datacenter levels in Cloud and HPC business. See Intel video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bY5qR2GPAiU, and OpenStack article: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/User_talk:Fengqian - FSC (Fan Speed Control): I re-architected and re-wrote from scratch and single-handedly, the FSC for Linux for BMC (Baseboard Management Controller). Prior to Linux, BMC used antiquated ThreadX RTOS. See "fan" sections in standard IPMI specification. My code is the base for FSC in all Intel servers today. - UEFI: Team lead for Intel server BIOS development with early EFI. Contributed to EFI/UEFI/Tiano architecture in the following areas: HII (Human Interface Infrastructure), Setup, Data Hub, microcode update, CPU and PCI driver stacks and few others. My code and technical writings became part of UEFI codebase and documentation. - Itanium: Lead BIOS development team for the first-ever Itanium/Merced platform. It was a workstation, codenamed "Big Sur". The BIOS codenamed "Kitty Hawk" was a novel pre-UEFI BIOS re-write in C. - Lab: Firmware, kernel drivers, RTOS (Linux and VxWorks), applications for specialized equipment used in automation in validation labs. Various tools interacting RT with processors and servers, scripts, parsers and analyses of experimental runs' data. Parallel to my projects, I lead the lab for my team, supervising lab staff, developed automation, dispatchers for unattended benchmarking (e.g., LINPACK/SPECpower/web/jbb), hardware and software methodologies and instrumentation for telemetry, scripts and templates for data analytics, managed equipment and material budgeting and procurement decisions. The list above is non-exhaustive. Many other projects and contributions are omitted for conciseness. Member of Technical Staff (MTS), Lucent Technologies, Bell Labs, Optical Networking Group Architecture, design and development of reliability critical RT software/firmware for large Sonet/SDH crossconnect telecommunication switches on VxWorks RTOS running on Motorola embedded controllers, implementing high redundancy, subsystem health detection and failover mechanisms. See product info for DACS II & WaveStar DACS: http://www.onlineauthoring.com/WritingSamples/PDFs/4F_10G.pdf. Hardware & Software Engineer, Test and Measurement Systems Inc. (HP Channel Partner) Designed and developed PCI controllers for HP/Agilent Instrument Control stack. I have developed a product in its entirety including hardware, FPGAs' RTL, surrounded electronics, software, GUI, drivers and libs for VEE/SICL for UNIX/HP-UX & Windows. See the product (p/n: TAMS xx622): http://www.techsoft.de/documents/tams_62622.html. Software Engineer, System Strategies Inc. & Apertus Technologies Development of kernel drivers and applications in C/C++ for various UNIX flavors. Implemented branches of SNA (IBM legacy networking protocol) as UNIX STREAMS drivers. Developed support for various terminals and custom SNA client applications. R&D Engineer, Analyzer Research Labs, SASOL Group Design and development of analytical and process control systems for chemical industry. Design of analog and digital electronics and software for analytics/statistics, communications between sensory systems (e.g., IR/UV analyzers, gas detectors, chromatographs) and industrial mainframes. OTHER KEYWORDS, EXPERTISE, SKILLS OOD/OOP, C/C++, shells, Python, Perl; Embedded, RT, EGLIBC, Linux, VxWorks, Windows, firmware, drivers, BIOS; Git, ClearCase, SVN, VB, SQL, ODBC, ORM; parallelization, MPI, FEA, simulation, algorithms, PID, UML; Agile, Scrum, Kanban, JIRA, RTC. Knowledge of electro-mechanical systems, motors, steppers. drives, etc. Past solid experience with analog and digital electronics design, switching converters. Familiarity with RF technology. Software implementation of scientific computing and math and physics. Proficient with office tools, Excel, Power Point, Visio, Word, collaboration tools, etc. Authored over dozen patents in areas of software, hardware, control, power and performance