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Path: sparky!uunet!ogicse!mimbres.cs.unm.edu!lynx.unm.edu!jemez.eece.unm.edu!cyrus From: cyrus@jemez.eece.unm.edu (W. Tait Cyrus) Newsgroups: misc.jobs.resumes Subject: MSEE+5yrs/UNIX/C/Perl/networking/parallel processing/hardware/others Message-ID: <1k4cidINNnki@lynx.unm.edu> Date: 26 Jan 93 22:05:01 GMT Article-I.D.: lynx.1k4cidINNnki Distribution: world Organization: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM Lines: 275 NNTP-Posting-Host: jemez.eece.unm.edu W. Tait Cyrus 4710 Nightingale Dr. # M202 Colorado Springs, CO 80918 January 26, 1993 To whom it may concern: Your company could benefit from someone with my talents and experience. I am looking for a challenging job as a senior software developer where I can utilize my skills in networking, cluster tools, parallelization, test, and hardware to make a significant contribution. My background covers many areas including hardware design, power up monitor design, low level device driver design, network monitor design, test and test tool design as well as software for clustered hosts. I have been successful at everything I have done because I am a very hard worker and I strive to do my best as well as what is best for the company. I believe in excellence and have always dedicated my talents and creative abilities to assure the successful accomplishment of company goals. My resume, detailing my background, is enclosed for your review. I would welcome the opportunity to meet and discuss my experience with you. Correspondence may be directed to me at the letterhead address. However, please feel free to contact me by telephone at (719) 260-7227. Sincerely W. Tait Cyrus W. Tait Cyrus 4710 Nightingale Dr. NE Apt. M202 Colorado Springs, Colorado 80918 H: 719-260-7227 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Objective: A challenging position as a senior software developer where I can utilize my skills in networking, cluster tools, parallelization, test, and hardware to make a significant contribution. Education: 1988 - M.S. Degree in Electrical Engineering The University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico 1984 - B.S. Degree in Computer Engineering The University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico Languages: C, perl, FORTRAN, csh, sh, awk, BASIC, ADA, Pascal, and others Computer Systems: UNIX, ConvexRTS, DOS and HPs RTE6. Familiar hardware: Convex, HP 9000/730s, HP 1000s, Sun, Dec, Encore, Sequent, IBM PC, and various microprocessors including the 68030, 32016, 32032, 8086, and Z80 families. Experience: 1990 - Present- Software Engineer Convex Computer Corporation Colorado Springs Development Center 1992 - Present - Project: Meta-Series Responsible for designing cluster system administration tools for Convex Meta Series (Convex & HP 9000/700s). These tools include: cluster database admin, cluster copy, cluster shell, cluster ps, cluster kill, cluster connect, cluster uptime, and cluster time synchronization. Also compiled and ported perl, tcsh, RCS, less, and NTP_V3 from the public domain to HP-UX. Also managed the source control tree and release tree. The Convex Meta Series consists of a Convex server and a number of HP 9000/700s. Software allows users to submit batch jobs to the HPs for throughput or parallel jobs for faster turnaround. The cluster tools perform operations such as copy, ps, kill, sh on logical sub-sets of HPs. 1990 - 1992 - Project: Real Time Products Responsible for writing tests for ConvexRTS/rtk, the Convex real-time object oriented micro kernel, including disk, network, and serial device tests and many performance tests. Helped design the automated test environment for rtk as well as develop system administration tools for rtk. Worked closely with Dallas-based engineers to modify pre-existing tests and test tools to work in a dual environment (ConvexRTS and ConvexOS). 1985 - 1990 - Research Engineer The University of New Mexico Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Worked on a contract with Los Alamos National Laboratory MEE-10 Division on the hardware/software design/building/testing of a Hypercube Multiprocessor as well as an 8086/32016 data compression computer. Worked with high-speed networking of computers for distributed processing, distributed discrete event simulations, advanced networking, and distributed graphics. Also managed contracts and budgets and was system administrator of an Encore and 4 Sun3s. Held a DOE Q security clearance through August 1990. As part of this project I wrote several network tools to help debug the network portion of the above hardware. One of these tools provided long term statistics (from minutes to days) of network activity, helping characterize network use. Worked on the UNM International Project 68030 system. This system was designed to be used in various ECE courses at UNM as well as internationally. This project provided students with physical access to the hardware as well as opportunities to write their own software. I helped design, build, and debug the hardware and most of the software for the IP68030 system. 1982 - 1985 - Programmer/Analyst The University of New Mexico New Mexico Engineering Research Institute (NMERI) Under contract to the Wind Energy Division at Sandia National Laboratory, where I worked on real time vertical axis wind turbine data acquisition software packages for the HP1000 computer. This included updating pre-existing FORTRAN 4 codes to FORTRAN 77 and developing new FORTRAN 77 codes. Obtained a DOE Q security clearance in January 1983. Professional Societies: Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and the associated Computer Society. Member of the Electrical Engineering Honor Society Eta Kappa Nu (HKN) Member of the National Ski Patrol System (NSPS) (Senior status) ADDITIONAL INFORMATION AND REFERENCES ON REQUEST UNIX experience - operating systems Used UNIX based systems since 1984 and managed UNIX based systems for four of those years. These systems include: DEC PDP 11/44 (BSD 2.9), DEC uvaxII (BSD 4.3 & Ultrix 2.x, 3.X and 4.X), Sun 3s (SunOS 3.0 -> 4.0), ConvexOS 8.0 -> 10.0, ConvexRTS/UXE, HP-UX 8.07, HP RTE-6 and Encore UMax 4.2 and MACH 0.5. In June of 1987, I attended a "Berkeley UNIX Internals" class taught at Purdue University by Dr. Thomas W. Doeppner. This class covered what UNIX is, how it does the things it does, and why it does them. UNIX experience - device drivers The information gained from this class helped greatly with the UNM/LANL HyperCube project. This project involved building a computer from the ground up. This computer used National's 32000 chip set to act as the nodes in the hypercube. Each node contained two CPUs. An NS32032 was used as the compute engine and an NS32016 was used as the I/O engine with an Ethernet, disk, RS232, and links interface. In addition to designing, building, and testing the design, I also helped write the first part of the device drivers for the UNIX-based operating system that was to run on each node. These device drivers included an Ethernet device driver as well as an SMD disk device driver. Also worked on UNM & LANL computer designs based on the Intel 8086 and the Motorola 68030. Helped design, build, test, and write software for these other systems, which provided me with additional understanding of how to interface to the various processors and the various I/O devices on the boards. UNIX experience - Internet protocols (IP/TCP) In writing the Ethernet drivers, I had to become familiar with the Internet protocols (ARP, RARP, IP, TCP, UDP, ICMP, SNMP). To aid in the testing of the Ethernet drivers, I had to write some network tools that look at every packet on an Ethernet and pass them to a statistical analyzer of my own design. To build these tools, I learned IP/TCP/UDP/ICMP/RPC/NFS. The University of New Mexico used some of these tools to help debug some of their network and found machines that were either incorrectly configured or were incorrectly interpreting IP/TCP packets. As a result of the output from these tools, several vendor's implementations of networking code was found to be faulty. Co-taught a graduate level networking class in the fall of 1988 in which all levels of networking were covered. UNIX experience - Image processing I have experimented with various public domain image processing packages including the package currently under development at the University of New Mexico called Khoros. I also ported Khoros to the Convex. I have digitized many of my own pictures and have knowledge in manipulating them. Hardware experience Over the period of 1987 to 1990, I was involved in projects in which three different computers were designed and built. These included the UNM Hypercube, the UNM/LANL Data Compression board, and the UNM International Project system. The UNM Hypercube consisted of two processors, the National 32032 for performing computational jobs and the National 32016 for performing I/O jobs. Helped design and test this computer as well as write a large portion of the software to control the hardware, including the device driver for the AMD7990 LANCE Ethernet. The UNM/LANL Data Compression board consisted of a board that could run with one of two possible processors in place and was to test data compression code to be run on a data gathering satellite. This board could run with either the Intel 8086 or the National 32016 processor depending on which PROM set was installed and which processor was in place (only one processor could be in the system at a time). I helped design and test this computer and wrote a large portion of the software to control the hardware, including the device driver for the AMD7990 LANCE Ethernet. Also wrote the necessary libraries to allow a user to write C code to be run on the system. The UNM International Project system consisted of a Motorola 68030 processor and was designed to be used in the classroom not only at the University, but also internationally in South American countries. Helped design and test this computer and wrote all the software to control the hardware, including the device driver for the AMD7990 LANCE Ethernet. Also wrote the necessary libraries to allow a user to write C code to be run on the system. All of the above projects helped me understand the inner workings of each of the processors and develop various approaches in designing a computer. From these projects I learned various methodologies of testing the design using currently available logic analyzers and oscilloscopes. I also learned to write software within the constraints enforced by the hardware. All designs were made using the CAD package Cericor running on Sun workstations. -- W. Tait Cyrus e-mail: cyrus@pprg.eece..unm.edu University of New Mexico Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering Albuquerque, New Mexico 87131