Dave Olson
           (650) 387-3618 (cell), PO Box 624, Palo Alto, CA 94302
             olson@unixfolk.com,  http://www.unixfolk.com/olson
                        Updated: April 2010
   
   Seeking a position in a small company or small division, in system
   software (architecture, design, and implementation), with a hardware
   focus.

   I have extensive experience in Unix/Linux kernel and system
   infrastructure design, implementation, and debug (including hardware
   bringup and chip architecture), in device drivers, schedulers,
   interrupt handlers, filesystems, exceptions, networking (TCP), system
   boot (BIOS, proprietary and linuxbios).  Experienced with SysV Unix,
   IRIX, NetBSD, Linux, QNX.  Programming in C, assembler, scripting
   (Python, shell, tcl), using RCS, SCCS, CVS, bitkeeper (bk), mercurial
   (hg), and git for source code control.  Low level familiarity with
   x86_64 (AMD and Intel), IA64, MIPS, and PPC.

   Mar 2003 - Present:  QLogic, Corp (formerly PathScale and Key Research)
       Consultant Engineer (director equivalent on technical track).
       Lead architect for InfiniBand chips (4 generations), driver
       and library software, chip and board bringup, release planning
       and content, etc.  Technical lead, as well as original author
       of driver (and still part of driver team).  Provide engineering
       support to sales and support organization.  Applied for 6 patents,
       four granted to date.

   Mar 2001 - Jan 2003:  Tahoe Networks, San Jose, CA - Technical Lead
       Tahoe Networks delivered a GGSN/PDSN (cell phone data
       and management) platform, with a fault tolerant design
       using QNX, a commercial UNIX-like micro-kernel RTOS.

       Largely responsible for overall system architecture, focused on
       reliability, serviceability, and performance.  Worked with the
       hardware design team.   Helped select, ported, and debugged the
       QNX OS.

   Nov 1999 - Feb 2001:  Geocast systems, Menlo Park, CA. - Senior Engineer
       Geocast delivered a MIPS-based consumer appliance for digital data
       broadcast, running NetBSD.  Worked on architecture, bringup,
       performance, drivers (Digital TV, USB, satellite), and partner
       deals.

   1988 - 1999:  Silicon Graphics, Mt. View, CA - Principal Engineer
       Design and implementation in many kernel subsystems, mostly focused
       on design and implementation of I/O subsystems (including the core
       crossbar used in the desktop and SMP systems).   One of 3 principal
       engineers with Intel red-book access for the IA64 architecture
       and Merced implementation for use in SGI SMP servers.  Led the
       team that converted the IRIX kernel to use fully preemptible
       threads to support real-time multimedia (audio/video).

       Took the lead on a redesign and implementation of the
       company-wide software development and release process, involving
       GMs on down to engineers.  It continued to be used with small
       modifications for over 8 years, with greatly improved quality
       and schedule predictability.