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resume-nolan@sigbus.net
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Summary of Qualifications:
 * Languages: C++, C, Java, Python, Smalltalk, Bourne Shell, Delphi,
   x86 Assembly, PPC Assembly
 * Operating Systems: Linux, RTLinux, FreeBSD, Solaris, Windows NT
 * Other: POSIX, OpenGL, apache, NSAPI, gtk+, xlib, win32, SQL,
   kernel internals, RDBMS architecture/internals, virtualization.
 * Enthusiastic about and loves designing and writing Good Software.

Work Experience:
  2006 - ...    Nuova Systems         Santa Clara, CA
  Office of the CTO

  2005 - 2006   3Leaf Networks        Santa Clara, CA
  Technical Director of Software Engineering
 * Designed and led the implemention of the key software component of the
   3Leaf Server System.
 * Provided technical and architectural guidance to software groups.

  2002 - 2005   VMWare                Palo Alto, CA
  Senior Member of Technical Staff
 * Implemented and provided architectural direction for graphics hardware
   virtualization.
 * Remote networked framebuffer.
 * XFree86 4.x driver for virtual video hardware.
 * Virtual 3D acceleration.
 * Invented and implemented a patent pending technique to improve guest
   security by changing virtual CPU semantics.
 * Invented and implemented a technique to securely identify guest processes
   without requiring any knowledge of the guest kernel.

  2000 - 2002   Radik Software        Burlingame, CA
  C++, C and Java Programmer
 * Wrote hybrid event based/threaded C++ networking library.  Avoided
   scalability limits of poll (2) by transparently utilizing /dev/poll
   or Linux RT signals based event notifications when available.
 * Designed high performance wire protocol for SQL level access to our
   internally developed distributed RDBMS.
 * Wrote a transactional XML database, backed by a non-transactional
   relational storage layer.  Wrote an HTTP server engine for remote
   XQL queries.
 * Wrote Java code for the introspection, deployment, and re-deployment
   of software to a heterogeneous cluster of servers over SSH.
 * Performance and memory optimized a Java-based Object-Relational
   mapping system.

  1998 - 1999      Section 8          Atlanta, GA
  C++, Realtime, DSP, hardware design
 * Designed and built high-precision sensor to measure angular velocity.
 * Wrote Linux and RTLinux device drivers for custom hardware.
 * Wrote realtime DSP routines for audio processing.
 * Modified the Linux kernel to reduce average and worst case scheduling
   latency.

  1996 - 1997      Penumbra Software  Atlanta, GA
  Java Programmer
 * Contributed to the development of SuperMojo, a Java Integrated
 * Development Environment written in 100% Pure Java.
 * Developed a set of GUI application foundation classes.
 * Developed a tool to automatically make CORBA objects from Java beans.

Education:
  1998 - 2000      Georgia Institute of Technology
 * Studied Computer Science
 * Faculty honors
 
Interests / Hobbies:  digital circuits, open source software, computer graphics

Personal Software Projects:
  Realtime 3D game in Java.  Uses a partial transformation pipeline and
  hardcoded hidden surface removal for performance:
 * http://www.sigbus.net/breakout  (playable applet)

  Realtime OpenGL heightfield renderer.  Uses Quadtree based view
  frustum culling and geomipmapping based LOD for high performance on
  modern DMA based hardware:
 * http://www.sigbus.net/glance.png  (screenshot)

                    References available upon request.