Mike Zuhl's Resume

Mike Zuhl

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING SERVICES Sophisticated System Software, Inc.
14172 Kimberly Circle
Lake Oswego, Oregon 97035-2361

Phone: (503) 968-6998

Fax: (503) 968-7433

E-mail: biz@zuhl.com

Design and execute high-leverage solutions to technically challenging problems. Typically the work is performed on SOPHISTICATED SYSTEM SOFTWARE's premises using its equipment, which includes PCs running Windows, UNIX, and Linux, Macintoshes running OS X, and other computers on a TCP/IP ethernet. Work requiring special equipment or interconnect may be done on customer's site.

Expertise

32-bit and 64-bit Linux internals
UNIX internals
Realtime system design
Hardware/software systems
Clustered hardware and software
TCP/IP design and implementation
NFS implementation

Mac OS X internals and driver development
Mac OS X applications development
Win32, VxWorks implementation
MS Windows applications development
PC 32-bit and 64-bit architecture
MIPS and PowerPC processors
Technical management

Experience

1990-PRESENT Sophisticated System Software, Inc.

Designed and implemented high-throughput communications protocol between host and Massively Parallel Processor Array (MPPA) chips.

Designed and implemented at-a-glance and drill-down monitoring system for installations of 100s of clusters

Converted clustered filesystem product consisting of half million lines of code in several device drivers, daemons, and utilities from 32-bit Linux to 64-bit Linux.

Designed and implemented cluster-aware Oracle® Disk Manager library for Linux clustered filesystem product.

Designed and implemented direct-I/O facility tuned to database access for Linux clustered filesystem product.

Led team to convert UNIX system product to UNIX98 shell, including design and implementation of shell and automatic conversion tools.

Part of team to extend advanced UNIX SAN.

Designed and implemented realtime environment for a three-processor 622Mbs ATM analyzer.

Led team to extend MS Windows video conferencing package to high resolution over ATM.

Designed and implemented client/server system for enterprise-wide distribution and update of software.

Designed and implemented realtime and network systems for a MIPS-based X-Window terminal. Included complete TCP, UDP, and IP support, plus NFS client support.

Designed and implemented TELNET, DECnet support, CTERM, and LAT for X-Window system under MS Windows.
1987-1990 RadiSys Corporation. Beaverton, Oregon: Co-Founder and Director of Software Engineering. Responsible for all software development from concept to customer delivery and support.
1986-1987 Intel Corporation. Hillsboro, Oregon: Program Manager, Oregon Microcomputer Engineering. Responsible for Intel 960 software development tools.
1977-1986 Tektronix, Inc. Beaverton, Oregon: Engineering Manager, Engineering Computing Systems Division. Responsible for hardware and UNIX OS on new line of workstations.

Patents

Patents applied for concerning remote computer operation and maintenance, and for computer room management.

Education

BSCS, Purdue University, 1977.

Numerous technical and management classes and seminars.