Charles Richmond

Current

• Team Lead IS / Head Cebu IT Security at Lexmark Research and Development
• President/Consultant at Implemented Integrated Systems

Past

• Consultant at NASA - Glenn Research Center
• Consultant at Intuit
• Manager of Kernel Development at Sitara Networks

• Consultant at Sun Microsystems
• Bug reporter/Standards Droid at X Consortium
• Speaker and Sponsor at Unicode Conference
• Consultant S/W Engineer at LTX
• Engineer on O/S at OSF
• Consultant at Digital Equipment Corporation
• Consultant S/W Engineer at Thinking Machines
• Consultant at Lotus Development Corporation
• Consultant S/W Engineer at Eikonix
• Manager Diagnostic Engineering at Via Systems
• S/W Engineer (diagnostics) at Lexidata
• Microcode Engineering Training at IPL Systems

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Connections

149 connections

Industry

Computer Software

Websites

• My Website

Charles Richmond’s Summary

Network S/W and QoS: Sitara Networks, Sun, Digital, Lattice Inc., Fax Int., Bell Atlantic Software (TCI), CNR, Data General.

O/S, Kernel & Device Internals: NASA, Sitara, EMC, Compaq/Digital, Sun, Thinking Machines, LTX, Advanced Modular, Eikonix, Foxboro Data General.

H/W Design: Digital, Alliant, Slater Electric, Total Systems

Robotic Vision & Imaging: Eikonix, Textron Lycoming, Aerodyne Research, Air Force Geophysics Lab., Total Vision Integration.

I18N & L10N:IPC, Digital, Xpedite, Tokyo Denryoku Co. dbi Corp.

Corporate: SecGen CFFI; VP Eng. Infodata Inc.; Kernel Eng. Mgr. Sitara Networks; Diagnostics Eng. Mgr. Hastech & Via Systems; Pres. T.V.I. Inc., I.I.S. Corp. and ImpSys; Team Lead Lexmark Research and Devel.

Applications: NASA, Sun, Digital, Wollaston, Panhandle Eastern, TJX

System Admin: TVI, Digital, Sun, IISC/ImpSys, Wollaston Alloys, Advanced Modular; Lexmark

Charles Richmond’s Specialties:

Development of cutting edge H/W and S/W solutions working with the machine to S/W interface, I18N/L10N, imaging, and robotic vision. Developer, architect, technical lead, engineering manager, consultant, administrator, and always an advocate for engineering best practices and standards.

Charles Richmond’s Experience

• Team Lead IS / Head Cebu IT Security

  Lexmark Research and Development

  (Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; lxk; Computer Hardware industry)

  November 2006 — Present (2 years)

  Hired to head up Cebu IT Security, had additional role added after four months as IT Team Lead for 23 IT engineers and technicians. Responsible for implementing a 24/7 help desk, IVR, NOC ergonomics, merging East Asia into global monitoring and ticketing.

• President/Consultant

  Implemented Integrated Systems

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)

  April 2002 — Present (6 years 7 months)

  O/S Internals, I18N, Systems Development, Engineering Best Practices, and Integration

• Consultant

  NASA - Glenn Research Center

  (Government Agency; 10,001 or more employees; Defense & Space industry)

  September 2003 — November 2003 (3 months)

  Technical lead and resource for PCI driver development and SCSI pass-through driver development. Implemented Posix Threads API in Fortran and ported some F77 code to F90. Provided architectural input to this realtime data acquisition project. Provided guidance and technical assistance with development processes, software builds and makefiles creating executables mixing C, F77 & F90 code.

• Consultant

  Intuit

  (Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; Computer Software industry)

  June 2003 — July 2003 (2 months)

  Debugged and implemented SCSI driver for Overland tape backup unit on Solaris. The device had issues implementing SCSI commands for positioning and compression.

• Manager of Kernel Development

  Sitara Networks

  (Public Company; 201-500 employees; Computer Software industry)

  August 2000 — March 2002 (1 year 8 months)

  Responsible for all kernel and device development and the management of some world class kernel hackers. After starting as an independent consultant contributor was recruited into the role of hands-on manager for kernel development. Project lead for bread and butter product lines.

• Consultant

  Sun Microsystems

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Computer Software industry)

  April 1996 — July 2000 (4 years 4 months)

  * Crashdump analysis, kernel debug. Was responsible for finding bugs in the kernel or in the device handling that resulted in system hangs or in system crashes. Worked extensively with race conditions and other issues in the device/system interface.
  * Multilayer client/server product for online training. (JAVA, C)
  * Consult to Sun's kernel source customer for kernel threads coding.

• Bug reporter/Standards Droid

  X Consortium

  (Computer Software industry)

  1986 — 2000 (14 years)

• Speaker and Sponsor

  Unicode Conference

  (Computer Software industry)

  1998 — 1999 (1 year)

  "Internationalization of UNIX Commands and Utilities II"
  14th UNICODE Conference, 1999 Also a Conference Sponsor
  "Internationalization of UNIX Commands and Utilities I"
  13th UNICODE Conference, 1998

• Consultant S/W Engineer

  LTX

  (Public Company; Computer Software industry)

  1996 — 1997 (1 year)

• Engineer on O/S

  OSF

  (Computer Software industry)

  1995 — 1996 (1 year)

• Consultant

  Digital Equipment Corporation

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Computer Software industry)

  June 1988 — June 1993 (5 years 1 month)

  * TCL/Expect tools for Mailworks project.
  * Maintainer for shells and utilities. A major part of the
  I18N modifications in that space.
  * Optimizing kernel & H/W for benchmarks. Published results
  include AIM, Neal Nelson, SpecSDM, TPCB.
  * Technical rep. for 123 on DECstations at Lotus Development
  Ireland. Threads for the DEC/mips systems. Assisted ports
  of 123 Real-time & AMI Pro.
  * RPC client/srver for image library on both VMS & UNIX
  * Wrote Qbus to SCSI bus host adapter driver.
  * Porting a line discipline, IPC, and threads from VAX to
  RISC architecture.
  * And more...

• Consultant S/W Engineer

  Thinking Machines

  (Computer Software industry)

  1992 — 1993 (1 year)

• Consultant

  Lotus Development Corporation

  (Public Company; Computer Software industry)

  1991 — 1991 (less than a year)

• Consultant S/W Engineer

  Eikonix

  (Computer Software industry)

  1987 — 1988 (1 year)

• Manager Diagnostic Engineering

  Via Systems

  (Computer Software industry)

  1984 — 1984 (less than a year)

• S/W Engineer (diagnostics)

  Lexidata

  (Computer Software industry)

  1982 — 1984 (2 years)

• Microcode Engineering Training

  IPL Systems

  (Computer Software industry)

  1979 — 1980 (1 year)

Additional Information

Charles Richmond’s Websites:

• My Website

Charles Richmond’s Interests:

Photography O/S Design

Charles Richmond’s Groups:

ACM,
Asoc. Comp Sci Teachers,
Sun Devel,
MSDN,
Unicode,
TOG

•    Intuit Alumni Community
•    DEC Alumni
•    Boston Perl Mongers (Boston.pm)
•    Open Source
•    Denizens of Doom
•    Lotus Alumni
•    Mac Developer Jobs
•    Nagios Users

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