IT Security & Forensics, Kernel, Commands & Utilities Developer, Standards Advocate
Philippines
- Current
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- Cebu IT Security at Lexmark Research and Development
- President/Consultant at Implemented Integrated Systems
- Past
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- 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
- Consultant at IPC Systems, Inc.
- Speaker and Sponsor at Unicode Conference
- Consultant at Conley / EMC
- 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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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
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Cebu IT Security
Lexmark Research and Development
(Public Company; LXK; Computer Hardware industry)
November 2006 — Present (2 years 9 months)
Hired to head up Cebu IT Security for Lexmark Research and Development (LRDC), Temporary additional role added after four months as IT Team Lead for 23 IT engineers and technicians. Implemented a 24/7 help desk, IVR, NOC ergonomics, merged East Asia into global monitoring and ticketing, and wrote BCP/DR Planning/Documentation. IT Security has now been expanded to include Lexmark International Philippines Inc (LIPI).
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President/Consultant
Implemented Integrated Systems
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)
April 2002 — Present (7 years 4 months)
O/S Internals, I18N, Systems Development, Engineering Best Practices, and Integration
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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)
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Bug reporter/Standards Droid
X Consortium
(Computer Software industry)
1986 — 2000 (14 years)
On again off again contact from X10.4 to X11 on various vendor products from Microport UNIX to Digital Equipment Corp.
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Consultant
IPC Systems, Inc.
(Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Telecommunications industry)
2000 — 2000 (less than a year)
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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
Conley / EMC
(Computer Software industry)
1998 — 1999 (1 year)
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Consultant S/W Engineer
LTX
(Public Company; Computer Software industry)
1996 — 1997 (1 year)
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Engineer on O/S
OSF
(Non-Profit; Computer Software industry)
1995 — 1996 (1 year)
Was the last engineer maintaining the OSF O/S. Received bugs from various vendors and fixed everything from kernel internals, to IP stack problems, to shells.
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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.
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Consultant S/W Engineer
Thinking Machines
(Privately Held; Computer Hardware industry)
1992 — 1993 (1 year)
Added individual process realtime capability to the SunOS based kernel by adding in hacks to the slice and the scedulaer and the system calls needed. Other O/S maintenance as an aside.
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Consultant
Lotus Development Corporation
(Public Company; Computer Software industry)
1991 — 1991 (less than a year)
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Consultant S/W Engineer
Eikonix
(Computer Software industry)
1987 — 1988 (1 year)
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Manager Diagnostic Engineering
Via Systems
(Computer Software industry)
1984 — 1984 (less than a year)
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S/W Engineer (diagnostics)
Lexidata
(Computer Software industry)
1982 — 1984 (2 years)
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Microcode Engineering Training
IPL Systems
(Computer Software industry)
1979 — 1980 (1 year)
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Charles Richmond’s Interests:
Photography O/S Design
Charles Richmond’s Groups:
ACM,
Asoc. Comp Sci Teachers,
Sun Devel,
MSDN,
Unicode,
TOG
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Sitara Networks Alums.
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