Founder at Delites US
Greater New York City Area
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- Proprietor and sole employee at Open Source Software Consultant, http://opensourcesoftwareconsultant.net
- Founder at Delites US
- Independent Computer Software Professional at ...
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- Member at Worldwide Open Source Community
- Program Director, Open-Source, Linux Technology Center (LTC) at IBM
- Open Source Steering Committee (OSSC) System Manager at IBM
- Core Team, Open-Source Software at IBM
- Research Staff Member at IBM Research
- Co-author and project lead of the Jikes project at IBM
- Research Scientist, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University
- Research Scientist at Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
- Education
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- New York University
- California Institute of Technology
- Highland High School, Albuquerque, New Mexico
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dave shields’s Summary
Expert in programming language design and implementation. Co-author of Jikes, IBM's first open-source project.
Six years experience with IBM implementing and refining the corporate process for managing IBM's engagements with open-source worldwide for all divisions.
Committed volunteer, using my expertise in open-source technologies to assist educators, librarians, and other non-profit groups in their vital mission.
dave shields’s Specialties:
Programming language design and implemtation.
Corporate management of open-source activities.
dave shields’s Experience
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Proprietor and sole employee
Open Source Software Consultant, http://opensourcesoftwareconsultant.net
(Computer Software industry)
March 2009 — Present (10 months)
I am expert in the corporate management of open-source activities.
I am expert in working with corporate philanthropic teams. I worked continuously with IBM's team from November 2005 until my departure from IBM in February 2009.
I recruited a team of four Linux experts who contributed to the Sahana project, on IBM's behalf, but doing the work on their own time and their own dime.
I also helped the team to integrate the appropriate open-source practices into their business mode, and gave a worldwide briefing to the entire team on how best to do so. -
Founder
Delites US
(Computer Software industry)
March 2009 — Present (10 months)
I am the founder of Delites US. Our mission is to assist our educators and librarians in their vital mission, principally by supplying 1-1 computers in the classrom. Delites Us stands for DELiver Internet Tecnologies to Educators and Students in the United States.
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Independent Computer Software Professional
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(Computer Software industry)
February 2009 — Present (11 months)
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Member
Worldwide Open Source Community
(Computer Software industry)
April 1996 — March 2009 (13 years )
I have been a member of the open-source community since I began working with Philippe Charles on Jikes, IBM's first open-source project.
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Program Director, Open-Source, Linux Technology Center (LTC)
IBM
(Public Company; IBM; Information Technology and Services industry)
April 2006 — February 2009 (2 years 11 months)
I worked with a colleage to manage open-source activites for the LTC and the rest of IBM's System & Technology Group (STG).
I was a member of the LTC Tech Board, IBM's most senior group of LInux technical experts, with responibility for LTC strategy and budgeting, as well as for advice on IBM's Linux strategy and its execution worldwide, for all divisions. -
Open Source Steering Committee (OSSC) System Manager
IBM
(Public Company; IBM; Information Technology and Services industry)
February 2003 — February 2009 (6 years 1 month)
I was one of three developers/project-manages who worked with three IBM's attorneys to manage IBM's open-source review and approval process worldwide, for all divisions.
I was also a member of the Strategy team for Software Group (SWG). As part of that I helped prepare a study on the effects of commoditization on the commercial software industry.
I also made two trips to Russia to help build SWG's relationship with "LETI," a major university in St. Petersburg. (I speak Russian, not fluently, but enough to get by.) -
Core Team, Open-Source Software
IBM
(Public Company; IBM; Information Technology and Services industry)
April 1987 — February 2009 (21 years 11 months)
1987-2002:: Research Staff Member, IBM Research
2003-2009: Member of team managing IBM's open-source activitities worldwide -
Research Staff Member
IBM Research
(Computer Software industry)
April 1987 — February 2003 (15 years 11 months)
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Co-author and project lead of the Jikes project
IBM
(Public Company; IBM; Information Technology and Services industry)
March 1996 — December 1999 (3 years 10 months)
Philippe Charles and I are the co-authors of Jikes, a plug-compatible replacement for Sun's Javac source to bytecode compiler that is from 10-50 times faster than Javac.
I led the effort that resulted in IBM releasing Jikes as its first open-source project, and I led that work for a year. Jikes received a major award for that work. As one senior exec said, "Jikes was featured in virtually *every* presentation given by IBM on open-source and/or Linux for all of 1999.
Jikes was the first project from IBM to be included in a major Linux distribution (RedHat), and can now be found in almost all of them. -
Research Scientist, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
New York University
(Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)
March 1973 — April 1987 (14 years 2 months)
Research on programming language design and implementation: SETL; Macro Spitbol for CDC/6600; Macro Spitbol for IBM/PC; NYU Ada/Ed compiler
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Research Scientist
Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
(Computer Software industry)
1973 — 1987 (14 years )
dave shields’s Education
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New York University
Ph.D. , Computer Science , 1983
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California Institute of Technology
1962 — 1966
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Highland High School, Albuquerque, New Mexico
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dave shields’s Groups:
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SPITBOL
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SETL Programming Language
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Highland High School, Albuquerque, New Mexico
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The Jacob T. "Jack" Schwartz Network
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Assembly Language Programmers -
Free Agents Core Team
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Russian Outsourcing
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