Ed Chron

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• Senior Systems Engineer at IBM Almaden Research Center
• Systems Engineer at IBM

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Ed Chron’s Summary

Experience:
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Design and support System Services tools (device drivers, file system extensions, network services) for Storage Services. Both kernel and user level programming.

Most recent kernel and user level development for IBM's GPFS distributed high performance file system that runs on Linux, AIX and Windows.

Design and develop Storage Systems and Devices for Network attached storage services. Projects included Fulcrum NFS load balancer and SCARED Secure Network attached Storage Server and SystemS SAN attached storage services.

Worked on PPC603 simulator at IBM. Helped to write class/lab to train engineers in use of 603 simulator.

Experience with RTOS and system bring up and debug for PowerPC, MIPS and IA64. Experience with X86 FP simulation on IA64.

Wrote HAL level software for IA64 while at Intel to support IA64 chipset.

Wrote Kernel level enhancements to Virtual Machine software for IBM Servers.

Designed and supported CAD tools for chip simulation and design and system simulation and design.

4 patents held, 5 additional patents pending.

Journal publications in IEEE Micro, IBM Research Journal.

Ed Chron’s Specialties:

Systems Architecture/Design.
C, C++ user & kernel level, Java user level programming as well as kernel & user level network programming. Device driver & file system extension.
Virtual Machine software.
Simulation and CAD tools.
JTAG, system debug tools, system bring up, porting OS to new architecture and devices.
Project management experience, mentoring student coops at IBM Research.

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