150
Franklin Street Apt. 209 (415) 431-1059
San Francisco, CA. 94102
e-mail: wpaul@freebsd.org
WILLIAM ANDREW PAUL
Experience:
2001-present Senior Engineer,
Wind River Systems
BSDi’s software division acquired by Wind River Systems in May 2001.
Duties included: continued developing device drivers for high-speed
network adapters from various vendors including Broadcom, National
Semiconductor and Level 1/Intel.
2000-2001 System Programmer, BSDi Open Source Division
Duties included:
Development and maintenance of kernel and application code for
the FreeBSD operating system, including network adapter drivers,
networking facilities and related utilities.
1994-2000 System Manager, Columbia University Dept. of Electrical Engineering
Duties included:
Maintenance and administration of departmental and research TCP/IP network
of approximately 80 UNIX systems (Sun3, Sun4, SGI-MIPS, HP-PA,
IBM RS/6000, Intel x86), 30 PC systems (Intel x86 and Apple Macintosh),
printers and associated network hardware (Cisco routers, switches and
assorted hubs). Installation and integration of new software and equipment.
Regular incremental tape backups. User support and troubleshooting. Also
developed UNIX device drivers for wireless networking research group.
1992-1994 System Administrator, New Windsor Associates L.P.
Duties included:
Maintenance and co-administration of a network of 40 Sun SPARC
workstations and approximately 30 PC systems. Monthly tape
backups. Maintenance, installation and upgrade of software and
peripherals. User support and troubleshooting.
1991-1992 Senior Programmer,
University of Hartford Department
of Computer Science
Duties included:
Part time administration of SunOS/Ultrix system consisting of one DEC
and two Sun 3 file servers and eleven (mostly dataless) Sun workstations.
Software/network support of faculty PC systems.
Skills:
SunOS 4.1.x/5.x, SGI IRIX 5.x/6.x, HPUX 9.x/10.x, AIX 4.1.x/4.2, FreeBSD
administration, including installation and configuration of related system,
network and applications software (NIS, NFS, X11R5/6, XView, Motif,
FrameMaker, Sendmail, GNU software, etc). Sun SPARC, SGI, HP-PA,
IBM RS/6000 and Intel X86 hardware installation, upgrade and maintenance.
Programming skills: C/C++ and assembly language programming in UNIX
environment, TCP/IP application programming with BSD sockets, BSD
TCP/IP networking internals and device driver development and debugging,
X11 application development and shell script programming. Strong
familiarity with most major ethernet controller hardware including
10/100 and gigabit devices from Alteon, National Semiconductor,
Broadcom, SysKonnect, AMD, SiS, VIA Technologies, Intel, and
others.
Education:
1988-1990 Norwalk State Technical College
Awarded Associate of Science in Eletronic Engineering Technology.
GPA: 3.2/4.0, graduated with honors. Awarded Certificate of
Excellence in Electronic Engineering Technology.
1990-1992 University of Hartford S.I. Ward College of Technology
Awarded Bachelor of Science in Electronic Engineering Technology
with minor in Computer Science. GPA: 2.62/4.0
Independent work:
FreeBSD-based open-source software development, including the
following contributions:
NIS v2 client side fixes and improvements
NIS v2 server side implementation (ypserv, ypxfr, yppush,
rpc.yppasswdd)
Incorporation of Secure RPC
Development of various device drivers for network interface cards
including fast ethernet, gigabit ethernet, USB ethernet, and wireless
networking devices
Various system enhancements and debugging
References and salary history available on request.