Richard M. Mathews
                           Northridge, CA
                           richard@alumni.caltech.edu


   Software Developer expert in Solaris x86 and Solaris SPARC kernel
   internals. Experienced in design and development of Real Time and
   Distributed Operating Systems, Networking, Device Drivers, Linux,
   Compilers. Saved a multi-million dollar account by understanding
   customer's needs. Able to reach diplomatic solutions to bring together
   people with conflicting priorities.


   Lead Software Developer
   Micro Memory, Chatsworth, CA                                2002-present

     * Led all of company's software development for network storage
       products, winning tens of $million in sales. Developed Linux and
       Solaris device drivers and proposed enhancements to standard file
       system internals (ext3, XFS, ReiserFS) to take best advantage of
       features of our storage products. Led development of Windows
       drivers. Suggested enhancements to hardware to improve performance
       and features. Worked with hardware engineers to debug new
       products. Worked closely with major customers to determine
       requirements and to provide technical advice for their software
       designs.

   Software Staff Engineer
   Sun Microsystems, Los Angeles, CA                              1992-2001

     * Won bonus and Achievement Award for helping Independent Hardware
       Vendors port enterprise quality device drivers to Solaris.
       Produced design guidelines for storage and network drivers. Led
       project which produced 1000 page book and 1 week course on writing
       Solaris device drivers. Promoted open source technologies.
     * Turned around multi-million dollar project producing embedded O/S
       for Lucent, who planned to drop Sun's product; a year later, they
       were a satisfied customer and a partner in co-marketing products.
       Won bonus and Achievement Award for "Outstanding Work".
     * Reduced backlog of department's high priority Solaris bugs by 60%
       without increasing backlog of other bugs. Managed Quality metrics
       for Solaris and ChorusOS.
     * Led team overseeing delivery of x86 and PowerPC platform-specific
       features for Solaris. Managed highly successful Driver Updates
       that allowed new hardware to be supported between releases.
       Development, Release Engineering and Quality Assurance groups all
       reported to this team. Coordinated with other product teams and
       was primary liaison with OS/Network group. Set strategy and
       managed risk.
     * Designed HTML/CGI solution for zero-administration servers for
       Network Computer clients.
     * Promoted for leading group responsible for all technical aspects
       of completing merge of Intel and SPARC versions of Solaris into
       common source and bringing Solaris for Intel to product quality.
       Also responsible for improving performance during original Solaris
       Intel port.

   Consultant Member of Technical Staff
   Locus Computing Corp., Inglewood, CA                           1984-1992

     * Promoted three times. Managed 12 UNIX kernel software
       designers/developers. Worked with customers and business partners.
       Developed new business. Coordinated with remote offices.
     * Managed architects designing a modular product to provide
       distributed functionality for OSF's DCE. Coordinated project with
       designers at remote offices and at partners: IBM, HP, and
       Transarc.
     * Designed and implemented clustering mechanism over LAN or WAN
       ensuring consistent Single System Image (SSI) viewed from anywhere
       in the cluster. Features included process transparency, remote
       execution capabilities, process migration, file replication,
       remote file system and device access, and load balancing.
     * Developed IBM's AIX for PS/2 and System 370. Designed Memory
       Management system for AIX PS/2. Worked on porting O/S to 80386,
       file systems, NFS, device drivers, process control, assembly
       language support, trap/interrupt processing, and ANSI C, POSIX,
       and SVID standards conformance.

Education

   Physics; Caltech; Pasadena, CA

Publications

       Sun Microsystems. "Writing Device Drivers for the Solaris
       Operating Environment." Palo Alto: Sun Microsystems, 2001.

       Walker, B., et al. "Extending DCE to Transparent Processing
       Clusters." in "Uniforum 1992 Conference Proceedings" (January,
       1992): pp 189-199.

       Walker, Bruce J. and Richard M. Mathews. "Process Migration in
       AIX's Transparent Computing Facility (TCF)." in "IEEE Technical
       Committee on Operating Systems Newsletter" Vol. 3, No. 1 (Winter
       1989): pp 5-7.

       Butterfield, David A., and Richard M. Mathews. "Remote Tasking."
       in "The LOCUS Distributed System Architecture." Eds. Gerald J.
       Popek and Bruce J. Walker. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1985.

Technical Experience

        Operating Systems:
                UNIX (Solaris, AIX, SVR4, BSD), ChorusOS, Windows
                NT/95/98, MacOS, VMS, etc.

        Languages and Tools:
                C, Java, HTML, Perl, GNU tools, Korn/Bourne Shell,
                FORTRAN, Pascal, Assembler, etc.

        CPUs:
                Intel x86/Pentium, SPARC, PowerPC, RS/6000, IBM 370, VAX,
                etc.