Robert Palowoda
3984 Washington Blvd #327
Fremont, California 94538
(510) 697-6323
palowoda@fiver.net
Bob.Palowoda@sun.com

EMPLOYMENT:

2-94 / 5-04
Sun Micro Systems

Staff Engineer Market Development

Porting ISV applications, Sizing and Performance study.
Porting applications primarly from Perl/C to Java application servers.
Porting ISV applications Telco, Financial and Educational to
new platforms AMD Opteron.
Presentations of Solaris x86 performance at Sun conferences.

Staff Engineer Sun Mail System

Performance testing of Sun original Messaging System.
Develop migration tools for ldap. Perl

Staff Engineer Sun Webserver Development

Competitive Performance Analysis (Sunsoft Division)
Setup, compile and automate WebStone, Specweb and other verious
tcp prerformance tools for competitive web server transaction
measurements. Memeber of the Sun Specweb committee.

2-94 to 12-95 (Sunsoft Division)

Internal Support Engineer for Solaris x86 2.4 and Solaris 2.5, 26.
Developed internal automated support system via WWW to collect
user feedback on the Alpha and Beta release of Solaris 2.5.
This model was later extended to beta support for external customers
on such products as DOE, Solaris 2.5, PPC, and Fusion Products.
This technique has helped the call load to be reduced while maintaining
a high volume on fast information support information.
Member of the WOS Committee

UNIX Consultant: 4-93 - 11 - 93
Plexus/Recognition International, Sunnyvale, California

Product:

High speed networked image Informix database with MSDOS Windows frontend
and Informix UNIX backend with Optical storage. UNIX backend databases
included both Turbo and Online.

Accomplishments:

Manage a team of six software test engineers from project start to release.

Implement test plans, test specifications and test summaries on an
Informix MS-DOS Windows front-end. Analyze and compensate for network
performance problems.

Test for networks included winsock support, and proprietary interfaces
such as HP ARPA. Other networks included Novell LanWorkPlace,
FTP Associates, Wollongong and Net Manange.

Implemented functional coverage test of the AD/XDP language which contains
over five hundred functions.

Implemented test coverage plans for image scanners.

Managed test timelines and equipment.

UNIX Consultant: 3-92 - 3-93
Silicon Graphics Incorporated, Mt. View, California

Customer Support Engineer providing support for UNIX network integration and OS installation.

Debug and solve problems with NetLS a network licensing software designed
to work in a heterogeneous networking environment. NetLS is based on
Apollo's network computing system modified to use RPC and used to keep
concurrent license databases throughout a heterogeneous network.
Submit bug reports and work with development engineers in finding a
resolution to the problems.

Setup and installation of NIS, Sendmail and DNS, debug user related network
commands such as rcp, ftp. Setup rulesets in sendmail.cf. Support NetVis
a network analyzer product which works at the packet level for debugging
and graphical level to analyze network traffic.

Solve customer problems related to new device driver installations.
Analyze vmcore dumps. Typical problems in this area is customer
not creating the correct structure to access the device, old drivers causing
unresolved symbols. Resolve customer problems with OS installation typical
involved reconstruction of install database.

UNIX Consultant: 8/91 - 3-92
Wyse Corporation, 3471 First Street, San Jose, California 95134 408-922-4356

Ported Lachman streams tests to Wyse System V Release 4.3
UNIX to the 7000i and 9000i Multiprocessor hardware platforms.

Implemented stress tests for NFS, rcp, DNS, Secure NFS, and ftp using C
language programs and korn shell scripts for Wyse 7000i and 9000i platforms.

Wrote test plans for email (smtp testing), port monitors, DNS and uucp.

Perform regression network testing on Wyse System V Release 3.2 UNIX on the
7000i and 9000i platforms. Rewrote test suite covering System V Release
3.2 UNIX network functionality.

Wrote perl scripts to format raw output from Lachman tests in Perl.

Functionally test X11R5 xclients programs and some server features on
Wyse's XR5 X terminal.

Systems Product Engineer: 3/86 - 4/91
Megatest Corporation, 880 Fox Lane, San Jose, California 95131 408-441-3056

Memory Test Division
Sustaining engineer for PCI (PC to tester interface) and
THS (testhead interface board): initial beta tester for new releases
of diagnostic software; selected high priority field service calls;
AC characterization of memory tester; trained technicians; wrote ECN's;
wrote technical test block documentation;
analyzed runtime failures where diagnostics did not fail.

Major Accomplishments:
* Wrote diagnostic functionality tests to debug PC-to-tester interface in C
* Installed and administered UNIX/XENIX OS on 15 manufacturing systems

VLSI Test Division
Responsible for final system integration of MegaOne VLSI Tester
through customer acceptance; characterization of MegaOne;
worked with R&D and customers to bring machine into specification;
repaired, organized, and maintained boards classified as engineering
problems to component level;
selected high priority field service calls;
trained technicians on how to debug runtime failure modes.

Major Accomplishments:
* Integrated more than twenty MegaOne VLSI Testers.
* Found the cause of missing edges in runtime test modes.
* Implemented automatic diagnostic testing.

Senior Technician: 1/84 - 3/86
Cygnet Technologies, 111 Lawrence Expressway, Sunnyvale, California

Built functional test fixtures and characterized telephony circuits,
including modems, switching circuits and line analyzers;
work in R&D department on a speaker-phone;
worked with ATE programmers to improve test coverage.

Major Accomplishments:
* Built and debugged analog functional test equipment
* Designed burn-in unit.

QA R+D Technician: 1/83 - 2/84
Osborne Computer Corporation, Hayward, California

Prototype functional computer test equipment for the main cpu board,
video controller and disk drives; integrated bed of nails testers;
trained manufacturing personnel on test and usage of function test equipment.

Major Accomplishments:
* Designed a way to digitize analog disk drive alignment pattern
making drive alignment more efficient.

UNIX Consultant
Fiver Enterprises
Fremont, California 95035 6/89 - Present

President of software consulting firm.

Installed UNIX and DOS networks running NFS and/or NOVELL file systems.
Experienced with packet drivers. Applications done on 386 3.2 (AT&T Based)
versions of UNIX and DOS.

Four systems onsite, one UnixWare SVR4.2 development system with kernel
debugger, one ESIX 4.0.4 Development system and two dos systems all networked.

Wrote small database applications in Foxbase (DBASE III)
and/or Informix 4GL (SQL).

Installed UNIX Usenet news feeds. Installed Elm, a custom menu driver
user interface to UNIX Email. Setup Hardware and Software in a
UNIX/DOS environment.

Wrote custom BBS software.

Researched third party software packages for specific customer applications.

Performed Unix training and system administration.

EDUCATION:

ASEE - National Institute of Technology - 12/82. GPA 3.8

INTERESTS:

Fishing, fishing and fishing

SUMMARY OF EXPERTISE:

Generic Application System Software Responsibility Areas:

Extensive:
* Web Server Performance Analysis
* HTML hypermedia process automation
* Informix SQL testing
* Internal Support for Alpha and Beta Phases of Solaris
* Diagnostic software and hardware implementations on
UNIX systems for real-time measurements
* UNIX script tools for QA test data collection.
* UNIX network software in C under Solaris x86 2.4 MP,
386 UNIX SYS5.4 and UNIXWARE SYS5.4.2
* UNIX/DOS Informix database for image retrieval.
* Technical diagnostic test block descriptions
* UNIX Administration

Moderate:
* Technical Training
* X-Windows Applications

Hardware and Operating Systems:

Extensive:
* Solaris UNIX/XENIX BSD, AT&T 386; Motorola 68000/010/020 and AT 386 under
UNIX, in real-time operating environment
* ECL, High speed Analog <-> Digital Converters, Dut Drivers,
High speed discrete circuits
* ISA and VME (modified) Bus
* Z80 emulator, line analyzer, spectrum analyzer, logic analyzer
and digitizing scopes

Moderate:
* Modems, PBX switching circuits, disk drive controllers,
and video controllers

Languages/Tools:
Extensive:
* UNIX environment: C language, Shell programming, Informix SQL
* DOS environment: Clipper and DbaseIII

Moderate:
* X-Windows