Brian Foster

d'Ingénieur Développement Senior: Developed and documented IDL compiler with automated tests. Developed filesystem with automated tests for an embedded componentized O/S, and migrated that O/S to UTF-8.

AWK, bash, C, C++, IDL, Linux, LaTeX, m4, make, sed, troff, etc.

Embedded Systems Engineer: Developed, documented and deployed ChorusOS based environmental monitor for server cabinets.

Senior O/S Internals Engineer: One of two lead engineers in a small ISO-9000 certified team porting CHORUS (née ChorusOS) real-time microkernel to an integrated multimedia system-on-a-chip, including advising architects and designers on software-friendliness of CPUs and on-chip peripherals. Ported system, written in C++, ran first time on first Silicon.

Senior O/S Internals Engineer: Numerous projects involving SCO Unix System V for the Intel x86 family, including:

• Power management;
• C2 "security";
• automated testing;
• POSIX conformance;
• device drivers;
• etc.

Senior O/S Internals Engineer and Technical Lead:

• Numerous projects involving multiple 7th Edition and System III ports of XENIX to Motorola 680x0 systems (one port a solo effort, delivered ahead of schedule);
• source code control system (which SCO used for c.10 years);
• distributed typesetting;
• etc.

Technical editor for Inside SCO UNIX Systems, responsible for verifying, clarifying, and occasionally producing technical articles and examples.