Reggie Vance

6167 Jarvis Ave., #164, Newark, CA 94560

Global Phone (U.S.): (650) 276-0452     Email:  rvance@fastmail.net

OBJECTIVE 

Full-time or Contract: Linux/Unix I/O Software Development & Test Engineer.  Likes: detail, precision, quality, SCSI I/O, C, SANs, tape I/O, writing diagnostics, kernel & I/O utilities, scripting, and process documentation.

PROFESSIONAL SKILLS 

•  Linux kernel SCSI I/O test development for Virtual Machines and Host OS, in C and Perl.

• Virtual Machine experience: installing, configuring, testing, daily use in development environment.

• Software design, development, & test engineering skills on Unix/Linux storage I/O subsystems.

• Project and program management certification from UCSC, project management experience.

• Inter-departmental project resource coordination, communications, and project-related soft skills.

•  Skilled at working with third party storage device vendors on product integration issues.

• Coding proficiency in: C and Perl on kernel level Linux SCSI I/O test utilities.

• UNIX SCSI driver enhancements and testing on tape, robotics, disk, WORM, and MO drives.

• Detailed problem analysis on UNIX SCSI I/O drivers, SCSI protocol, and device issues.

• Design, development, and implementation of I/O test harnesses, test utilities, and scripts.

• SCSI device qualification, integration, documentation, packaging, and release engineering.

• Fibre Channel SAN fabric experience developing and testing SNIA HBA API.

• Applications skills: MS Visio, Excel, Word, FrontPage (and other web editors), photo editors.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Veritas/Symantec (Contract): Infrastructure development and maintenance.  Jun 2005 to Mar 2006. 

SAN test bed configuration, resource allocation, cabling, zoning, and troubleshooting.  Wrote cLab TestLink Admin Guide.  Initiated, wrote, and implemented cLab SAN LDF Cabling Guide.  Created exceptional Visio schematic templates for SAN test-bed configurations.  Maintained detailed resource spreadsheets in support of automated PHP/XML-based resource management and display facility. 

VMWARE (Contract): Kernel level SCSI I/O Test Development in C and Perl.  Jan 2005 to May 2005. 

Developed SCSI I/O test utilities to exercise memory usage, HBA limitations, PAE memory access, memory alignment, physical to virtual memory mapping, and limitations on scatter-gather elements, and asynchronous I/O in the vmkernel, and for SCSI Generic I/O in Linux Virtual Machines.  Tested and verified data integrity for SCSI I/O.  Developed Linux storage I/O tests in C, driving scripts in Perl.

Self-Training (& recovery from back injury), Oct 2001 to Dec 2004.

Project & Program Mgmt Certification from UCSC, FC/SAN Practitioner Certification from Infinity I/O. 

SANAVIGATOR: SNIA HBA API In-Band FC SAN Discovery SW Development, Sep 2000 to Sep 2001. 

Prototyped and tested SNIA HBA API with multiple vendor’s HBAs.  Joint Windows & UNIX Development to enhance FC In-Band Discovery module for Java-based SANavigator FC SAN display & management product.  Provided technical leadership to QA team qualifying vendor’s HBAs with SNIA HBA API.

HEWLETT-PACKARD (Contract): SCSI I/O Driver Project Team, Apr 1999 to Apr 2000. 

Researched and documented group processes, and facilitated group productivity and resource coordination during team development phase for SCSI I/O driver maintenance team.  Performed and coordinated activities for the discovery, planning, development, integration, testing and verification, documentation, packaging, and release of SCSI I/O subsystem patches.

SENTRYL SOFTWARE (Contract), SCSI SW Design, Development, Engineer, Jun. 1998-Dec 1998. 

Enhanced STARvault SW product to emulate SCSI tape drive behavior, to support IBM’s ADSM archival software on UNIX clients to allow AIX, HP-UX, and Solaris systems to backup to an MVS repository server.  Designed & coded ADSM config, QA & diagnostic test suite, and HP-UX product build & install.

LEGATO SYSTEMS: Product Manager, Device Support, Sep. 1997-Apr. 1998.

Planned, managed, documented, and coordinated qualification of external vendor’s tape libraries, for support with Legato’s Networker data storage SW products.  Managed storage vendor relationships and vendors’ qualification units with internal departments to stage, qualify, document, and leverage sales for multi-vendor storage device compatibility.  Delivered very successful Device Supplement with first fully hyperlinked SCSI Device & Networker Compatibility Guide, which leveraged sales of Legato’s Networker.

PYRAMID TECHNOLOGY: Senior SW Development Engineer, HW Qualification, QA, Product Engineering & Technical Mgmt on SCSI Tapes & Drivers, Solid State Disks, & CD-ROMs in SMP/MPP UNIX, 1991-1997. 

• SCSI tape, SSD, and CD ROM device qualification & SW product development on UNIX SMP & MPP enterprise computing platforms; specialty in SCSI tape I/O & SCSI problem analysis.

• Performed SCSI device & UNIX I/O driver QA planning, testing, analyses, & fix validation.

• Coded SCSI device I/O qualification testing utilities & scripts, executed qualification test plans.

• Extensively analyzed SCSI protocol and sequence errors of devices, adapters, & device drivers.

• Defined, designed, documented fixes for device FW, UNIX I/O device drivers, & backup utilities.

• Coordinated & integrated device driver patches and enhancements with UNIX R&D I/O group.

• Coordinated device & adapter FW enhancements & bug fixes with 3rd-party HW/FW vendors.

• Co-designed user & configuration interfaces of storage devices during device qualification.

• Designed, wrote, packaged UNIX (online) man pages for SCSI SW & HW products.

• Designed & implemented high-speed process for SW packaging, testing, release, and delivery.

• Wrote technical manuals & man pages for HW & SW installation, usage, & problem analysis.

• Qualification and familiarity with a wide variety of tape drive types.

HEWLETT-PACKARD: SW Development Projects, I/O Testing, UNIX SCSI I/O Driver Writing, 1983-1991. 

• UNIX/C SCSI device driver enhancements for emerging SCSI tape technologies, Magneto Optical disks, MO auto-changers, & Winchester disks, including first fully functional WORM driver. 

• Designed & implemented an integrated online debugging mechanism into UNIX SCSI tape, disk, and MO auto-changer device drivers, used to solve long-standing SCSI I/O driver bugs. 

• SW development in structured project environment: GM factory automation on Real-Time HP1000:

• Designed & implemented file system emulation package for disk-less clients, utilities for broadband network addressing, OS resource monitoring utilities.  Consulting on critical OS resource tuning. 

EDUCATION

• Project and Program Management Certification, University of California Extension, Santa Cruz, 2002.
• Fibre Channel SAN Certification: Professional (level 1), Practitioner (level 2), SNIA, 2001.
• Self-training in organizational leadership, process re-engineering, marketing strategies, 1996-1998.
• UNIX & Real-Time OS, I/O Subsystems, HP-IB & SCSI Bus Protocols, SMP/ MPP Architecture and System Administration, Networking, UNIX User & Internals, C, Project Management. 1983-1997.
• Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, Colorado State University, 1978-1982.