Ronald Joe Record

OBJECTIVES

• Participate in interesting, productive, challenging, creative, and financially rewarding projects
• Contribute to the development of easy to use, powerful, ubiquitous computing interfaces
• Provide open source solutions and refine the open source development model
• Maintain a stable and rewarding career

QUALIFICATIONS

• Twenty six years of experience as a Unix systems developer (C/C++/STL/X11/Java/Ruby/Perl/Tcl/awk/sed/bash/sh)
• Twenty years of experience as an X11 graphical programmer (GTK+/QT/Motif/Xt/Xlib)
• Fifteen years of experience as a Website designer & programmer (CGI/Java/NSAPI/JServ/Apache/PHP/Squid)
• Expert scripting, build, packaging, and software release engineering skills including Unix System V, RPM, Debian, and FreeBSD packaging systems
• Meticulous work habits and ethic

TECHNICAL LEADERSHIP

• Senior integration engineer for SCO VMware products including ports of the VMware Tools to SCO platforms
• Led the first OpenServer 6 port of OpenOffice
• Senior SCO Security Officer - monitor security alerts, create and post security advisories.
• Lead developer on SCO OpenServer 6 ports, integration and deployment of Qt, KDE, MySQL, Cdrtools, Ghostscript, Heimdal Kerberos 5, MPlayer, PostgreSQL, Python, Ruby, STLport, Samba, Squid, Tomcat, Xpdf, Net-SNMP, Mailman, Mozilla, and others.
• Technical lead on the SCO OpenServer port of the Web Services Substrate
• Lead Technical Architect, SCO Linux 4.0 Powered by UnitedLinux
• Architect/Engineer/Author/Artist/System Test/Support, Supplemental Open Source CD
• Lead Technical Architect, SCO Linux (unreleased)
• Technical Architect of SCO Open Source strategy and programs
• Founding member, 86open
• Technical lead in researching, planning & presenting SCO's Internet Way of Computing initiative
• Created, designed & prototyped the SCO Webtop (applications, data & system services embedded in a browser over a web connection)
• SCO FastStart source, build and integration lead (included Netscape Navigator & Servers, Morningstar PPP & packet filter, MCS ipx/spx gateway, much more)
• Led SCO Wabi development (Windows Application Binary Interface)
• Guided and coordinated approximately twelve programmers in the design and production of the SCO Skunkware CD-ROMs (Open Source)
• Responsible for all technical aspects of compiling and building SCO Xenix, Open Desktop and OpenServer products

TECHNICAL EXPERIENCE

• Ported, configured, built, packaged, tested, distributed and maintained hundreds of Open Source projects
• Architect of GNUnix, an integrated Open Source and UNIX operating system and user environment (GNU is a recursive acronym standing for GNU is Now Unix)
• Designed and implemented the source and revision control system used throughout SCO world-wide engineering
• Designed and implemented the installation technology used in SCO Open Desktop
• Responsible for all of SCO's Unix Operating System Utilities
• Responsible for maintenance of all SCO X11 graphical clients

COMMUNICATION

• SCO's primary representative and voting member on the UnitedLinux Management team
• Conference presentations - SCO Forum (1988-2008), USENIX, LinuxWorld Expo
• Two years experience teaching at the University level
• Four years experience as a teaching assistant at the University level
• Initiated and led a study group on probability and queuing theory using a graduate level text
• Initiated and led a study group on Microsoft Windows Programming, Visual C++ and MFC

PUBLICATIONS

• Gardini, L., R. H. Abraham, R. J. Record, D. Fournier-Prunaret, [1994] "A Double Logistic Map", International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos, Vol. 4, No. 1, 145-176
• Abraham, R. H., G. Chichilnisky, R. J. Record, [1994] "Dynamics of North-South Trade and the Environment", Environmental Economics, Graciela Chichilnisky, ed., Mattei Foundation, Milan
• Co-author "Chaos in Discrete Dynamical Systems: A Visual Introduction in 2 Dimensions", (May, 1997) Telos/Springer-Verlag
• Co-author of "Just Plane Chaos" teaching guide CD-ROM
• Co-author and presenter of a paper on Linux emulation at 1998 Summer USENIX
• Author of "SCO and the Open Source Movement" SCO World article, Jan/Feb/Mar 1999 - Volume 6 - Number 1
• Author of "Porting Open Source Software to SCO" SCO World article, November/December 1999 - Volume 6 - Number 6

PERSONAL PROJECTS

• Wrote an X11 based Discrete Dynamical Systems simulation laboratory
• Wrote several X11 clients as mathematical graphical recreations
• Single-handedly produced the SCO Games package

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

1983-2009

Senior Open Source Architect
SCO
Santa Cruz, CA
SCO Employee of the Year, 2000

1980-1982

Student Intern
NASA Ames Research Center
Mountain View, CA

1981-1985

Teaching Assistant
University of California
Santa Cruz, CA

EDUCATION

Ph.D., Mathematics - University of California, Santa Cruz, 1994