WILTON
T. BYRUM
10425 Calvert Dr.
Cupertino, CA 95014
Home: (408) 961-8055
E-mail: wilton.byrum@byrum.org
QUALIFICATIONS:
* Over
twenty years experience in the computing industry.
* Additional
experience in C and assembler language software development for the past nine
years.
* Heavy
internals work with VM operating system and IBM 360/370/XA architecture
machines.
* Professional
experience in all aspects of software development from management to coding.
* Worked in
a full spectrum of computing environments: Hardware and software companies;
private, academic and government data centers.
* Functioned
effectively in both large and small companies.
* Have
developed software currently marketed and used throughout the VM community.
* Hands on
experience with most major IBM operating systems.
* Proficient
in most major IBM programming languages.
* Extensive
problem solving experience with both hardware and software bugs.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
07/96
to LSI LOGIC/ARK RESEARCH
CORPORATION
03/03: Developer/Network Administrator
Developer for Ark Research's real time system, ARTS, a disk caching
operating system written in C. Other duties included bringing up a Windows NT
network from scratch and connecting it to the Internet.
10/94
to AMDAHL CORPORATION
07/96: Software
Engineer
Primary
duty testing 6100 DASD controller microcode. Major contributor in getting
Amdahl’s first Dual Copy microcode shipped, also tested ESCON support.
10/91
to ANDOR SYSTEMS
10/94: Software
Engineer
Developed
XA I/O subsystem for Andor CPU.
Responsible for maintenance and support of EPIcode, a 370/microcode
interface to provide XA features for the Andor CPU. Performed system level testing, debugging and problem
determination for Andor CXC, a virtual DASD controller designed to provide
caching between a host computer and its existing DASD controllers.
03/90
to STORAGETEK
10/91: Senior
Software Engineer
Technical
project leader for HSC 2.0 (Host Component for automated tape library). Responsibilities include scheduling, code
estimates, functional specifications, code definition and design. Created process to migrate HSC 1.1
maintenance to HSC 1.2 before release.
Previously provided level III support for HSC 1.0.4 and 1.1.
11/83
to VM/SYSTEMS GROUP
11/89: Senior
Product Developer
Provide
development level support for the Kolinar products. These are XDEBUG, KPROBE and KUTILITIES (KFLIST, KRDRLIST,
KPRTLIST, and KPUNLIST). Conversion of
Kolinar products to VM/XA SP. Staff to
the Vice President of R&D for XMENU and other projects as needed.
11/83
to KOLINAR (merged with VM/Systems Group July, 1988)
07/88: Vice
President, Software Development
Primary
responsibility was XDEBUG development and implementation. Product is assembler language based and
designed to help debug assembler language, COBOL and FORTRAN programs. Secondary responsibilities included support
of the KPROBE product.
11/82
to MEMOREX
11/83: Senior
Systems Programmer
Responsible
for local VM system maintenance for engineering data center. (Environment was IBM 3083, 158, 148, two
4341's and Amdahl 470.) Developed and
coded local security mods. Also
provided off-site engineering support for 3380 beta test installation.
01/82
to INFOMEDIA
11/82: Manager
of IBM Products
Responsibilities
included management of project to develop electronic mail system under VM
operating system. Designed and coded
system programs in Assembler and FORTRAN.
Intermodule communication was implemented with VMCF.
4/77
to AMDAHL
CORPORATION
11/81: Systems
Engineer and Staff Systems Programmer
Duties
included providing lead support for five large scale VM machines in the
Corporate Computer Center, Software Development Center and Engineering
Center. Major projects included
conversion of a VM/SEPP system with over one hundred eighty modifications to
VM/SP. The modifications included both
internal and external enhancements and Amdahl program products in test.
Designed and implemented a 15,000 line system (Session) to provide users with
multiple logical terminals for each real terminal. Developed support for remote 3270's on dedicated Binary
Synchronous Communications (BSC) line for above system. Provided highest level technical consulting
to software development, field support, user community and operations. Provided VM software technical support and
assistance to customers and field system engineers. Designed and developed a VM system debugging program (Analyze)
still in extensive use today by Amdahl internal groups, Amdahl customers and
many other VM sites.
1/79
to TWO
PI CORPORATION
1/81: Senior
Software Engineer
Job
description was primary systems software consultant to the corporation. Provided VM system programming for
manufacturing. Isolated and fixed VM
system software failures. Isolated
system hardware failures for manufacturing and engineering. Instrumental in bringing up the corporate
data center. Designed and developed
standalone hardware diagnostic programs.
1/76
to STATE
OF NEW MEXICO
4/77: Division
of Automated Data Processing
Systems
Programmer
Heavily
involved with implementation and maintenance of VM on an IBM 370/158 and a
370/145.
5/75
to R/M
SYSTEMS
1/76: Systems
Analyst
Performed
diverse programming tasks in a predominantly time-sharing environment.
5/73
to UNIVERSITY
OF NEW MEXICO COMPUTING CENTER
5/75: Operations
Programmer
Maintained
and developed software for computer operations group.
7/69
to UNITED
STATES MARINE CORPS
6/71 L/Corporal
PRODUCTS:
Programs
I have developed or co-developed that have been marketed:
ARTS, Ark research Real Time
operating System.
Analyze as V/Quest a dump viewing
program.
Session as PIE for multiple terminal
simulation.
XDEBUG a program debugging tool.
KPROBE a dump viewing program.
KFLIST a file list utility.
KRDRLIST, KPRTLIST, KPUNLIST spool
list utilities.
KBROWSE a file viewing program.
K3101 a protocol converter for IBM
3101 terminals.
KDES a data encryption program.
REFERENCES:
Excellent
references available upon request.