Engineer Computer Science

Carl Hopkinson

Bonita Springs, FL

*******@*****.*** - 847-***-****

WORK EXPERIENCE

Solaris Kernel Support

Oracle Corporation - Redwood Shores, CA - February 2010 to September 2011

Continuation of position with Sun Microsystems when Oracle acquired Sun.

Senior Solaris Kernel Support Engineer

Sun Microsystems - Santa Clara, CA - May 1993 to February 2010

Provided highest corporate level Solaris(Unix) OS support. Solved innumerable difficult

issues for major corporate clients using the Kernkit programmable OS debugging framework which I

developed and have received a US Patent for (see below). Primary areas of expertise: OS performance and

instrumentation.

Kernkit Related Patent:

200******** - Method and system for kernel-level diagnostics using a hardware watchpoint facility

Unix System Support Engineer

Rockwell Intl. SSD - Lisle, IL - April 1981 to February 1993

Co-principal engineer involved in bringup, configuration, administration and troubleshooting

of Rockwell SSD's first SunOS's distributed computing network. Also heavily involved in

producing C-based tools to support development work on the switching system platform

including an OS-simulator for the VRTX realtime OS running under SunOS and enhancements

to in-house SDB source level debugger based on the SystemV gdb debugger.

EDUCATION

Oreilly Continuing Education Certificates (3 of 4) in Java

OST (Oreilly School of Technology) - Sebastopol, CA

2012 to 2013

MS (GPA 3.9/4.0) in Computer Science

DePaul University - Chicago, IL

1977 to 1980

B.S. (National Merit Scholar) in Biology

New College - Sarasota, FL

1973 to 1976

Diploma (2nd in class of 300) in Math/Science/Humanities

St. Ignatius College Prep - Chicago, IL

1969 to 1973

SKILLS

Java: One year experience working on personal projects Unix/Solaris: Kernel internals, device driver

programming, kernel diagnostic programming, kernel performance

PATENTS

Method and system for kernel-level diagnostics using a hardware watchpoint

facility(#200********)

http://www.google.com/patents/US7584383

September 2009

A method for performing kernel-level diagnostics. The method includes obtaining a hardware trap associated

with an attempt by a kernel-level instruction stream to access a memory address, wherein the memory

address is referenced by a hardware watchpoint facility, forwarding the hardware trap to a software breakpoint

handler, executing a diagnostic instruction defined by the software breakpoint handler to obtain diagnostic data,

transmitting the diagnostic data to a user, and returning execution flow to the kernel-level instruction stream.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

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