Ronald Joe Record
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OBJECTIVES
Work for an innovative industry leader where I gain new experience and utilize my skills
Contribute to the development of easy to use, powerful, flexible computing environments
Assist in the development and deployment of software tools, application programming
interfaces, and software development kits
QUALIFICATIONS
Senior Linux and Unix systems developer
Expert scripting, build, packaging, and software release engineering skills including Unix
System V, RPM, Debian, and FreeBSD packaging systems
Expertise in C/C++/STL/X11/Java/Ruby/Perl/Tcl/awk/sed/bash/sh/GTK+/QT/Motif/LSL
Experienced website designer & programmer (CGI/Java/NSAPI/JServ/Apache/PHP/Squid)
TECHNICAL EXPERIENCE
Senior integration engineer for VMware products at SCO including ports of the VMware Tools
System Management design and development including SCO Admin, SNMP MIBs, Net SNMP,
tkmid, apt/apt-rpm repositories, rsync, webmin, top/ntop, sudo, lsof, Wireshark/pcap
Lead Technical Architect, SCO Linux
SCO's primary representative and voting member on the UnitedLinux Management team
Technical Architect of SCO Open Source strategy and programs
Founding member, 86open (industry wide open source binary file format standards effort)
Technical lead and primary engineer on ports of OpenOffice, Qt, KDE, MySQL, Cdrtools,
Ghostscript, Heimdal Kerberos 5, MPlayer, PostgreSQL, Python, Ruby, STLport, Samba,
Squid, Tomcat, Xpdf, Net-SNMP, Mailman, Mozilla, Web Services Substrate, and more
Senior SCO Security Officer
Technical lead in research, planning & presentation of a 1990's Cloud Computing initiative
Created, designed & prototyped the SCO Webtop (applications, data & system services
embedded in a browser over a web connection)
Led SCO Wabi development (Windows Application Binary Interface)
Guided and coordinated a global team of engineers in the design and production of the SCO
Skunkware CD-ROMs (Open Source solutions for developers and partners)
Responsible for all technical aspects of compiling and building SCO Xenix, Open Desktop and
OpenServer products
Ported, integrated, packaged, 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 SCO world-wide source and revision control system
RECENT PROJECTS
Heads Up Display for Twitter access in Virtual Reality environments using OAuth 1 for
authentication and RESTful Twitter API
OAuth 2 bit.ly authentication and use of RESTful bit.ly API to provide Slurl shortening
PHP interface to web services API's for Wikipedia, Wolfram Alpha, Yahoo!, and bit.ly
COMMUNICATION
Senior Presenter - USENIX, LinuxWorld Expo, SCO Forum (1988-2008)
Two years experience teaching at the University level
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
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
1983-2010
Senior Open Source Architect
SCO
Santa Cruz, CA
SCO Employee of the Year, 2000
2010 - 2012
Artificial Intelligence and Virtual Reality research consultant
EDUCATION
Ph.D., Mathematics - University of California, Santa Cruz, 1994