From: raster@mystix.cs.uoregon.edu (Radek Aster)
Subject: MSCS+4yrs. Parallel/Embedded/Systems Software/Firmware
Organization: Ewe of Oh!
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1992 01:56:18 GMT

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			     RADEK ASTER
			   815 Almaden St.
			   Eugene  OR 97402

		      Day. Phone  (503) 346-1381
		      Eve. Phone  (503) 686-1288

		    Email : raster@cs.uoregon.edu
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Professional Interests
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Parallel Architectures, Operating Systems, IO Systems.

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Education History	
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M.Sc. Computer Science - Univ. of Oregon, Expected completion date, 1992
B.A. Physics - Univ. of California Santa Cruz, 1986 - Highest Honors
B.A. Computer Science - Univ. of California Santa Cruz, 1986 - Highest Honors

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Employment History
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*	Organization	University of Oregon
	Dates		Sept. '90 to Present
	Position	Graduate Teaching Fellow/Instructor

	Major Accomplishments

	* Designed, administered and taught an undergraduate programming course,
          in Pascal, for three quarters.
	* Led discussion sections in a three quarter introductory sequence for 
          CIS majors. Language focus was Scheme and Modula-2.

*	Organization	Pyramid Technology Corp. Mnt. View, CA
	Dates		Sept. '88 to Aug. '90
	Projects	Dual-Port, High Performance IPI-2 Controller
	Title		Hardware/Firmware Design Engineer

	Major Accomplishments

	* Designed and implemented the firmware for the IPI controller. 
	  Controller Hardware consisted of a time sliced, triple-sequencer, 
	  bit-sliced design, which was the engine for a proprietary multi-
 	  tasking kernel under which the controller processes executed.
	* Designed and implemented a debugging platform, debugger and utility 
	  software for the IPI controller, to be run under UNIX.
	* Debugged the prototype of the IPI controller hardware.

* 	Organization	Data Technology Corp., Santa Clara, CA
	Dates		Aug. '87 to Sept. '88
	Projects	Full SCSI Controller (DTC-350, DTC-51xx, DTC-52xx).
			SCSI Debugging Tool (SCID).
			ICE and Assembler for Proprietary RICS Processor DTC-269
			POSTSCRIPT Printer (QUME-CrystalPrint).
	Title		Firmware/Software Design Engineer

	Major Accomplishments

	* Implemented firmware for a full-SCSI bridge controller capable of 
	  controlling 2 ST-506 disk drives. 
	* Designed an ICE (In-Circuit-Emulator) and assembler for a DTC 
	  proprietary RISC and R/W channel processor chip.
	* Wrote firmware for high-speed POSTSCRIPT compatible printer.
	* Wrote the software for a SCSI level debugging tool.

* 	Organization	Spectra Logic Corp., Mnt. View, CA
	Dates		Nov. '86 to Aug. '87
	Projects	SMD Disk Controllers (SPECTRA-114, -25, -125)
	Title		Sustaining Engineer

	Major Accomplishments

	* Sustained and provided customer modifications to the hardware and 
	  firmware of high performance, emulating SMD Disk and PERTEC Tape 
	  controllers.

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Expertise
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* Have a thorough understanding of what is needed to design the hardware and
  firmware of a control processor designed around a bit-slice, micro-coded 
  control unit.
* Can design structured code in high-level as well as low-level languages.
* Am familiar with a number of device and system level interfaces. (IPI, SMD, 
  SCSI, ST-506, PERTEC, UNIBUS, Q-BUS, IBM AT/XT)
* Understand IPI and SCSI device level protocols
* An fluent in C, Pascal, Scheme and a number of microprocessor assemblers.
* Have a system programmer's understanding of the UNIX operating system.
* Have a system programmer's understanding of MSDOS and Apple Macintosh OS.
* Am capable of designing and teaching classes in the field of computer science,
  physics and mathematics.

Other achievements
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Completed a cross-country bicycle ride in 10 weeks, covering 4000 miles.

References available upon request


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