Steven J. Dovich

Experience

• Represented Cadence interests in development of standard for PLI applications in VHDL.
• Provided mentoring resource for summer intern.

• Developed the specification for software version management and an associated engineering development process based on iterative integration cycles.
• Configured ClearCase to support local development model, and implemented the additional infrastructure to support common development tasks.
• Integrated Windows NT DDK build procedures into Visual Studio, together with version management support.
• Contributed to development process proposal for converting uniprocessor nonpreemptive RAID software to an SMP-safe Windows NT driver.
• Produced visual representations of software complexity derived from call graphs, module associations, and compilation dependencies.
• Extended an ANSI C parse package to extract metrics for concurrency analysis, including transaction tagging of all data access within the application.
• Removed redundant locking mechanisms from RAID drivers, in preparation for performance engineering.
• Customized RAID drivers, replacing platform simulation code with platform-specific software.
• Supervised initial job assignments of less senior integration/release engineer. Provided subsequent mentoring in development process, system diagnosis, and implementation strategies.

• Developed diagnostics for debugging Remote Checkpoint Memory controller
• Modified SCSI and Network drivers in Windows NT to support deferral of I/O and controller recovery and initialization following a checkpoint fail-over
• Contributed to port of Unix SVR4 on top of the TOPIX kernel, focusing on debugger support services.
• Managed the support services for the TOPIX 7.0 compilers, by performing standards compliance testing, screening problem reports, and verifying corrections made in release updates
• Designed and implemented a system status monitor with a graphical user interface, for managing Solaris systems containing an alarm board and hot-swap peripherals, for use in the telecommunications industry
• Represented Sequoia Systems in the ANSI/ISO C++ Standards Committee (X3J16/WG21), and in the IEEE Portable Applications Standards Committee (POSIX).

• Developed and implemented a C++ application portability strategy for product development.
• Coordinated planning, scheduling and implementation of C++ language support for both domestic and international development facilities.
• Formulated corporate position on C++ issues arising from ANSI/ISO standards committee (X3J16/WG21) activity.
• Analyzed language extension proposals as a contributing member of X3j16 working group on language extensions.
• Ported and maintained C++ compiler on 11 platforms, including Sun, HP, DEC, and IBM.
• Managed product license verification system for Advanced CAE division of Cadence, reducing incidence rate of customer site problems.
• Established and maintained configuration management and release engineering procedures for C++ compiler and product licensing projects.
• Led introduction and deployment of new software tools and systems within Cadence.

• Developed C and C++ software for computer graphics and Computer-aided design/engineering database applications.
• Led local development of distributed desktop computing environment for engineering automation.
• Designed, installed, administered, and maintained local and wide-area networks.
• Modified TCP/IP network drivers for UNIX to use DECnet as a wide area transport service.
• Installed, administered and maintained computing systems and environments.
• Designed revision management and release engineering procedures to improve control of distributed software.
• Ported and maintained public software tools and systems.

Technical
Skills

General

Knowledgable in the following topic areas

• Networking and Communications
• Operating Systems
• Language Design and Compiler Construction
• Software Development Methods, Tools, and Management
• Software Portability
• Computer Graphics
• Design Automation
• Computer Architecture
• Software Standards

Applications

Experience with the following applications

X Window System	porting and administration
UNIX	usage, administration, and internals (BSD and SVR4)
TCP/IP networking	design, management, integration, and diagnosis
Electronic Mail & USENET News	configuration and administration
Configuration Management	ClearCase, SourceSafe, SCCS, RCS, etc.
Document Formatting	TeX, HTML, troff, PostScript, etc.
Computer-aided Design/Engineering Database	implementation, EDIF
Compilers and Interpreters	C++, PERL, C, Tcl/Tk, etc.

Languages & Systems

Programming Languages	C, C++, PERL, Tcl/Tk, Pascal, Modula-2, APL, Scheme, Lisp, Ada, Fortran, Assembler, COBOL, etc.
Operating Systems	BSD UNIX, UNIX System V, Windows/NT, VAX/VMS, Apollo/Domain-OS, etc.
Networks	TCP/IP, DECnet, UUCP, Ethernet
Systems	Sun SPARC, DECstation, MIPS, SGI, HP Precision Architecture, IBM RS6000, HP/Apollo, Sony NEWS, NEC, VAX, PDP-11, Xerox Sigma series, etc.

Education

• Master of Science, Information and Computer Science. Granted in December 1984 by the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia.
• Bachelor of Science, Computer Science. Granted in June 1983 by Andrews University, Berrien Springs, Michigan.

Affiliations

• Association for Computing Machinery

  SIGARCH	Computer Architecture
  SIGCOMM	Data Communications
  SIGGRAPH	Computer Graphics
  SIGOPS	Operating Systems
  SIGPLAN	Programming Languages

• USENIX
• IEEE

  Computer Society
  Standards Association
  Portable Application Standards Committee (PASC)
  Technical Editor	Services for Reliable, Available, and Serviceable Systems (PASC P1003.1h)
  Technical Editor	Checkpoint/Restart (PASC P1003.1m)