Timothy J. "Tim" Riker

9637 Garden Glen Road
South Jordan, Utah 84095-2802
e-mail: Tim@Rikers.org, TimR@Debian.org
web: http://Rikers.org/

Career Objective:

Seeking senior position in new technology development, combining project leadership, programming, system design and administration with innovative abilities. Should include a flexible environment with creative latitude and appreciation of individual attainment. Particular interests include Linux, OpenSource, embedded systems, clustering, Storage Area Networks, full text search engines, networking, photo-realistic imaging, and data compression.

Special Note:

If you are a recruiter reading this, please don't send me an HTML formatted email asking me if I'm interested in a web server administration position. I'm probably not interested in anything under $100k/yr. For other areas of the country please convert from Salt Lake City, Utah to local cost of living. Please don't send me email asking for a copy of my resume in Microsoft Word format. This tells me two things: you are unable to cut and paste this version of the document and therefore unlikely to be a skilled recruiter; the position you are offering me is likely constrained by the restrictions of a Microsoft environment. In either case I am probably not interested in talking with you further. No offence intended, just the realities of the business world. Thanx!

Experience:

Languages: C++, C, Java, JavaScript, Perl, Python, PHP, Tcl/Tk, Unix shell, Ruby, Pascal, assembly, BASIC, COBOL, Fortran, etc.
Design and development experience in Internet and intranet environments of search systems, web applications, HTML, XML, graphics applications, disk and resident utilities on Linux, Unix, Windows, 95, NT, MS-DOS, and OS/2. Device and filesystem drivers for Linux.
Tools: GNU, Microsoft, Watcom, Borland, IBM, Sun and Zortech C++ and C, Microsoft Windows and OS/2 SDK, CVS, Polytron Version Control, etc.
Systems and operating systems experience: Debian GNU/Linux, Red Hat Linux 4.0+, SUSE 9+, Beowulf, LinuxVirtualServer, GFS and MOSIX clusters, kernel 0.95+, all Microsoft platforms (though I do not prefer them), Solaris 2.2+, etc.
Protocols: HTTP, HTTPS, SSL, IPSec, CGI, SSH, LDAP, NNTP, SMTP, FTP, TFTP, DHCP, BOOTP, PXE, TCP/IP, IPv6, UDP, ICMP, IGMP, PPP, SLIP, IPX, etc.
hardware: Intel x86, OMAP, StrongARM, XScale, SH3, Itanium (ia64), PowerPC, MIPS, Alpha, SPARC, and HPPA platforms. PCI, AGP, CompactPCI, ISA, VLB, EISA, MCA computers, embedded systems, DVD, CD-ROM, FDDI, Gigi/10/100/Base-T Ethernet, SCSI, FibreChannel, IDE storage subsystems, OpenGL hardware, etc.

Current Projects:

Maintainer: BZFlag, an Open Source, OpenGL, multiplayer, multiplatform, BattleZone capture the flag game.

Project Lead: TuxScreen web phone.

StrongARM platform, 4M flash, 16M ram
bootloader, kernel, uClibc, BusyBox, TinyLogin, pcmcia-cs, lrzsz, inetd, telnetd, XFree86 TinyX, rxvt etc. all in 4M of flash.

Member: Debian GNU/Linux development team.

Maintainer: ARM Linux kernel maintainer for the Sharp Zaurus SL-5000D

Personal:

Hobbies include home and auto audio/video systems, electronics repair, woodworking, hp-21xx mini computers, etc.
Enjoy working with people.
Speak and write Spanish fluently.

Gory Details (Work Experience):

June 2005-Present - Sr. Software Engineer The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saint, Salt Lake City, UT

Architecture, Design, and Development of large scale search system on Linux clusters

March 2003-June 2005 - Sr. Linux Technologist Texas Instruments, Inc., Dallas, TX

Technical Manager of embedded Linux project
Directly managed 20 developers
Responsible for entire project staff of over 60 personnel

May 2001-Present - Embedded Linux Consultant Guru Group, LLC, South Jordan, UT

October 2000-December 2002 - Principal Engineer, Chief Technology Officer Lineo, Inc., Lindon, UT

Platform support including handhelds
Many other special engineering projects.

June 1999-September 2000 - Senior Engineer - New Platforms team lead, Caldera, Inc., Orem, UT

OpenLinux ports to Itanium and PowerPC. Member of ia64Linux project.
Engineering involvement in kernel device drivers, large memory configurations, glibc work.

September 1998-April 1999 - Vice President of Technology, WordCruncher, Draper, UT

project lead and chief architect of full text retrieval engine. Engine designed to index and search 250 million web pages, updating 5 million pages a day. Initial launch (3 months) achieved over 99.9% uptime and handled the load as expected.
First commercial deployment of GFS a SAN based cluster filesystem. Many improvements were made to bring this up to commercial quality as part of this project.
Internet issues: DS1 installation, mail, DNS, DHCP, and web servers, Cisco router admin, etc.

June 1993-September 1998 - Software Engineer, SilverPlatter Information, Inc., Norwood, MA

design and implement corporate internet solution reducing individual server outages from over 60 a month to under 6 a month. Decrease average outage from from 45 minutes per incident to under 5. Further improvements underway are limited by the proprietary application.
design and implement World Wide Web interface to Client/Server databases using CGI API.
design and implement CD-ROM build and retrieval software, including data compression and indexing for IBM compatible, NEC 9800, Macintosh and Unix platforms.
optimized compression software reducing 24 hour run-times to 8 hours while increasing the compression obtained.
participated in design and coding of sort software, reducing sort time by 60 percent.
managed Novell, Windows NT, 95, OS/2, Unix, and Macintosh and DOS systems.
company wide support for network, hardware, software, communications and e-mail system.
established a reputation for delivering projects on-time and bug-free.

Sep 1992-May 1993 - Vice President of Development, ProCD Inc., Marblehead, MA

design and implement portable directory search engine in C++, now ported to: DOS, Windows, Windows NT, Macintosh, Unix, OS/2. Currently the software used for ProPhone and PhoneDisk.
design and implement portable buildware for same.
company wide support/installation of network, hardware, and e-mail system.

Feb 1989-Aug 1992 - Software Engineer, SilverPlatter Information, Inc., Norwood, Massachusetts

Apr 1988-Nov 1988 - Vice President of Development, TriTech Software, Inc., Orem, Utah

Aug 1987-Apr 1988 - Systems Consultant and Salesman, ICS Computers, Provo, Utah

Education:

Brigham Young University, Provo Utah - Computer Science, Physics and Math.
Monroe Community College, Rochester, New York - Pascal & Program Design, COBOL