Resumé of Roland F. McKenney

31 Pinewood Avenue
Billerica, MA 01821-1623312
Email: mckenney31@comcast.net (preferred)
Day: (978) 287-1754
Evening: (978) 667-3254

Objective
Career Summary
Technical Skills
Experience
Education
Papers

Objective

I am seeking a permanent postition where I can continue to broaden my experience base in advanced software technology areas and contribute in a team environment.

Over 25 years of software development and development team leader experience in diverse areas including distributed file system kernels, computer supported cooperative work (groupware) systems, distributed object databases, and high-performance data warehousing.

Have a demonstrated ability to quickly learn and apply new technologies and to mentor junior engineers.

Technical Skill Areas

Languages: C++/C, Lisp, Java, PL/I, Smalltalk, Prolog, DPS6 Assembly
Operating Systems: UNIX (SunOS, AIX, SCO, IRIX, HP-UX, OSF1, Bull BOS); Linux; Microsoft Windows NT; GCOS 6 HVS; Multics
Other: OODB, VLDB, OLTP, RPC, HTML, CGI, OLE/COM, PCTE, TCP/IP, X/Motif

Experience

Sybase, Inc. (1997-PRESENT)

Staff Development Engineer in high-performance data warehousing group

www.sybase.com

04-: Lead engineer for database administration and RMAS team.; Integrated encryption components for data storage protection.; Directed and mentored remote (India) engineers.
00-03: Architect for the bitmap team; bitmap indexing is a key technology underpinning Sybase IQ.; Supervised and trained maintenance engineer for team.
97-99: Re-wrote the buffer cache services to implement multi-versioning concurrency control and substantially modified the performance monitor service.

ONTOS, Inc. (1995 - 1997)

Senior Technical Staff

www.ontos.com

96-97

Project leader for the ONTOS*Desktop development team, where I:

established technical direction and development roadmap,
took over the prototype UNIX server implementation and brought it to production quality,
extended the server from single client to multi-client capability, and
re-architected the client/server interface for a smaller footprint & higher performance.

95-96

Technical leader for the ONTOS OODB development team, where I:

contributed SMP expertise to the DB server re-architecture effort,
prototyped multi-threaded client/server design alternatives [C++/Solaris],
worked with marketing to define product direction and features,
developed a demonstration gateway from HTTP to ONTOS DB [C++/CGI],
developed a demonstration Java interface to ONTOS DB using early JNI/RMI, and
developed an automatic Java interface code generation tool for ONTOS DB applications.

Additionally I:

independently developed feature tests and did performance analysis for ONTOS DB product,
represented ONTOS at the Object Management Group (OMG) as Technical Representative,
provided technical support for adoption of WWW technologies, including establishing the intranet and internet servers, and
aided in UNIX system administration.

Bull HN Information Systems, Inc. (1979 -1994)

Staff Ladder Engineer, S/W

www.bull.com

92-94

Team Leader for the Metro project, a groupware application family being developed under a $4.2M contract for ARPA in collaboration with Columbia University and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. This was the successor to the Scrutiny project, a distributed system for the collaborative review of documents and source code built using the CLOS-based ConversationBuilder toolkit from UIUC.

As team leader, I:

directed team members in establishing and tracking work activities,
assisted team members in development and debugging activities,
implemented C changes necessary for port from SunOS/BSD to AIX/SysV platforms,
mentored other staff in UNIX/X/C++ environment,
prepared technical reports and published papers,
analyzed and made recommendations for managing departmental fixed assets and budget,
maintained the development environment infrastructure (porting and writing tools), and
monitored Internet and other resources for new technologies and introduced WWW to the group.

91-92

Team Leader in the CASE Tools group, responsible for porting the configuration management, version control, code analysis, and build tools; the target platforms included MIPS RiscOS, SCO, Bull DPX/2 and HP-UX. Also ported a number of X Window clients for our own use. Mentored junior staff being introduced to UNIX and as a System Administrator for the group server.

Member of an inter-departmental CASE Products Design Team that defined the Bull CASE Product Roadmap, including definition of the product requirements and architecture. Evaluated the IBM AIX SDE WorkBench/6000 product on the RS6000.

90-91

On paid leave to earn a Master of Science degree at The Gordon Institute of Tufts University. A key component of this program was the company-sponsored development project to prototype a test catalog system for supporting reuse; this prototype utilized the OMS of the GIE Emeraude implementation of PCTE.

89-90

Systems Engineer for Boston Development, where I participated in product definition and specification, was responsible for resolving architectural and design issues, and provided technical assistance to the development organizations in the transaction processing and DPS6000/UNIX hybridization areas. Represented the Boston Engineering group at the Groupe Bull Transaction Processing Conference in France. Wrote, and facilitated the technical coordination between Marketing and Engineering for, the TP Product Functional Specification. Co-wrote, and was editor responsible for, the architectural definition of a proprietary (GCOS 6) to UNIX hybridization environment.

88-89

Team Leader for the Advanced Software Engineering Technology group. Developed and deployed UNIX tools internally. Designed a distributed electronic conferencing facility. Established UNIX training sessions, defined and tracked schedules, and supervised prototype development efforts on Bull UNIX (XPS-100) systems.

86-88

Team Leader for three groups in the Kernel Development Department of a B3 secure operating system based on Multics technology. These teams were: the Storage System (combined Memory Management and File System), the Kernel Debugger & Tools, and the Runtime Environment. Participated in the definition effort as a senior designer and supervised the design and implementation phases. Introduced mainframe (Multics) and PC-based project management tools (MacProject, Time Line) for resource allocation, project scheduling and tracking.

Developed a remote kernel-debugging facility hosted on Multics and utilizing HDLC communications; maintained the DPS 6 X.25 stub and designed and initially coded the remote debugger framework.

79-86

Designed, developed and maintained File System components for the Bull GCOS 6 MOD 400 and MOD 600 operating systems. Introduced new functions related to data integrity: record locking, before and after image journalization, and utilities relating to crash recovery. Invented new mechanisms to extend these functions for operation in a distributed environment: specifically, support for two-level TP, two-phase commit and deadlock avoidance through use of time-stamps. Was a key contributor to the design and implementation of the Remote File Access facility, particularly the request server. Designed and presented internal training courses on file system internals and interfaces. Upgraded File System utilities for internationalization support. Devised performance analysis tests for File System kernel functions as well as automated feature tests.

Wrote a post-link-edit binary processing utility to take advantage of a virtual memory environment for relocation of large FORTRAN programs.

Education

The Gordon Institute of Tufts University, (TGI) Medford MA (1990 - 1991): Master of Science in Engineering Management; Received Highest Academic Achievement award.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, (MIT) Cambridge MA (1975 - 1979): studied Computer Science and Electrical Engineering

Papers

J.Gintell, J.Arnold, M.Houde, J.Kruszelnicki, R.McKenney & G.Memmi, "Scrutiny: A Collaborative Inspection and Review System", Proceedings of the Fourth European Software Engineering Conference, Garwisch-Partenkirchen, Germany (September 13-17, 1993)

Abstract: This paper describes a Bull US Applied Research Laboratory project to build a collaborative inspection and review system called Scrutiny using ConversationBuilder from the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. The project has several distinct aspects: technology oriented research, prototype building, experimentation, and tool deployment/ technology transfer. Described are the design of the current operational version of Scrutiny for inspection-only, the evolutionary design of Scrutiny to handle various forms of review, and some initial thoughts on integration with other CASE frameworks and tools. The problem domain selected, the development environment, lessons learned thus far, some ideas from related work, and the problems anticipated are discussed here.

URL: http://www.ics.hawaii.edu/~johnson/FTR/Bib/Gintell93.ps

J.Gintell & R.McKenney, "Building Scrutiny, a Distributed System for Collaborative Inspection and Review of Work Products -- Experience and Challenges", CSCW Tools and Technologies Workshop, ECSCW `93, Milano, Italy.

Abstract: to-be-provided

URL: currently unavailable

J.Gintell & R.McKenney, "A Proposed Structured Collaboration Architecture derived from the Scrutiny Project, Proceedings of the 1994 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work: Workshop on Software Architectures for Cooperative Systems, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, October, 1994.

Abstract: This position paper describes a proposed architecture for a family of collaborative applications where the collaboration is governed by a definable process. The architecture is derived from lessons learned and generalizations made from a recently completed three year project to build and use Scrutiny, a distributed CSCW system for performing software inspection and review.

URL: http://www.ics.hawaii.edu/~johnson/FTR/Bib/Gintell94.ps

G.Kaiser, S.Kaplan, J.Arnold, J.Gintell, R.McKenney & G.Memmi, ARPA proposal "Atlantis: An Open Architecture for Synergy of Process-Centered Environments and Computer-Supported Cooperative Work", Technical Report RAD/USARL/93044

Abstract: to-be-provided

URL: currently unavailable

J.Gintell, M.Houde & R.McKenney, "Lessons Learned by Building and Using Scrutiny, a Collaborative Software Inspection System", Proceedings of CASE `95, Toronto.

Abstract: This is an experience report describing the results of a project to build and introduce an experimental CASE tool into a software engineering organization. The tool is Scrutiny^TM, a CSCW system used to manage and facilitate the performance of software inspection and review by geographically separated teams. We describe Scrutiny and the lessons learned while building it and introducing it. The lessons learned are characterized as tool introduction, process, and user interface issues.

URL: http://203.162.7.73/ieee/htmls/disk_91/3235/9761/358_367_AVAT,%20a%20CASE%20tool%20for%20sof.htm

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