Douglas
Paulson |
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Proven Project Leader and
Developer of software to assist with the debug and validation of
hardware/microprocessors.
Experienced in developing software that spans across multiple operating
systems and hardware platforms. Effective at leading smaller teams to
achieve goals as well as ensure team cohesion.
Possesses an extensive knowledge of PC platform architecture from
the software perspective. |
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EXPERIENCE |
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Member of
Technical Staff (MTS) Software Engineer
Advanced
Micro Devices (AMD) |
2007-Present |
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Leader of the Specialized Tools, a group that develops software to
assist with the debug and validation of hardware. (4 members in Austin,
3 offshore)
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Coordinated efforts with newly acquired teams (AMD bought ATI) to
update diagnostics to allow porting to various operating systems.
(Windows/Linux/DOS)
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Collaborated with the offshore team reviewing/assigning tasks. (early
morning conference calls, occasional video conferences)
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Maintained a handful of tools for Windows in C++ and C# tied to power
management to remain familiar with the development process the local and
offshore teams utilized.
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Researched and defined requirements for tools supporting future
products.
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Senior
Software Engineer
AMD |
2004-2007 |
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Continued maintaining various Specialized Tools across different
processor families/revisions.
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Expanded into writing code to interact with chipset features such as
the SMBus and maintained/updated AMD’s PowerNow!™ technology from the
application level.
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Updated numerous applications to support multi-core and multi-node
processors/platforms.
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Moved non-mission critical applications offshore for maintenance,
essentially managing a team of 3-4 developers in addition to the team in
Austin that comprised of 4 engineers and one coop.
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Adoption of QT and the use of abstract classes allowed tools to be
ported between operating systems up to 50% faster than traditional
rewrites. (often faster)
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Software
Engineer 2
AMD |
1999-2004 |
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Ported QNX embedded OS to a platform utilizing the ElanSC520 32-bit
x86 micro-controller and booting from flash. Work involved getting the
memory controller initialized/creating a stack such that C-code could be
executed and the OS booted.
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Developed PERL script to compare the x64 assembly output of the NASM
(golden) assembler vs. Microsoft’s MASM x64 compiler to ensure binary
output matched. This
involved utilizing every instruction and address mode.
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Joined the Specialized Tools team as an individual contributor taking
over the development of several validation/debug tools mostly related to
power management.
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Software
Engineer 1
AMD |
1998-1999 |
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Primary responsibilities included the design and development of
embedded C code for 16 and 32-bit x86 micro-controllers.
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Developed C drivers for embedded Ethernet controllers and I2C busses.
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EDUCATION |
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University of
Idaho |
Moscow, Idaho |
B.S.,
Computer Engineering |