John R Pierce

John R Pierce
610 Graham Hill Road
Santa Cruz, CA 95060
Tel: 408-471-9662 Fax: 408-471-9663
E-mail: pierce@hogranch.com

GOAL
Seeking a challenging position where my extensive experience working with a variety of advanced personal computer technologies can be utilized.

SUMMARY

• 25 years of operating systems internals experience spanning several generations of computing systems with special emphasis on graphics, 3D, and video.

• Recent expertise includes Microsoft Windows 95 and NT graphics display drivers, multimedia drivers, hardware interfacing, microcoding, and high performance subsystem architecture design. Visual C++, Windows95/NT SDK & DDK, MASM.
• Very strong performance optimization, assembler, C, microcoding, algorithm development, and debugging skills.

EXPERIENCE

• Member of Technical Staff, Chromatic Research, July 1996 to present.

Debugged and enhanced Windows95 driver for Mpact graphics engine. Beta testing of forthcoming Microsoft Windows update including adding Mpact support for multi-monitor and other new features.

• Principal Software Engineer, Diamond Multimedia Systems, Inc, October 1992 to May 1996

Developed Windows 3.x, NT device drivers for Stealth family of video products. Developed Win3.x and NT3.x drivers for Viper VLB. Department mentor. Technical researcher. Microsoft technical liaison.

• Staff Software Engineer, Chips and Technology, October 1989 to March 1992

Windows Display Acceleration Microcode and Drivers for "PUMA". Windows driver performance enhancement for C&T SVGA family including 453, 480 and Wingine.

• Owner, Graphics Control, 1984 to 1989

Designed and implemented a wide range of software projects, including graphics device drivers, 3D drivers, real time systems, 3D animation software, etc.

• Senior Software Engineer, Digital Research, 1977 to 1983

"BIOS" development for early 8080/z80 CP/M systems, and in-house hardware engineering... numeric run time code for PL/I-80 compiler. CP/M 3.0 driver architecture. turtle graphics for Dr Logo interpreter. ported portions of CP/M to 8086. ported CP/M-86 to original IBM-PC. performance evaluation and tuning of Concurrent CP/M kernel.