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Murray Stokely

Headline: Engineer
Work status: Employed Full-Time
Industries: Computing, Internet
Skills: C/C++, Databases, Engineering, HTML / CSS, Java, Languages and Platforms, Perl, Python, Software Engineering, SQL, System Administration, Unix, Web Development, Windows
Location: San Francisco
Interested in: Consulting opportunities, Finding team mates, Meeting new people, Providing services to startups, Trading services
Tags: distributed computing, freebsd, google, model checking., quantitative analysis, silicon valley, software verification, unix
Schools: California State University System, University of Oxford

WORK EXPERIENCE

Employer: Google
Position: Senior Software Engineer
Time period: September 2005 - Present

Employer: FreeBSD Mall, Inc.
Position: VP Engineering / Senior Release Engineer
Time period: February 2002 - Present
Description: Responsible for the engineering aspects of the FreeBSD product line.
• Coordinated product development activities between engineering groups in California and China.
• Managed complete release process for all FreeBSD based products. This includes managing the submissions of
internal developers as well as those from over 300 open source contributors.
• Met with influential individuals in the mainland Chinese software market to identify steps necessary to make
our products politically acceptable in China.
• Gave presentations about our operating systems products and met with business partners in Europe, Asia, and
North America to promote our company as well as to identify political or technical issues that were hampering
the acceptance of our products in those markets.

Employer: FreeBSD
Position: FreeBSD Core Team Member and Release Engineer
Description: Active developer of the open source FreeBSD Unix operating system. Since 2001 I have been an elected member of the
core team which manages the contributions of over 300 developers and thousands of contributors over the Internet.
Formalized release engineering processes.

Employer: Wind River Systems
Position: Senior Software Engineer
Time period: May 2001 - February 2002
Description: Responsible for developing software and FreeBSD-related products, and managing a small team of Associate Engineers.
• Managing the production process for FreeBSD-related products.
• Documenting the release engineering practices of our operating system products to ensure that our important
internal processes are not overly disrupted by staff turnover.
• Writing technical documentation about our products and designing the documentation infrastructure necessary
to manage the submissions of other documentation authors throughout the company.

Employer: Berkeley Software Design, Inc.
Position: Systems Project Manager
Time period: July 2000 - January 2001
Description: Responsible for the productivity of several small teams working on various concurrent projects :
• Development of new open-source internal business software to replace the proprietary system currently used
for mail-order and inventory management.
• Consolidating our e-commerce backend software with that of our merger partners.
• Creating and improving upon automated tools to index the FreeBSD Handbook, and other technical documentation
projects.
• Content collection and product development for CDROM products to be placed in the retail channel.
• Management of four programmers.

Employer: Berkeley Software Design, Inc.
Position: Product Manager
Time period: March 2000 - May 2001
Description: Responsible for managing the process of FreeBSD product development.
• Negotiating contracts with third-party vendors.
• Creating product roadmaps and ensuring production deadlines are met.
• Managing a team of three programmers to assist with the technical aspects of product development.

Employer: Walnut Creek CDROM
Position: Software Developer
Time period: June 1999 - March 2000
Description: Developed business software for order placement, inventory, purchase orders, and shipping logistics to replace our
proprietary software system. This project involved writing a cross-platform Tcl/Tk GUI interface that communicated
with the backend MySQL database.

Employer: Walnut Creek CDROM
Position: Webmaster
Time period: June 1998 - March 2000
Description: Responsible for development and administration of our online retail business. All of the content for our website was
dynamically created with embedded Perl from a MySQL database. I was also the primary developer for a banner-ad
system used to display and track banner ads, and to dynamically produce pie-charts and statistics showing click-through
ratios.

Employer: Walnut Creek CDROM
Position: Perl Programmer
Time period: June 1997 - June 1998
Description: Job responsibilities included maintaining several large PC servers used in CDROM production, making purchasing
decisions for hardware upgrades, providing technical support for FreeBSD, Linux, and GNU software, maintaining DNS
servers and other TCP/IP administration tasks, writing reusable Perl modules to automate the task of CDROM production
and content collection.

Employer: Infiniti Design
Position: Web developer
Time period: December 1995 - June 1997
Description: Job responsibilities included writing business proposals for potential customers and developing online commerce solutions
in Perl/CGI to meet customer needs.

EDUCATION

University: University of Oxford
Time period: 2004 - 2005
Degree: Computer Science, MSc

University: California State University System
Time period: 2003
Degree: Computer Science, Pure Mathematics, BSc

PUBLICATIONS

Articles: • Efficient Predicate Abstraction Using Parallel Evaluation for Software Verification Systems, M.Sc. Thesis, Oxford
University
• The Release Engineering of FreeBSD 4.4, BSDCon Europe, 2001
• Slackware Linux Essentials, 2nd Edition, Editor, ISBN: 1-57176-338-4
• The FreeBSD Handbook, 3rd Edition (Volume 2), Editor and contributing author, ISBN: 1-57176-328-7
• The FreeBSD Handbook, 3rd Edition (Volume 1), Co-editor and contributing author, ISBN: 1-57176-327-9
• The FreeBSD Handbook, 2nd Edition, Co-editor and contributing author, ISBN: 1-57176-303-1
• The FreeBSD Handbook, 1st Edition, Contributing Author, ISBN: 1-57176-241-8

INFORMATION

Memberships: Internet Software Consortium DHCP Committer, Apple Darwin Project Committer.
American Mathematical Society (AMS), Institute of Electrical and Electronics
Engineers (IEEE), Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM), Association of Computing Machinery (ACM),
USENIX Advanced Computing Systems Association.
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