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Rob Sutherland

Rob Sutherland

Senior Software Designer

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  • Timeline

  • About me

    Senior Product Designer

  • Education

    • CEGEP - John Abbott College

      1981 - 1983
      Diplome d'Etude Collegiale Pure and Applied Sciences

      Activities and Societies: POETS group

    • University of Waterloo

      1983 - 1988
      BMath Applied Math, Computer Science

  • Experience

    • Nortel

      Jun 1988 - Aug 2005
      Senior Software Designer

      2003 - August 2005Researched capacity-limiting problems in VxWorks-based Third-Generation telephone switches (PowerPC processor, C and C++).Researched memory waste.Improved several key tools used in capacity testing.2001 - 2003Worked on Metropolitan-area DWDM (PowerPC, C++)Served as the memory-system troubleshooterIntroduced meaningful security measures in productAdded support for a new 10 Gigabit optical transponder card, including a statistical analysis to determine the appropriate Severely Errored Second threshold value. 2000 – 2001- capacity architect for Third-Party Core, a product running DMS software on cPCI-based single-board computers.- Linux PowerPC , PROTEL, C, assembly 1996 – 2000Architect for DMS XA-Core Call Processing- real-time reclamation- converting tens of millions of LOC to multi-processor target 1988 – 1996- debugging and performance tools- object-manager frameworks- call-processing base Show less

    • Edgewater Computer Systems Inc.

      Aug 2005 - Feb 2008
      I don't need no steenkin title!

      - Extended 1553 Management software- Implemented a high-availability runtime for hard real-time, UML-based tool-set aimed at avionics industry (C, Python, PowerPC Assembly, VxWorks/Tornado/Workbench, Linux)

    • Cisco

      Jul 2008 - Jun 2009
      Software Designer

      CRS Software (big, fast router)

    • Home

      Jul 2009 - Feb 2011
      Part-time Mr Mom

      Police unruly children and keep the home front safe and productive.

    • Canavita Technologies Inc.

      Feb 2010 - Feb 2012
      Founder and Chief Monkey Man

      Design, develop and test a Linux/RTAI-based hard real-time executive.

    • Broadview Networks, now part of Windstream

      Mar 2011 - May 2022
      Senior Software Designer

      Senior developer for a cloud-based VOIP product responsible for High-Availability (Corosync/Pacemaker), virtualization, geo-redundancy, networking, security and everything else that falls through the cracks on SuSE Linux Enterprise. I am also involved with build infrastructure. (Ant, Jenkins, Docker, Kiwi).

    • Lovatt Effective Systems

      Jun 2022 - now
      Senior Product Designer

  • Licenses & Certifications

    • 51% fluent in Spanish

      Duolingo

  • Volunteer Experience

    • Coaching

      Issued by West Carleton Soccer Association on May 2000
      West Carleton Soccer AssociationAssociated with Rob Sutherland

    • Scorer

      Issued by Freestyle Skiing Ontario on Jan 2012
      Freestyle Skiing OntarioAssociated with Rob Sutherland