JAMES R.(BOB) DAVIS
(408)353-2706 - 408.857.1273 Cell
Summary
Technical Director - Network Appliance, Inc.
Consultant/President - Summit Computer Systems, Inc.
Management and Engineering Consultant - Arthur D. Little, Inc.
Corporate Management - Founder Decision Support Systems, Inc.
General Management - Division GM - Zilog
Hardware and Software Consultant - 22 years
Education - M.S.E.E. Stanford, M.B.A. Pepperdine
Lecturer on bus structures
Member IEEE Standards Board
Member INCITS Executive Board
Chairman IEEE CS Microprocessor Standards Committee
Industrial Experience
(1) Summit Computer Systems, Inc. January 1988 – December 2000 June 2003 - Present
Consultant - Continuing to provide consulting services in Engineering and Management areas on a contract basis to large and small companies throughout the US. Much of this work has been in high-speed data structures to meet the marketing, architectural, and return on investment needs of the business units. Solutions are usually based on the physics of the system with EMI and susceptibility considerations. Work has included UltraSparc(1-3), Alpha, Pentium(1-4), AMD K7 implementation of bus structures from S100 through PCIX and various private buses including other high-speed host (front side) bus, and back side cache bus structures. HSpice and PSpice models have been created used to predict behavior, then checked with finished design for proper values and operation. Quad Designs XTK software, with vendor supplied and HSpice derived models, has been used to find reliability and EMI problems in high performance computer systems. Supervised design process for double sided boards using buried capacitance, buried resistance, BGA, uBGA, TAB, controlled impedance, and other high density packaging systems for customers. Designed reduced voltage backplanes for higher speed systems to 2+Gigabytes/Second transfer rates using simulation techniques. Previous work has included SCI and UltraSparc structures and implementation of a SPARCstation 10 board, from design kit to boards, in two weeks. Designed and Edited IEEE Project P1996 for High Reliability, Extensible Computer system bus designed for Continuous systems operations with hot swap system with no single point of failure to be used for Telecommunications, Communications and Traffic Controls system, a TDM structure is included to support STS-12 communications on SONET framing. Recent projects are extending this work to OC-192 and OC-768 level systems.
Recent work has extended into the Digital Cinema data structures and transportation issues.
(2) Network Appliance Inc. December 2000 – June 2003
Technical Director – Hardware Architect for the Platform Engineering division and for the Storage Systems Division. Standards participant for Network Appliance as Member IEEE Standards Board and Sub committees RevCom and ProCom, Chairman of the Microprocessor Standard Committee, Principal member -INCITS Executive Board, JTC1 Technical Advisory Group, INCITS (International Committee for Information Technology Standards) Technical Committees T10, T11 and T13. I also represent NetApp on the Serial ATA working group and the PCI Express development committee and the Advanced Switching developing group (Arapahoe) and the PCI-SIG organization. Development work has included standards for Advanced Microcomputer Power Distribution System (IEEE P1575), hierarchical storage systems and support and training of the junior and senior engineering staff.
(3) Arthur D. Little, Inc., Western Technology Center July 1987-December 1987
Consultant - I supported clients in projects ranging from market definition to detailed design of equipment, design reviews, technology assessment, and litigation support. Western Technology Center was closed in December 1987.
(4) Summit Computer Systems, Inc. August 1980 - January 1983, May 1984 - August 1988
Consultant - Provided consulting services in Marketing, Engineering, Management, and Litigation Support. I have designed computer systems, add in boards for the IBM PC, facility security systems, database for a Command and Monitor Panel for an experiment for the Space Shuttle, installed and maintained a UNIX operating system on both VAX and MC680X0 series processors, designed a serial communications subsystem product for a Unix system. I have written and installed Engineering procedures for several small companies, written and given Seminars and Lectures at BUSCON and the BUSTOP series. I have served as software design engineer, hardware design engineer, and system designer, Director of Engineering, Market Analyst for clients. Worked in large data structures with sustained transfer rates of 200 Megabytes per second, and large storage facility for storage of Terabytes (1000 Gigabytes) and Petabytes (1,000,000 Gigabytes) of data at very low cost per megabyte.
(5) SECTEL INC. March 1984 - May 1984
Vice President of Engineering. Designed and built prototype hardware and software, for data encryption system. System was demonstrated, with fully functional hardware and software, but not funded.
(6) Decision Support Systems, Inc. January 1983 - March 1984
President/Vice President of Engineering. DSSI was formed to pursue the Executive Workstation market niche. Market analysis led to a series of products directed at the high-level knowledge worker with little/no computer experience. The first product was a triple processor 680X0 in a functionally distributed system using UNIX and Real Time Kernel to give very fast service to the primary user, with support for 2 staff users. Severe disk data integrity problems were solved with a backup system with a capacity of 2500 Megabytes, based on Helical Scan VHS technology to keep the media costs low and media availability very high. My responsibility was to supervise the architecture, design, and implementation of these subsystems. I wrote the original business plan for the company and helped raise the seed capital for the company.
(7) Zilog Inc. August 1977 - July 1980
June 1979 - July 1980
Business Unit Manager, OEM Boards Group - P/L responsibility for the OEM Board product line. Groups reporting to me included the Marketing Department, Design Engineering Department, System Software Department, Drafting and Layout Department, Technical Publications Department and the Model Shop. Product line had sales in excess of $4.7 Million in 1979 and plan of $6.2 Million in 1980. This product line included the first conversion, and use of AT&T UNIX to microprocessors.
August 1977 - June 1979
General Manager, Tester Division - Divisional P/L responsibility. Division included Marketing Group, Engineering Group, Software Group and Manufacturing Group. This Division built both Logic Testers and Memory Testers to test all logic and memory products. Thirty of these testers were built and all Zilog component products were tested at the wafer and class level using these testers. In a startup mode I built this team from two employees to 47. We designed a new, full function parametric tester to handle the 16 and 32 bit microprocessors, peripherals and large complex memory products.
(8) Intel Corporation, October 1976 - July 1977
Strategic Marketing Manager, Personal Computer Products - Responsibility for the planning and marketing activities in personal computers and business plan for a new division to pursue the Personal and Professional computer market. Intel Management decided that there was no potential market in the Personal Computers.
(9) American Micro Systems, Inc., May 1975 - October 1976
Supervisor of Hardware Design - July 1976 - October 1976 - Responsible for engineering designs for Micro Computer Development Center and EVK prototyping systems.
Senior Applications Engineer, May 1975 - July 1976 - Microprocessor Systems. Responsibility for applications for microprocessors including; customer support, data sheets, application seminars, customer presentations, designed and developed the EVK prototyping module.
(10) San Jose State University and Cogswell College September 1975 - June 1976
Faculty appointments to teach extension courses in microprocessor design, programming, and usage.
(11) Fairchild Semiconductor, July 1973 - May 1975
Staff Engineer, Digital Applications Group, Digital Integrated Circuit Marketing. My prime responsibility was with Charge Coupled Devices including applications customer design assistance, designing demonstration boards and writing application notes, I also provided support for ECL Memories, TTL logic and Communications circuits.
(12) Diversified Electronics, July 1972 - July 1973
Staff Engineer and Manager of Computer Operations. Duties as Staff Engineer included the design and layout of the printed circuit boards in the Instamator 610 Estimating system as well as the production testing of these boards and systems. As Manager of Computer Operations I selected, installed and operated a Data General Nova computer to improve test capability of boards and systems as well as business computational requirements. I also helped design the Instamator 710 Estimating system, which was based on 3 multiprocessing Intel 4004 Microprocessors.
(13) Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, June 1968 - July 1972
Staff Associate - Designed and implemented circuits and systems associated with the injector of the two-mile long linear accelerator. Among these circuits were: A 1000 volt transistorized voltage regulator for the high voltage cathode pulser; A 50 MHz bandwidth fiber optics control transmission system with 100 KV DC isolation for both analog and short pulse transmissions; Designed the synchronization system for the electron, positron storage rings injection using MECL III logic. I was also responsible for a 6.6 MEV linear accelerator used for experimental development work on particle detectors, beam position monitors, and relativistic electron beam dynamics studies.
Military Service
United States Navy - February 1961 - March 1968
First Class Communications Technician (E6) - Held Top Secret and Cryptographic security clearances. Stationed at U. S. Naval Security Group Activities in the Pacific area. Last position I supervised 50 technicians in the maintenance of specialized electronic equipment.
Academic Training
(1) Master of Science in Electrical Engineering degree from Stanford University, Stanford, California. - Graduated June 1973 with major studies in Integrated Circuit Theory, Process Technology, and Computer Science.
(2) Master of Business Administration degree from Pepperdine University - Graduated in 1982 from the Presidential/Key Executive (PKE) MBA program.
Military Training
Graduated from Electronic Technician Class A and Class B Schools and three U.S. Naval Cryptographic Class C Schools.
Industrial Training
(1) Short courses (1 to 3 days) in Power Negotiations and Financial Management for Non-Financial Managers.
(2) I have programmed in most common languages on various Intel, Motorola, and Zilog processors, Data General and DEC minicomputers, and IBM 360 Model 91. I have also installed, administered, and operated UNIX versions BSD4.2, BSD4.1, V7, System III and System V under source licenses from AT&T and U.C. Berkeley.
Professional and Civic Activities and Licenses
(1) Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers appointments held:
Member IEEE Standards Board – 2003 - 2004
IEEE Standards Board Review Committee (REVCOM) 2003 - 2004
IEEE Standards Board Procedures Committee (PROCOM) 2003 - 2004
IEEE Standards Board New Standards Committee (NESCOM) 1987
Currently Chairman of the Microprocessor Standards Committee 2002 – 2005
Chairman of the Microprocessor Standards Committee 1984-1987
Vice Chairman of the Microprocessor Standards Committee 2000 - 2001
Chairman IEEE 949 Media Independent Information Transfer
Chairman of the IEEE 896 Futurebus
Currently Chairman IEEE P1996 – Hi Reliability PCI Standard
Retired Chairman IEEE P754R Revision of Floating Point Standards Committee
Currently Editor IEEE P1575 – Advanced Microcomputer Power Distributions Systems
(2) INCITS (International Committee for Information Technology Standards) – Principal member 2002 -
Member INCITS Executive Board and subsidiary boards
Member T10 Technical Committee
Member T11 Technical Committee
Member T13 Technical Committee
(3) ISO/IEC JTC1/SC47B on Microprocessors appointments held:
Technical Advisor and TAG Administrator
Chief Delegate for the United States – TC47
Chairman - Working Group 4 - Architecture
Chairman - Special Working Group – VSB
Currently Coordinator JTC1 SC26 for IEC coordination on IEEE 754R
(4) Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE)
Member S22 Television System Technology / Time Code Committee
Member DC28.2 Digital Cinema Mastering Study Group
Member DC28.4 Digital Cinema Conditional Access Study Group
Member DC28.5 Digital Cinema Transportation and Delivery Study Group
Member DC28.6 Digital Cinema Audio Study Group
Member DC28.7 Digital Cinema Theater System Study Group
Member DC28.8 Digital Cinema Projection Study Group
Member DC28 Digital Cinema Colorimetry Ad-Hoc Study Group
(5) JEDEC (old Joint Electron Device Engineering Council)
Member JC45 FBDIMM working group
(6) Audio Engineering Society
(7) FCC General Radio Telephone License PG-12-13437, Ship Radar Endorsement
(8) Amateur Radio License - Extra Class - W6HUL
(9) Commercial Pilot License - No. 1816437 rated for Single Engine Land, Multi-Engine Land and Instrument Airplane.
(10) Member - Town of Los Gatos Police Department's Disaster Aid Response Team (DART)
(11) Member - California Department of Forestry and Fire Prevention V.I.P. Communications and AFIO Program
Professional Awards
(1) IEEE Outstanding Contribution Award - For Leadership in the development of IEEE Std 949-1985 - Media Independent Information Transfer.
(2) IEEE Meritorious Service Award - For Leadership of the Microprocessor Standards Committee.
Hobbies
Flying; Competitive Shooting in Action Pistol, High Power Rifle and Trap; Sound Systems and Amateur Radio.
