Timothy Charles Pepper                                  tpepper at gmail.com
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OBJECTIVE:  Permanent Full-time Open Source Leadership Position

WORK EXPERIENCE:

   VMware (Home Office, Remote)                           Principal Engineer
   Open Source Program Office                                (8/2017-1/2024)
   - Consulting on product teams' open source strategies, tactics, growth,
     and support plans across multiple technology areas and business units
   - Proposals/plans for next long term innovation investment domains
   - Led team establishing employee Open Source Guidelines documentation
   - Participant in M&A and Legal due diligence for open source topics
   - Led early company engagements in cloud native open source, Kubernetes
     project (rel. team, SIG/WG lead, elected to CoC and Steering Cmte.'s)
   - Regular open source industry conference speaking (earned content)
   - VMware-internal and public mentoring for teams and individuals on
     career, open source, and technical topics

   Intel (Hillsboro, OR)                            Senior Software Engineer
   Opensource Technology Center                              (6/2012-7/2017)
   - Founding member Cloud Integrated Advanced Orchestrator project
   - Linux and Android OS Research & Development
      o ClearLinux Project: architect, software update lead
      o Intel Reference Design for Android (IRDA): software update team lead
      o Haswell-ULT power-on and performance analysis, kernel maintainer
      o Co-developed highly optimized software update client/server system

   IBM (Beaverton, OR; San Jose, CA)              Advisory Software Engineer
   Linux Technology Center                                   (4/2001-6/2012)
   - Linux base kernel, OS, embedded development
      o Memory management, NUMA, storage, HPC research/dev/support tasks
      o multi-arch hardware support (x86_64, PPC, s390, ia64, ARM),
        performance analysis, debugging of customer issues
      o liaison between IBM-internal groups and open source communities
   - Intellectual Property reviews, compliance and infringement mitigation
   - Corp. sponsored mini-MBA program participant

   Zelerate, Inc. (San Mateo, CA)                            (8/2000-4/2001)
   Linux System Administrator

   IBM (San Jose, CA)                                        (6/1995-8/2000)
   Department IT Staff / Intern
   - Developed custom Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS)
   - Performed technical analysis on returned hard drives

   NASA (Edwards AFB, CA)                                (Summer 1992, 1993)
   Summer High School Apprenticeship Research Program

EDUCATION:  M.S. Computer Science, Portland State University, 2010
            B.S. Comp. Engineering, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, 1999
            Study Abroad 1995-1996 Universität Heidelberg, Germany

OTHER:      Board Member, Beaverton Farmers Market
            German language writing and speaking proficiency
            12 granted patents