Email: der.herr@hofr.at  Web: http://www.opentech.at/

Nicholas Mc Guire, 51 years, Austrian citizen since 1987, born US citizen.
 
Distributed Embedded System Engineer
17 years experience in Linux/UNIX and Open‐Source R&D (embedded and distributed embedded systems. Industrial computing & Real‐time Linux, Safety related systems, active developer in open‐source (GPL) projects, maintainer of RTLinux/GPL and XtratuM. Academic teachings in the field of distributed embedded real ‐ time systems and safety related systems. Bilingual & German, English. Never used a Windows system. Visually Impaired.

Awards
The Dunhuang Award for foreign experts working in Gansu Province 2007
The Cover Person for Moving Lanzhou 2007
The Friendship Award, the highest prize for foreign experts working 2009 in P. R. China
 
Interpersonal
Fluent in German and English.
Co-founder and organizer of international venues.
5 children to make life fun and a serious challenge !
 
Managerial
Experience in project management.
Experience in technical recruitment.
Design and Management of Network environments.
Managing development and engineering teams.
Experience in managing a specialized software company.
Experience in Leading distributed development teams and leading of software research teams both in academic and industrial projects.
Training and Teaching in technical schools, academia and industry.
 
Experience
CUIYING GUEST Professor at Lanzhou University Distributed and 2005‐ Embedded System Lab, founded in 2005. Research focus on distributed and embedded system and distributed real‐time systems for the application in safety related systems.
Chair of OSADL's Safety Critical Linux Working Group 2007‐
This working group is coordinating industrial efforts to utilize GNU/Linux and more generally FLOSS in the context of safety related systems.
 
Research
Research in distributed real‐time systems (Chines Ministry of Education)
Research on COTS/FLOSS in safety related systems
(Alcatel/Thales/Lanzhou)
Research on Linux Boot‐Time Optimizations (Siemens CT).
Research on Real‐Time enhanced Linux Variants (Siemens CT).
Research on RTLinux/GPL optimizations (Lanzhou University P.R. China)
Development of a semi‐active Magnetic Bearing (published at the ISMB
Zurich 1999)
Research in embedded and distributed embedded systems.
Research and development in real time Linux (RTLinux/GPL).
 
Open-Source Projects
Initiation and coordination of Open‐Source (GPL) Projects.
http://dslab.lzu.edu.cn http://www.opentech.at http://www.rtlinux‐gpl.org
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