Alexander Chiang
alex@chizang.net
http://chizang.net/alex/blog/about/

2507 Flintridge Pl.
Fort Collins, CO 80521
(970) 364-3245

Summary
* Proven ability to ship products while leading globally-distributed teams
* Extensive experience enabling and delivering new hardware platforms
* Deep understanding of entire software stack, from firmware to web browser
* Experience supporting OEM pre-sales, ODM manufacturing, and L3 escalations


Canonical, Ltd. / OEM Services				04/2010 - Present
Premium Engagements, engineering manager
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* Hired as software engineer, promoted to engineering manager in Oct. 2011
* Shipped Vodafone Webbook
* Technical lead of multiple, high-customization projects
* Mentored peers and direct reports in technical and professional development


Hewlett-Packard / Business Critical Servers		05/2007 - 03/2010
Linux kernel engineer
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Upstream work
* Wrote PCI slot detection module (pci_slot.ko)
* Added generic hotplug support to PCI subsystem
* Refactorization and clean ups in the ACPI subsystem and drivers

Internal work
* Shipped Proliant DL785G6, Integrity BL860c/BL870c, and other platforms
* Supported enterprise distributions with feature backporting and defect fixing
* Developed and executed test plans for new platform and IO card support
* Mentored numerous peer engineers on upstream development processes


Hewlett-Packard / Business Critical Servers		11/2005 - 05/2007
Integrity Server hardware diagnostics
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* Delivered project's major v2.0 release on-time
* Designed and developed Linux userspace IA64 CPU architectural test tools
* Supported HP server factory team, directly reducing cost savings


Hewlett-Packard / Enterprise Unix Division		8/2002 - 11/2005
HP-UX kernel engineer
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* Shipped HP-UX 11i v2 Enterprise Release and four subsequent update releases
* Shipped HP Integrity BL60p
* Led development on multiple large projects in the HAL subsystem


Papers and Talks
* Western State College, guest lecturer, 2009
	CIS330: Where's the hardware?
		Linux PCI slots, a case study
	CIS391: Dude, I got a CS degree and all I can do is code!
		(non-obvious tips for success in the real world)

* Linux Plumbers Conf, 2008
	Physical PCI slots: A little bit goes a long way

* SuSE Labs Conf, 2008
	Physical PCI slots: A little bit goes a long way

* Western State College, guest lecturer, 2006
	CIS391: Itanium Servers and 3pm Naps
		(How to Stop Worrying and Love Working for the Man)

* US Patent 7,428,695
	System for Automatic Generation of Arbitrarily Indexed Hyperlinked Text


Education
* University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
	B.S., Computer Engineering,  2002