Ron Record

Specialties: Open Source Solutions, Multiple Programming Languages
Blockchain Expertise, Cloud/Services Workflow Automation

Education

• Ph.D. Mathematics, University of California, Santa Cruz

  Research in applications of dynamical system theory including models of marine snow, the Italian economy, cell morphogenesis, and population dynamics. Developed a software laboratory for algorithmically detecting the boundaries of basins of attraction in a chaotic dynamical system.

  Erdős number: Four

  Thesis Advisor: Ralph Abraham

Employment

2020-2021

Principal Engineer

Eloquent Cloud, LLC

2018-2020

Big Chief

Moonlight Mining Company

2012-2017

Staff Engineer

VMware, Inc.

2010-2012

Artificial Intelligence and Virtual Reality research consultant

Second Life

1983-2010

Senior Open Source Architect

Santa Cruz Operation (SCO)

Recent Technical Experience

• Automation of billing, provisioning, and deployment of Cloud services
• Solidity and Plutus smart contract development on the Ethereum and Cardano blockchains
• Development, packaging, distribution, support, and maintenance of several open source projects with automated continuous integration using the Gitlab CLI
  • DriveCommandLine, manage Google Drive from the command line
  • RoonCommandLine, command line control of the Roon audio system
  • MirrorCommand, command line control of the MagicMirror platform
• Created prototype baseball card auction and trading site using the InterPlanetary File System (IPFS) and the Filecoin digital payment system

Earlier Technical Highlights

• Developed the prototype for VMware’s Cloud Management of IoT device hubs
• Lead Technical Architect, SCO Linux
• SCO’s primary representative and voting member on the UnitedLinux Management team
• Technical Architect of SCO Open Source strategy and programs
• Founding member, 86open
• Senior SCO Security Officer
• Technical lead in research, planning & presentation of a 1990’s Cloud Computing initiative
• Created, designed & prototyped the SCO Webtop
• Guided and coordinated a global team of engineers in the design and production of the SCO Skunkware CD-ROMs (Open Source solutions for developers and partners)
• Ported, integrated, packaged, distributed and maintained hundreds of Open Source projects
• Architect of GNUnix, an integrated Open Source and UNIX operating system and user environment
• Designed and implemented SCO world-wide source and revision control system
• Created energy efficient smart home using technology developed in the Automatic Guidance and Navigation group at NASA Ames Research Center

Publications

• Gardini, L., R. H. Abraham, R. J. Record, D. Fournier-Prunaret, [1994] “A Double Logistic Map”, International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos, Vol. 4, No. 1, 145-176
• Abraham, R. H., G. Chichilnisky, R. J. Record, [1994] “Dynamics of North-South Trade and the Environment”, Environmental Economics, Graciela Chichilnisky, ed., Mattei Foundation, Milan
• Co-author “Chaos in Discrete Dynamical Systems: A Visual Introduction in 2 Dimensions”, Telos/Springer-Verlag
• Co-author “Just Plane Chaos” teaching guide CD-ROM
• Co-author and presenter of a paper on Linux emulation at 1998 Summer USENIX
• Author “SCO and the Open Source Movement”, SCO World, Jan/Feb/Mar 1999
• Author “Porting Open Source Software to SCO”, SCO World, November/December 1999

Social Media / Projects

• Blog: https://blog.ronrecord.com
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ronrecord
• Github: https://github.com/doctorfree
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/doctorfree
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ronrecord
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/ronrecord
• YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/doctorfree

rr@ronrecord.com • 831-332-7972 •
522 Laurent Street, Santa Cruz, CA 95060