A Priori Consulting
A Priori America, Inc.
Ian McDonnell
Consulting Software Engineer
Introduction
A Priori Consulting provides professional services to the computer,
networking and software industry. The company was established in
1994 by Ian McDonnell to provide high-quality consulting, software and
system development expertize. The business is located north of Boston
and serves not only the New England area but also the clients
throughout the US.
Ian McDonnell has over 20 years experience in the industry. He
has held engineering positions at Cray Research, the supercomputer maker,
where he created the Cray File Transfer Agent, and at Digital Equipment
Corporation, where he helped develop and support Digital's ULTRIX operating
system. Ian is a versatile engineer with broad experience in UNIX,
BSD, Linux and various RTOS operating
systems, Internet protocols, both wide-area, LAN and wireless networking,
real-time and embedded systems design, device drivers,
OS kernels and systems integration.
In addition to his software know-how, Ian has excellent written and verbal
communication skills and he pays close attention to quality and completeness.
He holds a B.Sc. in Computer Science from the University of Kent at Canterbury,
England.
Previous projects include:
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Linux port to StrongARM based IXP1200 network processor, including
BSP development, bootstrap and chip initialization.
Linux ARM and PPC driver development for 10/100 ethernet, FPGA control,
Gigabit network processor control.
Protocol development: new Linux socket family, Multi-protocol Label Switching
(MPLS).
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Port and bring-up of NetBSD/arm32 on an embedded ARM processor, including
hardware bring-up, PCI and flash programming, device driver & tool
development
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Embedded NAS development, system architecture (hw/sw), using NFS, Fibre
Channel, SCSI and NetBSD/i386 services within an integrated SAN device,
including hardware bring-up, flash, EEPROM programming
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Internet Firewall management systems (BSDi, Checkpoint)
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L2TP Access Concentrator design, development and team management
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Quality of Service (QoS) queuing for Internet router (diff-serv) and firewall
devices
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Large-scale network file access (NFS, AFS, Solaris, AIX) analysis, performance
tuning
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ATM OC-3 driver development, hardware validation, optimization and integration
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OSPF, RIP, BGP routing information distribution for ChorusOS-based router
device
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Operating system enhancements: NetBSD, FreeBSD,
ChorusOS,
Linux
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DSL Access Multiplexer (DSLAM) device development
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Real-time distributed Solaris, pSoS, and application IPC and integration
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Computing system diagnostics and debugging
Contact Information
A Priori America, Inc
11 Fairmount St
Winchester MA 01890
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