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William
S. Frantz
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16345 Englewood
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Los Gatos, CA
95032
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(408)
356-8506
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frantz@pwpconsult.com
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Major
Strengths
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• Operating System
Architecture
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• Secure Distributed
Systems
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• Communication
Software
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• Highly Reliable and
Secure Systems
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Skills &
Services
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• C, C++, Java, PL/I,
Pascal, Basic, Algol 60/68, Fortran,
Forth
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• Assembly languages for
the Sparc, Motorola 68000 and 88000, IBM/370, 6502,
Varian 620, SDS 940, IBM 1620, IBM 650, Royal
Precision LGP-30
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• Cryptographic
protocols: DSA, Diffie-Hellman , SHA1, Triple
DES
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• Electronic commerce,
community based computing
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• Linux, Macintosh,
Unix, Solaris, Windows
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• Palace Plug-Ins
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Professional
Experience
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Periwinkle, Los Gatos
CA
Consultant, Systems Architect: Emphasis on
system architecture, security, and data
communications.
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1991-present
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Developed plugins for the
Palace server to enhance its security and
operation.
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Developed a financial system
in Java with a Netscape plugin to access local
storage.
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Developed low-level assembler
code for a Sparc based OS kernel.
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Implemented ZMODEM file
transfers on an IBM/VM/XA system.
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Built an X.25 to 370 network
interface system using an IBM PC as the
controller.
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Converted a MVS VTAM LU6.2
communication program to VM/ESA and
VAX/VMS.
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Built a garbage collector for
an object oriented database.
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Developed economics based
resource allocation strategies for network
services.
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Communities.com (aka
Electric Communities), Cupertino CA
Capability Security Guru: Developed software to
enable network based communities, including EC
Habitats, a Java based secure distributed 3D online
community; The Palace on-line chat client and
server software, and the Passport browser plugin
client/server suite
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1997-2001
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• Designed and
implemented an automatic download system for signed
code.
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• Designed and
implemented software to support online trading of
virtual goods.
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• Designed and
implemented extensions and security fixes to
Iptscrae.
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• Designed and
implemented plugins to improve security for The
Palace server.
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• Designed and
implemented a secure communications protocol based
on TCP.
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• Designed and
implemented a Java class file parser and class
loader which allows untrusted code to run as part
of an application.
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• Designed and
implemented an interface which allows Java RMI to
use the E secure communications protocol and
coexist with the E runtime.
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• Participated in the
design and development of algorithms to support
optimistic remote invocation, remote references,
and the three party handoff of remote object
references.
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Key Logic, Santa Clara CA
1985 -1991
Company Founder, Scientist: Key Logic developed
and marketed KeyKOS, a secure, highly reliable,
capabilities based microkernal.
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• Designed and
implemented an interface to a public data network
including 3270 emulation for use by a customer's
VM/XA operating system.
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• Ported IBM 370
Assembler version of KeyKOS to a C for Motorola
68000 and 88000 machines.
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• Designed and
implemented serial I/O drivers for the Motorola
machines.
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• Designed and
implemented the KeyKOS I/O system, featuring
automatic mirroring on multiple disk devices,
extensive arm motion and rotational latency
optimization, and a checkpoint/restart facility
that encompasses all programs and data in the
system.
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• Designed and
implemented a high performance transaction
processing facility.
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• Designed a secure (B3
level) POSIX compatible interface.
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• Enhancement a command
language interpreter which features built-in help
facilities, command files, pipes, and I/O
redirection.
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Professional
Activities
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•Share (IBM Mainframe
User's Group)
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Interactive Interfaces
Project Manager
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Strategic Issues Group
member
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Interactive Systems Task
Force member
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Human Factors Project
Officer
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Language Futures Task
Force
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Administrator: VMSHARE and
PCSHARE
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• SPKI Working Group of
the IETF
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• Invited speaker, 3rd
USENIX Workshop on Electronic Commerce,
1998
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• E Open Source Project
<http://www.erights.org>: Contributed TCP
based secure communications protocol.
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Publications
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• Gnosis, An Operating
System for the 1990s, 1979, Share Inc., Chicago, IL
60601
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• Computing for the
Information Age: The Report of the Interactive
Systems Task Force (INTERSYS), 1982, Share Inc.,
Chicago, IL 60601
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• KeyKOS &endash; A
Secure, High-Performance Environment for S/370,
1987, Share Inc., Chicago IL 60601
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• The KeyKOS®
Nanokernel Architecture, in Proceedings of the
USENIX Conference on Micro-Kernels and Other Kernel
Architectures, April 1992 USENIX Association,
Berkeley, CA 94710
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• Object Oriented
Transaction Processing in the KeyKOS Microkernel,
for the USENIX Second Symposium on Microkernels and
other Kernel Architectures, September 1993 USENIX
Association, Berkeley, CA 94710
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• RFC 2693, SPKI
Certificate Theory, September 1999
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• Capability-based
Financial Instruments, Proceedings of Financial
Cryptography '00 or
http://www.erights.org/elib/capability/ode/index.html
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Education
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• Garden City High
School, Garden City, N.Y.
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• 1962-1963 Dartmouth
College
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• 1966-1967 Harvard
Extension
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• 1980 University of
California Extension, Design & Implementation
of Modular Software; Abstraction, Specification,
& Validation
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• 1988-1989
Conversational German, West Valley
College
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• 1990-1994 Mandarin
Chinese, San Jose State University and Foothill
College
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• 1991 Studio and Field
Television Production, Foothill College
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