Dr. Thomas M.

McWilliams
San Francisco Bay Area
Cell: 510-316-5896
tom.mcwilliams98@gmail.com

Profile
CEO | CTO | VP Engineering | Storage Architect
Founder of five startups, driving product strategy, design, technology innovation, and
finance for both hardware and software products. Have been the founding CEO, CTO, VP
Engineering and Storage Architect. Experienced at building companies and teams.
Specialties: Storage Architecture, Product Strategy, Software and Hardware Design

Experience
2016 present President
Thomas M. McWilliams Consulting
I am available to help with product strategy and design for both hardware
and software systems.
2011 present Founder | Director | CEO | CTO
Bay Storage Technology
Developing low-latency, high-performance software for tiered storage
systems running on commodity hardware, that can be used in a number
of applications, including cloud systems. Involved in operational
management, product direction, and the overall storage architecture of
the system.
2007 2010

Founder | Chairman | CTO

Schooner Information Technology
Built key-value and MySQL appliances for use in internet data centers.
Worked on product definition and strategic direction. Acquired by
SanDisk in 2012.

2001 2006

Founder | Chairman | CEO | CTO

PathScale
Developed the worlds fastest low-latency, high-bandwidth InfiniBand
system adapters. It was selected by the tri-labs (Lawrence Livermore
National Laboratory, Sandia, and Los Alamos National Laboratory) in
2011 for use in their supercomputer clusters. PathScale was acquired by
QLogic in 2006. The technology was later acquired by Intel in 2012 from
QLogic for use in their new high-performance Omni-Path interconnects.

1996 2001

Distinguished Engineer | Principal Investigator

Sun Microsystems (Sun Labs)
Managed a research group that designed and built a massively parallel
custom hardware logic simulation system for simulating processors and
digital systems.

1993 1996

Director Engineering
Silicon Graphics
Managed microprocessor development and architecture groups
designing MIPS processor chips.

1989 1992

VP
Amdahl
Managed a systems architecture group doing research into new
technologies for mainframe products.

1987 1989

Founder | Chairman | CTO | VP Engineering

Key Computer Laboratories
Designed one of the first superscalar computers using ECL gate arrays.
Key Computer was acquired by Amdahl in1989.

1981 1987

Founder | VP
Valid Logic Systems
Managed groups in both engineering and product marketing areas.
Worked closely with sales to close business. Valid was a pioneer in the
computer aided engineering field (CAE). It commercialized the SCALD
design system that was developed at Stanford University and Lawrence
Livermore National Labs (LLNL) which was based in part by my Ph.D.
thesis. Valid went public (IPO) in 1983.

1975 1983

Founder | S-1 Project Technical Director

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)
Technical Director and principal designer in the S-1 supercomputer
project, a joint effort between LLNL and Stanford University.

EDUCATION
Ph.D., Computer Science, Stanford University, 1980
B.S.E.E. with University Honors and M.S.E.E. Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon
University, 1975.

AWARDS and HONORS

I.E.E.E. W. Wallace McDowell Award, 1984. Citation: For creating the Structured
Computer-Aided Logic Design (SCALD) methodology, which is the basis
for many of the successful computer-aided engineering systems used in
the industry.
Hertz Foundation Award for Best Ph.D. Thesis, 1980
Fannie and John Hertz Foundation Graduate Fellowship, 1975-1980
Everard M. Williams Scholarship Award.
Bausch and Lomb Science and Math Award.
PATENTS
U.S. Patent Number 7,036,114, Method and Apparatus for Cycle-Based computation.
U.S. Patent Number 7,043,596, Method and Apparatus for Simulation Processor.
U.S. Patent Number 7,076,416, Method and Apparatus for Evaluating Logic States of
Design Nodes for Cycle-Based Simulation.
U.S. Patent Number 7,080,365, Method and Apparatus for Simulation System Compiler.
U.S. Patent Number 8,244,969, System Including a Fine-Grained Memory and a LessFine-Grained Memory.
U.S. Patent Number 8,667,001, Scalable Database Management Software on a cluster of
nodes using a Shared-Distributed Flash Memory.
U.S. Patent Number 8,667,212 B2, System Including a Fine-grained Memory and a LessFine-Grained Memory.