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Curriculum Vitae

Leif Lindholm

General Information

Born:	1976, Sweden
Work experience:	11 years
Specializing in:	Embedded systems, network technology, system design/development.
Expertise in the area of:	Embedded Linux, ARM architecture
Current position:	Employed at ARM as an embedded software engineer, focusing on ARM multiprocessing. Deputy team lead of Processor Division Software - Systems group
Languages:	Swedish, English (fluent) German (beginner level)
User Environments:	UNIX: Linux, *BSD, Solaris, IRIX (, +other older flavours) Windows: XP, 2000, NT Macintosh: MacOS, MacOS X
Target Environments:	Embedded systems - ARM, MIPS, SuperH, x86, PowerPC. UNIX/Linux Google Android
Programming Languages:	C, Assembly (ARM, MIPS, PowerPC + very basic 68k, x86), Shellscript (bourne shell), PHP, C++
Embedded Toolkits:	Busybox, uClibc, Das U-Boot
Development Tools:	GCC/Binutils, Emacs, GIT/STG, CVS, SVN, GNU Make, RVDS/RVCT, Eclipse/CDT Less recent experience with: CodeWarrior, GDB, DDD, Lauterbach Trace32, Abatron BDI2000
Citizenship:	Swedish
Location:	Cambridge, United Kingdom
E-mail:	leif-web@smurfnet.nu
Mobile phone:	+44-774-8952366

Education

Longer Education

1996-1999	Studied computer engineering, specializing in real time systems, at KTH (the Royal Institute of Technology) Södertälje.
1995-1996	Military service as squad leader in a pioneer platoon at I1, Kungsängen.

Courses

2009	Essential Business Communications (The Learning Centre) Situational Leadership II (open course, held at ARM)
2008	Various internal ARM management courses (Transition to management, developing others, manager's toolkit)
2007	C++ for Embedded Developers (Feabhas)
1999	Solaris 7 system administration 2 (Sun Microsystems, Stockholm)

Experiences

Employments

August 2009-	ARM Staff Engineer - Embedded Software
Nov 2008-August 2009	ARM Information Developer
2008	ARM Staff Software Applications Engineer
2005-2007	ARM Senior Software Applications Engineer
2001-2005	I3 Micro Technology (now Tilgin) System developer
2000-2001	Real Time Logic Ltd Consulting in system development
1999-2000	Datessa System administrator and UNIX consultant
1999	Ericsson UAB Thesis project and summer placement student.
1997-1999 (part time)	KTH (Royal Institute of Technology) Telge Part of the system administrations team for the Solaris systems.

Work experience

August 2009-	ARM, Cambridge, England Staff Engineer - Embedded Software Joined the enabling team within the Media Processing Division, working as a line manager and looking at multiprocessor software development on the ARM architecture. A reorganisation moved the team across to the Processor Division Software group at the beginning of 2010.
November 2008-August 2009	ARM, Cambridge, England Took on the newly created role of Information Developer, looking at providing a more hands-on approach to documentation, aimed at software developers targeting ARM processors. Collected customer input and worked with internal stakeholders to produce a first set of development articles to be published on ARM's documentation portal, Infocenter. Kept responsibilities for customer training material production and presentation.
2007-2008	ARM, Cambridge, England Deputy team lead for the Compilation tools support team. Specialising in the embedded software (TrustZone, JTEK, ...) range of products, RealView Compilation Tools and RealView Profiler. Customer training courses - presenting, creating and reviewing training material. Created software training modules for Cortex-A9/MPCore, for use in customer training courses. Some focus on the ARM MPCore processors - ARM11 MPCore and Cortex-A9 MPCore. Staff Software Applications Engineer from January 2008. Line manager responsibilities from August 2007. Part-time Compilation tools support team lead (1 day per week) after team lead moved to a reduced work week (February 2008). Documentation review for both software and hardware/IP products (e.g. ARM11 MPCore, Cortex-A9 technical reference manuals).
2005-2007	ARM, Cambridge, England Senior Software Applications (Support) Engineer. Specialising in the embedded software (TrustZone, JTEK, ...) range of products, and ARM development boards (Versatile/RealView). Customer training courses - presenting, creating and reviewing training material. Created software training module for ARM11 MPCore and generic multiprocessor development. Some focus on the ARM11 MPCore processor. Participated as support's representative in the engineering meetings for the RVDS Eclipse plug-ins. Documentation review for both software and hardware/IP products (e.g. development board user guides).
2002-2005	I3 Micro Technology (now Tilgin), Kista, Sweden System developer in the MOOD set-top box software team. Responsibilities including: STB factory production system In-house embedded Linux distribution for STBs Boot loader (U-Boot) for the Mood 300 STB Hardware validation (on a software level) The set-top box division of Tilgin was acquired by Amino Communications in December 2008.
2001-2002	I3 Micro Technology (now Tilgin), Kista, Sweden System developer in the MOOD streaming video (MPEG) server software team.
2001	SpaceCoin, Uppsala, Sweden Participated in writing a billing system in C (OCI) against an Oracle database.

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