Management Team

The management team at eCosCentric is:

• Alex Schuilenburg
• John Dallaway
• Nick Garnett
• Jonathan Larmour
• Bart Veer
• Daniel Morris
• Paul Beskeen

Alex Schuilenburg, MSc, Managing Director

Alex has a background of over 18 years in software development covering a wide array of projects and skills, 8 of those in real-time and embedded systems. His experience includes numerous operating systems, assembler, C and C++, as well as other coding and scripting languages, low level hardware, multiple CPU architectures, and internet technologies. He was the embedded run-time engineering manager of the Red Hat eCos group and managed the Helios operating systems group while at Perihelion. His management experience includes project management, engineering team management, technical sales support, and customer support.

John Dallaway, PhD MBCS CITP, Operations Director

John is a Chartered IT Professional with 6 years experience in managing complex embedded run-time engineering projects. He has a background in robotics research and user interface development established within the University of Cambridge. He is a professional member of the British Computer Society. His involvement with eCos and RedBoot has included development of the GUI interface for the eCos configuration tool (of which he is the maintainer), eCos training course development and delivery, and project management.

Nick Garnett, PhD, Chief Technical Officer

Nick has over 25 years of experience in system software development including workstation, server, desktop, distributed, parallel, embedded and real-time systems. Awarded a PhD from Cambridge University in networking systems, Nick is the kernel architect of eCos and is also a senior eCos maintainer. While at Cygnus and Red Hat, Nick was responsible for the design and implementation of the kernel, various HAL ports and the POSIX and file IO packages. At Metacomco he was part of the team that developed AmigaDOS for the Commodore Amiga. At Perihelion he designed and implemented the Helios Parallel Operating System for the Inmos Transputer as well as the compiler, assembler and linker, which were subsequently adopted by Inmos as their standard toolchain. Nick also ported the BSD network stack and many other subsystems and applications to Helios. At Virtuality, Nick was involved in systems support for high performance virtual reality graphics and sound systems.

Jonathan Larmour, MA, Chief Development Engineer

Jonathan is the chief maintainer of the eCos RTOS. He is responsible for the development of the eCos ISO C library and parts of the POSIX and EL/IX compatibility layer. His key skills include flexibility and adaptability, from low-level device drivers, eCos HAL ports, OS aware hardware debugger integration, to high level libraries and documentation. Jonathan brings a strong quality assurance and customer support focus to the management team.

Bart Veer, MA, Chief Scientist

While at Cygnus and Red Hat, Bart was the architect and main programmer responsible for the implementation of the eCos component system and its configuration technology. Bart has also been responsible for the eCos USB slave infrastructure, power management system, and synthetic target support for emulation of eCos on Linux. He is also an eCos maintainer and was the chief maintainer of eCos for a number of years. Alongside Nick and Alex, Bart also worked at Perihelion where he designed and implemented much of the I/O subsystem for the Helios operating system as well as developed and implemented its support for massively parallel and distributed processing applications, and modification of the kernel for real-time operation. Bart also proposed, won, and was the principal engineer in the Esprit funded Pardi research project for parallel programming support on workstation clusters.

Daniel Morris, BEng CEng MIEE, Sales & Marketing Director

Daniel brings to eCosCentric a sharp customer focus honed over the last 11 years in high volume consumer electronics and software sales. His commercial expertise, intimate knowledge of the embedded market and eCos experience are a great asset to eCosCentric. Prior to joining eCosCentric, Daniel worked for Red Hat, Sony, Hewlett Packard (now Agilent) and Fujitsu. He was responsible for Red Hat's OEM & Embedded sales in EMEA as well as key Enterprise accounts within the Nordic & Benelux regions. He was also Senior Engineer at Sony where he led the team that produced their most successful Digital Set Top Box within the European market to date. His experience includes SmartCard and driver development, VHDL, BSP porting, network and Third-party Relationships management as well as software development for ASIC design.

Paul Beskeen, BSc, Chairman of the Board & Director of Business Development 

Paul's career spans over 20 years in the engineering and technical management of embedded operating systems and related software. His career started at Perihelion Software, a company specialising in parallel and embedded operating systems. A ten year stint at Perihelion culminated with his appointment as Technical Director (CTO) of the company. During this period he was also contracted by the European Union Commission for review and recommendation of technical proposals in the pan-European ESPRIT research programme. Paul subsequently worked for Virtuality Inc, a developer of virtual reality hardware and software, as manager of its Operating Systems group. In 1996 Paul joined Cygnus Solutions as Director of Engineering, tasked with building and heading up a team to create an open source operating system designed specifically for the embedded space - eCos. Following the merger of Cygnus Solutions with Red Hat, Paul continued in this role combined with contract definition and negotiation for embedded projects within the business affairs team.