User:Richooker



Richard Arthur Hooker was born on a farm in Weedsport, NY and raised in Syracuse, NY, to William and Josephine (Barbera) Hooker. He is an Electrical Engineer, Inventor [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] and Musician (Composer) [9]. After graduating from Harvard University in 1975, where he majored in Biology/Computer Science (pre-med), was an Instructor at the Boston School of Electronic Music (BSEM) [22], he attended SUNY Polytech where he earned a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, graduating in just 3 semesters ('79 Summa Cum Laude) as the first graduate in this new curriculum [10]. He began his engineering career as an Analog/Digital designer at International Computers Limited (ICL), then, as a Biomedical Engineer at Instruments for Cardiac Research (now Squibb Medical Systems), designing heart monitors while pioneering the first portable blood pressure monitor and exercise stress testing systems [11]. Later Richard transitioned to several semiconductor companies and co-developed radar systems and 'chip' designs with NEC Electronics, INMOS Transputers and IBM Microelectronics. At IBM Richard was one of the co-developers of the PowerPC RISC microprocessor and several System-on-Chip (SOC) designs based on the IBM PowerPC (IBM 801 spin-off) [20]. IBM helped Apple develop the first PowerMac Operating System by giving them a kernel to bootstrap their first compiler and then compile their operating system with AIX XLC compiler. John Cocke [18], Richard Hooker [21], Dr James Shearer [19] and a team of 12 (IBM/Apple/Motorola) accomplished the first PowerMac Operating System ports for this effort [17]. Later the IBM/Motorola/Apple team at Summerset TX and several others (code warriors) authored the PowerPC Compiler Writer's Manual [23]. The IBM PowerPC team spawned several publications including the best seller, "PowerPC Programmer Toolkit [24] by Tom Thompson and Technical Editor Richard Hooker, which included the CodeWarrior CD. While at IBM Richard held the Vice Chair appointment for the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC) Multimedia Sub Committee for 6 years. During this time Richard created the first PowerPC super scalar example concept and benchmark, entitled, Processor Output Work Results (PORWmark) to demonstrate RISC performance at trade shows and on Computer Chronicles in 1994 [26] and IBM Patent "Method and system for tabulation of execution performance." [27] Later Richard had a successful career at GE Transportation where he was the Lead Software Architect and designer of the black box event recorder CMU (Communications Management Unit) [13] before joining Dell Technologies (formerly EMC) for 11.5 years as the lead architect for failover technologies and file systems initialization [12]. After leaving DELL Technologies Richard went to work, under the department of defense (DOD) at Mainsail, a USAF contractor, developing the software architecture for the USAF's drone detecting systems (Ninja) [14]. Richard is currently Staff Software Engineer Lead in R&D with Elbit Systems America [16], where he co-developed the Optionally Manned Fighting Vehicle (OMFV) software architecture. Currently, Richard continues in R&D, with Elbit America, focusing on the United States Government (USG) MOSA, New Modular Subsystems' Software using DDS infrastructure with FACE and GCIA Architectures created with USG Cameo SysML Models. Richard continues these days working on aviation projects as an Elbit America contractor doing systems' software engineering with the US Army [25]. Inspired by a former friend and renowned artist, Fort Lauderdale Artist Craig Reheis, Richard spends leisurely time drawing contemporary flowers and space captures when not playing and composing with his synthesizers.

Spouse: Lori Hooker b. 1961 Children: Sara Rose [Hooker] Silva, b. 1979; Richard A Hooker, Jr. b.1982, Eric Ryan McClellan b.1985, Dr. Emily Dawra, b. 1994 References