Sage Alliances

Advisors/Directors

Robert Daley
rdaley@sagealliances.com

Mr. Daley has over 40 years of extraordinary experience in the software industry.

He attended Tufts University in Mechanical Engineering. From Tufts he went to MIT, to become a co-inventor and one of the principal designers and developers of CTSS (one of the earliest time sharing systems which laid a foundation for Multics). He then joined the Multics Group at MIT where he was one of the principal architects and system designers until he became Project Manager. (Multics spawned all the various flavors of UNIX in the market today).

For the majority of his career he was with Digital Equipment Corporation. As Group Engineering Manager for the All-in-One office product line he directed the efforts of over 500 software developers.

Many of his unique designs and development efforts have led the software industry:

First disk-based file system which forms the basis for most modern file systems.

Industry's first "virtual machine monitor", predecessor to VM/370.

The Multics Virtual Memory/File System (single level store).

Co-designer of the HIS 6180 addressing/security ("ring" protection) architecture.

Leader of the development of the VAX Information Architecture.

Leader of DEC's PC, client/server based office system architecture.

Mr. Daley is an expert software system architect, designer, and developer. Additionally, he is an expert: at developing interfaces, SDK's and class libraries; at integrating new technology into the main stream development process; at the development, cross platform development and portability issues involving Windows, UNIX, Linux, Java, Macintosh OS, Palm Pilot, 'smart phones' etc.

Mr. Daley holds two patents in 'distributed database synchronization' and has a patent pending in 'automatic field mapping', has published several technical papers on the design of file and virtual memory systems, and has authored a chapter in a textbook dealing with the management of computer systems.