Rob Norton
Senior Consultant at Independent Consulting
Dallas, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRob Norton is a Senior Consultant and product-minded business analyst with 15+ years helping organizations—from startups to enterprises—align process, CRM and technology to drive efficiency and growth. He built partner-facing technical programs for Microsoft Dynamics CRM and later translated that enterprise experience into accessible, pragmatic CRM and process work for small businesses through his independent consulting practice. Rob blends technical depth (early systems administration, sales engineering and hands-on CRM product management) with entrepreneurial instincts, having founded and sold a highly rated retail business and run a consulting firm. He’s comfortable bridging marketing, users and engineering, evangelizing solutions and simplifying complex, interdependent systems for non-technical stakeholders. An active contributor to open-source RISC-V tooling, he fixed subtle LR/SC/AMO semantic bugs in the sail-riscv model, demonstrating attention to correctness in low-level architectures as well as product strategy. Based in Dallas, he channels spare-time interests in micro-philanthropy, blogging and music into empowering others with knowledge and opportunity.
5 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0, Applications, Installation and Deployment, Customization and Configuration, Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0, Applications, Installation and Deployment, Customization and Configuration at Unitek ITESMP, Executive Salon Management, ESMP, Executive Salon Management at UCLA Anderson School of ManagementSenior Systems Administrator, Computer Networking, PC Technology, Server Infrastructure, Electronic Communications Technology, Senior Systems Administrator, Computer Networking, PC Technology, Server Infrastructure, Electronic Communications Technology at Master's Institute of Technology
Sign languages
Github Skills (12)
model-building10
risc-v10
embedded10
sys10
modeling10
model-driven10
model-driven-development10
assemble9
assembler9
computer-architecture9
assembly9
memory-management9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
riscv/sail-riscv
Mar 2021 - Jul 2021
Sail RISC-V model
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 commits, 3 comments in 4 months
Contributions summary:Rob primarily focused on improving the Sail RISC-V model, particularly concerning the handling of Load/Store/Atomic (LR/SC/AMO) instructions. They fixed internal errors related to the decoding of invalid LR/SC/AMO widths by preventing their decoding and throwing illegal instruction exceptions. The user extended the execution for the LR/SC/AMO instructions, enabling handling of currently unused, but potentially valid, encodings. They also fixed an issue with LR/SC and atomicity guarantees and added an extension point for physical memory access validation.
risc-v
CTSRD-CHERI/sail-cheri-riscv
Feb 2021 - Jul 2021
CHERI-RISC-V model written in Sail
Contributions:2 reviews, 28 commits, 3 comments in 5 months
risc-v
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