Resumé for Mike Van Emmerik

email: emmerik at bigpond.net dot au
web: http://users.bigpond.net.au/emmerik

Seeking

Programming positions where low-level, technical knowledge and experience is important, e.g. binary tools, compiler back ends, embedded systems.

Interests

Disassembling and decompilation; binary translation; reverse engineering.

Skills

C 12 years
C++ 10 years
Assembler:
  Intel 12 years
  SPARC 7 years
  68K 5 years
  Some experience with PA-RISC, Z80, 6502, 6800, 68HC11, 2650, 6502, 68000, 6809, and others right back to SC/MP.
Low level code 12 years (disassemblers, decompiler, binary translation, device drivers)
Digital electronics 8 years (test, redesign for testability, PC repair)
Communications: 3.5 years (BiSync, X.25, Zmodem, VIP7750)
Database (Microsoft Access, dBase II/III)
 

Work History
 

1997-2001	Senior Research Assistant for Cristina Cifuentes. Main output: UQBT (retargetable Binary Translator); I wrote about 70% of the code. The retargetability makes the translator much more difficult. There are specification files for instruction syntax and semantics, calling conventions, etc. Some of the technical aspects include binary file formats; link maps for constructing target binary at specific virtual addresses; machine idiosyncrasies like delay slots; register windows; X86 floating point compares.
1995-1996	Contractor to Telstra; designed and wrote Windows Field Terminal (fault report management software). Windows 3.1, C++.
1993-1994	Research Assistant, REVCOMP project. Assisted Cristina Cifuentes with her definitive PhD project, DCC (a decompiler). Static library signature detection work was published in ASWEC '98 (Australian SoftWare Engineering Conference).
1990-1993	Programmer, DRIFT project (Multisession communications program with scripting language). C++, emulations, hardware layers, interrupt routines, some reverse engineering, including PeriscopeTM hardware.
1983-1989	Engineer class 2, Telecom Workshops, Brisbane. Digital electronics, dBase II/III, ATE (Automatic Testing Equipment). National factory control software rollout for 6 months (before Workshops were closed down).
1981-1982	Engineer class 1, Telstra (then called Telecom Australia)

Pre employment
 

High school	Communications receiver; 5" CRO; serial computer (part completed). See nostalgia part 1.
University	TTL video terminal; 2650 DOS; 600 baud DECwriter; Z80 Resource (disassembler); ported arcade video game (Frogger on Scrambler); SCSI hard disk interface; external floppy disk units for Amiga. See nostalgia part 2.

Publications

• Journals
• "Recovery of Jump Table Case Statements from Binary Code", C Cifuentes and M Van Emmerik, Science of Computer Programming, 40 (2001): 171-188
• "UQBT: Adaptable Binary Translation at Low Cost", C Cifuentes and M Van Emmerik, Computer, Vol 33, No 3, March 2000, IEEE Computer Society Press, pp 60-66
• Conferences
• "The Design of a Resourceable and Retargetable Binary Translator", C Cifuentes, M Van Emmerik, and N. Ramsey, Proceedings of the Sixth Working Conference on Reverse Engineering, Atlanta, USA, October 1999, IEEE-CS Press, pp 280-291.
• "Recovery of Jump Table Case Statements from Binary Code", C Cifuentes and M Van Emmerik, Proceedings of the International Workshop on Program Comprehension, Pittsburgh, USA, May 1999, IEEE-CS Press, pp 192-199. Extended version as: "Recovery of Jump Table Case Statements from Binary Code", Technical Report 444, School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, The University of Queensland, Dec 1998.
• "Identifying Library Functions in Executable Files Using Patterns", Van Emmerik M. J., Proceedings of the 1998 Australian Software Engineering Conference, Adelaide, 9th to 13th November, 1998. An earlier version is available in postscript form.
• Workshops
• "Computer Security Analysis through Decompilation and High-Level Debugging", C Cifuentes, T Waddington, and M Van Emmerik,  Decompilation Techniques Workshop, Proceedings of the Eighth Working Conference on Reverse Engineering, Stuttgart, Germany,  October 2001, IEEE-CS Press, pp 375-380.
• "Preliminary Experiences with the Use of the UQBT Binary Translation Framework", C Cifuentes, M Van Emmerik, D Ung, D Simon and T Waddington, Proceedings of the Workshop on Binary Translation, NewPort Beach, Oct 16, 1999. Technical Committee on Computer Architecture Newsletter, IEEE-CS Press, Dec 1999, pp 12-22.

• Working Conference on Reverse Engineering (WCRE): 1999 (Atlanta), 2000 (Brisbane; local arrangements), 2001 (Stuttgart).
• Decompilation workshop (part of WCRE 2001). Organised and chaired with Cristina Cifuentes.
• Workshop on Binary Translation: 1999 (Newport Beach), 2000 (Philadelphia).
• Reengineering week 2000  (EuroREF,  CSMR,  ReTIS) (Zurich; presented a colleague's paper).
• Australian Software Engineering Conference (ASWEC): 1998 (Adelaide; presented).

• Bachelor of Engineering, University of Queensland, First Class Honours 1980.
• Bachelor of Science (Specialising in Computer Science), University of Queensland, 1979.
• Matriculated St Edmunds' College, Ipswich, Queensland 1975. Dux of school; highest Tertiary Entrance score, straight 7s in year 12.

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Last updated 14th Feb 2003: Updated years; despam email address