Tom is a co-founder of Schooner Information Technology. He has previously successfully founded three companies. His most recent company, PathScale, developed a very low latency, high bandwidth infiniband system interconnect, and was acquired by QLogic in 2006. Prior to founding PathScale, from 1996 to 2001, Tom was a Distinguished Engineer and Principal Investigator at Sun Microsystems, working on Server Architecture and advanced CAD tools. From 1993 to 1996, he was a Director in the MIPS division of Silicon Graphics managing microprocessor development and the MIPS architecture group. From 1989 to 1992, he was a Vice President at Amdahl in the Systems Architecture group. Before Amdahl, he founded Key Computer Laboratories in 1987. Amdahl acquired Key Computer, a company that designed of one of the first superscalar pipelined architecture computers, in 1989. In 1981 Tom co-founded Valid Logic Systems, whose products were based around his Ph.D. thesis work at Stanford University. He won the 1984 IEEE “W. Wallace McDowell Award” for the creation of the SCALD design methodology, which is the basis for many of the successful computer-aided engineering systems used in the industry. From 1983 to 1989 he was a Vice President at Valid. Prior to Valid, he was at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), where he was one of the principal designers of the S-1 supercomputer, a joint effort between LLNL and Stanford University. Dr. McWilliams received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford. He received his B.S.E.E and M.S.E.E. in Electrical Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University.
