Dave is an engineer in Sun's Solaris engineering group, architect for the Installation technologies and one of the leads for the OpenSolaris distribution. Dave is also a co-author of the recent book, OpenSolaris Bible (Wiley, February 2009).

His background is in networking and system administration and his work includes the original Solaris admintool and sysidtool, a product related to PC-NFS called SolarNet PC-Admin, the Solaris DHCP server and DHCP Manager management tool, and the Service Management Facility (SMF).