Dr. Sherrill is Chief Scientist for OAR Corporation with over forty years of experience in the design, development, and fielding of real-time embedded applications in a variety of commercial, research, and military domains. Dr. Sherrill has been an active member of the free software community for over thirty years. As a principal author and current maintainer of the open-source real-time operating system RTEMS, he has been deeply involved in many RTEMS related efforts. He is a founding member of the Steering Committee for the Free Software Foundation’s GNU Compiler Collection and served as a board member of the Network Time Foundation.

Dr. Sherrill is currently serving as a representative for the U.S. Army to the Open Group Future Airborne Capability Environment (FACE™) Consortium and serves as lead for the Operating System Segment Subcommittee.

Dr. Sherrill earned a BS in Computer Science at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga and MS and PhD degrees in Computer Science from the University of Alabama in Huntsville.

Dr. Sherrill is a senior member of the IEEE and ACM.