Marshall Dawson
Denver Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMarshall Dawson is a veteran engineering leader turned media and civic communicator based in the Denver area, with 20+ years of experience in firmware, systems design, and semiconductor platforms including hands-on contributions to the coreboot project for AMD Stoney Ridge. After senior technical roles and management at AMD and National Semiconductor, he now focuses on public speaking, leadership coaching, media commentary, writing, and political messaging, and serves as a fill-in host and on-air contributor for The Kim Monson Show. He founded MAD3 Services, bringing entrepreneurial discipline to consulting and R&D leadership, and ran for Colorado’s 2nd Congressional District in 2022 and 2024, reflecting a sustained interest in policy and public service. Notably, his background blends deep embedded-systems expertise with public-facing storytelling and campaign experience, making him effective at translating complex technical topics for broad audiences.
9 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Electrical Engineering, Bachelor's Degree, Electrical Engineering at University of Kentucky
Github Skills (8)
firmware10
embedded10
sys10
acpi10
boot9
system9
assembly8
x868
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
coreboot/coreboot
Jun 2016 - Aug 2022
Read-only mirror of https://review.coreboot.org/coreboot.git. Synced every hour. We don't handle Pull Requests.
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer
Embedded Systems EngineerContributions:562 commits in 6 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Marshall's contributions primarily involve modifying and enhancing the coreboot firmware for an AMD-based system, specifically the Stoney Ridge platform. They focused on configuring and enabling the various I/O components of the system. The work included setting up the ACPI, memory map, and USB, making sure the necessary I/O devices are enabled, and verifying their functionality during boot.
corebootfirmwarereviewpull-requestsbootloader
amd/firmware_binaries
Oct 2019 - Aug 2022
Contributions:4 reviews, 47 commits, 8 PRs in 2 years 9 months
administratoramdmarshall
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