Steve Gaede founded Lone Eagle Systems in order to make his and his colleagues' collective experience available to a wide range of forward-looking clients. Steve received his B.S.E in Computer Engineering from the University of Michigan and his M.S. in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley. He has been employed by Amdahl Corp., Bell Laboratories, Cray Laboratories, NBI, Inc., and Software Design & Analysis Inc. prior to founding Lone Eagle Systems Inc. His UNIX performance evaluation experience began at U.C. Berkeley and Bell Laboratories, where his capacity measurement techniques have set a standard for more than two decades-- and since 1991 have been part of the SPEC Software Development Multi-tasking (SDM) benchmark suite. His UNIX kernel-level work at NBI, Inc. lead him to the development of a comprehensive set of hardware and software tools for evaluating and improving UNIX-based application performance. This experience was key in his work establishing tools and benchmarks for multimedia server performance projects with Lone Eagle Systems. His insights into system performance issues are part of why Steve Gaede has a proven track record in exploiting new technologies in effective ways for state-of-the-art architectures, designs, and implementations. Steve is active in the Boulder professional community, and has been a coordinator of the Front Range UNIX Users Group since 1984.