Primary Job Title Founder and Consulting Partner Primary Organization 
OSR Open Systems Resources
Location Amherst, New Hampshire, United States Regions East Coast, New England, Northeastern US Gender Male
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Peter Viscarola is the Founder and Consulting Partner at OSR. His background includes extensive technical and managerial experience at Digital Equipment Corporation where he was responsible for managing large, geographically disperse technical teams. Peter is the primary OSR liaison with Microsoft and has made substantial technical contributions to
Windows and the Windows Driver Development Kit. He is directly responsible for ongoing corporate strategy and provides leadership (ranging from management to hands-on technical contributions) to OSR’s driver development efforts.
Peter is a device driver expert, with extensive experience in high-performance and complex driver solutions. He has been responsible for the design, review, specification, or development of hundreds of Windows drivers throughout his career. Peter has been an invited speaker at nearly every major industry forum including the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC), Intel Developer’s Forum (IDF, where he won an award as a top speaker), and Microsoft’s Driver Development Conference. Peter is a co-author of Windows NT Device Driver Development (MTP, 1998) and has published dozens of articles in The NT Insider.
Peter has been a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) since 2003. He is currently an MVP in both File Systems Storage and Windows Hardware Engineering. Peter has been granted 8 patents in relevant technology areas.
Peter regularly teaches OSR’s WDF as well as the Internals and Software Drivers seminars and is one of the authors of OSR’s Developer’s Blog.
