Self employed, providing security, compliance, privacy and risk management services for smaller technology companies that do not need nor can afford full-time information security management.

Primary duties include:

• Provide responses to external security inquiries
• Arrange and perform application and infrastructure security reviews
• Develop business risk registers
• Provide technical guidance on legal compliance issues
• Implement information security policies

Security analysis, engineering and architecture for a global network delivering over 100 Petabytes per day.

Among many projects, most notably I implemented cryptography and secrets management recommendations and policies, designed a scalable network and host intrusion system using SecurityOnion, and implemented a self-service security scanning API built on top of Tenable-SC for software release management.

Some of my day-to-day duties include Performing security architecture reviews for new products and red-teaming implementations of new and existing products from layer 2 to layer 7 of the OSI stack.

Software project management, analysis, design and implementation for performance metrics and DNS.

I managed a global pool of 250+ DNS servers running custom dynamic hostname resolution software. I was the lead engineer and scrum master for development team building edge, middleware, API, and web client for advanced DNS management and control system to replace existing DNS infrastructure. Technologies used: PowerDNS, Python, C++, MySQL, Django, Jenkins, SaltStack, Apache, nginx, JQuery, Bootstrap.

Software design, development and testing for Mars Odyssey, Mars Exploration Rovers, and Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Missions.

I was responsible for handling uplink and downlink data to and from the Mars Odyssey Orbiter. Uplink command correctness verification, downlink data verification, imaging parameter extraction, storage, search, and retrieval. I also designed and implemented Image map projection and registration workflow pipelines and tooling. Tools used: Python, USGS ISIS, MySQL, PostgreSQL, C, C++, FORTRAN, SVN.

Software design development in Perl, Python, PHP, and Javascript for internet, intranet, and newspaper production processes in support of two daily newspapers, The Island Packet and The Beaufort Gazette.

I developed CMS modules (Drupal) including maps and video integration, custom pre-press workflows and web interfaces, and also set up and maintained ticketing systems and development test and integration workflows for use by the entire development staff.

Self employed, working on several embedded Linux systems projects for Valley of the Sun clients.

• Developed conversion software and GTK-based GUI front end to make Pertec 9-track format directories readable and exportable under Linux.
• Made Linux 2.0.38 for ColdFire processors work correctly with MS-DOS partition tables and the various FAT-based filesystems.
• Interfaced Pertec-to-SCSI emulation board to Linux system for remote management and file access via web browsers.

Member of the BRUPro Implementation Team, EST's follow-on product to its successful BRU Backup product. Successfully met all project milestones and delivered a working product to quality assurance on time and under budget on a repeated basis. BRU-Pro was recognized by Linux Journal as the Linux Backup product of the Year for 2001.

Contract position for American Express' International Risk and Fraud Management Web Services group. I managed 2 Sybase Adaptive Servers running on Sun E10000 systems, as well as several MS SQL Servers, and I mentored developers, data analysts, and database administrators in database design and query optimization.