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San Francisco Bay Area

San Francisco Bay Area

San Francisco Bay Area

Advanced Kaiser’s mission on affordability and healthcare innovation through leadership in cyber security architecture, strategy and execution with emphasis on cloud computing and mobility. • Developed security strategy and architecture in social, cloud and mobile technologies to support healthcare transformation for over 10 million members, 17,000.

San Francisco Bay Area

Senior security systems infrastructure architecture, design and operations for Apple’s global enterprise networks, applications and security analytics capabilities.• Created strategy and architecture and drove the implementation of solutions for cyber security threat discovery, analysis and mitigation.• Developed and executed plans for a global.

• Sourcefire (Nasdaq:FIRE) is a leading provider of network security solutions and creator of Snort®, the open-source network intrusion prevention system used by 80% of Fortune 100 and 42% of Global 500 companies..
• Enhancing enterprise security architecture to detect and block malware for dozens of Fortune 500 firms in all market verticals, on deployments protecting as many as 400,000 hosts with over 200 sensors.
• Researching emerging Internet threats and threat trends.
• Collaborating with the Vulnerability Research Team (VRT) to detect and block malware on production networks.
• Devising techniques to detect and block custom applications, emerging threats, personally identifiable information and data loss prevention.
• Teaching security courses and earning highest-possible evaluations from students. Developing security course content.

• SANS Technology Institute is the largest and most trusted source for information security training, certification & research in the world, in conjunction with the Internet Storm Center and GIAC (Global Information.
• SANS Institute Lethal Forensicator
• Instructor for network forensics (FOR-558)
• Assisted SANS certified instruction in hacker techniques, exploits and incident handling (MGT-503)
• Achieved GIAC certifications in computer exploits, hacker techniques and incident handling, incident analysis, and reverse-engineering malware (Gold and Silver).
• Supported staff, students and instructors at 9 major SANS conferences.

• 2-1-1 Orange County provides a comprehensive information and referral system that links Orange County residents to community health and human services and support - from securing adequate care for a child or an aging.
• Drove the strategic planning process focused on the Agency's mission, vision and values to Board approval for the 2010 strategic plan.
• Support the Agency's Executive Director in developing the operating plans, metrics and reports.

• TransiTiva was founded to provide leading-edge information security research, incident response, technology consulting and managed IT services.
• Designed the prototype security architecture for secure data delivery system for satellite imagery to end users over the Internet. Published and presented results at a major international aerospace IT conference.
• Deployed managed spam services and IT security and network infrastructure for web, email and storage, and managed outsourced operations.
• Conceived IT strategy to support innovative engineering design workflow for distributed team collaboration. Successfully deployed site-to-site VPNs, WAN optimization and distributed file systems on schedule and budget..

• Universal Space Network, Inc., founded by Apollo astronaut Pete Conrad, at the time was a $25 million VC-funded world leader in space operations and telemetry, tracking and control. USN was acquired by the Swedish.
• Contributed to strategic planning with C-level executives and the VP of Engineering for 24/7 mission-critical global operations for satellite launch and on-orbit operations.
• Transformed the company's IT security and infrastructure from proof-of-concept start-up to global network of satellite communication stations to support company's growth and start of operations.
• Designed and managed the operation of IT systems to connect with NASA, US Air Force, Sirius Satellite Radio and commercial spacecraft missions and data users.
• Provided leadership in software architecture, technology strategy, and software development.

• Canada provides the main robotic systems for the International Space Station (ISS). The MSS Operations Complex (MOC) consists of UNIX and Windows applications, custom real-time robotic simulators, and astronaut.
• Assessed computer security threats and vulnerabilities for the MSS Operations Complex.
• Tracked emerging Internet threats and intelligence reports on foreign and industrial espionage activities.
• Appointed to the Security Assessment and Response Team responsible for incident handling and coordinating remediation with NASA and international partners.
• Negotiated IT security operating agreements and policy with international representatives from the 15 ISS countries, including France, Japan, Russia and USA.
• Contributed best practices for IT security architectures to connect to NASA.

• The Canadian Space Agency develops and licenses innovative information technologies through R&D programs with Canadian industry, national Centers of Excellence, universities and in-house computing facilities and.
• Managed scientific and technical staff and contractors, including recruiting and hiring.
• Defined strategic technology development goals, resources, budgets and operating plans.
• Managed computing lab operations and services to support R&D initiatives in security, real-time and distributed applications.
• Won management approval for innovative software simulation and testing facility for mission-critical flight hardware for Sweden's Odin spacecraft.
• Managed the multi-disciplinary international Odin testing project that identified two potentially crippling faults in the spacecraft attitude control system. (Odin achieved its scientific objectives, the study of ozone.

• CRIM conducts information technology R&D and knowledge transfer to help clients gain competitive advantage and bring new products to market. My work at CRIM advanced software design tools that are now part of IBM.
• Analyzed priority inversion in multi-threaded software scheduling.
• Developed techniques for predictable temporal behavior.
• Implemented dynamic priority threads in Objectime Developer Toolset.
• Modeled real-time control systems using ROOM (Real-time UML).
• Produced experimental evidence to validate the results.

Mining Massive Data Sets Graduate Certificate

Techniques and algorithms for extracting information from large datasets (e.g., the web, social-network graphs, and document repositories).

Effective Boardroom Leadership For Directors

Graduate program provided jointly by the Executive Education Department of UC Irvine’s The Paul Merage School of Business with the Forum.

Technology Leadership Essentials

Information technology strategy, management and execution; IT governance; technology leadership.

Education record

Computer Science, Selected Graduate-Level Courses

Master Of Science, Computer Engineering, Architecture, Design And Test

Activities and Societies: Research scholarship (NSERC)

B.Sc. (Electrical Engineering), Digital Electronics, Software Engineering

Activities and Societies: Research scholarship (NSERC), Dean's Honor Roll, graduated with distinction