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San Francisco, Ca, Us

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Roswell, Ga, Us

Austin, Texas, Us

- 0-Day Mobile Team Manager- Responsible for ensuring reliability and high quality documentation for customers- Baseband Vulnerability research: static analysis, binary auditing- Enterprise Router Vulnerability Research: static analysis, binary auditing

Denver, Colorado, Us

- Vulnerability research - Static Binary and source code auditing- Fuzzer developement- Consulting services: - Hardware reverse engineering - Security assessments of complex customer products

New Windsor, New York, Us

- Manage the design and development of the V676, V476 and V276 Automated Lighting Desks.- Oversaw the expansion of the V676 Automated Lighting Console from a single computer based product to a multi-computer distributed architecture.

- Recipient of a DARPA grant to perform security research in the area of software/OS security hardening.- Designed and implemented a new intra-segment Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR) technique through extensive modifications to both the LLVM compiler and the OpenBSD linker/loader architecture.- Reverse engineered a variety of software and firmware binaries using IDA Pro to discover new vulnerabilities.- Wrote custom code accounting for attack vector restrictions to exploit discovered vulnerabilities

- Creator, developer, and designer of DataCase, a document viewer and file storage application.- Reverse engineered AFP (Apple file sharing protocol) to allow DataCase to be the only application to support Apple’s bonjour based file sharing protocol for OSX.- Initiated DataCase sales through Internet-based marketing campaigns resulting in over 60,000 units sold.

New Windsor, New York, Us

- Coordinated the design and implementation of V676, a touch screen based automated lighting control desk.- Led the update and conversion of the Virtuoso lighting control software from CodeWarrior on OSX Tiger to XCode based Universal Binary with Leopard compatibility.

- Wrote custom C++ software to control multiple aspects of a semiconductor process tool including hardware drivers (precision XY stage control, silicon wafer position calibration, wafer arm handling, safety interlocks), surface modeling, and full-scale GUI integration.- Developed Linux based embedded fluid delivery system running on an arm processor with use of custom cross-compiled version of busybox and uclib to maintain minimal memory footprint.- Designed and implemented a flexible GUI editor in Java for describing the placement of pL sized drops of fluid inside a user described field size based on a GDSII file. - Participated in the installation, maintenance, and development of semiconductor equipment in class 10 clean room environments.

Austin , Texas, Us

- Collaborated with customers to design and implement custom measurement and automation systems using NI computer based instruments. - Designed and developed a tool that could produce functional C++ code to replicate a series of events given a register access log provided by a customer.- Assisted in the development, testing, and debugging of firmware for NI-CAN (Controller Area Network), and higher-level protocols (DeviceNet and J1939).- Instructed LabVIEW & Measurement Studio/CVI classes both domestically and internationally.

Masters, Electrical Engineering

Be, Computer Engineering