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Write software to control the treatment and distribution of water to all of Southern California. Languages used are C++, C and various scripting languages.Write requirements documents for water treatment automation. Write test plans for software that controls water treatment processes. Specific functions include: level control, pressure control, flow control, environmental safety monitoring, pressure control structure management, distribution management, chemical flow pacing, leak detection.Manage the virtual environments for control system operations and software development. Install and manage the vmware VSphere systems to provide virtual machines to be used in software testing and build environments for software development.Conduct Control System Cyber Security program including Vulnerability Scans, Patch testing and rollout, network monitoring for intrusions with IDS, VPN configuration, firewall analysis and access administration.Evaluate cyber-security products for IDS, firewall, Software Defined Networks, VPNs, Vulnerability Scanning and configuration management. Experience using Tripwire, Darktrace, CyberEx, Palo Alto Networks, Cisco ASA, Tenable/Nessus Security Center and Op/Manager.Evaluate PAC and PLC platforms and development environments. Working with Rockwell, GE , Opto22 and Moxa brand platforms.Provide design input for development environment. Evaluate development tools and make recommendations as to which to use.Experienced in Red Hat Linux, SELinux, Oracle 11g, Microsoft Visual Studio, Eclipse Development Environment, Rockwell Automation, Function Block Design.

Los Angeles, California

Pasadena, California

2022 assignment was with Music Committee. now retired from Tournament of Roses.2018 Assignment was Formation Area - This will be my 16th parade- Captain for Area D - My focus will be safety, motivating the other committee members and having FUN while we secure the perimeter of the area where the parade is formed.In 2012 I participated in the staging of my tenth parade. The 2013 parade, I will be working with the Judging Committee. The Judging Committee tabulates the results and assists the judges with viewing and gathering the scoring information. My 2016 assignment is Float Construction Committee so I will be looking forward to being involved with fielding the floats for one more year.

Early Internet Service Provider. Provided Internet Access to buildings in the Los Angeles Area. Provided hosting services to businesses specializing in Advertising, Engineering, Archtecture, Software Development, Utilities Consulting and many others. Oversaw efforts to develop customers. Responsible for financial reporting. Directed technical operations, including, the build-out of our network and the establishment of our data centers in downtown Los Angeles. The Key Connections network peered with Level(3), Internap, Switch & Data and United Layers. Key Connections had colocation cages at One Wilshire, 818 7th and the Garland Building.

Designed and implemented upgrade procedures for the Sun servers in preparation for Y2K. Audited several software product sources for Y2K conformance.

I was responsible for planning and implementation of server and network resources for the hollywood.com content delivery network (CDN). Also lead a team of technicians in performing installations and upgrades to Sun and Windows based servers. Evaluated ad delivery systems, streaming media systems and chat room systems. Provided e-mail services for the entire company.

Architected the LAN and WAN networks for the group. The group was spread out throughout several buildings on the Caltech campus and ultimately between MIT, CIT, Hanford Washington and Livingston LA.Operate Sun Microsystems datacenter. Maintained SUNOS servers to provide general computing resources for the project members. Plan operating system updates, network upgrades and hardware maintenance. Plan and procure equipment for a project that transitioned from proposal state to operational state. Wrote programs to be used in solving a variety of engineering questions. For example, I wrote a data acquisition and analysis program for the vacuum engineers who were studying the outgassing of stainless steel. Another example was a cut and fill program for the civil engineers who were calculating the amount of earth moving necessary for the various LIGO sites that were proposed.Provided desktop support for Macintosh, Windows and Sun Unix to the project group members.

Used the VRTX real time operating system to implement a stock certificate processing machine. I was responsible for several of the controller subsystem libraries. I also wrote loaders for the controller software to boot up on power-up of the controller. The controller was an IBM-AT machine.I was also the network administrator for the development group LAN. We implemented an ungerman-bass fileserver package.

Video game programmer for Atari, Apple ][ and Commodore 64 platforms. Programmed games in 6502 assembly language. Wrote loaders, graphics utilities, software protection and mastering software for many of the games produced by the company. Was a principal programmer for Moon Shuttle, Juno First and a contributing programmer for Zaxxon, Pooyan & Saracen.

Bscs, Software Engineering Methods & Cryptology

Was engineering major for two years before changing major to Computer Science

Control System Security

Activities and Societies: Studied best practices in preventing intrusion into industrial control systems - at Idaho National Laboratory..

Mba, Business