Horkan Smith Email & Phone Number

Atlanta, Georgia

At Cognosos, we are building a new type of Wireless Sensor Network, an enabling technology for the Internet of Things. See http://www.cognosos.com for more information.

Atlanta, Georgia

As a Senior Principal Engineer - Embedded:SAGE Home Automation System security lead and SAGE Gateway software architectSAGE experience with Linux, security evaluation, robust field software download architecture, ZigBee HA 1.2, Rapid7 security evaluation, SSL/TLS CA ladder and more.Technical resource for Engineering VP, including vendor/chip evaluation for.

Bellevue, Washington

Part of development team for the UTM Reader a secure internet payment device. Wrote and adapted code for RSA digital signatures, 3DES encryption, Apache server modules, Apache CGI, Windows low-level floppy IO, browser plugin(s) and general communications and interface work (C & Visual C++, using the OpenSSL encryption library). Participated in National.

Atlanta, Georgia

Part of development team for the Media4 ADST project - a two-way internet over satellite system. I designed, coded and tested the head end MAC (Media Access Control) protocol server using object oriented and threaded techniques on a PC-Linux server. Also helped enhance performance of existing IP-to-DVB/MPEG encapsulation server using new capabilities of.

Part of development team for the Scientific Atlanta DataXcellerator Cable Modem. Wrote the server side for runtime modem provisioning (custom DHCP server w/ database & SNMP attachments, using UDP sockets). Also interfaced the modem authentication server (RADIUS), and was the development teams system & network admin for Solaris, Cisco, Ascend, development.

Interface programming w/ a variety of systems to Oacis Gateway++ server. Most interfaces were asyncronous, using TCP/IP over Berkley socket library or TCP and an LU6.2 library. Also, some Solaris/POSIX serial interface programming, a mini-Telnet client, a little HTML & CGI scripting for an in-house database project, Sybase SQL programming, HL7 2.1 & 2.2.

System admin & development for several contracts, including a large scale clinical information system and a DOD prototype medical ID smart card. C & Mumps interface programming for AIX, HP/UX, DOS, and VAX/VMS; substantial mods to a power plant simulation, socket, curses and pseudo-tty programming on AIX; DOS text full-screen interface library & serial.

6 different co-op quarters (3 months each) in IBM's Boca Raton and Delray Beach facilities. OS/2 Build & Integration group (2 qtrs), 370P Testing group (1 qtr), Automotive Systems Division (1 qtr), Dos Development I (2 qtrs). Wide variety of work including C, Xenix, LZW compression, x86 assembler & REXX.