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Salt Lake City, Ut, Us

Draper, Utah

Austin, Texas, Us

Crimson Vista is a cybersecurity engineering firm focused on developing research and technology for industry applications (incl. government, academic, and non-profit sectors), as well as providing consulting services in both industry and litigation contexts. Industry services include engineering innovation, solutions engineering, cybersecurity planning and infrastructure development, compliance and best-practice assessments, and security training. IP litigation support includes experienced consulting and testifying subject matter experts skilled in source code review, systems analysis, compliance and best-practice assessments, prior art search and analysis, etc. Research initiatives include P2PCD (a security certificate distribution protocol for vehicle-to-vehicle communication), CryptoDoneRight (a cryptographic knowledgebase focused on practical cryptography and best practices), Network Security Playground (an instructional framework for teaching network security fundamentals), and privacy-preserving contact tracing for COVID-19 (and future pandemics).

Orem, Ut, Us

KOTM is a Utah-based nonprofit focused on serving children and families. Mission: Empowering families, one kid at a time, by supporting the development of children and families. Services: Early Head Start, Early Intervention, Autism Center, Child Care Center, Respite Care, Child & Family Mental Health.Positions: Member of the Board (June 2016 – Present), Chair-elect (July 2020 – January 2021), Member of the Executive Committee (July 2020 – Present), Board Chair (January 2021 – January 2023), Immediate Past Chair (advisory role; January 2023 – Present).

Orem, Ut, Us

Advisory role. See board chair description.

Orem, Ut, Us

KOTM serves children and families across Utah and Utah County – a region with a rapidly growing population (expected to double over the next 20-30 years). With client loads and waitlists increasing by double-digit percentages year over year, KTOM is overhauling its infrastructure for growth. I advise the initiative to build out KOTM’s business intelligence and monitoring (data, systems, compliance, etc.) infrastructures – including advising the selection of tools and technologies, advising on the design of the system architecture, and helping develop key metrics, dashboards, and indicators. This initiative spans the organization as a whole, addressing each of KOTM’s programs and serving all levels of relevant stakeholders from staff to directors, external partners, and donors and funding agencies.

Orem, Ut, Us

Advise on technology issues, provide software development services, and assist the organization and C-suite in meeting KOTM’s mission, including overseeing administration of programs, finances and fundraising, strategic direction and planning. For example, managed the transition and enhancement of the volunteer portal from Friday’s Kids Respite (see below) to KOTM. Serve on the executive committee, direct board business, represent KOTM and the board externally.

Draper, Ut, Us

Dryden Technology Group is a boutique consulting firm providing support for intellectual property litigation (particularly trade secret, copyright infringement, contract dispute, and patent infringement cases) in the areas of software, source code, and related technologies. Dryden also provides a range of consulting services within the software industry, including in the areas of software development, software engineering, artificial intelligence, machine learning, data analytics, e-commerce, mobile application development, networking, web technologies, and others. Dryden works in partnership with other consulting firms to provide an expanded network of resources to its clients, including access to subject matter experts in a wide array of technologies from computer security to wireless data communications and more.

Source Code Discovery (SCD) is a consulting firm specializing in the review and analysis of software systems and source code for intellectual property litigation, mergers and acquisitions, and various cyber-security needs. SCD’s services include extensive technical subject matter expertise in software development, software engineering, artificial intelligence, machine learning, data analytics, cyber-security, cryptography, e-commerce, wireless data communications, networking, embedded systems, web technologies, and others. SCD’s experts have performed code reviews on every major operating system platform of the past 25 years and are knowledgeable in a vast array of programming languages and software frameworks. SCD’s experts also have extensive experience testifying and consulting in complex intellectual property litigation.

_, Utah, Us

Kinpoint is a genealogy software company that began in 2007 as a student project in the Computer Science Department at Brigham Young University (originally dubbed “The 20-Minute Genealogist”). After a five-year incubation on campus, Kinpoint launched as a corporation in late 2012. Kinpoint's mission is to engage the 90% who care about family history, yet (because it’s too hard or otherwise inaccessible) spend little or no time actually doing it. Kinpoint is committed to delivering a meaningful family history experience in as little as 60 seconds. In February 2017, Kinpoint released the Take a Name® app which reached 500,000 installs in its first 24 months.

_, Utah, Us

Led the development of the Take a Name® app (including iOS and Android platforms, UI design, and backend architecture), which released in February 2017, reaching 500,000 installs in the first 24 months. Guided the software and systems architecture for Take a Name, including managed Kinpoint’s AWS infrastructure and actively developed both front-end and back-end systems as needed (Java, JavaScript, Objective-C, etc.). Managed strategic partnerships, including with FamilySearch. Oversaw finances, hiring, and other business needs. Co-designed the product and managed quality assurance during development.

_, Utah, Us

Brought in as part of a process to recycle the corporate DNA and to reboot on a new product (Take a Name). Enlisted to drive quality home, to ensure scalable architectures, and to act as a bridge between founder/vision/strategy and implementation. See above description for additional detail.

_, Utah, Us

Patent: Genealogy Context Preservation. Issued May 28, 2013. US 8,452,805, see below.Helped develop the early technology from 2008 to 2012. Tacitly involved at incorporation and from 2012-2016.

Manage software development for iOS/Android application software. Also manage strategic partnerships, as well as financial and other concerns related to software offerings.

Ironwood Experts was a consulting firm providing support for software IP litigation (especially patent and trade secret cases), as well as software process consulting and training. We provided expert services to some of the world’s leading technology companies including Apple, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Comcast, Toyota, Cisco, Barnes and Noble, Expedia, Vizio and others. We provided expert witness services, as well as technical support including prior art search, claim charts, source code analysis, and technical document review. We served on cases in district courts, the International Trade Commission, the Federal Trade Commission, and USPTO reexaminations. Ironwood Experts also provided software engineering consulting and training particularly focused on software process, software product quality, user interface and product design, and Amazon Web Services. Ironwood Experts also provided custom software testing services. Positions: Consulting Expert (Jan 2013 – Jan 2022), Partner (Jul 2014 – Jan 2022), Testifying Expert (Jan 2015 – Jan 2022), Managing Partner (Mar 2016 – Aug 2017).

Salt Lake City, Ut, Us

Advised faculty on industry needs and recommendations for curriculum.

Orem, Ut, Us

Advised the creation of a new major in Computational Data Science (see https://uvu.edu/cs/data_science.html; https://uvu.edu/catalog/current/departments/computer-science/computational-data-science-bs/).

Alpine, Utah, Us

Startup in the area of finance promoting a “real-time institutional grade cryptocurrency and legal tender backed by gold and silver” – that did not realize it was also a software company. I trained management on software process and foundational technology concerns, as well as provided user interface and product design consulting.

Newport Beach, California, Us

Mature software company (offering tools for CRM, lead generation, and video marketing) needing specialized assistance with cloud architecture. I reduced their monthly AWS costs by 25% through infrastructure tuning and pruning. Also worked on a project to enhance and scale out their systems to handle significantly larger loads.

Reviewer/Program Committee:IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2012–2018Empirical Software Engineering: An International Journal (EMSE), 2012–2018EMSE Special Issue on Experimental Replications, 2012, 2013Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR), Data Track, 2013, 2016External Reviewer:International Conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering (EASE), 2013IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2010–2012International Conference on Open Source Systems (OSS), 2011–2012Journal of Information and Software Technology (IST), 2011Psychology of Programming Interest Group Conference (PPIG), 2009–2011

Provo, Ut, Us

Taught CS 428, Software Engineering. The course teaches students to apply software engineering principles pertaining to product life cycles, requirements, analysis, specification, design, coding, testing, project management, quality assurance, and configuration management.

Advised on technology issues, provided software development services, and participated in oversight of program administration, finances, and planning. Managed the online presence and technical infrastructure, including overseeing development/maintenance of the organization’s website and internal business tools. Integrated the organization’s PHP-based volunteer portal (which I previously built for them in 2007 – HTML/CSS/JavaScript frontend, MySQL/PHP backend) into a WordPress-templated architecture.Friday’s Kids Respite was a non-profit aimed at strengthening families of children with special needs by providing quality respite care. In June 2016, Friday’s Kids Respite joined with Kids On The Move, a larger non-profit serving children and families (see above).

Designed and implemented the Friday’s Kids website and volunteer portal (PHP/JavaScript/HTML/MySQL framework). The website and portal supported client engagement and volunteer signup/participation, including providing user accounts, Wordpress-like dynamic webpage creation/editing via graphical interfaces, management of volunteer dates/times/schedules, automated email correspondence, and statistical reporting. Frontend implemented in HTML/CSS/JavaScript; backend in PHP; MySQL database; MVC architecture.

Research topics: the philosophy, methods, and challenges of replication in empirical software engineering research; the effects of language fragmentation (working concurrently across multiple programming languages) on developer productivity; coordination and collaboration concerns for stakeholders in large software project ecosystems; open source development processes (both in isolation and in comparison to proprietary development).Founded and organized IEEE’s RESER workshop on Replication in Empirical Software Engineering Research.

Provided software engineering consulting focused on software process and software product quality, as well as custom software testing services.

Piscataway, Nj, Us

2010, co-located with the International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2010, Cape Town, South Africa).2011, co-located with the International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement (ESEM 2011, Banff, Alberta, Canada).2013, co-located with the International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement (ESEM 2013, Baltimore, Maryland, USA).

Provo, Ut, Us

Taught CS 142, Introduction to Programming. The course introduces students to programming fundamentals in the C++ language.

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

Software process governance. Interviewed software project stakeholders across IBM to identify coordination and collaboration concerns that threaten large software production environments. As a grounded theory study, the work informed initial hypotheses for process improvement. Further studied the problem of private information—referring to Friedrich Hayek’s work, The Use of Knowledge in Society, 1945—as well as the potential applicability of principles from The Wisdom of Crowds (Surowiecki, 2005) and prediction markets to the management of private information within software production organizations.

Provo, Utah, Us

Developed technical solutions and software applications to enable internal business processes. Responsibilities included: software developer, project manager, team director, customer interface, requirements elicitation and definition. Emphasis on integrating business processes across the organization.

Provo, Utah, Us

Maintained the university’s network-monitoring framework. Developed plugins for and installed/maintained enterprise network-monitoring systems, such as ManagedObject, Nagios (open source), and Fruity (open source). Implemented enhancements and customizations for Nagios and Fruity. Nagios is an industry standard infrastructure-monitoring application; Fruity is a web-based configuration tool for the Nagios system. Of note: enhanced Fruity to support a distributed Nagios architecture; developed custom monitoring solutions for various technologies, including the campus emergency phone system and various web applications and server platforms.

Provo, Ut, Us

Bioinformatics research, Phylogenetic Search Open-source Data Analysis (PSODA). Designed and implemented an interpreted language (PsodaScript) for the specification and execution of phylogenetic search and alignment algorithms. PsodaScript extends the NEXUS format; designed to be a competitive, open source alternative to PAUP*, the current industry standard. PsodaScript is backwards compatible with PAUP*, but adds advanced language constructs—e.g., looping structures, conditionals, functions, etc. Used Flex/Bison (in C++) to implement the PsodaScript grammar. Upon execution, the PsodaScript interpreter constructs a call (or object) graph; the graph structure represents the flow logic, nodes represent program constructs.

Salt Lake City, Ut, Us

Taught the gospel of Jesus Christ in the Russian language. Taught English classes and rendered other service. Missions for the Church are full time, unpaid.

Doctor Of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science

Master Of Science (M.S.), Computer Science

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Computer Science