- Coordinating disclosure of all F5 CVEs- Liaison to CVE program, representing F5 as a CNA- Working with external security researchers with respect to reported F5 vulnerabilities.- Mentoring and assisting support personnel with security issues in support tickets.- Responding to security related questions via internal forums.- Disseminating security related news and information both internally and externally to F5.- Contributing at a high level to the development and evolution of F5 policies and procedures relating to security issues and vulnerability handling.- Authoring content for F5’s DevCentral community site.

- Coordinating disclosure of all F5 CVEs- Liaison to CVE program, representing F5 as a CNA- Working with external security researchers with respect to reported F5 vulnerabilities.- Mentoring and assisting support personnel with security issues in support tickets.- Responding to security related questions via internal forums.- Disseminating security related news and information both internally and externally to F5.- Contributing at a high level to the development and evolution of F5 policies and procedures relating to security issues and vulnerability handling.- Authoring content for F5’s DevCentral community site.- Performing technical interviews for applicants to Network Support Engineer, Enterprise Account Engineer, and Enterprise Network Engineer positions globally.

- Authoring content for F5’s DevCentral community site.- Regularly performing technical interviews for applicants to Network Support Engineer, Enterprise Account Engineer, and Enterprise Network Engineer positions globally.- Working with external security researchers with respect to reported F5 vulnerabilities.- Mentoring and assisting support personnel with security issues in support tickets.- Responding to security related questions via internal SRT alias.- Disseminating security related news and information both internally and externally to F5.- Contributing at a high level to the development and evolution of F5 policies and procedures relating to security issues and vulnerability handling.

All previous ENE roles & responsibilities, plus:- Authoring content for F5’s DevCentral community site.- Regularly performing technical interviews for applicants to Network Support Engineer, Enterprise Account Engineer, and Enterprise Network Engineer positions globally.- Member of F5’s internal Security Response Team, with duties including:+- Working with external security researchers with respect to reported F5 vulnerabilities.+- Mentoring and assisting support personnel with security issues in support tickets.+- Responding to security related questions via internal SRT alias.+- Disseminating security related news and information both internally and externally to F5.+- Contributing at a high level to the development and evolution of F5 policies and procedures relating to security issues and vulnerability handling.

- Supporting F5 Network’s BIG-IP Application Traffic Management (ATM) product line. The ATM product line consists of the Local Traffic Manager (LTM), Global Traffic Manager (GTM), Enterprise Manager (EM), and Link Controller (LC), as well as various licensable software modules.- Specialized role as an ENE on the Premium Plus Support team, with further specialization as a dedicated ENE for a large financial customer account.- Providing escalation support for the Network Support Engineer and Enterprise Account Engineer teams.- Providing on-site support for large customer accounts, primarily on the East Coast.- Generating internal and external articles the AskF5 knowledge base and heuristics for the iHealth support tool.

Strategic and tactical LART application.

- Only third shift engineer; provided overnight customer & systems support for six data centers in MA & NH.- Monitored ColoSpace and customer servers & network infrastructure, responding to any alerts or incidents.- Updated ColoSpace and customer device configurations, such as Cisco PIX & ASA firewalls & Cisco switches.- Built out new systems, primarily Dell & HP x86 platforms running Windows 2k3/2k8 or CentOS Linux.- Physically deployed systems into data center cabinets, wired power & network, and configured systems.

- Managed several high profile beta programs using Centercode beta management system:+- SlingPlayer Mobile for Windows Mobile Standard (two updates)+- SlingPlayer Mobile for Windows Mobile Professional (two updates)+- SlingPlayer Mobile for Symbian S60 (update)+- SlingPlayer Mobile for Symbian UIQ (new product)+- SlingPlayer Mobile for BlackBerry (new product)+- Slingbox PRO-HD (new product)+- Assisted with other programs and general departmental duties.+- Beta program management included selecting beta testers to fit program goals, creating program documentation and tester surveys, bug triage meetings with product managers and QA, acting as primary contact for beta communication, review of product documentation, feeding suggestions from testers to product team, etc.- Primary corporate contact for third party community site SlingCommunity.com.- Primary corporate contact for tech blogs and online press, working with marketing department.- Fielded most of the email communication addressed to the beta group, both internal and external.- Representing Sling at the CES09 Sling & RIM booths, as well as speaking on behalf of Sling Media at CNTRSTG.

- Continuing to perform Senior Network & Systems Administrator duties.- Hiring & supervising IT staff of three.- Purchasing authority for corporate hardware and software requirements.- Led effort to bring Cyphermint into compliance with software licenses.- Led effort to bring all corporate desktops up to WinXP SP2 and MS Office 2003 as a minimum level.- Migrated corporation to centralized anti-virus and anti-malware systems (AVG).- Introduced centralized software asset tracking, auditing, and management (Track-It!).

- Administration of corporate Windows and Linux servers, especially web servers and CVS server.- Administration of network gear, including Cisco PIX firewall, load balancers, switches, etc.- Maintenance of all corporate web pages based on designs and content created by Marketing.- Evaluating software and vendors to suit corporate IT needs.- IT support for corporate users.

- Principal architect for the PayCash Payment Gateway (PPG), implemented in ASP, XML, and XSLT.- Principal XML and XSLT developer for all Cyphermint projects.- Contributing architect to several other engineering projects and product concepts.- Security adviser for web based applications, corporate network, and e-commerce kiosk projects.- Performed Perl and PHP ports of the legacy PayCash Script Framework for UNIX/Linux and Windows.- Maintenance programming on the ASP and ColdFusion PayCash Script Frameworks.- Primary Professional Services Engineer for PayCash merchant implementations.- Creation of consumer and merchant product documentation for the PayCash System.- Administration of internal and external Linux systems, including CVS server for development source code control.- Maintenance of all corporate web pages based on designs and content created by Marketing.

I was a senior staffer for Anime Expo from the first year of the convention, in 1992, through 2003. I worked in Convention Operations, headed the Con Security group for several years, and served as the number two for Anime Expo New York in 2002. At AXNY I was responsible for an $80K budget and handled all convention programming except for major events, as well as overseeing the technical operations group (A/V, etc.). I also acted as industry liaison, and the main point of contact with Big Apple Anime Fest, which was running as a joint event that year.

- Development of the erecruiting.com 5.0 release, focused on JSP, XHTML, and JavaScript.- Technologies: XHTML, CSS, JavaScript, Java, JSP, JDBC, Oracle, Apache, JServ, and Linux.

Responsibility for research, planning, and execution of solutions for Event Zero's clientele. Projects included: BarnesandNoble.com: - Research into and planning of the hosting architecture, including testing and evaluation of Manna FrontMind. - Configuration and maintenance of Cisco IPSec VPN to New York hosting center. - Technologies: Java, Solaris, Oracle, Cisco switches, routers, Local & Distributed Director, and Manna FrontMind. ZipTran: - Research and planning the site architecture and design- Linux and Solaris administration for development environment. - Development of XML Schemas and Document Type Definitions. - Technologies: XML, Apache, Linux, WebSphere, WebLogic, and XML Spy. Experience.com: - Triage and engineering repair of the erecruiting.com 4.0 release and development for the 4.5 release. - Primarily JSP, XHTML, and JavaScript development & troubleshooting Linux, Apache, and JServ configuration. - Technologies: XHTML, CSS, JavaScript, Java, JSP, JDBC, Oracle, Apache, JServ, and Linux. Internal: - Maintained internal DCForum (Perl code) web discussion forum. - Trained other developers on HTML and XML and acted as internal XML guru. - Assisted in maintenance of Solaris and Linux development systems. - Advised other project groups, such as BankPass, on security issues.

Technical Editor for "HTML: The Complete Reference"

I left in February of 1998, just after Livingston was purchased by Lucent Technologies in late 1997. It became the Lucent Remote Access Business Unit.