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Security assessments and penetration testing. Poking websites and devices until they pop, break, leak or die in a way that identifies a security vulnerability.

Greater Atlanta Area

AT&T seeks to turn the data they gather from operating the network into anony- mous and aggregated marketing insights for other Fortune-1000 companies. I sought the opportunity to follow some of my nerdspirations and was brought on to define the technical product features and lead development of the software producing the data product.Product: Turned a broad vision into a tractable product roadmap.• Customer discovery: Lead sessions with prospective customers to guide roadmap decisions.• Defined release objectives and priorities driving the backlog.• Collaborated with a team of UI/UX designers and analysts to flesh out the product and engineering plans.• Working with our engineering team, we built a killer demo -fast- that was presented to the CEO/Chairman of AT&T and later featured in a meeting with the board of directors.Technical: Responsible for setting the technical direction and validating analytical feasibility through small scale studies on 500 TB of WiFi session and CDR (call detail record) data.• Wrote custom data pipelines (R, Hive, and Hadoop) to perform data validation, exploratory data analysis, aggregation, and generate custom choropleths and summary graphs used in client engagements.• Wrote new private R libraries to generalize and modularize new algorithms discovered by colleagues in AT&T Labs.• Prototyped new technique to geo-reference data sources using network coverage models and Open Street Map data via custom R, Hive, Postgres, and PostGIS pipeline and Google Earth database driven presentation layer.

Greater Atlanta Area

Mentor Graphics is a mid-sized, public company offering engineering design tools for silicon, system, and software design applications.I was recruited from MontaVista to lead a new product development effort as the division shifted to open source technologies. I became the product manager for an acquired product line and reported to the acquired company’s CEO.• Partnered with business development to forge a multi-million dollar funded partnership that greatly broadened Mentor’s brand awareness in our tar- get market segment. (http://bit.ly/18AmDw5)• Grew subscriber base 40% per year.

Responsible for understanding the market and guiding MontaVista's flagship product to serve market need. Key contributor to product strategy definition. Author of product requirements and representative to engineering for marketing. Corporate blogger for both internal and external publication.

National level pre-sales technical advocate and consultant responsible for engagement with MontaVista's global telecommunications accounts within the US. Began as a territory level pre-sales application engineer for MontaVista's embedded Linux, Java, and Graphics product lines.

Research engineer on commercial Video over DSL and Voice over IP product designs. Designed HW and system software for a Linux based VoIP appliance.