Rick Troth Email & Phone Number

I am a computer systems developer working in data security (encryption, networking), open source software, system security (access control, hardening, auditability), and system enablement (including packaging, delivery, and deployment, inter-language development). I can help your team ...* establish trust anchors for optimum security and privacy * acquire, verify, build, test, and install any open source package or application * establish, maintain, and use source code repositories (eg: Git, Subversion, CVS) * connect securely (whether VPN, tunnels, or even more sophisticated hidden networks; think Tor) * convert IPv4-only applications for IPv6 readiness * convert IPv4-only DNS to seamless IPv6 enabled * run Linux on new and amazing hardware (beyond just Intel/AMD) + PowerPC, + mainframe (IBM "z Systems"), + and of course ARM as well as others * enable traditional "closed source" systems to interface with Linux (or any Unix/POSIX) I am skilled with system and data security (SSL/TLS, PKI, SSH, PGP/GPG) and Format-Preserving Encryption. I support (and personally use) wide ranging virtualization (z/VM, KVM, Xen, containers). I deeply understand mixed data centers where unlike systems must inter-operate as a whole. I can differentiate big endian from little endian. I regularly serve as a technology evangelist (presentations, forums, conferences). I am proficient in C, as well as several other compiled and scripting languages.(shell, Tcl, Perl, Rexx, Python, x86 assembler and mainframe assembler). I can handily interface multiple languages in a single application, when needed. I have built soup-to-nuts Linux from scratch (from sources) many times.Environments and operating systems that I know include Linux, Unix, (FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Solaris, AIX, OpenBSD, Minix, HP-UX, and others), IBM z/VM (VM/CMS), CYGWIN, MS Windows, IBM z/OS (MVS, OS/390), DEC VMS. I passed the CISSP exam on the first try. Amateur radio operator N5VDC. I can also help you integrate Voltage SecureData, the premier protection product for structured data. My strengths (per Strengths Finder 2.0): maximizer, ideation, developer, belief, positivity PGP FP: 90E0 145E D15F 3EF2 008C 3883 96AF 6544 EDF1 38D9

Listed skills include Unix, Operating Systems, Linux, Virtualization, and 39 others.

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