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Washington, Dc, Us

Hanover, Md, Us

• Led team that designed and developed a system for processing and securely delivering high-speed random and pseudo-random data to clients over the network.• Built server and client system in Python, with C integration to obtain entropy from low-level APIs and provide entropy to OpenSSL and other clients.• Built administrative portal using Meteor, making use of MongoDB and Node.js, with Javascript on the client and server.• Translated NIST SP800-90 standards into practical requirements, and evaluated quality of random data.• Presented well-received talk on Unix random number generation at Black Hat 2015 to audience of 500 people.• Developed and delivered demonstrations for customer and trade show audience.• Technical point of contact for integration of customer product with OpenSSL.• Technical representative for customer in conversations with potential major end-users.

Security Analyst• Analyzed privacy implications of point of sale data system, including regulatory and research considerations.• Analyzed cryptographic and security implications of customer and open source systems, including secure document distribution systems and Bitcoin.• Delivered analysis to customers for use in product improvement and evaluation.Software Engineer• Designed and implemented quantum assembly translation tools and workflow tools to allow interoperability between multiple investigational quantum computation packages. • Developed tools in Python that processed gigabyte-size input file while maintaining a small memory footprint. • Developed test and evaluation strategies for quantum computation packages, with a focus on quantum programming languages.• Developed packaging, build, and configuration scripts to aid in deployment of quantum computation packages.Software Engineer• Developed automated software vulnerability injection framework in C++ capable of adding latent vulnerabilities to large (1 million lines of code) C and Java programs.• Designed and developed intentional software vulnerabilities in C and Java to test and evaluate performer technologies for detecting vulnerabilities.• Modified large-scale C and Java open source programs (e.g., OpenSSL, PostgreSQL, Subversion, FFMPEG, ElasticSearch, Apache Derby) to allow vulnerability injection.• Leveraged existing compiler tools to perform automated vulnerability injection.• Generated a test suite of over 20,000 vulnerable C and Java programs using the injection framework.Software Engineer• Developed a scalable and highly parallelized data analysis framework to parse and analyze billions of data points encompassing several terabytes of raw data in order to identify cyber insider threats. • Implemented a framework in Python that walked entire revision history of Git, Subversion, and CVS repositories, extracting metadata and indexing the source code in a MongoDB database.

Chapel Hill, Nc, Us

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

• Designed and implemented Java software to help Fortune 500 companies manage large computer networks (such as all cash registers at nation-wide retail operations) through a graphical user interface, IBM Tivoli NetView. • Handled legacy code issues introduced both by the mainframe back end and custom Java packages. • Presented information about upcoming software enhancements to large customers. Evaluated the priority and implementation difficulty of proposed features.

Durham, Nc, Us

Pittsburgh, Pa, Us

• Research assistant in computational complexity theory, exploring computation classes such as P and NP. Developed and presented lectures on quantum computation, P vs. NP, and a variety of programming and discrete mathematics topics.• Research assistant in networking theory, exploring routing algorithms that respect quality of service requirements. • Teaching assistant for introductory software engineering and mathematics courses for computer scientists. Developed and presented recitations and class programming projects.

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• Designed and implemented C++ software that would allow network hubs developed by Chipcom to be managed by Novell’s network management software. • Brought Novell expertise to Chipcom to allow their software to interface with Novell’s IPX/SPX-based software. Conducted in-house training on IPX/SPX vs. TCP/IP.

Provo, Ut, Us

• Designed and implemented C++ software to allow customers to manage networks running NLSP routing protocol through a graphical user interface.

Master’S Degree, Computer Science

Master’S Degree, Social Work

Bachelor’S Degree, Physics, Computer Science

High School