Education:

Computer Science degree with a concentration in mathematics, (Bachelors of Science).
University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA. 1985

Talent:

I am excellent at solving complex technical problems related to networking, inter-working, and communications. I have a firm grasp of Unix/Linux and Internet through 20 years of hands on experience. I have a wide degree of experience through my addiction to the technology. I am both a capable programmer and someone who can put hardware and software together and make things work, as well as figure out why they're not working. I enjoy learning new things and taking on new challenges.

Experience:

Jan 2000/present

Worked on various projects:

• NetworkGuild.org - Founder.  I run and maintain the network for a small business in the US which has multiple locations connected via T1 links.  Tasks include architecture, security, network monitoring, firewalls, intrusion detection, telephone support, troubleshooting and more.
• Systems Administrator for several unix/linux systems (multiple clients including my own servers and networks).  Everything from choosing hardware, building the systems, installing software, and day to day management.
• Aided multiple individuals with technical aspects of internet businesses and idea development.
• Solved numerous small problems for individuals.
• Run a domain registration registrar (opensrs).
• Created web sites, management of Apache web server.
• Contributed to various free software / open source software projects.
• Many more things small things.

Beat.net - Technical Consultant - Beat.net is an ngoing long term project to create an internet radio station. Responsible for all technical aspects of the project. Station uses multicasting technology, developed some multicast utilities.  Attended several IETF meetings in course of this work.

Jan 1995/Jan 2000

Programmer, Sun Microsystems, 32 chemin du Vieux Chene, F-38240 Meylan, France.

Engineered software for networking products for Sun workstations and servers. Products have included SNMP management consoles and agents, LDAP Protocol server, and clients, and user interfaces in X/Motif and Java, RADIUS authentication server and SSL/TLS security and encryption.  Wrote and performed training on products that I designed and built. Brought products from drawing board phase to existence, working on all stages of product development.

April 1992/Dec 1994

Systems Engineer, Sun Microsystems Federal Inc., 2550 Garcia Ave, Mountain View, CA 94043-1100.

Engineered hardware and software solutions and wrote responses to federal government requirements for major systems acquisitions.  Performed hardware, software, and network integration, using multiple vendors' products. Designed and constructed prototype systems for evaluation by government officials. Involved in a special task force to set up multimedia demonstration for high government officials.

Served as OS and Networking point of contact for the my group.  Was the group's point of contact for information pertaining to TCP/IP, OSI, SunNet Manager, X.25 and Solaris operating system.

April 1990/April 1992

Systems Engineer, Sun Microsystems Federal Inc., 2550 Garcia Ave, Mountain View, CA 94043-1100.

Research associate at NIST (The National Institute of Standards and Technology; formerly The National Bureau of Standards) in Gaithersburg, MD. Worked on-site at NIST for Sun Microsystems on standards-related projects such as POSIX, OSI, ISDN, and multimedia.  Participated in quarterly POSIX meetings of the 1003.8 subcommittee (Transparent File Access). Authored part of the 1003.8 standard and all of the first draft of 1003.3.8 (test assertions for 1003.8).
Coordinated information flow between NIST and Sun engineering staff.  Visited customer sites to assist in live test demonstrations performed
by the group.

August 1987/April 1990

Programmer/Engineer/Technical coordinate, Corporation for Open Systems, Inc. 1750 Old Meadow Road, McLean, VA 22102-4306.

Responsible for OSI testing lab and network design (TCP/IP, OSI, X.25), customer training, customer support, and product acceptance testing for COS's OSI protocol conformance testers.  Network design engineer for COS for the Enterprise Networking Event 1988 trade show in Baltimore, MD. Designed and set up
local and wide area OSI network for the COS booth which contained 12 different vendors which all had to interoperate.  Performed systems administration on Sun systems and provided expertise on in-house wiring and phone systems. Debugged ISO/OSI, CCITT, and TCP/IP protocols on multiple vendors'
platforms. Used, tested, and debugged the COS conformance testers (written mostly in C running on Sun workstations).  Wrote technical policies and procedures for COS conformance testing laboratory. Designed and built the network for the COS conformance testing laboratory. Visited customer sites to debug technical problems with the COS conformance tester running on a Sun. Traveled to Europe and Japan to teach other companies OSI protocols and how to use the COS conformance tester. Traveled with sales staff to provide technical expertise. Set up hardware and software and gave demonstrations and training for customers.

January 1986/August 1987

Member of Technical Staff, Computer Data Systems, Inc., One Curie Court, Rockville, MD.

VAX VMS and Unix programmer and Unix systems administrator. Managed 3 person development team. Designed and installed data and phone
networks. Performed onsite customer assistance. Provided technical assistance to proposals team.

April 1985/December 1985

Systems Staff Member, University of Maryland, College Park, MD.

Unix systems administrator and systems programmer. Author of a bitnet/internet mailer for IBM mainframe.

May 1985/January 1986

Consultant, Computer TimeShare Corporation, Greenbelt, MD. Provided technical assistance and programming in BASIC, C, and Fortran, Unix, and telephony (voice) to various clients of CTSC.

November 1983/May 1985

Consultant, University of Maryland, College Park, MD.  Assisted students with technical aspects of the IBM 4300 series and Univac 1100 series mainframes.

Summer, 1983

Programmer, IBM Federal Systems Division, Gaithersburg, MD Developed and implemented an automated personnel management system on an IBM-PC.

(May 1980/ August 1981)

Partner, Omega Peripherals, Columbia MD.

Co-owned private business which successfully designed, built, managed a 10 person production/engineering staff and direct marketed game peripherals for the Apple computer. Business was closed so that he could attend the University of Maryland.

Personal:

Born: December 2, 1963
Status: Married, US Citizen, wife is British, French Carte de Resident and right to work in France, French nationality likely in near future

Interests:

Private Pilot, instrument rated
Scuba
Amateur 2-way radio and wireless communications

Foreign Languages:

English - native
French - fluent

References:

Available upon request