Network Security Consultant for Cotelsa designing network security architecture for a major bank in the Dominican Republic
Adjunct Math Professor at Camden County College in Blackwood, NJ teaching Intermediate Algebra and Geometry
Senior Systems Engineer for the FAA Technical Center at the Atlantic City International Airport, working
through Titan Systems Corporation, Information
Systems Group, Air Traffic Systems Division in Mays Landing, NJ.
Until March 2006, I
provided direction to a team of programmers, aeronautical and electrical engineers in
designing, developing, and integrating hardware and
software (OpenGL, C, and C++, based on software from
SATCO: Spiral Aviation Training Company)
to build R&D real-time
stationary flight deck simulators. Managed the IP networking for PCs, servers,
and simulation equipment using Cisco 3845 and 3560G routers and switches. Set up
Linux-based web, TFTP, and Syslog server applications. Developed and maintain
group website for project documentation, studies, and staff reporting.
Math Analyst and Systems Consultant for the FAA Technical Center through
Titan Systems Corporation
Starting in June, 2002, I worked on several research assignments for the Target Generation
Facility (TGF) group. I validated a magnetic declination
algorithm whose predictions seemed to disagree with measured data reported on the FAA
ATA-100 Dataset. Later, I developed an XML rule-based schema for ATC directives with
trajectory implications for a simulation project in the TGF group. Then I helped correct the
Engineering Design Document for the TGF AirSpace Simulation Environment.
After that, I was assigned to the Flight Cockpit Simulation (FCS) group
to evaluate Scansoft Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) system for scripts of
Air Traffic Control directives. FAA Funding cuts led to abrupt cancellation of that initiative,
but not before I had exceeded industry measures for success in voice recognition of ATC
directives. While working for FCS, I untangled communications between Linux servers running
FlightGear and Microsoft-hosted Open Glass Cockpit clients. This solved a long-standing problem
in their cross-platform software development effort.
Starting in 1994, I was a Technical Instructor and Consultant, teaching
Nortel and Cisco courses, and, starting in May 2000,
Network Security and Design courses. I developed a solid understanding of
security technologies, including PKI, encryption, IPSec, VPNs,
firewalls, network attack countermeasures, and implementation of network security programs.
I was the Lead Instructor for Nortel's Contivity Extranet Switch, a high
performance VPN gateway that is easy to configure and use, and scales well. The course includes
training in tunneling protocols, encryption strategies and implementations, IPSec, IKE, as well
as configuration options and exercises.
I'm trained and certified on Entrust PKI and was a candidate instructor for Global Knowledge's "Network Security and Firewall Administration" and "Designing Secure Network Architectures" courses. I'm also a Sair Linux Certified Instructor for the Installation and Configuration (101) and the System Administration (102) courses.
Since 1994, I have taught Cisco and Nortel Networks router and switch courses. In 2000, I shifted focus from routing and switching to network security technologies and security policy development and implementation.
I started teaching router configuration courses as a CCSI (Cisco Certified Systems Instructor) at NextGen Internet, an Internet Services Company. When NextGen Internet became the first Nortel Networks Authorized Training Center for router courses, I learned to teach Nortel Networks router courses also. Later, as an independent contractor/instructor, I taught for Nortel and all of it's Authorized Education Partners, mastering the router, switch, and VPN configuration courses. My CCSI is currently sponsored by Tech Data (however, it has expired.)
Before my position at NextGen Internet, I worked for over twenty years in systems engineering and software development, principally in aero-space and defense industries including General Electric Company in Valley Forge, PA and RCA Government Communications Systems Division, (now L-3 Communications) in Camden, NJ.
Software experience includes DBA (Oracle, MySQL, Access), Artificial Intelligence (Symbolics, LISP, Prolog, Level V), CAD (Computervision, Calma), Operating Systems (UNIX, Windows XP Pro, Red Hat Linux, KNOPPIX, Slackware Linux, Mandrake Linux, MS-DOS, VAX/VMS, MVS/JES2/TSO/ISPF), Editors (emacs, vim, UltraEdit, FrontPage, HTML-Kit), Programming Languages (C++, Java, Gawk, Perl, Python, PHP, Tcl/TK, XHTML, XML, XSLT, Common Lisp, elisp, ZetaLisp, C-Prolog, many BASIC dialects, FORTRAN, Pascal, Ada)
Also, I've pursued graduate studies in optimization, integer programming, network analysis, and artificial intelligence at University of Pennsylvania where I've completed all but dissertation in a PhD in Systems Engineering.
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