Don Franke

Current

• Senior Software Engineer and Technical Lead at USAA

Past

• Senior Consultant at Science Applications International Corp. (SAIC)
• Senior Software Engineer at Dell
• SQA Engineer at US Robotics

• Senior Software Engineer at Motorola

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Education

• The University of Texas at San Antonio
• Columbia College Chicago

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Connections

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Industry

Financial Services

Websites

• My homepage

Don Franke’s Summary

Secure Software Engineer and team lead with a mature depth of experience in new system design, security analysis, software engineering and project management in both the high tech and federal spaces.

Don Franke’s Specialties:

Security analysis, architecture design, web application development, Java, .NET, database design, data modeling

Don Franke’s Experience

• Senior Software Engineer and Technical Lead

  USAA

  (Privately Held; Financial Services industry)

  July 2007 — Present (2 years 1 month)

  Responsible for technical implementation of security solution. Develop security-related reporting and monitoring solutions using Java, J2EE and C#. Recently received award for development of a production access system reporting solution.

• Senior Consultant

  Science Applications International Corp. (SAIC)

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; SAI; Information Technology and Services industry)

  February 2000 — July 2007 (7 years 6 months)

  Information Assurance Security Officer for Software Development (IASO-SD) with the following responsbilities:
  • Met requirements of DoD directive 8570.1
  • Responsible for DITSCAP/DIACAP effort for software development section
  • Wrote coding guidelines for development section based on DoD regulation 8500.1, HIPAA and related Security Technical Implementation Guides (STIGs)
  • Created design for migrating building from wired LAN to wireless in accordance with DoD directive 8100.1 and FIPS 140-2
  • Reviewed all code, databases, and servers per DoD directive 5200.40 and NIST SP 800.53
  • Architect, project manager and lead developer for several enterprise-wide ASP and .NET solutions as consultant for Air Force and Army

• Senior Software Engineer

  Dell

  (Public Company; DELL; Computer Hardware industry)

  April 1999 — February 2000 (11 months)

  Some examples:
  • Led project to refactor C++ high-capacity data loaders into Java and PL/SQL solution
  • Designed and developed manufacturing data monitoring solution
  • Managed Linux servers and source control repository for development group
  • Designed and updated mid-tier business rule components

• SQA Engineer

  US Robotics

  (Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Telecommunications industry)

  January 1995 — April 1999 (4 years 4 months)

  USR was later bought out by 3Com. Worked as Quality Assurance Analyst for R&D, modem division. Created and ran tests for DSP code. Developed several ASP web applications for intranet. Mac specialist for technical support group.

• Senior Software Engineer

  Motorola

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; MOT; Telecommunications industry)

  March 1998 — April 1999 (1 year 2 months)

  Managed internet development team for government products marketing group. Architect and lead developer of several enterprise ASP/SQL Server applications.

Don Franke’s Education

• The University of Texas at San Antonio

  MS , Information Technology , 2002 — 2006

  Infrastructure Assurance concentration.
  
  UTSA was redesignated a National Center of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance Education by the National Security Agency and the Department of Homeland Security.

  Activities and Societies:

  National Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition (NCCDC), 2006

• Columbia College Chicago

  BA , Writing and film , 1988 — 1992

  Got into a couple film festivals and got some stuff published.

Additional Information

Don Franke’s Websites:

• My homepage

Don Franke’s Groups:

Information Systems Security Association (ISSA)

•    Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSP)
•    Ubuntu Users ( 9000+ members ) Official Group
•    Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP)
•    University of Texas at San Antonio Alumni
•    Certified Secure Software Lifecycle Professional (CSSLP)
•    San Antonio IT Networking Group
•    One Enterprise Consulting Group, LLC

Don Franke’s Honors:

Certified Secure Software Lifecycle Professional (CSSLP)
Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP)
Sun Certified Java Programmer (SCJP)
NT Innovator of the Year, Windows NT Magazine
Published chapter "ASP Primer" in book Webdeveloper's Sourcebook

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