
Security Researcher at Websense
Greater San Diego Area

Security Researcher at Websense
Greater San Diego Area
(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; WBSN; Computer Software industry)
July 2008 — Present (1 year 1 month)
Promotion from Security Researcher I
(Financial Services industry)
July 2007 — July 2008 (1 year 1 month)
Wokai is a 501(c)(3) non-profit microfinance startup focused on poverty alleviation in China.
http://www.wokai.org
(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; WBSN; Computer Software industry)
October 2006 — June 2008 (1 year 9 months)
Security Researcher at Websense Security Labs -- http://www.websensesecuritylabs.com
(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; WBSN; Computer Software industry)
November 2004 — October 2006 (2 years)
(Educational Institution; 501-1000 employees; Higher Education industry)
January 2004 — May 2004 (5 months)
Guided freshmen and junior computer science majors with programming conundrums and various computer science assignments, helped physics students understand lab material and complete experiments, graded student lab reports which consisted of topics covering motion, particle equilibrium, vectors, forces (Newtonian laws and friction), periodic motion, work and energy
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Financial Services industry)
August 2001 — July 2003 (2 years)
- Administered UNIX and MS Windows servers, wrote shell scripts for task automation, worked to troubleshoot and implement solutions with the technical staff from third party mission-critical proprietary software companies including Fidelity National Financial (fnf.com), Financial Institution Service Corporation (fiscdp.com); network connectivity troubleshooting alongside telco (bellsouth.net) and ISP (sendtech.net) engineers
- Implemented, maintained web-based applications and intranet using PHP, CSS, Javascript & MySQL
- Collaborated with CFO in planning and implementing technology within the company including server, network, security, and software copyright issues
- Facilitated in the 2003 federal audit by FDIC (fdic.gov) with various I.T. tasks including implementing and documenting standard I.T. procedures, data retention, data security, network and server infrastructure security, disaster recovery strategy, and other tasks to ascertain compliance with federal I.T. regulations
BS , Computer Science , 2000 — 2004
Minor in mathematics and research
Certification , Technology Product Management
Practical Product Management by Pragmatic Marketing is a common rite of passage for product managers in technology companies - which I paid for because I wanted to learn more about entrepreneurship and product management (worth every penny, imho). At the end of the seminar, there's an optional certification test - which I took and passed (of course!)
http://preview.tinyurl.com/5b9yp7
Certification , Sun Certified Programmer for Java 2 Platform
Sun Certified Programmer for Java 2 Platform (ID: SR1778462, September 20th 2004)
Technology product management, entrepreneurship, cloud computing, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), smart phones, mobile applications (iPhone, Android, Crackberry, Nokia, et al), ice hockey
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), American Radio Relay League (ARRL), Amateur Radio Emergency Service (ARES), Dept. of Commerce NWS Storm Spotter, DEMO, Wokai
- College of Arts and Science 2003-2004 outstanding student, ranked top 3 in the 2004 Student Research Symposium (science category)
- Presented an original research at the national AMS/MAA mathematics meeting in Phoenix, AZ 2004 (see personal website for link to PDF)
- Inducted into various national and international honor societies: computing sciences (Upsilon Pi Epsilon), mathematics (Kappa Mu Epsilon), and freshman (Alpha Lambda Delta, Phi Eta Sigma)