Jeff Six

Current

• Senior Security Architect at Legg Mason
• Adjunct Faculty at University of Delaware
• Training Supervisor at Columbia Association

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Past

• Global Network Exploitation and Vulnerability Analyst at National Security Agency
• Senior Analyst at Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Networks and Information Integration (OASD/NII)
• Adjunct Faculty at University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC)

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Education

• Loyola University Maryland
• National Defense Intelligence College
• University of Delaware

• University of Delaware
• Loyola Blakefield

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Industry

Computer & Network Security

Jeff Six’s Summary

Jeff Six is a professional with a strong engineering, computer science, and analysis background. He was worked in both deeply technical and policy/application positions, throughout government, academic, and business environments. He is an accomplished and published expert in computer, network, and system security and has contributed to industry-wide standards through the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) and the Trusted Computing Group (TCG).

Jeff has demonstrated the ability and drive the learn new skills and function in challenging and dynamic environments. He has a proven and tested customer focus and the ability to adapt to new, unique, complex, and special requirements. Jeff believes that every second can be a teaching moment, where he can help someone learn something new and/or learn something new himself.

Jeff Six’s Specialties:

• Training and teaching
• Hardware, software, and system security analysis & evaluation
• Secure network architecture design
• Standards and protocol development (IETF and TCG)
• Systems administration and troubleshooting (Windows, OS X, Solaris, Linux)
• Network device administration and troubleshooting (Cisco, Juniper)
• Programming (Java, C, C++, C#, assembly, VBS, various Unix shells)
• Identity and Access Manager technologies (Tivoli)
• Trusted Computing Group (TCG) technologies

Jeff Six’s Experience

• Senior Security Architect

  Legg Mason

  (Public Company; LM; Financial Services industry)

  March 2007 — Present (2 years 9 months)

  (Senior title awarded via promotion in June 2009)
  • Performs enterprise security architecture analysis and design. This includes both leading and supporting the entire lifecycle of multiple engineering projects.
  • Serves as the technical lead for Legg Mason's Tivoli Access Manager for eBusiness (TAMeB) deployment. Designed and implemented a highly available, fault-tolerant, load balanced infrastructure composed of TAMeB, IBM WebSphere Application Servers (WAS), Tivoli Directory Integrator (TDI), and Citrix NetScaler load balancers.
  • Determines Legg Mason's business needs/requirements and designs and implements solutions that meets those goals at an clearly determined, and appropriately managed, level of risk. Reviews all proposed and current IT projects at Legg Mason for security impact and works with involved parties throughout the risk management process.
  • Develops custom programs and scripts as needed, using multiple technologies, including Unix shell, Perl, VBS, Windows PowerShell, C, C++, and C#.

• Adjunct Faculty

  University of Delaware

  (Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)

  August 2000 — Present (9 years 4 months)

  Jeff is currently an instructor in the Computer and Information Sciences Department. He has full responsibility for undergraduate computer science courses, including the selection of course topics and charting the evolution of courses to maintain their relevancy and coverage of new and emerging topics, design of the course syllabus, assigning laboratory and homework assignments, the creation of examinations, the grading of such assignments, and is the final authority on student performance. Mr. Six also supervises computer science graduate students, in their roles as teaching assistants.
  
  Jeff was selected for the Outstanding Supplemental Faculty Award in 2003, awarded to a non-tenure track CIS faculty member in recognition of teaching excellence, and the Global Citizenship Faculty Fellowship in 2006, awarded for helping students develop an international perspective to live and work effectively in an increasingly global society. He was the only non-full time faculty fellow.

• Training Supervisor

  Columbia Association

  (Non-Profit; Health, Wellness and Fitness industry)

  December 1993 — Present (16 years )

  Jeff works for the Aquatics Department of the Columbia Association. He started employment as a lifeguard during December of 1993 and over the following years, served as a Head Lifeguard, Assistant Pool Manager, Pool Manager, Age Group Swim Coach, and a Lifeguarding Instructor & Training Supervisor. From 1996 through 1999, Jeff was certified as a Maryland Emergency Medical Technician (EMT-A) and was a volunteer for the Howard County Department of Fire and Rescue Services (DFRS) for a short time as well.
  
  Jeff holds licensure as an Ellis & Associates International Pool & Waterpark Lifeguard Instructor. He attended and completed the 2001 E&A National Aquatic Safety School (NASS), the premier water safety conference in the world. After a break starting in 2004, Jeff started teaching lifeguarding classes for CA again in 2005 and is currently a Senior Lifeguarding Instructor and Internal Auditor for Columbia Association; he is responsible for the training of over 250 lifeguards annually.

• Global Network Exploitation and Vulnerability Analyst

  National Security Agency

  (Government Agency; 10,001 or more employees; Defense & Space industry)

  May 1998 — February 2007 (8 years 10 months)

  Mr. Six was awarded NSA’s Daedalus Award for the “most significant technical contribution to Computer Network Defense (CND) during the year 2004” for the development of a new computer security technology. He also has a US Patent application filed for “a process for identifying software delivered over a computer network and mechanism for governing its execution.” The paper he co-authored, “The Case for Using Layered Defenses to Stop Worms” is published on NSA’s public website and Mr. Six has presented this paper at numerous events, including the 2004 ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security.
  
  Details about this position available on request.

• Senior Analyst

  Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Networks and Information Integration (OASD/NII)

  (Government Administration industry)

  October 2006 — January 2007 (4 months)

  While at NSA, Jeff worked for a brief time at OASD(NII), supporting the Globalization Task Force as the senior technical analyst.

• Adjunct Faculty

  University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC)

  (Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)

  August 2001 — June 2005 (3 years 11 months)

  Served as an instructor in the Computer Science and Electrical Engineering Department of the University of Maryland Baltimore County. While there, Jeff had full responsibility for undergraduate computer engineering courses, including the design of the course syllabus, assigning laboratory and homework assignments, the creation of examinations, the grading of such assignments, and was the final authority on student performance. Mr. Six also supervised computer engineering graduate students, in their roles as teaching assistants.

Jeff Six’s Education

• Loyola University Maryland

  MBA , International Business , 2007 — 2011 (expected)

  Currently pursuing a Masters in Business Administration, with a concentration in International Business.

• National Defense Intelligence College

  PGIP , Strategic Intelligence , 2004 — 2006

  Completed the Post-Graduate Intelligence Program (PGIP) at the National Defense Intelligence College (formerly known as the Joint Military Intelligence College (JMIC)).

• University of Delaware

  MEE , Electrical Engineering , 2000 — 2001

  Graduation GPA: 3.895/4.000

• University of Delaware

  BCpE , Computer Engineering , 1996 — 2000

  Graduation GPA: 3.721/4.000

  Activities and Societies:

  University Honors Program, First Year Honors Certificate, Phi Kappa Phi National Honor Society, Golden Key National Honor Society

• Loyola Blakefield

  Honors middle and high school education 1989 — 1996

Additional Information

Jeff Six’s Interests:

• Amateur triathlete • PADI Open Water SCUBA Diver

Jeff Six’s Groups:

American MENSA

•    Mensa
•    Legg Mason
•    Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP)
•    Black Hat
•    Greater Baltimore Technology Council (GBTC)
•    Information Security Community
•    NANOG - The North American Network Operators' Group
•    United States Masters Swimming
•    Professional Reverse Engineers
•    Baltimore Technology Professionals
•    USA Triathlon and Multisport Development
•    Loyola Blakefield High School Alumni Association
•    Grew up in Columbia, MD?
•    Information Security Network
•    IETF - The Internet Engineering Task Force
•    The Order of the Engineer
•    WASHINGTON DC CONNECTIONS
•    University Of Delaware Alumni Network
•    Security Leaders Group
•    Lifeguards
•    IT Scuba Divers
•    Triathlete
•    Howard County Striders
•    CYBER SECURITY Forum Initiative - CSFI
•    DC/Baltimore Information Security Professionals
•    Trusted Computing Group

Jeff Six’s Honors:

• University of Delaware Global Citizenship Faculty Fellowship
• University of Delaware Outstanding Supplemental Teaching Award
• NSA’s Daedalus Award for the “most significant technical contribution to Computer Network Defense (CND) during the year 2004”
• US Patent application filed for “a process for identifying software delivered over a computer network and mechanism for governing its execution”

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