Kristian Erik Hermansen

Current

Senior Security Analyst at Experian

Past

Information Security Engineer at Fox Interactive Media (News Corp.)
Security Researcher / Software Engineer at Cisco Systems
Technical Liaison at IBM

Owner / Co-Founder at H&T Technology Solutions
Part-Time / Temp Work at United States Postal Service
Network Engineer at EMC

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Education

University of California, Irvine - The Paul Merage School of Business
Harvard University
University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Middlesex Community College
University of Massachusetts at Lowell
Littleton High School
Silver Lake Regional
Boston College High School

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Connections

500+ connections

Industry

Computer & Network Security

Websites

Kristian Erik Hermansen’s Summary

Email me: kristian.hermansen+linkedin@gmail.com

CISSP, Certified Information Systems Security Professional by (ISC)2
CISA, Certified Information Systems Auditor by ISACA
CEH, Certified Ethical Hacker by EC-Council
CEPT, Certified Expert Penetration Tester by IACRB
CREA, Certified Reverse Engineering Analyst by IACRB
Linux Journal Magazine Advisory Panel (pg. 6 in any 2008/9 issue)
BugWhack Hacking Competition, Polytechnic University of New York, July 2006 (won an iPod)
LPIC-1, LPIC 101/102 Certified by Linux Professional Institute
Linux+ Certified by CompTIA
A+ Certified by CompTIA
ACSA, ArcSight Certified Security Analyst by ArcSight
QGCS, QualysGuard Certified Specialist by Qualys

Kristian Erik Hermansen’s Specialties:

Linux and Open Source Technologies, Vulnerability Assessment, Penetration Testing, Reverse Engineering, Exploit Development, Protocol Analysis, Intellectual Property Identification (source/binary), Virtualization Technologies, Technical Writing...

Kristian Erik Hermansen’s Experience

Senior Security Analyst

Experian

(Public Company; EXPN; Information Services industry)

February 2008 — Present (1 year 10 months)

Defensive Security
Information Security Engineer

Fox Interactive Media (News Corp.)

(Public Company; NWS; Internet industry)

September 2007 — November 2007 (3 months)

Ethical Hacking for MySpace, American Idol, FOX News, FOX Sports, IGN, Rotten Tomatoes, Gamespy, File Planet, Photobucket, and various other groups within the FOX Entertainment Group.
Security Researcher / Software Engineer

Cisco Systems

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

May 2005 — September 2007 (2 years 5 months)

Cisco Security Agent (Okena StormWatch)
Technical Liaison

IBM

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; IBM; Computer Software industry)

December 2005 — August 2006 (9 months)

Highly influential in University of Massachusetts Amherst's official adoption of Linux
http://www.oit.umass.edu/software/download/linux.html
"Beginning January 29, 2007, OIT Help Services will begin offering Linux help to faculty, staff and students."
Owner / Co-Founder

H&T Technology Solutions

(Partnership; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)

March 2003 — May 2005 (2 years 3 months)

LAMP E-commerce website development and technical services
Part-Time / Temp Work

United States Postal Service

(Non-Profit; Government Administration industry)

February 2001 — December 2003 (2 years 11 months)

Littleton, MA
Worked in same location as The Office comedian Steve Carell?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Carell#Early_career
Network Engineer

EMC

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

June 2000 — January 2001 (8 months)

Internship at the Celerra / Symmetrix Engineering Lab

Kristian Erik Hermansen’s Education

University of California, Irvine - The Paul Merage School of Business

MBA , Business , 2009 — 2011 (expected)

FEMBA (Class "C" admitted Spring 2009)
Harvard University

Computer Science 2006 — 2007
University of Massachusetts, Amherst

BS , Computer Science , 2004 — 2006

Cum Laude

Activities and Societies:

Unix User Group, Linux User Group, .NET User Group, Information Assurance (ARIA)
Middlesex Community College

Computer Science 2003 — 2003

Received a grade of 107 out of 100 in Assembly Language Programming course (x86/MSDOS)

Activities and Societies:

Linux User Group, Gaming Group
University of Massachusetts at Lowell

Electrical Engineering 2001 — 2003

Activities and Societies:

\x43\x4d\x41\x32\x36\x30\x30, Oblivion (Drummer for metal band)
Littleton High School

Diploma , 2000 — 2000

Littleton, MA

Activities and Societies:

Littleton Tigers Varsity Baseball (Pitcher/Shortstop/Third)
Silver Lake Regional

1995 — 2000

Pembroke / Kingston, MA

Activities and Societies:

Silver Lake Lakers Football (Defensive End), Kingston All-Stars League Baseball (Pitcher/Shortstop)
Boston College High School

1997 — 1997

Additional Information

Kristian Erik Hermansen’s Websites:

Kristian Erik Hermansen’s Interests:

Nerding out, playing guitar/drums, biking, skiing, traveling, and meeting interesting people from around the world.

Kristian Erik Hermansen’s Groups:

Lifestyle Entrepreneurship, Linux Journal Reader Advisory Panel, NoiseBridge.net, SuperHappyDevHouse, OpenBSD Community, BerkSec, BaySec, Security Community, Ubuntu Community, San Francisco Linux Users' Group (SF-LUG), Silicon Valley Linux Users Group (SVLUG) [before it went to chaos], ihackcharities.org, Black Hat, UMass Amherst .NET Users Group, DEFCON, BeanSec, 2600, Free Software Foundation (FSF), Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), UMass Amherst Linux User's Group (UMassLUG), Boston Linux and Unix Users Group (BLU), Ubuntu Massachusetts Team (ubuntu-ma), Ubuntu BugSquad, American Politics, Advertising Community, Greater Seattle Linux User Group (GSLUG), CanSecWest, Hawaii Open Source Education Foundation (HOSEF), ISACA-LA, UPSEC, LUG Radio, Orange County Linux User Group (OCLUG), Hackers On Planet Earth (HOPE), Irvine Underground

Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSP)
Cisco Alumni Association
The Greater IBM Connection: IBM's alumni program for past and present IBM employees
Ubuntu Users ( 10.000+ members ) Official Group
Paul Merage School of Business
Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH)
UMass Amherst Dept. of Computer Science
Southern California ArcSight User Group