Matt Ball

Current

• Staff Engineer at Sun Microsystems
• SISWG P1619.x Chair at IEEE Computer Society

Past

• Technical Consultant at M.V. Ball Technical Consulting, Inc.
• Consultant at PrO Unlimited
• Firmware Engineer at Quantum Corporation

• Software Engineer at Bosonics, Inc.

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Education

• University of Colorado at Boulder

Connections

195 connections

Industry

Computer Hardware

Websites

• My Website
• My Blog
• My Company

Matt Ball’s Summary

Embedded software engineer with 8 years experience writing tape drive firmware. Currently hold chair position in IEEE P1619 standards committees, and worked with Trusted Computing Group and INCITS/T10. Experience with error correction codes and cryptography.

Matt Ball’s Specialties:

Standards Development and Representation, Programming (including C and Java), Cryptography Design, Error Correction Design, Project Management, and Engineering Representation.

Matt Ball’s Experience

• Staff Engineer

  Sun Microsystems

  (Public Company; JAVA; Information Technology and Services industry)

  November 2008 — Present (1 year 1 month)

  - Lead for FIPS 140-2 Certification of T10000 Tape Drive and Key Management Products
  - Software Engineering for Key Management Appliance
  - Standards Development and Representation: IEEE 1619, T10, ...

• SISWG P1619.x Chair

  IEEE Computer Society

  (Computer Hardware industry)

  2007 — Present (2 years )

• Technical Consultant

  M.V. Ball Technical Consulting, Inc.

  (Computer & Network Security industry)

  October 2007 — January 2009 (1 year 4 months)

  - Chair of the IEEE P1619 Security in Storage Working Group
  - Software design for cryptographic features (C, C++, Java)
  - Standards development

• Consultant

  PrO Unlimited

  (Public Company; 201-500 employees; Human Resources industry)

  January 2008 — November 2008 (11 months)

  - FIPS 140-2 certification of the T10000 Tape Drive at Sun Microsystems
  - Standards representation

• Firmware Engineer

  Quantum Corporation

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; QTM; Computer Hardware industry)

  May 1999 — October 2007 (8 years 6 months)

  Designed the error correction code for the DLT-S4
  Designed the cryptographic features for a Quantum tape drive
  Developed standard for encryption of tape cartridges (IEEE P1619.1)
  Wrote embedded software in C and assembly for the DLT series tape drives

• Software Engineer

  Bosonics, Inc.

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)

  1997 — 1999 (2 years )

  - Developed programs in Java, C, MATLAB, LabView, and AVS Express for optical experiments involving wave guides
  - Paper: SPIE: Couple: an integrated model for optical interconnect modules

Matt Ball’s Education

• University of Colorado at Boulder

  1995 — 1999

Additional Information

Matt Ball’s Websites:

• My Website
• My Blog
• My Company

Matt Ball’s Interests:

cryptography, programming languages, guitar, biking, truth

Matt Ball’s Groups:

IEEE Security in Storage Work Group, IEEE P1619, INCITS, T10, IEEE

•    RSA Conference
•    The Official IEEE Group
•    IEEE Denver Section
•    IEEE Computer Society Denver Section

Matt Ball’s Honors:

Stanford Computer Security Certificate
Professional Education class on Error Correction Codes

Matt Ball’s Contact Settings

Interested In:

• career opportunities
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• new ventures
• job inquiries
• expertise requests
• business deals
• reference requests
• getting back in touch