Jason Wood

President and Principle Engineer at JW Network Consulting

Greater Salt Lake City Area

Current
Past
  • Systems Administrator at Homestore.com/Move.com
  • Systems Administrator at Move.com
Education
  • California Lutheran University
Connections
141 connections
Industry
Information Technology and Services
Websites

Jason Wood’s Summary

I've been a UNIX and Windows systems administrator at internet companies for the last eight+ years. My primary interest is in security and that's where I spend my off hours playing on the computer.

Currently, I'm reading about security metrics, testing host integrity monitoring, working with Metasploit, Ruby and network security monitoring.

Jason Wood’s Specialties:

Troubleshooting web applications, back up systems, figuring out things work and how they don't work, UNIX, Linux, FreeBSD, Windows, PHP, some Java and C, Jack of all Trades


Jason Wood’s Experience

  • President and Principle Engineer

    JW Network Consulting

    (Information Technology and Services industry)

    December 2007Present (2 years )

    I provide security and general IT services to businesses primarily in Davis County, Weber County and Salt Lake City.

  • Sr. Systems Administrator

    Interthinx

    (Privately Held; Financial Services industry)

    July 2006Present (3 years 5 months)

    Security and systems administration. IDS monitoring, application testing, compliance, etc.

  • Sr Systems Administrator

    Interthinx (division of ISO)

    (Privately Held; Computer Software industry)

    July 2006Present (3 years 5 months)

    Security and systems administration. Responsible for maintaining infrastructure services, security measures, web applications, etc.

  • Sr. Systems Administrator

    Edmunds.com

    (Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

    December 2005July 2006 (8 months)

    Maintained, deployed and troubleshooting of Edmunds.com's web sites. Projects were things like central job control and integration of a search engine into the prod site. Got to work very closely with engineering.

  • Sr. Systems Administrator

    Interthinx

    (Information Technology and Services industry)

    August 2003December 2005 (2 years 5 months)

    Systems administration. Responsible for maintaining infrastructure services, web applications, etc.

  • Systems Administrator

    homestore

    (Public Company; Information Technology and Services industry)

    20002003 (3 years )

    This is the same position as Move.com. Homestore changed their name to Move.com some time after I left.

  • Systems Administrator

    Homestore.com/Move.com

    (Information Technology and Services industry)

    July 2000July 2003 (3 years 1 month)

    This is the same position as Move.com.

  • Systems Administrator

    Move.com

    (Public Company; Information Technology and Services industry)

    July 2000July 2003 (3 years 1 month)

    Responsible for maintaining infrastructure services, web applications, etc. UNIX and Windows based environment.


Jason Wood’s Education

  • California Lutheran University

    Bachelors of Science , Computer Science , 20042007

    Focused on security in my studies. An example is my paper on web application security at http://www.sysadmins.info/Web_Application_Security.pdf. I also built a wireless auditing device on an RC car using Linksys routers running Linux. It was a fun capstone project.


Additional Information

Jason Wood’s Websites:

Jason Wood’s Interests:

information security, web application security, technology consulting, business development

Jason Wood’s Groups:

  •    Utah Open Source
  •    The Security Catalyst Community
  •    Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP)
  •    Black Hat
  •    ISECOM
  •    Information Security Community
  •    PaulDotCom Security Weekly
  •    Utah Information Security Professionals
  •    The Web Application Security Consortium
  •    Utah Valley Entrepreneurial Forum (UVEF)
  •    Utah Entrepreneurs
  •    Utah Technology Jobs
  •    Syngress
  •    Salt Lake Chamber
  •    Davis Chamber of Commerce - Davis County Utah
  •    Utah Information Systems Security Association (ISSA)
  •    Exotic Liability

Jason Wood’s Honors:

Graduated cum laude from California Lutheran University in 2007


Jason Wood’s Contact Settings

Interested In:

  • career opportunities
  • consulting offers
  • new ventures
  • expertise requests
  • reference requests
  • getting back in touch

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