Wes Peters

Current

• IT Director at Sunrise Capital Partners LLC
• Committer, Core Team emeritus at The FreeBSD Project

Past

• Product Developer at BakBone Software
• Chief Scientist at St. Bernard Software
• Principal Engineer at NextGig Inc.

• Software Architect at DoBox
• Principal Engineer at Alcatel Internetworking
• Software Engineer at Dayna Communications
• Senior Software Engineer at Intel Corporation
• Senior Software Design Engineer at Philips Broadcast Televsions Systems
• Senior Software Design Engineer at Philips - Broadcast Television Systems
• Manager of Research and Development at Century Software
• Software Engineer at Raxco Software
• Software Engineer at Logicon, Inc

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Education

• Weber State University

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Industry

Computer & Network Security

Wes Peters’s Summary

Wes Peters’s Specialties:

BSD, Mac OS X, Linux, UNIX system and kernel programming, embedded system design and programming, TCP/IP internals, Internet protocols, email protocols and formats, web user interface design and programming.

Wes Peters’s Experience

• IT Director

  Sunrise Capital Partners LLC

  (Privately Held; Financial Services industry)

  2009 — Present (less than a year)

• Committer, Core Team emeritus

  The FreeBSD Project

  (Non-Profit; 201-500 employees; Computer Software industry)

  August 1998 — Present (11 years)

  Contribute design, code, documentation, and management expertise to the FreeBSD Project, producers of the FreeBSD computer operating system. Since 2002 have been a member of the Core Team, essentially a board of directors for the project.

• Product Developer

  BakBone Software

  (Public Company; 201-500 employees; BKB; Computer Software industry)

  October 2007 — November 2008 (1 year 2 months)

  Responsible for architecture and implementation of the file system interface for NetVault data protection product line.

• Chief Scientist

  St. Bernard Software

  (Public Company; 51-200 employees; SBSW.OB; Computer & Network Security industry)

  January 2003 — October 2007 (4 years 10 months)

  Advanced Research and Development, responsible for creating new products and product features across St. Bernard product lines. Responsible for integration of appliance based and services based product lines, and research and development of new security and business continuity products.
  
  Evaluated a series of products for acquisition, produced an engineering recommendation of two products/companies to acquire. Prototyped new streaming security features for an existing network security product. Prototyped a small security appliance in conjunction with a managed security service to better serve small businesses.
  
  System Architect for St. Bernard's ePrism model 500 email filtering product. Designed and implemented a full featured email gateway, including spam and virus filtering, policy and user account management, and reporting.

• Principal Engineer

  NextGig Inc.

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Networking industry)

  March 2002 — November 2002 (9 months)

  Lead the Operating System/Platform team designing a database acceleration appliance. With a team of 5 engineers, developed and maintained common code libraries, communication and control infrastructure to assist application code running across a cluster of 4 cpus and an intelligent gigabit ethernet switch all in a single rack enclosure. Optimized memory access routines providing a 22% throughput improvement in application performance.

• Software Architect

  DoBox

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer & Network Security industry)

  March 2000 — February 2002 (2 years)

  Designed and developed a comprehensive streaming email filter for a residential internet security appliance. Developed a system for digitally signing applications available to download onto the appliance. Assisted in the development of WiFi 802.11b access point capabilites on the OpenBSD operating system. Lead a small team of 2 junior engineers and 2 interns in developing the web user interface for the appliance, and in creating a testing framework. Assisted the CTO in various research projects for new features, including streaming video to tablet PC devices across the WLAN.

• Principal Engineer

  Alcatel Internetworking

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Computer Networking industry)

  February 1998 — March 2000 (2 years 2 months)

  Developed embedded software for the Xylan OmniSwitch platform. I became the in-house expert on software for the 2nd generation "Mammoth" backplane controller ASIC, which included two integrated SPARC CPUs. I developed fastpath TCP/IP routing software for the Mammoth which provided a 10x increase in IP routing speed. I lead a small team of engineers in integrating the Checkpoint FireWall-1 packet inspection engine into the embedded CPUs, providing a similar increase in packet inspection rates and a considerable reduction in CPU load on the management CPU. I then ported the entire XOS operating system to the embedded Mammoth CPUs for a new generation branch office switch that integrated ethernet LAN and voice and data ATM connectivity into a single chassis with only the Mammoth CPUs.

• Software Engineer

  Dayna Communications

  (Computer & Network Security industry)

  1996 — 1998 (2 years)

• Senior Software Engineer

  Intel Corporation

  (Computer & Network Security industry)

  1996 — 1998 (2 years)

• Senior Software Design Engineer

  Philips Broadcast Televsions Systems

  (Public Company; 201-500 employees; Broadcast Media industry)

  October 1995 — October 1996 (1 year 1 month)

  Design and develop software for television studio quality audio and video switching equipment. Developed interfaces to external automation systems and co-authored a redesign of the core functionality of the Jupiter routing controller, resulting in a 36x speed improvement.

• Senior Software Design Engineer

  Philips - Broadcast Television Systems

  (Computer & Network Security industry)

  1995 — 1996 (1 year)

• Manager of Research and Development

  Century Software

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer & Network Security industry)

  October 1994 — October 1995 (1 year 1 month)

  Managed all product development employees. Produced first internationalized version of the companys flagship product, TinyTERM. Ported TERM for UNIX to several new systems. Instituted source code control and formal QA procedures, improving initial quality of software releases significantly.

• Software Engineer

  Raxco Software

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer & Network Security industry)

  April 1991 — September 1994 (3 years 6 months)

  Designed and developed Security Toolkit/UNIX, the first commercial internet security product. Carried the product through three major revisions, including the development of Enterprise Security Manager, now a Symantec product. Designed and developed three additional UNIX network security products no longer in production.

• Software Engineer

  Logicon, Inc

  (Computer & Network Security industry)

  1984 — 1988 (4 years)

Additional Information

Wes Peters’s Interests:

FreeBSD Amateur Radio Sailing