Dennis Groves
10514 East Bahia Drive
Scottsdale, AZ 85259
Home Phone (480) 563-7815
Summary of Qualifications
Experienced independent consultant with strong practical and
theoretical
experience in successfully implementing, analyzing, and improving
networking systems. Recent roles and responsibilities have included:
* Senior Network Operations Specialist
* Security Specialist
* Sales Support Engineer
15 years of quality assurance and security testing of various network
and
software systems. 3 years experience providing technical presentations
to
middle and upper management.
Qualifications
Penetration Testing, Security Assessment, Network Management, Software
Testing (alpha, Beta, QA), OS-Tuning, Course Development, Customer
Relations, Customer Training, Technical Support, Documentation,
Network/Systems Security, Enterprise Communications, Pre/Post Sales
Support
Languages: Applescript, MS-TEST 4.0, C (ANSI, K&R, Posix), Expect,
Perl,
shell (sh, csh, ksh, tcsh, bash)
System Administration: Mac OS, Windows 3.11, Windows for Work groups,
Windows 95, Windows NT, FreeBSD (BSD), Linux (POSIX), Solaris (SYS V),
SunOS, HP/UX
Electronic Mail Systems: imap4(sims & UW), pop3, MS-Exchange,
MS-Exchange
server, ms-mail, sendmail, elm, pine, mailx, mail, mh, exmh, mutt
Networking: Netbui, Slip, PPP, TCP/IP, SMTP, Sendmail, XDM, routed,
gated,
Inetd, Httpd (CERN & Apache), Ftpd (wu), Telnetd, Gopher (Veronica),
archie, whois, nslookup, finger, WAIS, CGI, Usenet, C-news, UUCP,
Netscape
Servers (Merchant, Commerce, Transaction), Netscape Publishing System
Security Tools: AppScan, SeOS, tripwire, satan, saint, sara, cops, ISS,
nmap, PGP, SSH, crack, whisker, tcpdump, firewalls, VPN
Experience
April 2000 – Feb 2001
Customer Audit Specialist, Sanctum (Perfecto) Inc.
Performed all security audits for Sanctum clients both on and off site.
Created security reports for the customer audits. Performed quality
assurance testing of Sanctum products. Wrote the training materials for
AppScan. Traveled to Israel to assist in development of AppScan for US
market. Performed partner and customer training. Clients include
American
Airlines, American Express, Bank One, Barnes & Nobel, Embark.com, PC
Bank
Corporation, Symantec, Verizon Wireless, and Wingspan Bank.
December 1999 – March 2000
Security Research, Clicknet Software.
Designed security lab for the research of Windows NT and Sun Solaris
Exploits. Identified the exploits most likely to add value to
entercept.
Developed database schema for GroupWare solution to tracking exploit
reproducibility and Identification.
October 1998 – December 1999
Security Architect, Platinum Technology (Computer Associates).
Support both the Platinum sales organization in a pre sales nature and
the
customer base in a post sales capacity. Consult and train employees and
customers on the following security products: TNG NSO & SSO, ESA, SSO,
ACX,
SessionWall3, and PCM. Continue to study the evolving field of
security,
and stay current in my knowledge by following several different news
groups
and mailing lists online and relay information to those whom it
affects.
Clients include Disney, Firestone, Catholic Health Care, General
Telephone
& Electric, Motorola, Intel and Airtouch Cellular.
January 1997 – June 1998
System Administrator, Pacific Coast Feather
Support the growth of multi-site Unix systems. Systems include: 19 Sun
UltraSparc, Sparc, and Compaq servers running Solaris and SCO Unix;
Ethernet, ISDN, and frame relay networks; including Cisco, Bay
Networks,
and Ascend routers, switches and hubs; with Shiva and Computones for
remote
access dial ups connecting 200 Macintosh workstations at 12 sites
located
throughout the United States and Canada; internet and web site
interfaces
including company firewalls and planning, migration and deployment of
company wide email clients and servers; Oracle database; electronic
commerce and EDI; and SAP R/3 business applications.
July 1996 – November 1996
Consultant, Netinfo
Management of a small 50-person local area network based on a Sun SPARC
ULTRA. System administration duties included trouble shooting printer
and
terminal problems as they occurred, maintenance of the 3 terminal
servers,
deployment of company-wide email system, installation of Word Perfect
6 for
UNIX, integration of Mac and MS machines to the to the network and
writing
miscellaneous shell and Perl scripts. A wide variety of networking
hardware
was in use at the three client sites I worked at such as Sun , Sco,
Sgi,
NT, Cisco, and Bay Networks servers, routers, switches and hubs.
January 1995 – November 1995
April 1996 - July 1996
Consultant, Microsoft
Created and implemented the testing procedures and documentation for
the
Microsoft Exchange server to Internet mail gateway software Build
Verification Lab. Network included 16 NT 4.0 servers, configured to
route
over TCP/IP, X25, IPX/SPX and NetBEUI. Network hardware includes
Cisco and
Shiva routers. In the enterprise of NT machines one machine from each
architecture and locale was included mips, risc, x86, power PC, French,
German, English, and Japanese.
Worked in Games/AAS, Traditional black box testing of software coupled
with
analyzing network traffic using FreeBSD, and Linux over the internet,
using
standard UNIX facilities (trace route, netstat, ping, etc.) in order to
isolate problems that occurred in a world wide, real time Multiplayer
interactive adventure strategy game.
Worked in the Windows 95 Multimedia test lab where we tested over 1,200
different applications with Windows 95 as compared to Windows 3.11.
Hardware used was 386 to Pentium class processors, with a wide variety
of
video, sound, and CDROM and memory configurations operating on the
corporate network.
November 1995 – April 1996
Sr. Consultant II, Claremont Technology Group
Provided in-home technical assistance for installation (distributed and
stand alone) of Netscape products. Review technical documentation;
developed for certification training courses of Netscape products.
Wrote
programs to automate installation of Netscape products using Expect,
Perl,
and Shell. Architecture is LAN of Sun-Sparc five's running Sun-OS and
Solaris. Designed, created and implemented Claremont's webpage. Clients
include Netscape and Silicon Graphics.
October 1994 – January 1995
Consultant, Orrtax
Developed help files for the states of New York, Hawaii, West Virginia,
Michigan, Oklahoma, and Federal Form 8828. Wrote macros for the SemWare
editor "Qedit" to integrate the development of help, resource, and
laser
files. Additions included adding a tags-like facility and also
integrated
edit, compile and debug facilities similar to EMACS. Architecture was
MS-DOS and Novell Network on 386 a nd 486 AT class machines.
January 1994 – October 1994
Consultant, Houmongous Entertainment
Contributions included testing of Freddi Fish, Farm, Fish Demo and Farm
Demo multimedia children's educational products. Traditional black box
testing of software coupled with multimedia hardware troubleshooting,
to
deliver a solid product in time for Christmas market.
June 1987 – September 1990
Software Engineer, Generic Software
Wrote script utilities for the generation of financial reports for the
accounting department in Lotus 123. Developed Customer database as
well as
account tracking software for Collections Department in R-BASE:5000.
Wrote
disk duplication software for in house duplication of Generic CADD.
Wrote
inventory control software to track CADD product by serial numbers.
Participated in the development and installation of company LAN, a
Novell
network based on 10BASE-T.
Certifications/Publications
Netscape certified Publishing System Installation and Administration.
Technical Editor
“Linux Install and Configuration”. CoriolisOpen Press. ISBN
1-57610-489-3
References
Additional information provided upon request, but please remain
confidential at this time.
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