I will be transferring to the University of Houston to be close to my fiancé and her family. She will also be attending the University of Houston Clear Lake for graduate school. So, my relocation would be permanent. I am flexible in looking into part-time or full-time positions. However, it is important to me to find employment before my relocation as I am paying my way through school. I have a total of 5+ years experience related to Information Security. My most recent projects have led me into very technical development and deployment work with Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) and Network/Host based Intrusion Detection systems. This work includes authentication mechanisms as well as product specific knowledge of iPlanet Directory and MS Active Directory. In September of 2001 I passed the CISSP (Certified Information System Security Professional). I have spoken at multiple conferences on ethical hacking and penetration testing. In addition to this, I have technical publications in Virtual Private Networking. I have a very diverse skill set in system administration (UNIX / NT) and programming experience with C/C++, Java, and PERL. I am very interested in O/S or embedded systems, firewall/ids development, or Java development. -Bryan Smith, CISSP MS-Word version of my resume can be found here http://www.theclerk.com/~bryan/resume/ Objective Seeking a position within a computer science field. An ideal position would leverage my existing security and programming background and offer continued challenge and education. Employment History Lead Programmer TCCN, Inc. (Jan 1999 – Present) Management Overview: Interaction with customers to determine new service offerings. Responsibilities include management of mail, web, and DNS services for approximately 80 sites. Also responsible for tailoring those services for scalability of growth in existing customer needs as well as the addition of new clients which are growing rapidly. Currently developing a team of individuals for management of network and host based intrusion detection systems, corporate firewalls, and virtual private networking connectivity. Technical Overview: Development of in house tools to automate administration and maintenance of virtual hosting communities using Apache, Postfix, and BIND on OpenBSD, Linux, and Solaris UNIX environments. Application and utility development using LDAP, libmcrypt, openssl, mysql, and POSIX thread libraries for a distributed server environment. Very technical development in central deployment of public key infrastructure via OpenSSL and ISAKMP. Migration away from shared secret password authentication to x.509 client certificate authentication methods. Migration of user accounts to a central LDAP directory using OpenLDAP and iPlanet Directory Servers. Additional programming to facilitate single instance single sign-on for Webmail, FTP, vBulletin BBS, PostNuke, and DNS. Shell access available and secured by trusted path execution kernel modifications and s/key one-time passwords. Systems Architect Biology / Chemistry Technology Support Unit (BC-TSU) Illinois State University (Aug 2001 – May 2002) Management Overview: Assisting in the development of a new distributed support group. Responsibilities which were left previously unmanaged or up to individual decisions are now part of a central management structure tied into service level agreements with university technology support. The unit is responsible for 500 plus workstations for faculty, staff, and labs as well as internal server resources. Technical Overview: Management of existing WindowsNT environment and migration between NT 4 and 2000 environments. Administration of Exchange Server along with IIS and the responsibilities of securing and properly deploying those services in production environments. Led the design and deployment of system management software to automate the process of software installation and upgrades. Primary point of contact for assessment and response to security related events. Network Administrator Heartland Community College (Nov 1998 – Aug 2001) Management Overview: Developed a secure computing environment that enabled the higher demand on resources from the technology departments apart from central campus. Assisted in the development of in house applications to manage account access restrictions. Technical Overview: Designed, developed, and implemented simplified sign-on system which allows users to access mail, Unix Samba shares, and shell access using a single password. Setup distinct security policies dealing with multi-user environments and services in heterogeneous Windows/UNIX environment. Managed border firewalls and intrusion detection systems. Integration of LDAP for directory services capability. Primary point of contact for assessment and response to security related events. Worked with team to develop specialized in-house security tools. Application developed using ANSI C and Java. Technical experience using C sockets API and Java for development of administrative GUI Memberships and Associations Boy Scouts of America: Eagle Scout 1995 Survivability over Security (SOS) Research Group Co-founder and Research Scientist (Jan 2000 – Present) Grant funded to pursue investigations in public key infrastructure, network based intrusion detection, and virtual private networking over satellite broadband. Project management experience in establishing milestones and deadlines, coordinating development of custom applications, and publication. Regularly speak to both technical and non-technical audiences. Education Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) by the (ISC)2 September 14, 2001. Illinois State University Computer Science and Philosophy coursework to pursue interests in artificial intelligence and information security Heartland Community College Associate of Arts Dec 1998 Coursework in C/C++/Java Programming and Operating Systems Publications "Ethical Hacking: The Security Justification Redux," IEEE International Symposium on Technology and Society (ISTAS), Raleigh, NC USA, June 2002. {Bryan Smith, William Yurcik, and David Doss} "A Layered Framework Strategy for Deploying High Assurance VPNs," Fifth IEEE International Symposium on High Assurance Systems Engineering (HASE 2000), IEEE Computer Society Press, Albuquerque, NM. USA, Nov. 2000, pp. 199-202. {Samuel Patton/Illinois State University, Bryan Smith/Illinois State University, William Yurcik and David Doss/Illinois State University} "A Virtual Private Network Deployment Framework," The 25th Annual IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN 2000) , IEEE Computer Society Press, Tampa FL. USA, Nov. 2000, pp. 225-226. {Samuel Patton/Illinois State University, Bryan Smith/Illinois State University, William Yurcik and David Doss/Illinois State University} References available upon request.
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