Management consulting projects include:

  • Customer and Market requirements analysis, product definition, early adopter interviews, and market sizing for Coverity, a security software startup.
  • Investment due diligence, market fit assessment, and technical evaluation of a security software technology start-up for Charles River Ventures
  • Market analysis, strategy and positioning recommendations, partnering strategy, and business planning for Hewlett-Packard, including Unix and NT server divisions for direct and VAR channels to medium to large enterprises
  • Market segmentation, application analysis, and venture-capital presentations for 3PAR, an enterprise-scale storage server systems vendor, funded by Mayfield Fund and Oracle Ventures
  • Business strategy recommendations, financial projections, and security derivative valuation for Churchill-Madison Group, a business consulting firm
  • Business planning, technical architecture recommendations, and program management for Extempo Systems, a startup creating virtual interactive characters for enterprise customers
  • Business planning, financial modeling, and strategy consulting for a Biotech pharmaceutical startup

Internet security projects include:

  • Security assessment, Regulatory compliance review (HIPAA and California SB1386), traffic analysis, network architecture recommendations, and VPN installation for Cord Blood Registry. (Platforms: Cisco IOS, WatchGuard Firebox, Linux, HP Top Tools, Microsoft Active Directory, Cisco VPN)
  • Security architecture, design, and implementation of the web integration of cryptography and smart card technologies for Philips Semiconductors.  (Platforms: PKI, MS Crypto API, C++, JavaScript, COM, ASP)
  • Security auditing, penetration testing, system hardening, host-based intrusion detection system implementation for PumaTech, an internet information synchronization and delivery company. (Platforms: Solaris, Linux, NT, SonicWall, Snort, Saint, Nessus, Unix shell scripting, CheckPoint, Cisco IOS)
  • Network and software security review and architecture for a secure eCommerce web application development for PumaTech. (Platforms: Solaris, Weblogic, Oracle 8, Java, http cookies, SSL encryption).
  • Security planning and architecture for a secure web application for a major consumer electronics firm. (Platforms: Windows, SQL Server, Oracle, JavaScript, Internet Explorer)
  • Security risk analysis, schema design, and standby database architecture for HotDispatch, an Internet service marketplace (Platforms: Oracle, Solaris)
  • Firewall and virtual private network configuration, monitoring, and installation for a software development firm.  Compiled custom Linux kernel to integrate security features.  (Platforms: Linux 386 and PPC, NT, IPSEC, gcc, make, NAT, IP, ICMP TCP, Firewall rulesets, PPTP, 3DES and PKI encryption)
  • Network security auditing and penetration testing for a web development and hosting firm (Platforms: NT, Solaris, Sonicwall, Saint, Perl)

Technical development projects include:

  • Creation of a Live CD for remote administration and network analysis.  Booting the CD on a standard Intel-based PC instantly and temporarily converts it to a network analysis appliance.  (Platforms: Red Hat Linux, Anaconda, Kickstart, Python, Unix shell scripting, OpenSSH)
  • System architecture and database development of a 500,000-product video, music, and toy catalog for one of the top eTailers of children's products, FamilyWonder, funded by Accel and US Venture Partners.  Trained and led engineering staff.  (Platforms: Oracle 8, SQL, PL/SQL, Solaris, ColdFusion)
  • Systems consulting for Advanstar's business-to-business vertical marketplace on the web, on integrating legacy Oracle Financials systems with eCommerce websites (Platforms: Oracle Financials, AdForce, Datatrax, ATG Dynamo)
  • Movie database spidering (automated data retrieval from web pages) and merging into a data warehouse, and internal web site development for Reel.com, the leading internet video seller, now a subsidiary of Hollywood Video (Platforms: SQL Server 6.5, Windows NT, IIS, Visual InterDev, ASP, ODBC, C++, WinSock)
  • Design and development of SQL2XML,  a database conversion utility that transforms tables in an SQL database to XML documents.  SQL2SML automatically discovers the tables, columns, primary key constraints, and foreign key relationships in a relational database, and uses these to create an intelligent plan for which tables should be nested in hierarchical XML. (Platforms: Java, wfc XML, SQL, ADO, jdbc)
  • Automatic script creation system for Reel.com, which generated robust SQL procedures from schema descriptions. (Platforms: Oracle 8i, SQL, PL/SQL, XML, XSLT, Perl)
  • Product catalog database needs analysis, schema design, and process architecture for BigWords.com, a leading internet vendor of college textbooks (Platforms: Oracle 8, SQL Server 7, Solaris, Windows NT)
  • Development of a secure customer support site for Mirapoint, an email appliance startup (Platforms: IIS, ASP, SQL Server 6.5)
  • Developed  mail and news clients for automatic scanning, sorting, and storing messages for a stealth internet software startup. Designed high-speed image compression algorithms suitable for Java execution.  (Platforms: Java, smtp, POP3, nntp, jpeg).
  • Design and implementation of a multi-user web-based time and billing application for a professional services firm.  (Platforms: WebLogic, J2EE, jdbc, rmi, iiop, IIS, ASP, Visual J++, NT, SQL Server 7, COM, JRun java servlets)
  • Internet and desktop software components for InfoMediate, an Internet "active delivery" startup (Platforms: Windows, COM, ActiveX, Visual C++)
  • Java performance-boosting and deployment techniques for Netmosphere, a web-based project management supplier which was acquired by CriticalPath (Platforms: Sun Java Plug-In, Netscape SmartUpdate)
  • Java-based "push" technology for Nuance Communications, a speech recognition software vendor (Platforms: Java, JDBC, TCP, VoxML)