I'm doing software development now at a video compression company, Pulsent. I love working on challenging projects (and there are a lot of them here) because of the "rush" I get when I get it working! Pulsent's challenging projects have attracted a number of smart people here -- many with Ph.D.s.
Previous to this, I was Director of Engineering at Sonicity, a San Francisco based company that is building a networking infrastructure for the efficient delivery of high-bandwidth, dynamic content on the Internet. It was an exciting place to work, not just because we were developing a really cool product at the right time, but also because day-to-day activities were so fast-paced and high-energy (as start-ups tend to be!).
I had previosuly worked as a senior software developer at Whistle Communications. The company got snapped up by IBM in July 1999. Whistle made easy-to-use products that enable small businesses to get on the Internet without requiring a fulltime IT person to understand and manage the equipment. It was a fun place to work, there are great people there who work well together, and they strongly believe in open standards and open source. Many things developed at Whistle have been contributed back to FreeBSD (the platform the Whistle Interjet is based on).
Previous to this, I helped start up Security Focus -- a one-stop informational site for computer security.
Before that, I was a software developer at Secure Networks, Inc. and later Network Associates Inc., after they bought us in May 1998. While there, I was the project lead for CyberCop Sting, a product which simulates various types of IP stacks and implements the routing of packets between them and between the real network, and allows for an entire network of fake honey-pot machines to be simulated on a single host machine.
Before that, I was a postdoctoral fellow in the Neural Information Processing Laboratory at Northwestern University, the same lab in which I earned my Ph.D. Last updated: