SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER
Extensive experience in the development and maintenance of computer and network security software for enterprise class firewall products. Known as a skilled and tenacious developer and troubleshooter under either application or kernel environments. Attuned to needs of internal and external customers while delivering robust, high quality software in a timely manner.
Languages: C, C++, Python, Perl, UNIX Shell
Protocols: IPv4, IPv6, TCP, UDP, IPsec, IKE, HTTP, SSH, SSL, RADIUS, LDAP
Environments: FreeBSD, Linux, Unixware, VMWare, Windows NT
Tools: emacs, vi, gdb, CodeCollaborator, Bugzilla, Perforce, CVS, Sharepoint, Visual Studio C++
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
MCAFEE AN INTEL COMPANY, Pikeville, TN 2008 to 2012
Network Security Business Unit, Enterprise Firewall Development.
Principal Software Engineer
Home-based member of the design and development team focusing on the McAfee Firewall Enterprise product. Consistently produced on time, high quality results on a diverse set of firewall feature development projects.
• Always scored better than 90% successful completion of quarterly objectives.
• Distinguished by manager as the gold standard of courage for tenaciously working the firewall release 7 to 8 upgrade project, developed to assist migrating customer configurations to the next generation, application-control firewall product.
• Recognized by manager as a tireless teacher of inexperienced developers for leading a global development team assigned to defect resolution during the quality assurance testing of the release 7 to 8 upgrade project.
• Delivered on schedule, with zero defects reported during quality assurance testing, the design and implementation of an asynchronous, multi-threaded Global Threat Intelligence (GTI) client
• Participated in Quagga-based IP route synchronization project for high-availability firewall cluster product, released on time under an aggressive schedule.
• Consistently produced on-time and high quality results on a diverse set of firewall feature development projects, including antivirus signature updates, customer notifications, policy event monitoring and history, and release version renumbering.
SECURE COMPUTING, Fort Lauderdale, FL 2006 to 2008
Acquired by MCAFEE.
Principal Software Engineer
Key contributor of software design and development for the FreeBSD based Sidewinder Firewall.
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• Developed the first NAT Traversal feature for the FreeBSD kernel IPsec VPN solution.
• Ported and integrated the FreeBSD kernel IPv6 IPsec stack to the firewall.
• Diagnosed and resolved a number of IPsec VPN kernel issues, receiving praise for solutions for load sharing firewall component
• Considered for patent on the design of a software integrity test for FIPS 140-2 certification.
• Reduced development costs by designing a reusable UDP logger for communicating alerts and audit reports to remote servers.
CYBERGUARD, Fort Lauderdale, FL 1996 to 2006
Acquired by SECURE COMPUTING.
Lead/Principal Software Engineer
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