General Information

  • Current Residence
    • Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
  • Citizenship
    • USA
  • Birthplace
    • Texas, USA

Education

  • BS Computer Engineering (2003-2008)
    • summa cum laude
    • Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA

Employment

  • Student Laboratory Technician Specialist
    • Lockheed Martin (2004-2007)
    • Moorestown, NJ
    • Technology Protection Group
      • Performed binary and source code software security evaluations
      • Developed software protection mechanisms for production code
      • Evaluated commercial software protection packages
      • Performed security evaluations and remediation on production systems
      • Applied for technology protection patent
  • Undergraduate Student Research Assistent
    • Drexel University College of Engineering, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
    • Philadelphia, PA
    • Advisors Spiros Mancoridis and Moshe Kam

Research

  • SAPIENT
    • Developed a test platform for research involving situationally aware network protocols
  • Dynamic application characterization
    • Developed a mechanism for dynamically classifying computer applications based on their interaction with the operating system
  • RE-Detector
    • Developed uniquely identifiable footprints of common reverse engineering tools used for identifying such tool as part of a software technology protection technique.
  • Reverse engineering tool survey
    • Conducted a comprehensive survey and evaluation of reverse engineering tool, including debuggers, disassemblers, and decompilers.

Design

  • Designed and constructed a hybrid drive train for a human-electric hybrid vehicle.

Computer Experience

  • Hardware
    • IBM x86, Macintosh
  • Software
    • Microsoft Visual Studio, Eclipse, OllyDbg, IDAPro, MAPLE, PSpice, ANT, GoldDisk, Retina
  • Languages
    • C/C++, MSVC++, Python, Java, x86 Assembly, XML, XSLT, HTML, Bash, Awk
  • Operating systems
    • Linux, Windows, Unix, Mac, Solaris

Awards and distinctions

  • AJ Drexel Scholarship Recipient, 2003-2008
  • 3rd Place, College of Engineering Senior Design Competition (2008)
  • Milton Rosenberg Scholarship (2008)
  • Electrical and Computer Engineering Award for Outstanding Academic performance (2007)
  • Boeing Engineering Award (2006)

Patents

  • Technology protection patent applied for 2007, awaiting decision from USPTO