Work

UIUC projects

• DCE research as it pertains to a implementation on the UIUC campus
• Taught a NTU Course on DCE (Note: if that copy disappears, the description is locally mirrored.
• Menushell maintenance
• Maintenance of UIUC Ph and Kerberos service (with Jon Roma)
• Learning about computer security issues
• The compression document that I maintain (some call it "how to decompress anything").
• E-mail Cluster Research

Trip Reports

• SHARE 84, March 1995
• USENIX Security Symposium, Salt Lake City, Utah, June 1995
• CITI Showcase, July 1995

Work experience (quasi-resume)

1986-1988: Worked a few hours a week doing PC consulting in my small town of El Dorado Hills, California.

1990-1991: I began working for that slave driver Declan Fleming as a PC and Mac fixit person for the CCSO sites.

1991-1994: Declan assigned me to the new NeXTs since no one else had any UNIX experience and I had played around a bit with UNIX. I became the NeXT admin. In 1992, we got more NeXTs to bring our total to around 85 machines in three CCSO Sites. Running the NeXTs became a 20-30 hour per week job by 1993-1994.

1991-1993: I was the NeXT Campus Consultant at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. I was an independent contractor to NeXT and provided sales and technical help to NeXT customers on campus.

Summer, 1992: Worked for First Chicago Capital Markets, Inc, a unit of First National Bank of Chicago, in Chicago, IL. I was sort of a NeXT-guru-in-residence and trained several people, plus I worked on a few projects. One notable one was a client-server system that allowed people on the NeXTs to change their NIS passwords with a secure passwd program (disallowed dictionary words, etc). Passwords did not travel over the network in clear text. It was fairly primitive, written entirely in Perl to take advantage of its easy-to-use RPC.

Summer, 1993: Worked as a Systems Engineer at Intel's Israel Design Center in Haifa, Israel. I learned a lot about AIX, AFS, and System V machines. Also got a heck of a tan, since the office is about 200 yards from the beach and was able to skip out in the afternoon sometimes. One of these days, I'll put some pictures on-line.

Fall, 1993-Summer 1994: I worked part-time during the school year and then full time during the summer at Motorola Computer Group's Urbana Design Center as a system administrator. Motorola Computer Group is a part of Motorola's General Systems Sector, which also has Motorola's Cellular products. Motorola is a pretty darn good place to work, and they reward technical as well as managerial work.

Fall 1994-Summer 1995: Half-time Research Assistant with CCSO as a system administrator in the UNIX Mainframe software support group ("UNIX team"). Here is a choice (though admittedly not recent) picture of our team leader, Bob Booth. I have been taking most of the responsibilities of software on uxa, as well as installation of a lot of software on all of the machines. Here is a bunch of information on our machines.

Sept. 1995- Jan. 1998: Research Programmer for CCSO. I work with the Ph on-line phonebook (also see the FAQand Kerberos authentication system. The Kerberos system is used primarily as authentication to the UIUCNet dialup system and U of I Direct On-Line Registration System. My other project is to investigate a campuswide filesystem. The filesystem will be accessible from all platforms and appear as a native filesystem on any client. This is much harder than it sounds (!). I am also researching ways to secure applications, including administrative applications that keep popping up all over campus.

Board Member and Chief Technology Officer of ServerCom, Inc., a Champaign-Urbana-based Internet Presence, Connectivity, and Consulting company.

The very unofficial UNIX Systems Team Quote Page