Highlights
1987 - Designed the first modular Anti-Virus programs "Vaccine, Checkup and Antidote" which received the PC Magazine's Editor's Choice Award. Symantec purchased a site license!
1988 - Wrote one of the first "undectable" virus scripts to introduce the concept of heuristic security scanning. At PC-Expo this virus defeated every Anti-Virus program exhibited (except Vaccine) causing the industry to adopt the heuristic techniques employed by Vaccine to protect PCs against unknown security attacks.
1989 - Designed a secure network and control program for inside and outside connections for the leading provider of secret flavor and scent formulas used in many well known consumer products.
1990 - Designed the protoype of the secure Citibank teller's and banker's workstations and ATM graphical user TCP/IP interface to the legacy mainframe system's account data.
1992 - Migrated Credit Suisse/First Boston's legacy systems to a secure Local Area TCP/IP based network connecting all departments throughout the bank.
1993 - Migrated SNA asynchorous telephone based EBCDIC market data systems to secure Internet SQL via TCP/IP connections for 100 and 10 Wall Street clients.
1996 - Migrated and tested Chase's legacy systems to a secure Internet based system during and after the bank's merger with Manufacturer's Hanover. Won CIO magazine and Windows NT magazine awards.
1997 - Consolidated USAA's national mainframe and network servers to a coherent and secure IP based architecture including secure data storage and messaging sevices.
1997 - Authored the Software Security (PIQUE) section of the Ernst & Young Fusion Project Management Manual.
1998 - NYC Associate Commissioner of Citywide Open and Network Systems, e-Government Chief Technology Architect and Citywide Information Security Manager for the Dep't of Information Technology and Telecommunications. Won "Best of the Web" for nyc.gov, the official NYC website.
1998 - Consultant to the NYPD for the country's first Cyber-Crime Unit. Performed some of the first investigations including terroristic threats and cyber-forensic analyses. Several projects were reported in Network World, InfoWeek, Network Computing.
1998 - Agency liasion and system architecture consultant for the creation of NYC's own independent Cyber-Crime Division, CISAFE.
2001 - CISAFE's Senior Manager of Citywide Information Security and Special Investigator for Cyber-Crime for the NYC Dep't of Investigation. (The country's oldest law enforcement agency).
2001 - United States Secret Service New York Electronic Crimes Task Force.
2001 - Performed post 9/11 anti-terrorist cyber-communications investigations with FBI and rebuilt the OEM command center which was destroyed (WTC 7).
2002 - Published over 80 Security Policy and Procedure Manuals which became NYC official regulations.
2002 - Board Member of NACHA (The Electronic Payments Association) Web Council for security and privacy of ACH electronic transactions.
2003 - Contributed Internet Security Curriculum to FLETC, Federal Law Enforcement Training Center.
2003 - Designed and presented the "Hot Target" anti-terror communications system at InfraGard.
2004 - Contributed to the FBI Cyber-Crime Unit Field Manual.
2004 - Senior Security Analyst for the MTA State Police Enterprise Security Division.
2005 - Private and confidential personal and business security consulting providing HIPAA and PCI compliant solutions, educational security awareness programs sometimes funded by public and corporate grants.