• Second Vice President of the High Tech Crime Investigation Association, Northeast Chapter
• Member of the FBI’s Infragard program
• Member of the NJ License Private Investigator Association
• Member of Rutgers Cybersecurity Advisory Board 2018.
• Certificate of Appreciation, United States Secret Service, 2002
• Certificate of Appreciation, New Jersey State Police, 2002
• Awarded for assistance provided to rebuild infrastructure for the NY Field Office immediately after the September 11th, 2001 attacks
• Awarded for training on cyber-terrorism issues
• A founding member, along with ATSAIC Bob Weaver, of the New York Electronic Crimes Task Force.

Experience

• 2004 – Present, CEO, CyanLine, LLC – Eatontown, NJ
  • Designed, developed, implemented and supported patent-pending techniques for forensic disk acquisition.
  • Handled multiple file recovery and file un-deletion cases where data was assumed to be lost on disk.
  • Performed forensic acquisition on multiple computer hard drives to support both file recovery and computer usage analysis.
  • Prepare and submitted reports to the Federal and State court on findings from computer analysis.
  • Developed and taught courses at Brookdale College, (NETW-236) on detecting alterations on file timestamps, and on the process of file deletion in the Windows and Linux operating system.
  • Developed improved computer forensic techniques.
  • Developed and deployed new techniques for tracking hackers.
  • Devised new method for securing wireless networks (patent-pending).
• 2007 – 2009, Professor, Monmouth University – Long Branch, NJ
  • Developed and taught a new graduate level Software Security Course, (698-C50).
  • Taught graduate level Data Security course (610).
• 2000 – 2004, Vice President of Engineering, Lumeta Corporation – Somerset, NJ
  • Secured $13 Million in VC funding for the company over 3 years.
  • Managed a budget of $5Million.
  • Led the team of engineers that build and deliver Lumeta’s IPsonar product.
  • Direct research on TCP/IP networks as it relates to Internet and intranet traffic.
  • Devised new methods for detecting network devices that are attempting to hide computers on a network.
• 1999 – 2000, Senior Manager, Bell Labs – Murray Hill, NJ
  • Assisted corporate business units and the CIO in implementing Virtual Private Network technology, to securely improve remote access and reduce cost for the business.
  • Researched Internet networking security issues with Bill Cheswick. Devised and patented a method for detecting hosts that are breeching the corporate network security perimeter.
  • Researched wireless data communication issues. Devised and patented a method for securing wireless data networks that enables user level authorization while preserving the ability of clients to roam among many different base stations.
• 1996 – 1999, Senior Manager, Lucent Technologies – Holmdel, NJ
  • Brought Intrusion Detection technology into the corporation to improve detection of hacker activity on the corporate network.
  • Improved the technology and techniques that the computer investigation teams used, reducing the potential liability incurred by lack of procedures.
  • Led team for Integrated E-Commerce Security for the corporation that reported to the General Auditor.
  • Led the security efforts to implement Virtual Private Network technology for remote access into the corporation, and ran the first corporate VPN trial for the company.
  • Worked with business units to develop methods to securely distribute sensitive sales data to a world wide sales force.
• 1990 – 1996, Senior Systems Engineer, Bellcore – Redbank, NJ
  • Led intrusion investigations on behalf of the RBOCs. Pioneered techniques in high-tech investigations.
  • Led teams on providing network security consulting services to the RBOCs and financial clients.
  • Led a team of engineers on the redesign and implementation of the security subsystem for the Service Control Point (a switch in the SS7 network).
  • Led a team of engineers on the redesign of the toll-free and calling cards database used in processing telephone calls in the US and Canada to allow the RBOCs to comply with FCC mandates.
• 1988 – 1990, System Manager, Metpath, INC – Teterboro, NJ
• 1987 – 1988, Programmer/Analyst, K. Hovnanian – Redbank, NJ
• 1986 – 1987, Patrolman, Seaside Heights Police Dept. – Seaside Heights, NJ