Alderson, Jimmy
Jimmy has an extensive background in the field of computer security. He served at the Navy's Fleet Information Warfare Center (FIWC) as the first enlisted analyst in the Automated System Intrusion Measurement (ASIM) project, a military predecessor of Intrusion Detection Systems. Also at FIWC he performed vulnerability analysis and assessment for the navy.mil domain based on the Standard Operating Procedures he developed. Leaving FIWC, Mr. Alderson then joined ISS in December of 97. Here he served as a consultant and instructor, finishing his stint by developing the first comprehensive training program for RealSecure. Jimmy left ISS to apply his expertise to real world commercial networks by joining the security team at USInternetworking (USI), an Application Service Provider located in Maryland. During his time here he developed a series of programs that culminated in a central repository and console for all enterprise wide cross-vendor IDS and Firewall logs as well as a web based application for customers to view their security reports. This was the first Security Event Management System. It was here that he pioneered the use of the Shomiti Tap to reduce the cost and increase the breadth of IDS.

After leaving USI, Mr. Alderson had a short stint at the Meta Security Group (MSG) as a security consultant and pen-tester. It was here that he developed the first vulnerability/patch workflow management tool still in use today. Longing to have an impact on security software, he joined e-Security in a role of software consultant and security engineer. He was with e-Security for almost three years during which time he integrated the software to many cross vendor applications as well as designed and developed the Real Time Alert Correlation engine in use today.

Since leaving e-Security in the winter of 2002, Mr. Alderson has spent his time performing vulnerability assessments, penetration tests against primarily Windows targets and routers, architecture reviews, market analysis, developing open source software and expanding his repertoire of existential philosophy.

Aldrich, Roger
Roger has over seventeen years of experienced in software. He has developed his talents specifically for contract projects. His command of English is over 97% jargon-free so Roger can explain solutions in language you will understand. His skill set is broad so he can adapt to changing project requirements. No matter how vague or specific your problem is, he can define the issues and write the code to match. If you need your z-stage controller to interface with your embedded system, he can do it. If your touch-screen system stops working when the hardware is upgraded, he can get them talking again. If your new printer doesn't do the tricks the old one did, talk to him. Roger can give you a software solution for your dilemma. His strength is defining, understanding, and implementing software solutions for anything you need fixed.



Andersen, Susan
Susan has been working with Axian for 5 years and is a freelance accountant with over 25 years accounting experience for corporations doing business in computer software, entertainment, banking, construction, import, manufacturing, health, real estate, publishing, and retail industries. Originally from Washington State, Susan worked in San Francisco, Honolulu, and Los Angeles before returning to the Northwest and Portland, Oregon, in 1991.

Dr. Andersen received her Associates Degree in Accounting in 1981 from Indian Valley Colleges, her Bachelors Degree in Science and Social Science in 1997 from Portland State University, and just completed 5 years of medical school, graduating from National College of Naturopathic Medicine with a Doctorate in Naturopathic Medicine in 2002. She will be continuing in school, expected to complete her acupuncture degree in 2004. She has one son, a recent graduate of University of Oregon with a Bachelors of Fine Arts with an emphasis on photography.


Beale, Jay
Jay Beale is a security specialist focused on host lockdown and security audits. He is the Lead Developer of the Bastille project, which creates a hardening script for Linux, HP-UX, and Mac OS X, a member of the Honeynet Project, and the Linux leader in the Center for Internet Security. A frequent conference speaker and trainer, Jay speaks and trains at the Black Hat and LinuxWorld conferences, among others. A senior research scientist with the George Washington University Cyber Security Policy and Research Institute, Jay makes his living as a security consultant where he works on security architecture reviews, threat mitigation and penetration tests against Unix and Windows targets.

Jay wrote the Center for Internet Security's Unix host security tool, currently in use worldwide by organizations from the Fortune 500 to the Department of Defense. He leads the Center's Linux Security benchmark team and, as a core participant in the non-profit Center's Unix teams, is working with private enterprises and US agencies to develop Unix security standards for industry and government.

Aside from his CIS work, Jay has written a number of articles and book chapters on operating system security. He is a columnist for Information Security Magazine and previously wrote a number of articles for SecurityPortal.com and SecurityFocus.com. He co-authored the Syngress international best-seller “Snort 2.0 Intrusion Detection” and also contributed the Host Lockdown chapter in 'Unix Unleashed,' served as the security author for 'Red Hat Internet Server' Jay's currently finishing a Linux hardening book focused on Bastille entitled, 'Locking Down Linux.'

Formerly, Jay served as the Security Team Director for MandrakeSoft, helping set company strategy, design security products, and pushing security into the third largest retail Linux distribution.

Bird, Brian
Brian's expertise is in software development and test engineering. He has a BS in Electrical Engineering and over a decade of experience. He is highly skilled in:

• C Programming under Unix, DOS, VMS
• VC++, MFC, Win API; Visual Basic for Windows
• DLL's and EXE's for COM servers and clients; ATL
• Test instrument control programming under GPIB control
• SONET fiber optic protocol
• Database design using MS Access 2.0 and 95, Crystal Reports, Cornerstone, Excel
• Was certified as ISO 9001 internal auditor at TriQuint Semiconductor

Brower, Gary
Gary’s focus is on producing software that generates business solutions.
His understanding of business allows him to translate sophisticated company requirements into user-friendly systems. Gary’s goal is to create business processes and supporting software that generate competitive advantages for your company. In the past, Gary has worked for two of Oregon’s largest employers (PayLess Drug Stores and Nike). For the past six years, he has worked as a consultant bringing big-company solutions to mid-sized businesses. He has over ten years of experience managing and developing IT projects. During this time he has completed over 100 projects in a variety of industries.

A sample of the types of projects Gary has completed include: systems integration, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), e-commerce, Electronic Data Interchange (EDI), sales order processing, project costing, and data-driven web applications.

When not working, Gary enjoys spending time with his wife and two daughters.

Butler, Matt
Developer of data driven web applications using the Microsoft .NET Framework, Java Enterprise tools, and other technologies including CGI, Cold Fusion and ATG Dynamo. Member of a core development team for a scalable, extensible, imaging platform. Has trained web and sales support personnel in the use of web technologies and provided technical leadership to development teams working with real-time transaction software.

Cermak, Greg
Greg Cermak is an independent Microsoft Certified Solution Developer and Microsoft Certified Trainer with more than twenty years' experience providing consulting and training in developing high-performance online transaction processing (OLTP) and online analytical processing (OLAP) systems. He is a familiar face in the Portland OR area having taught hundreds of students Visual Basic and SQL Server programming. His interests include technology, reading, history, bicycling, and robotic exploration of the solar system. He is a Solar System Ambassador for the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). He is a frequent speaker at school programs, public, and industry events. Greg lives in Battle Ground, Washington.


Cole, Eric
Eric Cole has worked in the information security arena for over 10 years. He is certified as a CISSP, MCSE and CCNA. Eric is very involved with the SANS Institute. He teaches a variety of courses and has created several courses. He is currently in charge of the Cyber Defense Initiative (CDI). Eric is also a member of the CVE (Common Vulnerabilities and Exposure) editorial board and the Honey Net Project. Eric has extensive experience in the security and hacking area and devotes a lot of time to performing penetration testing for various clients. These clients range from banks, to hospitals, to health care providers, to large construction companies. Eric has also spent several years at the CIA performing security testing and red teaming. He is currently an adjunct professor at Georgetown University and has taught at NYIT.


Coleman, Ron
Ron has an MS in Systems Engineering with a background in Electrical Engineering and Operations Research. He has developed GUIS for laser system touch panel PCs; worked on numerically intensive applications for vector, arrays, parallel processors including DSP, seismic, simulation, modeling; Has micro-coded math subroutine library development programs and databases for strategic force analysis Seismic data processing, migration routines, tuning Visual Basic front end for a banking software package.

Cooperstein, Jerry
Jerry has a Ph.D. in theoretical nuclear physics and has been developing software on many different platforms since 1979. This includes complex hydrodynamical simulations used in astrophysics and nuclear physics, and modeling and development of large scale data systems with graphics for seismic analysis.

Jerry has experience on many Unix Platforms, concentrating on using and developing for Linux since 1994 at both the application, systems programming and kernel level. He as written a number of different applications and device drivers for clients.

Jerry is the primary developer of the Red Hat Linux Developer's courses, including Linux Device Drivers; Linux Kernel Internals; Linux Programming Essentials (systems programming). As a senior instructor he has taught these classes many times. In addition he has taught physics and astronomy at undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate level at major universities, national laboratories and international institutes.

Jerry was the technical reviewer for Rubini and Corbett's, Linux Device Drivers (2nd Edition) , and Bovet and Cesati's, Understanding the Linux Kernel, (2nd Edition), both published by O'Reilly Inc.

Corbin, Alice
Ali is a senior software developer for Linux, UNIX, X-Windows, Motif, Win32 and MFC, VxWorks. Her expertise is in:

• Real-time, embedded operating system development
• Multi-tasking / multi-threaded issues with inter-processor communication
• Device drivers for Linux and embedded systems
• Use of object-oriented methods for over six years
• Graphical User Interface design and implementation
• Software development in C and C++ for PC's, workstations and embedded systems
• Writing portable code for a variety of platforms
• JAVA development

In her leisure time, she designs complex games such as logic puzzles in JDK1.1, write out Latin hymns, memorizes Russian poems and verses of Italian lauda. She also writes a harmony parts to lauda, write english roundeaux and set them into music.

Dabritz, John
Software architect working in Microsoft and Unix development environments. Eight years developing children's games and educational software for both Mac and Windows built on a cross-platform framework. Was the primary engineer for design and development of two mapping data collection software packages used by the US Geological Service, US Forest Service, and others.

Fagerberg, Brian
Brian is a senior developer and technical lead with years of experience developing graphics presentation, productivity, and interactive digital media applications for Windows, Mac OS, and Unix environments. Award winning products have been developed for Disney Interactive (the Disney Magic Artist series), Broderbund, Hasbro, Discovery Channel, The Learning Company, and other premier businesses during a fourteen year period working at ImageBuilder Software. Brian has the proven ability to guide the production of cross platform applications from concept and specification through software design, implementation and release to manufacturing.

Fagerberg, Dwain
Developer of graphics presentation, productivity and interactive digital media applications for Windows, Mac, Unix, PlayStation, and Gameboy Advanced. Has worked with printers, scanners, video streaming, natural media paint tools, 2D and 3D multimedia, and installers. As Director of Technology for ImageBuilder Software, Dwain oversaw the technical aspects of cross platform application development from concept and specification through software design, implementation and release to manufacturing. And sometimes he even bikes to work.

Funk, Karen
Karen is a Senior Developer with expertise in Object Oriented Programming using C++. She spent twelve years at ImageBuilder Software developing a broad range of children's software applications using various technologies such as sound recording, video streaming, digital camera downloading, puzzle generation, and 3D graphics. Learn more about two of Karen's projects, Digital Movie Creator and QX3 Microscope at www.playdigitalblue.com

Griffin, Terry
Terry has been using and developing with Linux since 1995. He is the Linux columnist for Computer Bits Magazine and has been writhing the monthly "Linux/Etc." column since 1996. His first exposure to Linux was at Boeing Flight Test. Linux was used on a ruggedized PC to build a terminal emulator. Once in place, the new box started taking on additional responsibilities and a large amount of code was ported from HP-UX to Linux in order to implement these new responsibilities. Linux was used as the initial development platform for a project for Amoco Oil Research - the code was then recompiled and tested on Amoco's many flavors of Unix. He has administered the primary Linux system at Axian to assure it has all the latest security patches, and has installed and configured distributions from Slackware, Red Hat, Debian, Caldera, and SuSE. Terry has developed courseware for a number of Axian's Linux Developer courses and taught various topics. He has extensive software development experience in C/C++ for workstations and embedded systems. He has the ability to use and develop for UNIX, Linux, VMS, Microsoft NT, and OS/2. He is an expert at multi-tasking/multi-threaded issues with interprocess communication.

Hacker, George
George has a BS in Computer Science. He is a software engineering as well as a Red Hat Linux Developer instructor. His strengths are in:

• Unix/Linux systems programming and device driver development
• C programming
• Shell programming
• Linux / Unix Systems administration
• Instructor for Red Hat Linux Developer courses

In his leisure time, he likes to make a difference in children's lives: he leads a youth basketball team as well as a parish.

Hawkinson, Stuart
Stuart has a Ph.D. in Chemical Physics. He has many years experience in developing with Unix systems. He is an expert at optimizing applications from a high-level, functional perspective, and at solving computational problems utilizing new hardware and software technologies. He managed a project to optimize the Linpack benchmark for the 20 processor Sun UltraSparc system. Extensive parallelization, tuning and performance modeling experience. Stuart has worked on modeling and kernel development for the Intel Teraflops Supercomputer and Intel Pentium Pro optimization. His professional interests are in optimizing applications from a high-level, functional perspective; solving computational problems utilizing new hardware and software technologies; and modeling computational performance of new architectures and algorithms. In his leisure time, Stuart collects and sales old fountain pains, old coins and books about computers and the history of computing.


Hillery, Bob
Bob is a senior technical researcher at Dartmouth College’s Institute for Security Technology Studies where he is examining national R&D needs for digital forensics. His research interests include wireless networks, specializing in business network and systems security assessments & training, helping companies improve coordination of technical issues within the framework of their business model. He brings a broad range of both technical and management experience with computers and networks from his background in the Navy and R&D. Bob has also been Vice President of Academic Affairs at New Hampshire Community Technical College at Stratham and Chair of that college’s Information Systems Technology Department. He is a regular speaker for the SANS Institute, particularly in Security Essentials, management, and intrusion incident handling. Bob has a number of technical certifications such as CISSP and GCIA. His professional associations include the ACM (Association for Computing Machinery), HTCIA (High Tech Crime Investigators Association), the FBI’s InfraGard, the Center for Internet Security, and he is a life member of both the National Defense Industry Association and the United States Naval Institute.

Hirr, Laila
Laila is a ten year veteran of championing, implementing and supporting enterprise applications. Laila is is focused on bringing maximum value to your investment in your information systems infrastructure by aligning your investments with your corporate business strategy. She is a specialist in, however not limited to Product Lifecycle Management systems. Laila provides executive level support in defining the value proposition for your IT investments. Laila previously served as President and Chairman for the international user group that has now become PLM World and has been named a member of the Academy of Distinguished Alumni at Portland State University College of Engineering and Computer Science. She has worked in the equipment manufacturing, consumer products, and aerospace industries over the course of her career and is a licensed Professional Engineer.

Ingram, Jonathan
Jonathan is an Oracle Certified Professional with 10 years of experience in database application development, deployment, and administration. Jonathan's experiences range from business analysis and application development to scalable and multi-platform deployments. With his level of experience in the database arena, he is able to tackle any of the wide variety of issues surrounding databases and large-scale deployments. In addition, he's been recently working on extending his experiences into more general software development in order to round out the expertise he can offer. Jonathan is our group's expert representing the world of databases.

Johnson, Mark
Mark has over twenty years experience designing and supporting business networks. He is highly skilled in all versions of Microsoft operating systems and popular business software products. He has set up everything from a peer to peer small network to a multi-server environment with many branch offices. Mark has designed and installed networks including load balanced enterprise solutions, scalable intranet and web servers, complete backup systems, WAN and VPN connectivity, distributed file systems, remote and mobile access, wireless connectivity, and Mail and Groupware systems. Working with a many small businesses and start-ups has given him the real-world experience to assess needs and cost-effectively implement and manage computer systems that allow for a company's growth.

Kamadoli, Amar
Amar is an instructor, consultant, and engineer in a variety of technologies, including Windows, Linux, and others. He has been teaching classes at Axian's Corporate Headquarters, Portland Community College, Oregon Graduate Institute, and various companies.

Keegan, Shannon
As Creative Director of Axian’s Rambunctious Digital Studios, Shannon specializes in illustration and graphics design for multimedia, corporate identity, and advertising communications. She is a published author and/or illustrator of four children’s books. As Art Director and Creative Director for ImageBuilder Software, Shannon led the creative team in the design and production of dozens of “edu-tainment” titles for clients ranging from Disney and The Learning Company to Intel. In 2000 she was awarded the Interactive Design Gold Medal by Communication Arts magazine.

Malarkey, Ryan
Ryan migrated to software development 11 years ago after spending his early career working for the US government in a variety of foreign policy and intelligence positions, including stints in the US Senate, State Department and White House. That early experience engendered an abiding interest in information systems, especially how IT systems work within and for an organization. Ryan possesses a rare combination of knowing the technical details without ever losing sight of IT business purposes. His academic accomplishments include co-authoring four books on programming languages and delivering programming language training to professional developers. His real-world accomplishments include being the Director of Development for a successful web-based software start-up (LegalAnywhere) and delivering new applications on new technology on time. Ryan's current emphasis is on Microsoft .NET technologies, but his three children, bicycling, and Masters Swimming compete vigorously for his attention.


Marlino, Sally
Executive Producer for Axian’s Rambunctious Digital Studios following a twenty-year career at ImageBuilder Software, Sally oversees all aspects of development on high-profile Rich Media, PlayStation, and Internet products. Dozens of products produced over the years include #1 best sellers for major property holders and publishers, including Disney, Intel, Mattel, Fisher Price, Sesame Workshop, Dreamworks, and others. Well-known titles include The Print Shop Deluxe, Kid Pix, and Disney’s Magic Artist. Sally’s professional experience as a software developer began with an M.S. Computer Science and three years in the Applied Research Labs at Tektronix.

Meese, Tom
Tom has spent over 10 years working in the software industry in IT, software engineering, product marketing, product lifecycle management and business analysis. Tom is also an experienced systems integrator with Microsoft E-Business Server Software. He is able to leverage this mix of business and technology experiences to uncover his client's true points of pain and to provide a solution that solves not only today's problem, but tomorrow's as well. Tom enjoys blending technology and a good dose of common sense to solve real-world business problems. He is known for getting the job done and specifically dislikes technology for the sake of technology.

Morley, Chris
Chris has been professionally designing and developing a wide variety of software over the past 10 years. He has proven experience in employing a variety of object-oriented and component-centric design approaches in the cost effective and timely development of maintainable, extensible and scalable software systems. He tries to continuously broaden his arsenal of familiar technologies and development techniques so as to be able to apply the best ones to the architectural problem at hand. Chris brings a dose of common sense to any software development endeavor, has a strong dislike for "reinventing the wheel," and has the ability to just make it happen for his customers.

Opalko, John
John Opalko wrote his very first program (in FORTRAN IV) in 1971 while he was still in high school. Since then he has performed programming, operational, and administrative duties on everything from micros to mainframes. He discovered Unix in 1980 and that has been his operating system of choice ever since.

John has spent the last two decades developing software and keeping complex networks and systems running smoothly. He is particularly adept at untangling old, undocumented code to figure out what it does and how it does it, and then adding features without breaking functionality. His network and system administration skills mean that systems are always up and running smoothly because he deals with problems before they happen.

John is very knowledgeable about the Solaris and Linux operating systems and knows networking inside and out. His particular interest is in system security issues, system configuration for security and security tools and techniques.

Oslon, Steve
Steve's academic Background is a MA, PhD Mathematics, UC Berkeley with areas of interest in Mathematical Logic, Nonstandard Analysis, Algebra - Rings and Fields, Applied Math and Numerical Analysis. His professional experience encompasses over two decades of experience in high performance scientific computing with expertise in: Numerical Linear Algebra, Vector and Parallel Computing, Math Libraries, Computer Arithmetic, Benchmarking, Performance Analysis, Application Software Testing, Fortran, C, C++, Unix/Linux, and some Windows (usually under protest).
He has been employed by major companies such as: FPS, Cray, SSI, Intel and joined Axian four years ago. The past few years, he's had opportunities to work for SUN and Intel (current). Steve's recreational Interests are in Nordic Skiing (racing) and Road Biking.


Poor, Mike
As one of the primary intrusion detection instructors with the SANS Institute, Mike is responsible for teaching a majority of the IDS analysts educated by SANS in the past two years. Mike holds both GSEC and GCIA certifications. In his recent past life, Mike has worked for the SANS Institute as a member of the technical staff and for SourceFire as a researcher helping to develop and create innovation around the Snort IDS.

His work focuses on penetration tests, vulnerability assessments, security audits and deploying, administering, and auditing Intrusion Detection Systems.

Scallion, Laura
Laura has been a system administrator for the last 10 years, is a Sun Certified system administrator and Sun Certified instructor. Laura also teaches online Classes at Portland Community College, and is working towards a PhD in Information Systems. She is experienced as an administrator on several platforms, and has worked with several programming languages including RPG, COBOL, and Java. Laura also, when class schedules permit, works on the Axian Legal team as a consultant.

Skoudis, Ed
Ed teaches the SANS track “Hacker Techniques, Exploits and Incident Handling” and has authored the majority of that track’s material.

Ed's expertise includes hacker attacks and defenses, the information security industry, and computer privacy issues. He has performed numerous security assessments, designed secure network architectures, and responded to computer attacks for clients in financial, high technology, healthcare, and other industries. Ed conducted a demonstration of hacker techniques against financial institutions for the United States Senate and is a frequent speaker on issues associated with hacker tools and defenses. He has published several articles on these topics, as well as the Prentice Hall best seller, Counter Hack: A Step-by-Step Guide to Computer Attacks and Effective Defenses. His latest book is titled Malware: Fighting Malicious Code.

Ed served as a security consultant with International Network Services (INS) and Vice President of Security Strategy for Predictive Systems. In 2004, he also won Microsoft’s Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award for Security.

Van Kleeck, Michael
Michael has been developing, architecting, and training in Java since the beginning of Java time (1995). He has architected an in-car diagnostics application, a multi-million dollar utility forecasting project, an online student tracking system, and a number of other systems during his career. Michael loves to get his hands into the latest technologies, even if it means slicing a finger on the cutting edge. A graduate of Stanford University, he's a dynamic speaker and educator who has taught Java development and systems architecture, as well as literature, creative writing, and mathematics. His current technical specialties include Macintosh OS X, Java Web Services using XML/ SOAP, and IBM WebSphere architecture and development. In his non-working time, Michael always has his head into a half-dozen new exploits, currently including digital photography and video, writing, board and video games, and hockey. In 2002, Michael was appointed to a 4-year term on the Washington County Commission on Children and Families, and he continues to work as a high school substitute teacher and basketball referee.


Wheeler, Mark
Mark is a developer of award-winning multimedia games and educational software for Hasbro, Disney, Mattel and many others. He develops for a variety of platforms ranging from Mac and Windows to Playstation and GameBoy Advance. A project leader and application architect, he has developed a wide range of programs and applications including utility software for file generation, translation, and compression to user interfaces for home graphics software and plugins for Macromedia Director. Mark is a member of Axian’s Rambunctious Digital Studios team following sixteen years at ImageBuilder Software.

Wong, Rosalina
Rosalina is a seasoned developer and a CPA, with over 9 years experience. Always looking to make computing technology serve businesses and business objectives, she has worked extensively on both sides of the fence, helping to bridge the gap between those who develop and those who use computer information systems. Her passion is in helping companies improve efficiency and reduce costs by improving the processing of their financial and operational data as well as by automating and streamlining workflow processes between departments, partners, and organizations. Her goal is to help companies use computing technology to serve their business and its bottom line. Her experience includes building applications ranging from those that automate manual re-entry and comparison between various programs to those that eliminate redundant data storage. She has built database-driven web applications, integrated disparate systems, built custom interfacing components between accounting packages, and performed data modeling and design in complex environments. Her ability to understand both the business as well as technological perspective makes her a rare and uniquely valuable resource in developing effective MIS solutions that impact the bottom line.