Professional

I am a Member of Technical Staff at CERT, a part of Carnegie-Mellon University’s Software Engineering Institute.

I work in the Network Situational Awareness group, developing tools for monitoring and analyzing data from large networks.

I previously worked in private industry at CipherTrust (Now Secure Computing.) and SecureWorks, developing software to detect and prevent malicious activity at the application and transport layers. I’ve also done general IDS/IPS hacking and sensor event collection and correlation.

My recent work revolves around visualizing network monitoring data and developing tools to increase the effectiveness of network security operations in our sponsor organizations.

Good technical products come from good requirements, so I’ve spent a lot of time in my career working with customers to understand their needs and maximize the likelihood that new development will meet them.

Personal

My wife is Victoria Groce, a freelance writer, professional-level pianist and one-day Jeopardy! champion (defeating nineteen-time champion David Madden in the process). Last and most significantly, she is the mother of my daughter, Nora Frances.

Nora, the aforementioned daughter, was born on 6 December 2004. As of this writing she is, in every sense of the word, three.