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Work
My area of professional expertise is Computer Systems, in particular Computer Security. I work in El Segundo as an Senior Engineering Specialist at The Aerospace Corporation, a Federally Funded Research and Development Center that primarily does space-related engineering for the United States Air Force. Part of my work at Aerospace involves supporting the Common Criteria, which is the evaluation criteria that replaced the Trusted Computer System Evaluation Criteria ("Orange Book"). In particular, I support the Common Criteria Evaluation and Validation Scheme of the National Information Assurance Partnership. I supported the initial development of the Common Criteria, and support the current interpretation of the document. Before I worked at Aerospace, I woked at System Development Coporation (SDC), where I helped design the architecture for the Access Control Center of the A1 BLACKER Network Device. I was also involved in performing architectural analysis on the Secure Distributed Database Project (SD-DBMS). For more details, see my Resume.
I am also active professionally. I am a Senior Fellow of the Applied Computer Security Associates, and am actively involved in its main activity, the Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (for which I have been Tutorial Chair since 1989, and Conference Chair from 2001 through 2004). I am also a member of the ACM, the Los Angeles Chapter of the ACM (for which I am a past Chair), and the ACM Special Interest Group on Security Audit and Control (SIGSAC) (for which I am a past Chair and current Treasurer). Our family is also involved with the Society of Women Engineers.
Family
I have honored to have Karen Davis as my wife since 1985. Karen is a graduate of CSUN, and for a long time was a technical writer. She has also made hand-made dolls, and currently is working on a gluten-free cookbook. She's a wonderful person to talk to if you need information on Celiac Disease, which is a sensitivity to gluten.
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