Resume

Joubert Berger   joubert@berger-family.org

Senior Software Design Engineer, skillful in architecting, designing, and implementing complex software solutions. In depth knowledge of the internals of HP-UX and Linux operating systems and Information Security. Independent thinker with aptitude for research and development.

Operating Systems: Linux, HP-UX, AIX, Microsoft Windows
Programming: C, C++, Java, HTML, CGI, PHP, UNIX Shell
Tools: Oracle database; CVS, CVMC, and ClearCase configuration management systems

EXPERIENCE

Trusted Network Technologies, Inc, Alpharetta, GA April 2004 – Present

TNT provides an identity solution, letting companies audit and control every user interaction with all computer, server and application. Using host based software, TNT is able to pass the identity of the user and have a gateway appliance arbitrate access to servers based on the dentity of the person.

Manager of Driver/Gateway Group, (March 2005 – Present)

  • Manage 5 developers.
  • Technical lead for the gateway appliance and network driver
  • Developed the concept of a driver pack to allow the company to sell the drivers separate, providing another revenue generating stream.

Senior Software Engineer, (April 2004 – March 2005)

  • Responsible for all development on the Gateway.
  • Rewrote the policy engine to use iptables/netfilter.
  • Created a network auditing tool to capture packets.
Internet Security Consulting, Inc, Atlanta, GA June 2003 – April 2004

Co-founder of Internet Security Consulting, an IT security consultancy that specializes in network, host, web application, and wireless security assessments, security architecture consulting, and trusted systems development, integration and deployment.

Senior Security Architect, (2003 – 2004)

  • Diagnosed and corrected VPN configuration problems at client site. This solved a problem that the customer had been working on for several months before.
  • Maintain and monitored PIX firewall of client. Setup reporting mechanism to collect exceptions to identify problems.
  • Performed penetration tests against client networks to locate vulnerabilities.
Hewlett-Packard Company, Atlanta, GA 1996 – Februrary 2003

Infrastructure Solutions Security Lab
Instrumental in the development of two security products. Virtualvault is a B1-level trusted operating system, which is used primarily in the banking industry to provide secure access to corporate data from the Internet. Trusted Linux is a follow on product, developed to provide a more generic secure computing environment.

Software Design Engineer, Trusted Linux Project (2001 – 2003)

  • Single-handedly ported Trusted Linux to the Itanium architecture.
    • Member of the Trusted Linux Architecture Review Committee that provided guidance to product developers on conforming to a consistent security policy.
  • Designed and implemented the audit subsystem for Trusted Linux, which included a kernel module and user space application.
  • Submitted 7 applications for patents.

Software Design Engineer, Advanced Architecture Group (2001)

  • Wrote the investigation report for the next generation secure web server. This paper was the foundation on which the Trusted Linux Project was build
  • Contributed major portions to the market requirements document, which included investigating current technologies, doing competitive analysis and gathering customer requirements. This document was used to drive the final feature set for version 1.0 of Trusted Linux.
  • Recognized as “Employee of the Month” in January 2001 for work on market requirements document.

Software Design Engineer, Virtualvault Operating System Group (1997 – 2000)

  • Verified that Virtualvault OS (VVOS) was Y2K safe, resulting in no Y2K problems being reported by customers.
  • Added security features to HP-UX’s journal file system to work with VVOS.
  • Internationalized system commands and system libraries of VVOS, which opened up the Southeast Asian market and allowed the product to be sold to Fortune 50 companies headquartered in Japan.
  • Modified the audit subsystem to be thread-safe and able to audit threaded applications.
  • Wrote report used to verify that components of VVOS were upgraded to be 64-bit safe, allowing customers to take advantage of leading edge hardware.
  • Developed a standard patch procedure for VVOS, resulting in one of the smallest patch recall rates in HP.
  • Customized (ported) many HP-UX patches to VVOS and was recognized as “Employee of the Month” in October 1999 for the high number of patches completed.

Engineer, Advanced Technology Center (1996 – 1997)

  • Defined the initial methodologies used to integrate applications on Virtualvault (VV).
  • Created and taught the initial classes on Virtualvault.
  • Consulted with third party vendors and customers to help them install their applications.
SecureWare Inc., Atlanta, GA 1995 – 1996

A seller of secure operating system technologies (CMW) to major UNIX vendors.

Technical Marketing Engineer

  • Provided technical support to the marketing department.
  • Performed product demonstrations at trade conferences.
  • Took part in customer meetings to help answer technical questions.
Teldata Computer Inc., Atlanta, GA 1990 – 1995

A small software consulting company.

EDUCATION

B.S., Information and Computer Science
GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, Atlanta, GA

PUBLICATION

Nigel Edwards, Joubert Berger, & Tse-Houng Choo, A Secure Linux Platform, 5th Annual Linux Showcase and Conference, November 2001.

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