MITRE is a not-for-profit organization devoted to research, development,
engineering, and scientific activities in the public interest. MITRE also
sponsors Federally-Funded R&D Centers.
My role at MITRE was quite diverse, often cutting across organizational lines
and impacting several sponsors. At any one time, I was likely to be managing/
mentoring various staff, chairing/presenting at internal/external conferences,
leading technical projects, advising/setting vision for a variety of projects
and sponsors, etc. Below is a sampling of some of these accomplishments.
Information Systems Security Group:
Led several teams investigating key storage issues in NT/IE,
secure PDF products, and the use of biometric and smart card devices
with public-key infrastructures.
Technologies: PageVault, Windows NT, Internet Explorer, Litronic,
Compaq Fingerprint ID, BioMouse, PKI, Datakey
Performed analysis of foreign Internet infrastructures and national
wide-area Internet vulnerabilities.
Designed a capability to enable the automated transfer of Web data between
networks of different classifications. Representative to the
Intelligence Community XML Study Group and Technical Working Team.
Technologies: Guards, digital signatures, WWW, XML, metadata
Led the security code review of a GOTS application.
Prototyped a web-based, security label document management system that
provided a means of binding metadata with documents and the first
proxy-level digital signature verification mechanism.
Technologies: WWW, PICS, DSig, Proxies, Jigsaw, metadata,
digital signatures, Java, RDF, ISL, CAPCO, Perl, LDAP
Provided policy guidance to the US intelligence community on the use
of mobile code.
Prototyped a PKI-based reference implementation for code signing,
and evaluated various mobile code security products such as Finjan,
Digitivity Cage, Security-7 SafeGate, Network Associate WebScanX.
Technologies: Activator (Java Plug-in), digital signatures, X.509,
GTE CyberTrust, Java, JavaScript, JScript, ActiveX, Plug-ins, VB
Technical Ambassador:
Spent one year at MITRE sites around the world prototyping new capabilities,
educating engineers and managers on emerging technologies and
facilitating collaboration with their corporate counterparts.
Locations: South Korea (USFK), Hong Kong, Hawaii (PACOM/USCINCPAC),
Japan (USFJ), Germany (EUCOM)
Commands, Technology & Intelligence Integration Group:
Led the deployment of a multi-national network for the sharing of
open sources among the intelligence components of various countries.
Brought in to jumpstart this stalled program with responsibility for
both the design and implementation of the network and information
infrastructures, and lead technical discussions with government
officials of participating and interested countries (Australia,
Canada, Denmark, Germany, Israel, Netherlands, UK). Program Award
Technologies: Netscape Proxy Server, Encrypting routers, Perl, SSL, VPN
Developed an information infrastructure (Intelink-J) for US Forces Japan
(USFJ-J2) bilateral network. This included a complete intranet
design/development, as well as providing various bilingual
(English/Japanese) capabilities such as the integration of language
translators and dictionaries with the web. Also supported
KeenEdge'98 with development of a web-based RFI tracking system.
Program Award
Technologies: WWW, HTTP, HTML, JavaScript, JAVA, MT, Perl, CGI
Researched streaming and multicasting technologies for MITRE-wide
and potential sponsor deployment of live and on-demand audio/video.
Technologies: MBONE, streaming, multicasting, audio, video, MPEG
Coordinated various technical exchange meetings with academia and industry,
including SUN, Netscape, Microsoft, Oracle, ...
Developed web-based training (WBT/CBT) for Intelink authors.
Led design and development of the MITRE Information Infrastructure (MII),
one of the first corporate intranet. The MII integrated MITRE's
distributed information spaces with the purpose of enhancing
information sharing and access across the corporation, including
publishing/profiling/browsing/searching of documents, briefings,
projects, financial data, etc.
Director's Distinguished Accomplishment Award
Technologies: AFS, WWW, WAIS, PDF, SQL, Lotus Notes, Oracle, Perl, C,
*sh, PLWeb, dynamic doc conversion, IR, search/profile engines
Led design of the FLCommunity Intranet, a 3-tier virtual Foreign Language
Community network built on Intelink, OSIS, and Internet, providing
language learning, processing, and management services and resources.
Concepts include multilingual computing, distributed audio/video
collaboration, encodings/Unicode, virtual environments, ...
Led the integration of Systran's machine translation system
with WWW and e-mail, including support for multiple encoding formats.
Translation of 9 languages to English with multiple glossaries.
Director's Distinguished Accomplishment Award
Technical consultant for UNOJUST, a prototype for sharing information
across 13 UN Criminal Justice institutes from around the world using
the Internet. Integrated Globalink machine translation system with
WWW; developed searching mechanism across HTML and PDF.
Prototype shown at 9th UN Congress for Criminal Justice in Cairo.
Technologies: WWW, WAIS, language and format translation, Perl, C, *sh
Developed an open source coverage & capabilities database for the US
Intelligence community, under the Open Source program
Program Achievement Award
Technologies: WAIS, Gopher, World-Wide Web, Perl, C, *sh
Systems design consultant during the early phases of the Intelink project
Evangelized/implemented networked (distributed) information navigation,
discovery, search, and retrieval servers (i.e., WAIS, Gopher, WWW)
within MITRE and for sponsors
Formed the Online@MITRE working group to coordinate and led different
corporate efforts in the area of information retrieval. This effort
was the genesis for the MII, MITRE's intranet
Developed a collaborative environment for the production of technical docs
Distributed C4I Systems Group:
Developed software providing a fused view of the battlefield (C4I FTW)
through the integration of C2 systems
Technologies: CORBA, DHIS, UNIX, X Window, Motif, C
Administered Macintosh and UNIX (Solaris, HP/UX, Ultrix, A/IX) systems
User interface consultant for a team evaluating and re-designing NASA
Spacelink. Special Recognition Award
Designed and developed user interface for two large-scale projects:
ISLES - Information Systems for Law Enforcement Support, and
DEA/IAW - Intelligent Analyst Workstation
Designed and implemented an inexpensive collaborative editing / information
retrieval system across Macs, PCs, and UNIX workstations
Tested and integrated 40+ COTS and GOTS applications incl. Imagery, GIS, OA
Integrated many of the above applications on a Compartmented Modal
Workstation (CMW)
Researched computer-supported collaborative work technologies