Resume

Troy Rockwood
troyrock@rocketmail.com

Thoughts and Objectives:

Although the Internet has done much to revolutionize communication and business in the past ten years, I believe the most fundemental changes are yet to be felt. As a result I am interested in research and development of next generation network protocols and communication mechanisms.

"To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield." ~ Ulysses by Lord Tennyson

Work Experience:

• HRL Laboratories, Research scientist, November 2000~present
  
  • Secure Active network architecture design
    
  • Secure Digital Media Content Distribution architecture design
    
• Genuity (formerly GTE Internetworking, BBN) Network Engineer, May 1998~October 2000
  
  • Virtual Private Network (VPN) using IP Security (IPSec) protocol service design, implementation, and deployment.
    
  • Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) design and deployment lead engineer.
    
  • Certificate Authority (CA) and X.500 Directory last tier support
    
  • Quality of Service (QoS) and RSVP Network Design and implementation
    
  • Cisco Router configuration and troubleshooting
    
  • Mentoring of junior engineers
    
• Brigham Young University Network Operations Center (NOC) Analyst, July 1995~April 1998
  
  • Knowledge and ability for basic router configuration
    
  • Responsibility for IP address assignment and maintenence for internal Intranet addresses
    
  • Knowledge of Ethernet, FDDI, ATM, and Frame Relay protocols
  • Troubleshooting skills for TCP/IP, IPX, and APPLETALK network problems
    
  • General network maintenance and engineering knowledge and skills
    
  • UNIX workstation administration responsibilities
    
  • Knowledge of HPOpenView and Sun Net Manager network management platforms
    
• Independent Computer Consultant, June 1992~June 1993
  
  • Setup and instruction for financial, database, and word-processing software
    
  • Software purchase consultation
    
  • General computer maintenance and instruction
    
  
  

Education:

• B.S., University Honors with Honors in Physics, minor in math,
  Graduated April 1998 Brigham Young University, Provo, UT
  
• Cumulative GPA 3.66
• Full tuition Academic Scholarship Freshman year at BYU
  
• Joseph and Ruth Smith endowed Scholarship Senior year at BYU
  

Research Experience:

• Computer simulation programming in Fortran for Laser propagation through gas with ultra-short, high intensity laser.
  
• Construction of 25 femtosecond high intensity laser.
  
• Scholarship from BYU Office of Research and Creative Activities for computational work
  
• Summer Research Stipend from BYU Physics Department for laser design and construction
  
• Computational Research Presentation at BYU Spring Research Conference 1997
  
• National Science Foundation Grant to attend X-ray laser conference in 1997
  
  

Projects:

• Comercial:
  
  • Development of VPN service requirements and roadmap plans.
    
  • Network Security evaluation of third party VPN, CA, and X.500/LDAP directory products.
    
• Academic:
  
  • Computational Analysis of Double Pendulum and Chaotic behavior
    
  • Analysis of a 3 mass-spring problem
    
  • Development of Hub management Software using Perl, C, and Java on HPUX 10.10
    
  • Network bandwidth statistics monitoring software modification and maintenence - Perl and C++
    
  
  

Skills:

• Technical Instructor
  
• Quick learner
  
• Analytic thinker
  
• Have extensive troubleshooting and problem solving skills
  
• Computer programming skills and experience in C, C++, Perl, Java, UNIX shells, and Fortran
  
• System administration level skills with UNIX (Solaris, SunOS, HPUX, LINUX, and DEC UNIX)
  

Competancies:

• Deep understanding of and experience with TCP/IP.
• IPSec/VPN experience and knowledge.
• Public key infrastructure (PKI) understanding and experience.
• Host and network based security mechanisms understood and implemented.
• Solaris, Linux, and other UNIX system knowledge to system administration level.
• Working knowledge of Microsoft operating systems (95, 98, NT and 2000), and MSDOS
• Technical leadership experience.
  

Other relevant experience:

• Participant in network security mailing lists (IDS, PKI, IPSec).
• President of Society for Physics students at BYU 1997-1998
  
  • Vice President 1996-1997
    
  • Society activity planning and coordination
    
  • Undergraduate course curriculum and facilities management advisor
    
  • Society web page management
    
• Missionary service for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to Hokkaido, Japan, June 1993~June 1995
  
  • District and group leadership positions held
    
  • Fluent in Japanese - 18 college credit hours completed