Michael J. Troutman
9990 Suheil Road. Manassas, VA 20111
703.392.1066 mike_at_troutman.org


 

 

Crucial Security

Research and Development Department, Department Manager

April 2005 to Present.  Chantilly, VA

 

Primary R&D lead for confidential client.  Manage and engineer applied technology research and development services, to include: systems engineering, embedded systems development and deployment, wireless device test and evaluation, mesh system testing and evaluation, Bluetooth device analysis, wireless jamming and intercept, and forward collections system development and deployment.  Participate in classified CT/CI information recovery operations, including CNA/CNE, data egress, and other.  Manage $3 million budget and team of 10 programmers and engineers.

 

 

Wheat Wireless Services

Broadband Division, Assistant Vice President

August 2004 to February 2005. Reston, VA

 

Subsidiary of Wheat International Communications.  Developed division in pursuit of large scale wireless engineering contracts, to include city wide wireless initiatives, wireless government and other municipal initiatives.  Managed technical, bid and proposal aspects of division.

 

 

Wheat International Communications

Director of Network Engineering

June 1995 to February 2005. Reston, VA

 

Broad systems networking and administration experience. Focus on IP network design and implementation.  Extensive open source application utilization.  Implementation of Linux servers, routers, firewalls and workstations.  Nationwide Cisco broadband IP network and VPN experience.  Key facilitator in multiple commercial and government entities, including projects for the United Nations, Naval Research Labs, Democratic National Committee, Hawaii Information Transfer System and Navy Marine Corps Internet.

 

 

Highlights

·                  Case work in support of the U.S. Government and global Intelligence Community

·                  Engineered long haul wireless video solutions for JOC, Super Bowl XL, Detroit, MI

·                  Provided on site 802.11b engineering for JOC, Super Bowl XXXVII, San Diego, CA

·                  9-11 WTC Wireless Recovery with ERT and NRL – Ground Zero, New York, NY

·                  Engineering support for Salt Lake City Olympics, 2002

·                  Multiple engineering projects for US Joint Warrior Demonstrations (JWID)

·                  Administered security and connectivity issues for DNC in Washington, DC

·                  Assisted in engineering of 802.11b system reaching 52 miles to ships at sea

·                  Field IP performance testing of LAN, WAN, WWAN, wireless and satellite systems

 

 


Technical

·      Practical application of commercial engineering project interdependence

·      OS and application engineering for embedded systems

·      Extensive Linux server experience : building, administration, maintenance

·      Lab and field test and analysis of multiple wireless IDS (WIDS) systems

·      Implementation of infrastructure IDS alert and reporting systems

·      VoIP (h.263, SIP, Skype) and WWAN testing and analysis

·      Ethernet packet analysis and network security scanning

·      Implemented multiple SSL Open Source Email systems with web interface

o  sendmail, pop3s, imap, Squirrel Mail, Spamhaus spam filtering

o  Open Source PKI implementation utilizing stunnel SSL

·      Responsible for network engineering and security for TeleSea Wireless

o  Solely responsible for building data network

o  27 Nationwide points of presence along U.S. coastline

o  Engineered Cisco 350 deployment with MAC RADIUS ACS authentication

·      Coordinated 4 major network cutovers between ISPs

o  Multiple interconnected production networks

o  IP numbering changes across each cutover

o  Live production data maintained

·      Designed and taught seven day practical Linux training course

·      Engineered centralized system management systems

·      Engineered multiple geographically disparate and redundant DNS servers

o  Creation, transfer and management of 40 domain names

o  DNS caching serving hundreds of clients nationally

·      Implemented redundant Open Source apache web servers

·      PKI using Verisign SSL for secure Intranet, Extranet and Internet websites

·      Firewall administration across dozens of national networks

o  Cisco ACL, Cisco PIX, ipchains, iptables, Morningstar

o  IPSEC 3DES tunnels, multiple meshed sites and vendor hardware

·      GPG and SSH client and server based implementation and key management

·      CGI scripting, HTML, JavaScript, Perl, SQL, Bash scripting

 

 

Clearance, Certificates and Education

·      Current TS/SCI security clearance

·      George Mason University. 8/90 to 5/94. BS in Business Management

·      2006 Certificate of Appreciation from the Federal Bureau of Investigation

·      2001 Certificate of Appreciation from Federal Communications Commission

·      2000 Certificate of Appreciation from the San Diego County Sheriffs Office

·      Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE) 6-1997

·      Red Hat Linux Certified Engineer (RHCE) 7-2000

·      CAT5 Certification (BICSI) 11-2000

·      Fiber Certification (BICSI) 4-2001

·      CCNA Boot Camp 3-2004

·      SANS 504 Hacker Techniques 8-2005

 

 

References Available Upon Request