Co-founded AVP. Responsible for Marketing, Parnter, and Training programs for a cooperative venture of 35+ independently operated video studios across the U.S.  AVP Web Site

Video Producer, specializing in a full range of Video, Photographic, and Audio production services.  DeMello Video Web Site

Developed project strategy and roadmap with executive committee and documented product strategy and roadmap. Implemented capture and tracking process for new product features. Performed competitive pricing analysis and developed new price structure for product line for direct and various channels. Performed competitive technical analysis. Managed beta tests for multiple releases. Chaired cross-functional team meetings. Wrote technical white papers, data sheets, Marketing Requirements Documents and Product Requirements Documents. Wrote and maintained internal web site; provided content for external web site. Managed government security certification process for our products. Assisted sales team in proposal writing. Created sales tools: Provided training on new product features for sales team, developed PowerPoint slides, comparative pricing spreadsheets in Excel.

Responsible for development and documentation of product plans and ongoing product management of Company 51’s technology and product offering.  Worked with development team, partners, and other cross-functional stakeholders to ensure that Company 51 offers cutting-edge, high quality products, and they meet strategy, timelines and business objectives.  Worked with engineering, design, QA, marketing, customer support, and business development to direct product and feature development through product life cycle.  Interpreted market trends, spot product opportunities, and conducted competitive analysis and traffic analysis.  Translated research findings into product plans.  Researched product requirements through customer and partner contact, industry analysts and competitive product evaluation.  Prepared and managed product beta/launch and develop target pricing models for different market segments. Provided technology, product marketing and sales support and work with strategic communications to generate product marketing/sales collateral and related marketing materials.

Product Manager for HP’s Authentication/Access Control product.  Wrote Marketing and Product Requirements documents (MRD/PRD).  Responsible for defining HP’s Value-Chain / End-to-End security at the corporate level, and responsible for management of all OEM security products.

Principal Project Manager leading development of Sun’s Security Enterprise Access Authentication/Access Control architecture.  Wrote business requirements for justification of $30M expenditure for revamping IT security infrastructure.  Participated in definition of overall Architecture.  Wrote system and component level technical requirements.  Managed team of 5 software engineers.

Defined corporate goals and strategies for global product security evaluations, specifically U.S. TCSEC B1/C2, U.K. ITSEC E3, and International Common Criteria EAL-4 evaluation criteria. Wrote corporate policies for quality assurance relating to security criteria. Updated international sales model with respect to sales of evaluated products.  Defined corporate support for system certification and accreditation.  Defined, negotiated and managed international subcontracts in support of product security evaluations. Assisted in definition of security requirements for Oracle8 and Trusted Oracle8. Represented Oracle in Common Criteria and System Security Engineering Capability Maturity Model standards committees. Wrote internal Oracle web pages for Security Evaluations.  Reviewed all product documentation with respect to correctness of implementation of security functionality.  Managed Security Evaluation team of up to 8 people.

Defined product requirements for a B2 MI Trusted Network component accepted into the NSA TPEP process for the MISSI program.  Wrote final draft of the System Requirement Specification for the NSA Dockmaster II procurement.  Assisted in writing System Specification for the BMDO Trusted Software Engineering Environment Workstation.  Implemented Trusted Software Methodology at the T3 and T4 level of trust for multiple BMDO programs.  Led winning proposal effort for Arca’s largest contract.  Wrote part of NSA’s Certification and Accreditation guidelines.  Personnel Manager, which included personnel reviews, budgeting for division, procurement, subcontract management.

Led Certification and Accreditation effort for the U.S. Army Guardrail system.  Defined system security requirements, wrote technical and cost chapters of proposal for security effort.  Managed security support contractors.  Defined software security requirements.  Chairperson of Government and Contractor Security Accreditation Working Group.  Received extensive training in contract and project management.

Founder and original principle owner.  Founded company with 5 others, and built to a $1.5M per year company.  Was responsible for all Administration, Office Management, Legal, and Benefits duties, as well as lead Site Coordinator for contracting sites.

Lead Computer Security Engineer for the Tactical Reconnaissance System Ground Segment (TRIGS).  Contributed to the TRIGS security policy modeling effort by defining trusted processes and creating pre- and post-condition semantics.  Responsible for informal Code Verification procedures, creating the Man Machine Interface for the Information System Security Officer (ISSO) operational position.  Extensive support of Technical Interchange Meetings with customers and accreditors.  Assisted in development of standards on How to Write Trusted Code on VAX/SEVMS and delivered training to 200 software engineers.

Member of a Research and Development team for a Trusted A1 level Multi-Level Secure Distributed Operating System.

Lead engineer writing the System Security policy and Trusted File Server Security Policy.  Contributed to formal modeling of the system in Gypsy on a Symbolics processor, and implementation of proof-of-concept in the C language (BSD UNIX) on Sun workstations.

Lead Software Engineer responsible for initial and detail design of the B1 level Trusted Computing Base for TRIGS.  Assisted in writing and review of the Computer Security Policy and Security Policy Model as per DoD specifications for development of a TCB ("Orange Book", MITRE 9992).  Performed top level design of CPCI’s using Sun workstations (UNIX) to produce Yourdon Data Flow Diagrams using IDE tool package, writing B5 and C5 level requirements, and producing detail design on MicroVax II’s using Caine, Farber, & Gordon PDL/81.

Involved with production of a Signal Processing System and solely responsible for the Design, Code, Test, and Integration of the Post Processing phase of the project.  Helped design part of the Data Base Preparation CPC on the Signal Routing phase.  Assigned responsibility for reviewing, rewriting, and performing System Test Procedures. Work included design in PDL and implementation in FORTRAN-77 on a VAX 11/780.

Responsible for Coding/Test and Integration of a Signal Processing Control System.  Delivered High Level Design Review for the Man-Machine Interface component of the System.  Coded part of the Report Generation capabilities.  Additional responsibilities included cost and schedule evaluation of Engineering Change Requests (ECR’s) for the system.

For a Satellite Communications system, was the Responsible System Engineer for Design, Implementation, Testing and Documentation of a Custom Data Base Management System on a network of VAX 11/780's.   Directly responsible for approximately 30,000 lines of code, and the supervision of 4 junior programmers.

Participated in the update of a computer controlled Satellite Communications Control system. Responsible for updating the Man-Machine Interface specifications. 
Led the implementation of a state-of-the-art Multi-Tasking Image Processing System with emphasis on custom device interfacing and Man-Machine Interfaces.  Responsible for software development in the Image Processing R&D Laboratory, and managed two R&D projects.

Board Member of the Concord Blue Devils, a $12M non-profit performing arts organization for youth.  President 3 years, Secretary 2 years.

Board Member of the Renegades Association of California, a non-profit performing arts organization; President 1 years, Director 1 year, Musician 6 years.

Common Criteria Protection Profiles, Panelist, National Information Systems Security Conference, Crystal City, VA, October 1998.

National Information Assurance Partnership, Panelist, National Information Systems Security Conference, Baltimore, MD, October 1997.

Vendors Experience with Security Evaluations, Panel Chair, National Information Systems Security Conference, Baltimore, MD, October 1996.

The Trusted System Alphabet: P(Policy) Before A(Architecture)?, Plenary  Panel, Computer Security Applications Conference, Orlando, FL, December 1993.

Breaking in to Computer Security, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).  Guest Lecturer at California State University, Chico, November 1990.

Extending the Trusted Computing Base, AIAA Computers in Aerospace VII Conference, Monterey, CA, October 1989.

Extending the SEVMS TCB, Digital Equipment Computer Users Symposium  (DECUS), Atlanta, GA,  May 1989.

Presentations - Bay Area Trusted Systems Symposium (BATSS), April 1989, San Jose, CA, and in August 1993, Redwood City, CA.  Co-chair of BATSS conference in February 1993.
 

David Gobuty, Chief Security Officer, Eastman Kodak Company Medical Imaging Division, 650.325.2533