Ralph Durkee
Independent Consultant
7367 Evergreen St. P.O. Box 404, Lima, NY 14485
(585) 624-9551 info@rd1.net  http://www.rd1.net

  SUMMARY OF EXPERIENCE:
30 years experience in information security, training, systems software development.

INTERNET AND OTHER NETWORKING

Technology Description Experience

Internet Protocols, LAN and IPC communications software
HTTP, HTTPS, XML, CORBA, Java, JSP, Perl, Java Servlets, PHP, TCP/IP, RPC, FTP, Sockets, Sys V IPC

17.5 yrs.

Network Security and Fire Wall technologies and tools
SSL and SSH tunneling, X509 certificates, IPSec pass through, iptables, ipchains, ipfw, Intrusion Detection, Network Security Audits

13 yrs.

Client/Server, N-tiered, Distributed Database Performance and Internals

4 yrs.

System, Network, Web and Mail Server Administration
DNS, SMTP, POP3, Apache,NFS, NIS+

14 yrs.

 HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING SYSTEMS

Technology Description Experience
Unix Systems Software Development and Administration
SysV, SunOS, Solaris, HP-UX, Linux, BSD, SCO, AIX, LynxOS, VxWorks

25 yrs..

High performance file systems and kernel design and development.
AT&T Bells Labs and C.C.I. / Nortel

6 yrs.

Real time embedded systems, UNIX device drivers and network drivers. 

3 yrs.

UNIX Database Administration and Performance tuning
Including embedded software product development.

6 yrs.

UNIX / MS Windows Communications and Integration

7 yrs.

MS Windows Performance, Security and Administration

8 yr.

METHODOLOGIES, MANAGEMENT AND MISCELLANEOUS

Technology Description Experience
Object Technology Design and Standards
Booch, UML, Rational Rose, Together J/C++

6 yrs.

Strong presentation skills with seminar development and teaching experience.

16 yrs.

Project Management experience, proposals and software contract writing.

15 yrs.

Software Configuration Management tools and processes
Including support for SEI CMM Level 2.

4 yrs.

EDUCATION:
B.S. degree in Computer Science from New Mexico Tech.
CERTIFICATIONS:
Network Security: SANS Global Information Assurance Certification (GIAC)
GSEC Security Essentials Certified since June 2000;
GCIH Certified Incident Handler since August 2001;
GSNA Certified System and Network Auditor since July 2006;
GPEN Certified Pentration Tester since June 2009;
(ISC)2 certified CISSP since April 2004.
MEMBERSHIPS:
Usenix, SANS, SAGE, Rochester Business Alliance, New Covenant Baptist Church

Durkee Consulting, Inc.
7367 Evergreen St. PO Box 404
Lima, NY 14485
Phone 585-624-9551