Daniel A. Kuykendall

La Mirada, CA 90638
dan@kuykendall.org
(626) 226-8620

OVERVIEW

Title

Director of Software Engineering, or Team Lead /Senior Software Engineer

Summary

Software Experienced Manager of software engineers in mixed development teams, using several programming languages.My proven track record for excellent development skills allow me to quickly gain the confidence and respect of team members. Ability to understand all levels of the technical implementations involved in software projects.

Skills

Management

Experience managing software development projects from planning to completion by utilizing local, telecommuting and off-shore development teams. Excellent track record of keeping developers on track, interested and challenged to create best of breed solutions.Experience supervising large network roll-outs over local and wide area networks, including fail over planning and implementation.

Security

Strong network and application security experience Extensive: Web Application Security background which has made me a leader in the App Sec community

Programming

Strong software design and engineering using Object Oriented Programming methods and techniques. Extensive: Web Application development using PHP, XHTML, DHTML, JavaScript, Cascading Style Sheets, XML, XSL, SOAP and XML-RPC.Moderate: ASP, ASP.Net, C#, VB, Perl, TCL/Tk, Unix shell scripting, DOS batch files.Databases: MySQL, PostgreSQL, MS SQL Server.Comfortable reading and understanding C/C++ code.

Networking

Focus on security, as well as complete network planning and implementation. Linux using Debian, RedHat, and Mandrake for complete ISP, web hosting, filesharing, source code repository, email, groupware, and Intranet solutions.Microsoft Windows services MS Exchange, SQL Server, DNS, WINS, DHCP, IIS, Proxy Server, RAS, PPTP, Terminal Services, Arcserve, BackupExec, RealSecure, FireWall-1. Server redundancy using Vinca Server.Citrix MetaFrame 1.8, with SecureICA.Novell NetWare, NDS, GroupWise and Zen Works packaging.

Cisco IOS for TCP/IP, IPX, SNA, Bridging and voice over IP.

Desktops

All Microsoft Desktop operating systems Many Linux distros, including Redhat, Mandrake and DebianFamiliar with Macintosh operating systems from System 7 to OS X.Includes using VMWare for most of the above.

WORK EXPERIENCE

7/2002 - Current | NT OBJECTives, Inc | Exciting web application security company

http://www.ntobjectives.com
Director of Engineering and Information Systems
Leading the team of developers to build a collection of web scanning and testing tools. The team consisted of local, telecommuting and off-shore developers which required planning and organizational skills to keep on target and with a unified vision and development methodology. Developed a Web Application Scanner which has been favored by the likes of Microsoft, Intuit, Created best of breed reporting by using XSLTDue to the size and needs of the company I was involved in research, design, implementation and QA for all the products in the NTO collection as well as setup and management of all network services and connectivity for local and remote offices.

7/2001 - 6/2002 | Foundstone | Computer security industry leader

http://www.foundstone.com
Internet Software Engineer
Primary web interface developer for their award winning Foundscan product. Designed and implemented the DCOM interfaces between the core scanning engine and the PHP web interface.Created complete scan management, scheduling and issue tracking implementations in super tight deadlines. Results won Network Computing’s Editors Choice Award.

7/99 - 7/2001 | American Security Group/Fortis USA | International financial services provider

http://www.fortis.com
Network Engineer, Supervisor Manage large, and long term projects, including creating and implementing the security plan that was certified by Bank Of America to allowed us to establish a dedicated T1 into each others networks.Managed mixed Windows, NetWare and Linux local and wide area networks.Supervised and trained entire IT staff on new technologies that were introduced into the environment.

7/96 - 1/98 | Compushare Inc | Information technology consulting and solutions firm

http://www.compushare.com
Network Engineer
As a Network consultant I would quickly adapt to new and exciting challenges on a daily basis. By meeting with the customer and understanding their needs I would consistently provide them with excellent service.Some highlights included installing, configuring, troubleshooting, and maintaining Mixed Windows, NetWare and mainframe networks in Local and Wide Area and Internet networks.Internet/Intranet programming in HTML and Active Server Pages against SQL Server and MS Access databases. MS Access application development.

11/95 - 11/96 | Directors Guild of America | Hollywood Directors union

http://www.dga.org
MIS Associate
Provided expertise with NetWare, Windows NT and Internet integration. Assisting in transition from mainframe to P.C. style networking.

8/94 - 7/96 | GDK Systems Specialists | Computer consulting company

Owner, Primary Technician
Worked with small companies to get them connected to the Internet. Installation and maintenance of Novell, and Windows NT networks.Programming services with MS Access and SQL Server, HTML, CGI, and VB.

OTHER EXPERIENCE

Community Contributions

I am an active developer in the open source and security communities as both a leader and contributor to several projects including the following.

Mighty Seek Podcast | The only Podcast dedicated to Web Application Security

http://www.mightyseek.com Topics centered around education about what Web App Sec is, and what the various issues surrounding it are, as well as solutions.The “Hands On Series” takes the listener through the process of hacking a HackMe site in a step by step process, in which each step is explained and show to the user.

PodcastAlley.com | Wrote the code the site runs on

http://www.podcastalley.comRe-wrote the code to handle the scalability needs for the extremely popular site.Created MyAlley, which was a new feature set to the site where users could manage their subscriptions on the site and have this all automatically synced up with the Juice podcasting client. MyAlley was in part responsible for PodShow securing their venture capital funding, and the feature set was used as the basis for the new Podshow.com website that will be launched July 2006

iTunes Music Store, Podcasting | Provided Aggregated Database for their launch

http://www.mapple.com/itunes When Apple approached up about adding Podcasting support into iTunes, I pulled together the databases from PodcastAlley.com and Ipodder.org, cleaned up the data and provided them with a clean database for their big launch.

podPress | Podcasters plugin to the popular blogging CMS, WordPress

http://www.mightyseek.com/podpress Full featured plugin which provides proper RSS2/ATOM feed supportConfiguration screens that include realtime preview of what the podcast will look like in the iTunes Music StoreSupport for download stats broken down by methodThe first freely available solution for Premium Podcasting

phpGroupWare Project | Innovative and successful Open Source Groupware Project

http://www.phpgroupware.org Project Leader / Primary Architect / Core DeveloperIn March of 2000 I joined forces with another developer to create a web based groupware solution which would provide all the core groupware functionality (email, calendar, todo, notes, and contacts) as well as provide a powerful Object Oriented API that would allow for additional custom applications. With this API developers have created a time tracking application, an inventory program, a billing system, and a project management application, just to name a few.Wrote the next generation API/Framework for the project. This new Framework supports browsers as well as SOAP and XML-RPC interfaces. The browser interface has the presentation layer separated out to XSL, which can be offloaded to the client browsers for rendering, thereby reducing processor overhead from the server by considerable amounts.As Project Leader of a popular Free Software project I have been responsible for keeping the project fresh and exciting to work on for a developer community spread across the globe for several years.

Qmail/VMailMgr | Robust and Secure replacement for Sendmail

http://www.vmailmgr.org Wrote and maintain documentation that is included with both the product and is part of The Linux Documentation Project (http://www.tldp.org).

REFERENCES

Available upon request.