Professional Experience

Charles Lockhart Brooks
Principal Software Architect

Charles Brooks is the owner and principal systems architect with Charles L Brooks Associates (CLBA). Mr. Brooks has 20+ years experience in the software industry, including time spent in advanced R&D for DARPA, working on advanced co-operative and middleware systems, and in architecting the VPN Advantage service line at Genuity. Charles has also managed small cross-disciplinary teams that included both experienced developers and end-users. As a manager and team lead, Charles has advocated for and initiated agile software development methodologies within his organization.

Selected Experience

Security Engineering

Lead engineering that re-designed and re-implemented the VPN Advantage NOC, focusing specifically on the network and application security architecture.

Lead architect for IP Security Engineering department.

Lead Architect for the VPN Advantage Service line

Software Development

Team lead and architect for VPN Advantage Network and Service management system.
Technical lead for the Distributed Time System (DTS) component for the Distributed Computing Environment (DCE 1.1) release for the Open Group (aka The Open Software Foundation)

Management/Team Leadership

Managed 3 Sr. designers/architects.
Managed 5 Sr. developers
Technical lead for 11 member team that developed the Network and Service Management system for the VPN Advantage service line at Genuity.

Research and Development

Wide-Area Information Browsing Assistanc (WAIBA) project and the Distributed Clients project at the OSF Research Institute.

Education and CertificationCertified Informations Systems Security Professional (CISSP), expected 1Q, 2005

Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), expected 1Q, 2005.
Cisco Certified Network Associates (CCNA), expected 2Q, 2005
Certified Wireless Security Professional (CWSP) 2Q, 2005

Certified Wireless Network Administrator (CWNA), Winter, 2005
Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH), Fall, 2004
Sun Microsystems Certified Enterprise Architect for J2EE Technologies (SCEA), Spring, 2004
Certified ScrumMaster, Fall, 2003
MS in Computer Information Systems (MSCIS), Boston University, Boston MA.

Professional Memberships

Information Systems Security Association (ISSA), NE chapter
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), and the Greater Boston Chapter (GBC/ACM)
World-wide Institute of Software Architects (WWISA)
IEEE Computer Society

Publications

Please refer to Mr. Brooks's publications page.

Mr. Brooks also writes on the Weblog Software, Systems, and Security Architecture.

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