Adam L. Beberg

Email: beberg@mithral.com
Web: http://www.mithral.com/~beberg/
Last update: 2007

OVERVIEW

• 12 years of business and project management, 15 years of professional software engineering, 23 years of programming.
• Featured speaker at numerous computer security and distributed computing conferences (C.V. available).
• Stories covering my company and projects by Forbes, Fortune, CNN, Wired, Scientific American, and others.
• Honored as one of the MIT Technology Review's TR100 top young innovators of 1999.

EDUCATION

Stanford University
Computer Science PhD Program, 2004-present.

Illinois Institute of Technology
Bachelors of Science, Computer Engineering, 1996. Additional year of work in masters of Computer Science program.

EXPERIENCE

Chairman and CTO - Mithral Communications & Design Inc.
Work with many clients during full project life cycle from requirement gathering to rollout, designing new systems and modernizing legacy systems. Manage employees as well as independent programmers, designers, and artists. Began as an Internet consulting business focused on web site design and e-commerce, and evolved into a security and software development company. Mithral is currently focused on cross-platform software development and distributed computing tools.
Technologies: C, C++, Java, Perl, Python, UML, PKI, Windows, UNIX, OS X, Apache, IIS, MS SQL, XML, ASP, VB, ColdFusion.
June 1995 to Present

Software Engineer - Identix
Maintenance and development for the Live Scan line of fingerprint scanning biometric systems. Primary role as jack of all trades in bug fixing, customer feature additions, GUI development, new hardware integration, and migration to a new .NET architecture.
Technologies: C, C++, .NET, REXX, Biometrics
February 2004 to December 2004.

Software Engineer - Network Appliance
Implemented testing infrastructure and testing tools for the development and verification of the company products. These tools were then rolled out company-wide for all development and QA testing automation.
Technologies: Perl, C, Perforce, NAS, Clustering, Solaris, OSF/1.
November 2000 to April 2001

Software Engineer - StorageTek
Worked on the design and implementation of an on-demand disk allocation system for servers in a Storage Area Network. The project resulted in a fully fault-tolerant system for dynamic enterprise storage deployments.
Technologies: Python, Java, XML, PostgreSQL, Solaris, Linux, SAN, Volume Managers, Veritas, ISO 9000.
August 1999 to November 1999

Founder and President - Distributed Computing Technologies Inc.
Management and direction of distributed.net - a non-profit 50,000 member, 80,000 node global network of people and computers. Organization goal was the promotion of distributed computing technology and government removal of export restrictions on the use of strong encryption. We won. Oversight of approximately 30 developers, and design of the software architecture.
May 1997 to May 1999

Software Engineer - Peterson Electro-musical Products Inc.
Developed embedded system for pipe organs designed to control the organ as well as act as a fully functional MIDI device. Design was based on the Motorola 68k family of processors and a real-time kernel.
Technologies: C, C++, MS-Project, 68k and HC11 assembly, Real-time kernel, inline emulators, circuit and board layout tools.
June 1997 to April 1998

Webmaster - Illinois Institute of Technology
Maintenance and redesign of the IIT web site. Managed the web servers and related resources on the campus and helped in the development of university web policy. Web servers ran NT and IRIX.
Technologies: C, C++, Perl, SQL, Windows NT, IRIX, Solaris, Linux, Apache, IIS.
August 1996 to August 1997

Programmer - Educational Technology Center
Design and conversion of a MSDOS based quizzing system to a Windows GUI based one with a Paradox backend. Assisted in the maintenance of a Novell Network (v. 2.2 to 3.11) and oversaw daily server operations.
Technologies: C/C++, Borland, Windows 3.1, Novell, Paradox.
September 1992 to October 1994

KEYWORDS

C, C++, Java, Python, Perl, SQL, HTML, XML, VB, ASP, PHP, RPC, IIS, ColdFusion, SAN, NAS, TCP/IP, IPv6, Cocoa, OpenGL, 68K and x86 ASM, Shell script, PKI, PKCS, PGP, Unicode, UML, n-tier, ISO 9000, MS Project, CVS, Perforce, MS SQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, Windows, NT, OS X, Linux, SunOS, Solaris.