Paul A. Wortman

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Address: *** ***** **, ********, ** 06237

Phone: 203-***-****

email: ac2664@r.postjobfree.com

Summary

An IT and security researcher with significant knowledge of UNIX devices and embedded sys- tems with over five years of black-box penetration testing experience. Demonstrated ability to lead diverse teams of researchers through complex and unfamiliar environments. Techni- cal and management skills with a track record of hands-on experience in all aspects of device investigations, tool development and customization, resource management, and presenta- tion of team findings. Earned reputation as enterprising individual responsible for expanding research directives, establishing laboratory capabilities, and directing medium-to-large com- petition events. Quick learner that easily picks up new software architecture principles and methods. Interested in pursuing cyber security implementation and research centric positions.

Work Experience

Current Senior Lab Engineer - CSI

September 2015 University of Connecticut, CT

• Achieved wider lab initiative to learn, document, customize, and develop security tools & improved system analysis procedures/protocol.

• Development and execution of Agile methodology by running weekly meetings, holding additional internal knowledge presentations, pushing new avenues of research directives, and developing formalize lab documentation & organization standards.

• Active role in expanding the lab’s security principles, policies, and best practices.

• Achieved working lab network as well as active management and alteration of network topology as needed.

• Configuration and maintenance of Nessus & Nexpose vulnerability scanners for black box penetration testings.

• Leadership role in organization, preparation, and communication for the Cy- berSEED conference and competition (2015, 2016, & 2017) between student re- searchers, faculty, and Comcast personnel.

• Lead organizer of CyberSEED social engineering competition development (2015, 2016, & 2017).

• Extensive OS experience with Linux, Windows, and Mac. Paul A. Wortman 203-***-**** ac2664@r.postjobfree.com Fall 2013 – Fall 2015 Security Research Engineer - CSI University of Connecticut, CT

• Authored device reports and delivered presentations of findings to shareholders.

• Determined potential layered security defenses and mitigations to discovered vul- nerabilities.

• Developed greater lab understanding of existing security tools (e.g. Nex- pose/Nessus) as well as expanding their use through customization and devel- opment.

• Extensive experience with vulnerability scanners.

• Led efforts to understand and implement best practice security principles and policies.

• Achieved high familiarity with UNIX OS and internal, as well as command line interface interactions.

• Hands on virtualization experience.

• Initialized internal lab networking and actively development documentation & management procedures.

Summer 2014 Summer Intern at Comcast Center

Philadelphia, PA

• Performed security reviews of implemented systems for production.

• Helped lead customer application development for X1 platform and presented on security implementations & concerns to larger Comcast community.

• Achieved familiarity with business flow and progression of issue tracking. Spring 2014 Teaching Assistant(TA) for ECE 1101/ENGR 1166 University of Connecticut, CT

• Lead workshops to aid students in better understanding material.

• Achieved improvement of language and communication skills (explaining con- cepts).

• Report on risks and vulnerabilities while providing mitigations to minimize weak- nesses and follow formal security policies & procedures. Fall 2010 - Fall 2017 Graduate Assistant under Professor Chandy University of Connecticut, CT

• Extensive work and research in UNIX environment.

• Development of dissection tools for network packets analysis. Paul A. Wortman 203-***-**** ac2664@r.postjobfree.com Education

May 2014 Master of Science in School of Engineering, University of Connecticut, CT Graduate Student Major: Electrical & Computer Engineering Gpa: 3.60 Advisor: Prof. John Chandy

May 2010 Bachelor of Science Degree in Engineering, Trinity College Hartford, CT Undergraduate Student Major: Electrical Engineering wConcentration in Computer Engineering

Gpa: 3.010 Advisor: David Ahlgren

May 2006 International Baccalaureate (IB) diploma at Associação Escola Graduada de São Paulo São Paulo, Brazil

Fellowships

2015 John Lof Young Leader Fellowship - University of Connecticut Scholarships and Certificates

2013 Learning Styles - Institute for Teaching & Learning 2013 General Assessment Concerns - Institute for Teaching & Learning 2014 Teaching Assistant Orientation - Institute for Teaching & Learning CISSP

Security+

Languages

English: Reading - Advanced

Writing - Advanced

Speaking - Advanced

Spanish: Reading - Intermediate

Writing - Intermediate

Speaking - Advanced

Portuguese: Reading - Intermediate

Writing - Intermediate

Speaking - Advanced

Skills

Computer: c, Python, php, Java, Perl, Ruby, Bash, c++, C#, HTML, Virtual Basic Database: mysql

OS: Linux, Windows, Mac os

Electronics: Breadboards and wiring, circuit design, microcontrollers and cmos devices, hardware modification

Networking: Cisco, Arris, Netgear

Debugging: gdb

Versioning: git

Security: Metasploit, Nessus, Nexpose, nmap, aircrack-ng, thc Hydra, Burp, Maltego, Zap, Fortify, Veracode

Proficient: MS Word, PowerPoint, Visio, Outlook

Other: Gregarious, works well in groups, creative, lived abroad and well traveled Work Ethic: Dedicated, self motivated and team player Paul A. Wortman 203-***-**** ac2664@r.postjobfree.com Interests and Activities

2016-2017 SAGE - Secretary Univ. of Conn

2015-2016 UConn Cyber Security Club - Secretary Univ. of Conn 2015-2016 SAGE - Secretary Univ. of Conn

2015-2016 UConn Cyber Security Club - Founding Member Univ. of Conn 2014-2015 SAGE - President Univ. of Conn

2013-2014 SAGE - Vice President Univ. of Conn

2010-2017 SAGE - Founding Member Univ. of Conn

2010 Rugby Univ. of Conn

2008-2010 International House - Founding Member Trinity College 2009-2010 Robot Team Trinity College

2008-2010 Rugby Trinity College

Fall 2008/2009 Orientation - Orientation Leader Trinity College Spring 2008 Robotics Class Mentor Trinity College

2006-2008 Cinestudio - Security Trinity College

Publications

• Wortman, P. A., and Chandy, J. A. (2017). A Trace-Based Study of SMB Network File System Workloads in an Academic Enterprise. 36th IEEE International Performance Computing and Communications Conference [In Review]

• Wortman, P. A., Tehranipoor, F., and Chandy, J. A. (2017). An Adversarial Risk-based Ap- proach for Embedded Systems Security Modeling and Design. International Conference on Cryptology and Network Security. [In Review]

• Tehranipoor, F., Karimian, N., Wortman, P. A., Chandy, J. A. (2017). Low-cost Authen- tication Paradigm for Consumer Electronics Within the Internet of Wearable Fitness Tracking Applications. IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics. [In Review]

• Tehranipoor, F., Wortman, P., Karimian, N., Yan, W., Chandy, J. A. (2017). A Lightweight Solution for Power Supply Noise based TRNG using a Dynamic Voltage Feedback Tuning

(DVFT) System. IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers. [In Review]

• Wortman, P. A., Tehranipoor, F., Karimian, N., & Chandy, J. A. (2017). Proposing a Modeling Framework for Minimizing Security Vulnerabilities in IoT Systems in the Healthcare Domain. IEEE journal of biomedical and health informatics.

• Tehranipoor, F., Karimian, N., Wortman, P. A., & Chandy, J. A. (2017). Investigation of the Internet of Things in its Application to Low-Cost Authentication within Healthcare. IEEE journal of biomedical and health informatics.

• Karimian, N., Wortman, P. A., & Tehranipoor, F. (2016, October). Evolving authentication design considerations for the internet of biometric things (IoBT). In Hardware/Software Codesign and System Synthesis (CODES+ ISSS), 2016 International Conference on (pp. 1-10). IEEE.

• Runde, M. T., Stevens, W. G., Wortman, P. A., & Chandy, J. A. (2012, April). An active stor- age framework for object storage devices. In Mass Storage Systems and Technologies

(MSST), 2012 IEEE 28th Symposium on (pp. 1-12). IEEE.

• Shakya, R., Wright, A., Shin, Y. H., Momin, O., Petkovsek, S., Wortman, P., ... & Norton, A. (2011, January). Application of parallelized software architecture to an autonomous ground vehicle. In IS&T/SPIE Electronic Imaging (pp. 787***-******). International Society for Optics and Photonics.

Paul A. Wortman 203-***-**** ac2664@r.postjobfree.com

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