A good scientist is a person with original ideas. A good engineer is a person who makes a design that works with as few original ideas as possible. There are no prima donnas in engineering.
Freeman Dyson
Everything I do these days seems to straddle the boundary between the new and old.
Career Paths
I'm a veteran of many successful start-ups. While I was in
charge of all technical operations at Axion Internet, they experienced
a six-fold growth in customers over fourteen months, becoming
Vancouver's second largest Internet provider. At Group Telecom
(now 360 Networks), I was part of a 13 person start-up which created a
telephone company in Canada's deregulated local phone market,
becoming the largest competitive local access provider in Canada in
two years. I'm also very familiar with high-level security and
have run a highly successful national audit for a major Canadian
telecommunications company that covered the full spectrum of security
including digital, physical and social areas. I designed and
project-managed the construction of one of the only facilities
certified under Washington State's digital signature
legislation. Through years of providing technical evaluations for the
Vancouver finance community, I have developed a very large breadth of
technical knowledge covering everything from wireless to high tech
food manufacturing. Seeking a change of fields, two years ago I
accepted a position as High Performance Computing Manager at one of
the world's top ten biological research labs at the University
of Dundee in Scotland where I designed and project-managed the
deployment of all of the University's high performance computing
infrastructure. Over the last few years I've been involved in
several pioneering identity and biometrics ventures while following my
passionate belief that privacy and security need not be a zero-sum
game.
Intellectual Pursuits
I have a voracious appetite for new knowledge. Physics, genetics,
and math are pet areas of mine. I'm especially interested in
convergence and the meta-patterns that emerge repeatedly across
different swathes of science. I pride myself on being able to talk
about anything from gardening to stellar mechanics to world
politics.
E-mail: paudley@blackcat.ca
Website: http://blackcat.ca/cv/
INTRODUCTION
I seek team working environments and dynamic companies with interesting or evolving jobs. I am a veteran of several very successful startups and greatly enjoy the challenge of taking risks and forging a new business. I'm interested in anything that matches my skill set, but I lean towards careers that mesh my business skills with my technical expertise. I'm very interested in growing my skills and am a continuous learner and teacher. I consider a casual work environment and smart coworkers to be serious perks. Above all I cherish difficult problems and new challenges.
Please note that I am current in Calgary and not actively seeking positions though I am actively seeking contacts in the Calgary energy, development, and startup communities for networking or potential future work.
SPECIAL SKILLS
Business: Horizontal skill set with significant experience in business development and assessment. Have been part of building many successful startups as well as cross-functional teams in existing ventures. Strong knowledge of the financial, marketing and sales aspects of business. Excellent at bridging the business and technology sides of commerce. Have successfully led many challenging development projects.
Programming: Fluent in C, C++, Perl, SQL, and PHP; I pick up new programming languages very quickly. Have written several database and accounting programs for OS/2, Windows, Solaris and Linux platforms. Deep UNIX experience on Linux and Solaris with a strong general UNIX skill set. I specialize in the edge cases: high security, high throughput, high reliability.
Networking: Have developed several network applications using a wide variety of network transports, cryptographic protocols, and OS platforms. Extensive Cisco experience in large-scale heterogeneous networks. I have been on the net for over 13 years. Extensive network design and maintenance experience in both large scale commercial and cutting edge academic research networks. Deep ICAP and HTTP caching experience.
Security: Deep firewall and IDS experience (including Checkpoint, Snort, ISS, Linux). Can perform advanced security audits for many platforms and networks. Have maintained high levels of network security in both backbone carrier and telco environments. Have designed and project managed high-security computing facilities in Vancouver and Toronto. Working knowledge of biometrics, smart cards and other high-security devices. Experienced in computer forensics as well as intrusion detection and prevention. Extensive general security knowledge and experience in both data and physical arenas.
Hardware: Very experienced in design and complete life cycle management of high through computing clusters, very large scale SAN infrastructure, and high performance networks. Deep experience with ia32 architectures and IBM SAN equipment. Have designed and built high reliability computing rooms and data centers from the ground up.
PKI: Designed, implemented and managed a national telecommunications PKI (Public Key Infrastructure). Extensive experience with all facets of PKI including: trust architectures, repositories, digital signatures and associated legislation in Canada and the U.S., and business integration issues. Security computing facility design experience. PKI programming and trust modeling experience with enterprise level PKI.
Community: I'm also an active member in the Open Source Community. I know first aid, have no criminal record, and am eligible for most security clearances. I also have my Restricted Fire Arms License and am a certified HAM radio operator. I am a member of the Vancouver Emergency Community Telecommunications Organization (VECTOR).
EMPLOYMENT
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Patrick Audley
July 2008 —
Present
Cambrian House
VP Technology
- Builds top-secret crowd sourcing infrastructure.
- Works on commoditizing IP and product architecture.
- Responsible for overal technical direction of the company.
- 1994 — 2008
- Blackcat Systems (Private Consulting Jobs)
- Owner/Primary Consultant
- Provides high security consulting for data networks, physical locations and software design.
- Aids in the development of business and marketing plans for high technology start ups. In addition to my own ventures, I mentor actively in the business and technology communities. (references available)
- Custom-designs programs to suit a wide range of requirements. Architectural review and assessments as well as code remediation services.
- Open Source Software development.
- Technical and security code audits and reviews.
- Acts as a liaison between startups and the finance community.
- Coding for fun and profit.
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Patrick Audley
February 2006 —
October 2007
Cogneto Development Inc.
Chief Technology Officer
- Founded Cogneto in February 2006 has helped raise £1.2 million.
- Assembled a world-class programming team and built software development program deeply meshed with user-centric design and high security programming.
- Touched almost all the facets of building a first-rate startup.
- Contributed to a rich patent portfolio spanning over 12 patents.
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Patrick Audley
December 2004 —
January 2006
Adzilla New Media Inc.
Sr. Software Architect
- Designed, developed and deployed a high-throughput, cross platform ICAP server using a multiprocess, multithreaded architecture to handle seamless inline web content modification.
- Managed a programming group with Java, C++ and Ruby programmers.
- Was responsible for all development direction, specification, and management.
- Used cutting edge C++ tools in a heterogeneous UNIX environment including: BOOST, XMLRPC, and SOAP.
- Implemented and managed a full SDLC process that included ticket based code control with extensive version management.
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Patrick Audley
May 2004 —
September 2004
Rubicon Enterprises
Owner
- International business consulting, specializing in relocations to South East Asia.
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Patrick Audley
April 2002 —
May 2004
University of Dundee
High Performance Computing Manager
- Managed the specification and provisioning of a 20TB SAN based primarily on IBM hardware and Tivoli Storage Manager. Delivered a system that provided 2Gbp/s pure NFS file services.
- Designed and implemented a new network backbone based around Cisco network equipment. The new backbone included extensive security, network address translation and intrusion detection. Built monitoring and configuration tools that self discovered network switch topology, modified network configurations and identified problem areas as the network grew.
- Built a 100 processor research cluster using a custom PXE and imaging system. Implemented Sun Grid Engine and wrote a software deployment package for the cluster.
- Involved in several biological research projects.
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Patrick Audley
May 2001 —
January 2002
GT Group Telecom Inc.
Manager of PKI Development
- Guided the operations GT's PKI.
- Guided the documentation process.
- Acted in a business development role for PKI opportunities.
- Continued my involvement in application development and maintenance.
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Patrick Audley
March 1998 —
May 2001
GT Group Telecom Inc.
Sr. Ecommerce Architect/Designer
- Designed and supervised the construction of two high security PKI vaults and associated infrastructure.
- Coordinated a national audit of GT's networks, systems and physical security that encompassed over 2000 systems, 1000 networks, 3 autonomous routing domains and 16 cities.
- Performed many data forensic investigations and was a key member of GT's Computer Security Incident Response Team.
- Was responsible for network security in all of Group Telecom's high security networks and added extensive security experience to the team.
- Designed several PKI based applications in Perl, C, C++, and PHP including the Realtorlink Hybrid Authentication system and Secure Private Internet Messaging (SPIM).
- Was responsible for the design and implementation of all of Group Telecom's PKI-centric applications, services and facilities.
- Provided Sales support for our PKI and security products.
- Delivered business assessment for potential partners and clients.
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Patrick Audley
October 1997 —
March 1998
GT Group Telecom Inc.
UNIX Administrator/Applications Programmer
- Responsible for all UNIX administration and setup.
- Troubleshooting and maintenance on Cisco equipment.
- First Tier Tech Support.
- Intranet development.
- Internal PC Support.
- Major Project: (solely responsible for design, development, and deployment)
Enterprise Usage Collection System
- SNMP network usage collection and aggregation.
- Database driven with HTML reports (including graphs).
- Fault tolerant design allowed multiple collection points.
- Separation of data collection and processing.
- Customer usage view and query pages (both internal and customer facing).
- Integration with billing systems.
- System drives GT's entire data billing systems for over 2000 networks and is responsible for the billing of millions of dollars of revenue every month.
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Patrick Audley
May 1996 —
August 1997
Axion Internet Communications Inc.
System Administrator / MIS
- Was responsible for all UNIX administration and setup. Maintained large network with an installed base of WinNT and Sparc servers.
- Extensive experience with Enterprise IT Infrastructure including designing and maintaining DNS, POP mail, sendmail, INN, and caching services for a 15,000 user network.
- Dealt extensively with both BC Tel Business and BC Tel Advanced Communication.
- Redesigned network topology and routing.
- Proficient with all duties relating to running an Internet Service Provider.
- Designed the user tracking and online time billing program, integrating diverse data sources into an object-oriented database.
- Extensive product and marketing research.
PATENTS
- Several other pending security and identity related patents.
- Tamper-resistant GPS-bound key storage - patent pending.
- Secure Private Internet Messaging - patent pending.
PAPERS
- Raghava, GPS, Searle, SMJ, Audley, PC, Barber, JD. and Barton, GJ. (2003). OXBench: A benchmark for evaluation of protein multiple sequence alignment accuracy. BMC Bioinformatics 4:47.
WORK PERMITS
- Full Canadian Citizenship.
