Hi All I am seeking research or career opportunities in the field of /network/information/computer security and protocols. I bring along a few years of academic research, about 18 months of work experience and an intense focus in this area.
Key areas that I am skilled and interested in include network protocol design, secure-application development/programming, securing network stacks, privacy and trust management, firewalling, system/network administration, and security in ad-hoc/wireless networks. I am available for work for a co-op position from January 2003 and for a full-time from May 2003. A F1-EAD status allows me to work for a year, though I would prefer a H1B sponsorship. I have enclosed my resume along with this mail. Please do get in touch with me if this profile interests you or matches any positions available. Thanks and Regards Prashant Murthy Prashant Murthy [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.geocities.com/prashthy (919)961-3041 Objective --------- To contribute my skills and knowledge to a design team doing leading edge development in the area of network security, secure systems or security in ad-hoc/wireless networks Education --------- (Since Fall 2001) MS Computer Science, North Carolina State University, USA GPA: 4.05/4.0 (A+ = 4.33) (Aug 1996 � June 2000) BE (Hons) Computer Science, Birla Institute of Tech and Science, India GPA: 9.11/10.0 Work Experience --------------- (February � July �01) * Cisco Systems, Bangalore, India Software Engineer, EVVBU (Enterprise Voice and Video Business Unit) Designed and developed enhanced features (Internationalization) of Cisco Personal Assistant, a speech enabled application running over Cisco IP phones. (Jan �00 � Feb �01) * Hughes Software Systems, Bangalore, India Software Engineer, Next Generation Networks Group (VoIP) Designed and developed an RFC 2543 compliant SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) User Agent (UA) providing a GUI using GTK. Also involved in building a client/server framework for the SIP UA using C on solaris and linux. (May � July �99) * Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India Summer Research Scholar Studied various network security-related packages such as SATAN, NFR, Kerberos, Sniffit, Tcpdump, etc. Designed a firewall system for the network. Also made an analysis of stream ciphers. (May � July �98) * L&T Komatsu Limited, India Summer Intern Ported the contract note module for the MIS department from VB-Access to VB-Oracle Teaching Assistant: Software Engineering (Fall 2001) Internet Protocols (Spring, Fall 2002) Research Assistant: Security in P2P Networks (Summer 2002) Computer Skills --------------- Languages * C, Pascal, system programming, socket programming, SCSI (introductory level), kernel programming (introductory level), PERL, SQL, 80x86 assembly, Java Platforms * Windows NT/98/2000, Linux, Sun Solaris, SCO Unix Protocols * IPSec, SIP, H.323, MPLS, LDP, CR-LDP, IP, TCP, ATM, RSVP, Gnutella (P2P) Packages * Turbo C, JDK, Microsoft Developer Studio, Net Objects Fusion, Visio Express, GTK (GIMP Toolkit), Flex, Bison, MASM Related Coursework ------------------ * Information Systems Security * Advanced Network Protocol Design * Internet Protocols * High Speed Networks * Computer Networks * Network Programming * Telecom Switching Sys & Networks * Multimedia Computing * Operating Systems * Data Structures and Algorithms * Database Systems Academic Projects ----------------- * Security issues in peer-to-peer networks I am currently looking into the security issues in peer to peer networks as part of my Master�s thesis under Prof. Douglas Reeves (North Carolina State University). * Network Security: Network Monitoring and Encryption Study and analysis of security related packages such as SATAN, NFR, Kerberos, Sniffit, Tcpdump, etc. Also made an analysis of stream ciphers. * Design of an LDP (MPLS) compliant router/switch This project was intended to provide an insight into the stages involved in the development of a protocol in the industry. Provided functional requirements, control memory reqmts, test cases and router/switch architecture compliant with RFC 3036. * Simple Reliable Transport Protocol (over UDP) The project involved building a reliable transport protocol stack over UDP on Linux and Solaris. It involved most of the salient features provided by TCP and was more efficient. * Implementation of a user-level thread library and synchronization on Sun Solaris The project involved building APIs for creation, manipulation and destruction of user level threads, semaphores, condition variables and scheduling with preemption. The library has been built using LWP � the lightweight processes available on Solaris. * Copy-on-write for the Linux Operating System (Kernel Programming) Extended the linux kernel with a file snapshot facility using copy-on-write. * Study, design and implementation of TCP/IP over ATM I was involved in studying the protocols involved in IP over ATM, studying certain simulation packages (INSANE) and simulating Classical IP over ATM (in C on Unix) Publication/Copyright --------------------- * Presented a paper titled "Formulation of an encryption algorithm on the basis of Molecular Genetics and Image Patterns" at the International Conference ICCIMA �99. The proceedings were published by IEEE Computers Society. Obtained a copyright under the title "AEGIS". * A survey paper on "Secure routing in Ad-hoc networks" (Work under progress) Awards ------ * National Talent Search Examination (NTSE) Scholar * Summer Research Fellowship Scholar Award from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore (May 1999, May 2000) * Team Award for having shown exceptional initiative and commitment to ensure timely delivery of the SIP stack product at Hughes Software Systems, Bangalore Achievements/Activities ----------------------- * Vice-President of Graduate Student Association for Dept of Computer Science for the year (2001-2002) at North Carolina State University * Distinguished Member of the honor society of Phi Kappa Phi. * BITS Pilani � President, Regional Association (1998-99) ===== ================================= Prashant Murthy Graduate Student Dept of Comp. Science @ NC State http://www.geocities.com/prashthy "When ever you see a problem, smell money !!" ================================= __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com
