Joe
started his career at Commodore as he built a worldwide engineering
network while the Internet was being started under the management of
the National Science Foundation and the U.S. military. Joe graduated
to the aerospace industry and has been involved in projects such as
GPS, LandSat, and Earth Observation
satellites and has held high level security clearances beyond "Top
Secret". Over the several decades, Joe has designed numerous Internet
Gateways for Fortune 500 Companies such as GE, NBC, Vanguard, Mellon
Bank, Martin Marietta and Lockheed. His skills include Internet security
and especially securing Internet applications. Joe was one of a team
of three that discovered the security breach and "break in"
to General Electric's corporate network back in 1995 and helped to chase
the notorious "Super Hacker" Kevin Mitnick who was eventually
imprisoned for his activities. Citicorp has used Joe to design and roll
out their 100,000+ user Email system for Y2K compliance. Joe's other
projects include the design of data centers, Help Desks, Network Operation
Centers and ISP Infrastructures. Joe built the infrastructure for Comcast
Xfinity's X1 platform, which won multiple Emmys for technology
innovation. He also built out a massive data bus that served all of
Comcast's Big Data environment. Joe worked at David's
Bridal and was instrumental in their digital transformation during the
pandemic. He spent some time as CTO at LifeBrand and is currently Director
of Network and Cloud Operations at Forcepoint. Joe is currently retired
from industry and commits his time to the J. Allen Groves Center for
Advanced Biblical research as the Board Chairman ( grovescenter.org).
He also serves as a technical advisor for multiple startup companies. |