Andrew K. Adams

Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center
Carnegie Mellon University
300 South Craig Street
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
akadams@psc.edu

Education

M.S. in Information Science, University of Pittsburgh, 1991 (Magna Cum Laude)
B.S. in Information Science, University of Pittsburgh, 1989

Professional Experience

2005 - present, Network Security & Research Engineer, Networking, Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center
1995 - 2005, Network Engineer, Networking, PSC
1993 - 1995, Application Programmer, Common Knowledge: Pittsburgh, PSC
1991 - 1993, Senior User Consultant, User Services, PSC

Operational Experience & Skills

Network hardware administration: Cisco's 6509/7513/CRS-1/4700/7507/12410/12008/15454/8540/LS1010/LS100, Juniper's M40/M20, Fore's ASX1000
Network layer-2 framing protocols: Ethernet, ATM, FiDDI, POS
Network layer-3 routing protocols: BGP, OSPF, PIM, IS-IS, RIPv2
Network utility protocols: DHCP, DNS, HTTP(s), SMTP, SNMP
System administration: BSD (NetBSD, FreeBSD, OpenBSD), Linux (Fedora, SUSE), DEC (Tru64, OSF, Ultrix, VMS), SysV (Solaris)
Programming languages: C, C++, Perl, Bourne Shell, PHP, XML, HTML (additionally, the following "previously known" languages have fallen into neglect due to lack of use; Pascal, Basic, M4, FORTRAN, COBAL, TCL)

Recent Projects & Research

Mac Scanner (2006): a software suite to periodically scan hosts within an intranet for existence and vulnerabilities
poll-switch (2005): a tool to query local network switches (as SNMP agents) for host and interface information
SAMI/NIMI http://www.psc.edu/networking/sami (Aug. 1998 - Jul. 2005): a software suite for managing secure and accountable measurement infrastructures
Wireless Authentication Gateway (2003-2004): a system to provide authorized layer-3 connectivity to hosts on a wireless network
Firewall Policy Generator (2001-2002): a system to generate configuration scripts capable of executing remote and redundant iptables processes with the policy specified within an authoritative "network host" database

Recent Publications

"Experiences with NIMI,"V. Paxson, A. Adams, Symposium on Applications and the Internet 2002, Proceedings, February 2002.
"A System for Flexible Network Performance Measurement," A. Adams, M. Mathis, INET 2000, Proceedings, July 2000.
"The Use of End-to-end Multicast Measurements for Characterizing Internet Network Behavior," A. Adams, T. Bu, R. Caceres, N. Duffield, T. Friedman, J. Horowitz, F. Lo Presti, S.B. Moon, V. Paxson, D. Towsley, IEEE Communications, Vol.38, No.5, May 2000.
"Experiences with NIMI,"V. Paxson, A. Adams, M. Mathis, Passive and Active Measurement Workshop 2000, Proceedings, April 2000.
"Creating a Scalable Architecture for Internet Measurement," Andrew Adams, Jamshid Mahdavi, Matthew Mathis, and Vern Paxson, INET`96.
"An Architecture for Large-Scale Internet Measurement," Paxson, V., Mahdavi, J., Adams, A., and Mathis, M., IEEE Communications, Vol.36, No.8, pp 48-54, August 1998.
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