Resume Overview
Douglas B. Moran
System Builder and Integrator
My activities as a researcher are atypical:
During my graduate research,
I learned that integrating even seemingly compatible theories
was often more challenging than developing any of those theories.
My experience is that there is no substitute for implementing a system
and then vigorously exercising it:
That process reveals not only problems, but also opportunities.
And, being a system builder by nature,
I find these activities very rewarding.
My career as a researcher involved
building substantial, long-lived systems.
The software engineering and project management required for these systems
corresponds to what I have seen in release 1.1 (and beyond)
of commercial systems
from startups and similar commercial entities.
User-oriented
My approach to computer security is strongly user-oriented
(rather than technology-driven)
as a result of my atypical path into the field.
First, my initial experiences were primarily operational:
it was part of maintaining needed infrastructure.
Second, my research background was in user interfaces,
further sensitizing me to those issues in computer security activities.
Presentation Skills
I am a highly skilled presenter of technical information and vision
at multiple levels and a wide range of audiences:
technical staff, technical management,
management of major business units and companies,
and even a head of state.
I have also played a key role in preparing presentations for clients
to give to their top management and their governments.
Leadership style
Most of the people I have managed have been very bright and highly motivated,
so my role as a leader has been to provide focus, to remove obstacles,
and to promote teamwork.
I am at core a teacher/mentor
and I found that that attitude and skill set to be highly effective
in managing such groups.
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