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My name is Sven Skoog (pronounced like "Fenway Park," with an S in front).

I am a third-generation American, of mixed Scando-Celtic origins.  I
currently reside in Chelmsford, Massachusetts, and work as security
architect and technologist for the Raytheon Corporation, spanning federal,
military, cloud-based, and airborne/weapon-centric computer systems.
My current focus areas include behavioral analytics, network containment,
'mission assurance' (survivability, continuing operation under attack),
vulnerability-assessment, and secure virtualization.

(Yeah, Sven, but what does all that really MEAN?  The job is two parts
 hacker-for-hire (try to test this, probe this, fake/spoof this other
 thing, crash it if all else fails), two parts trusted advisor (yes, Mr.
 Client, but what if such-and-such bad thing got into your server, how
 would you handle a punitive damage lawsuit if customers or partners
 came after you alleging computer negligence), and maybe a pinch of
 'IT generalist' or 'frontier lawman' thrown into the mix for taste.)

During my twenty-seven-year career, I have built e-commerce systems for 
Ancestry.com and the National Westminster Bank of London, consulted on
crypto/endpoint/wireless projects and strategic (nuclear) grids for 
the US Dept of Defense, hunted down an Internet child-predator from 
Arizona, forged fingerprints using Silly Putty + Knox gelatin to defeat
biometric readers, written future-facing cyber policy for the Federal 
Reserve Bank, and provided expert testimony to a 2004 Native American
tribal lawsuit against the Dept of Interior alleging misuse/mishandling
of (digital) geneaology and land-grant data.

In previous professional 'lives' I was a fax-over-Internet Java software
developer, an IT manager overseeing 160 servers with $1.5M budget, and a
radar/satellite-tracking systems programmer for MIT Lincoln Laboratory.  
I hold baccalaureate and master's degrees in Computer Science from the
University of Massachusetts and Boston University, and an MBA from
Babson College;  I occasionally teach cyber-policy/law + discrete math
curricula at BU and the Wentworth Institute of Technology, which are,
themselves, new learning experiences.

(I *do* in fact have a real life with little/no relevance to any of this.
 I live in a renovated 1857 farmhouse with my wife, two teenage children,
 a pampered cat, a feisty Lab-Shepherd mix, and a 1927 Mehlin baby grand
 piano;  I keep a hardtop convertible and a pair of mountain bikes in my
 garage;  I published three or four medieval/science-fiction stories 
 ome years back, dabble in foreign cinemas and cuisines, etcetera.)

My job and engineering background afford me many opportunities for travel
and new-technology exposure -- most recently, deeper exploration of
'green,' 'privacy,' and 'gadgeteering' trends.  I apologize for but seem 
unable to correct my skeptical/pessimist mindset.  I suppose it makes me 
better at what I do.