Curriculum vitae

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Name: Sten Kalenda

Current function:

CTO.

co-founder of:

TrustAlert
Amersfoortsestraat 65
3769 AE Soesterberg

Working in the IT since: 1979

Overview:

    • Co-founder of TrustAlert in December 2001:
      • Responsible for the technical aspects of the TrustAlert products.
      • Responsible for the technical infrastructure of TrustAlert.
      • Responsible for the TrustAlert remotly installed servers.
    • From May 2000 till 1 December 2001 I was Security Manager Megaplex:
      • Designing high secure network environments for major PKI applications including the design and implemetation of the Addtrust and Identrus CA
      • Configuring firewalls from various vendors in these environments.
      • Configuring Intrusion Detection Sytems (IDS) from various vendors in these environments.
      • Designing high availibility server farms.
    • From 1999 until 1-5-2000 I was Product Group Manager Security Services at Megaplex:
      • Managing the Roccade Internet Security Center (RISC).
      • Instructing classes as VeriSign Certified Instructor.
      • Performing Hacking Demonstrations Internationally.
      • Developing new network related products for Megaplex.
    • From 1998 until 1999 I was IT consultant at Roccade Finance:
      • Responsible for the Certification of several Firewalls of large governmental offices.
      • Developing a firewall scan-method.
      • Designing a Network Security Policy for several customers.
      • Hardening NT- and Unix-systems exposed on the Internet.
    • From September 1997 until January 1998 IT-consultant at DPFinance:
      • Building, Implementing and documenting Firewall systems for large governmental sites.
      • Writing a business plan for a security team.
    • From 1996 until September 1997 I was consultant at Twinfo:
      • Penetration tests at several firewalls.
      • Implementing Firewalls.
      • Writing and implementing specific application proxy's, (telnet-, FTP-, en HTTPD-protocols).
      • Designing and implementing a Render Farm rendering 3D-animations. My task was to get the loadbalancing of the workload distributed over an array van Unix-machines in a 100Mb-netwerk environment working.
    • From 1994 until 1994 Senior working for the Competence Center team at RCC:
      • Assisting during the design and developing large WAN (GemNet) project:
        Platforms: Unix, DOS, Windows, Windows95.
      • Assisting during the design and developing large WAN (GemNet) project (O-net):
        Platforms: Unix, Windows, Windows95.
      • Installing firewall for VNG.
    • From 1989 tot 1994 working for the A&P team at RCC:
      • Writing PC-oriented network communication software. Connecting PC to DEC/VMS, OS/2, PC-LAN and IBM-mainframe.
    • From 1988 until 1989 working for the Direct Computer Usage team at RCC:
      • Building custom Dialog Manager procedures Making Easytrieve, Focus, SPSS-X en Script-VS procedures easier in use.
    • From 1979 until 1987 senior programmer at RCC:
      • Working on large projects (PN en CASO): Governmental salary systems.
    • Instructor:
      • TrustAlert: Master Class Security class for de Hogeschool van Amsterdam.
        From 2003 until now.
      • TrustAlert: Live Hacking Demonstration.
        From 2002 until now.
      • Megaplex: Live Hacking Demonstration.
        From 1998 until 2001.
      • RCC: developed and trained programmers.
        From 1984 until 1987.
      • RCC: developed and trained Distributed Processing.
        From 1993 until 1996.
      • ROVC: freelance instructor "Microcomputer system technology".
        From 1990 until 1997.
      • ROVC: freelance instructor "Datacom Technician".
        Since 1997.
      • Other: Presentation Company Security policy.
        Since 1995.

    Programming languages:

    • C
    • Perl
    • Pascal
    • Assembler
    • COBOL
    • COBOL/2
    • Dialog Manager
    • REXX
    • Easytrieve
    • Easytrieve plus
    • DSU
    • Gen DSU
    • Printgen

    Knowledge of the OS platforms:

    • Unix
    • Windows 3.xx, 95, NT
    • Main frame MVS
    • DOS
    • Novell

    Languages:

    In addition to programming languages, I also enjoy human languages and speak Dutch, English, German, Czech and French to various degrees.