Neal D. McBurnett

http://bcn.boulder.co.us/~neal/
Boulder CO

Professional Interests

Employment

June 1979-

Avaya: Distinguished Member of Technical Staff (formerly part of Lucent Technologies / Bell Laboratories, and AT&T before that). R&D Information Technology, Denver, CO.

2000-

Public Key Infrastruture activities with Internet2. Convener of Internet2's PKILabs Advisory Board: http://www.internet2.edu/middleware/pkilabs/

1997-8

Technical Referee for Bell Labs Technical Journal

1996-

Technology prototyping, planning and consulting for R&D intranet, web and email infrastructure, Linux and Java evangelism, IP multicast, security, etc.

1995-

Participating in the Internet Engineering Task Force, primarily several working groups in the applications and security areas.

1993-

Introduced the World Wide Web to the Business Communications unit of AT&T starting in the spring of 1993. Personally supported browsers, servers, clients, filters, search engines, gateways and other related tools for 700 active users. Consulted with other organizations for the support of the thousands of other users. Facilitated the growth of a network of web sites with tens of thousands of documents and gateways to other information repositories.

1988-1992

Helped architect and develop a tool for testing telephone switches using multi-threaded C++ under the Unix and Oryx/Pecos operating systems. Incorporated the Tool Command Language (Tcl) for networked user programmability. Also supported the source code control system used for the project.

1991

Provided local support and consulting for the C++ language.

1987

Enhanced and supported an on-line document storage, management and printing system used to help track and manage projects from the requirement phase through design and testing. Used INGRES/EQUEL on an Amdahl 5890 running Unix (UTS).

1986

Supported tools for the AT&T DMD 5620 windowing graphics terminal and ported the associated Unix device driver for the "XT" multiplexing protocol to the Oryx/Pecos real-time operating system.

1983

Designed, developed, and supported a Unix front-end environment for applications developers providing convenient access to compilers and databases on an IBM 3081 running TSS.

1981

Introduced Usenet (aka Netnews) group messaging to Denver Bell Labs facility. Developed a real-time Unix device driver for an experimental voice mail/call pickup system for our in-house telephone system.

1977-1978

Bell Labs- Technical Associate (Holmdel and Murray Hill, NJ). Two summers of employment in the research area working on a text-processing editor, speech input, and networking of personal computers.

1976-1978

Brown University- five Teaching Assistantships (Providence, RI)

One graduate course in computer graphics, in which I developed a five week section of lectures on the emerging field of raster graphics.

One introductory self-paced astronomy course.

Three undergraduate computer science courses, where responsibilities included preparation of lecture handouts and sample programs; assisting students in the top-down development of well-documented programs; and grading assignments.

1973-1976

Symbolic Systems- Programmer/Analyst (Summit, NJ). Business applications programming for a software house that marketed customized business systems. Applications included order entry, accounts payable and receivable. Used DIBOL and assembly languages on PDP 11's.

Community Volunteer Activities

1993-

Co-founder and board member of the Boulder Community Network, http://bcn.boulder.co.us/, providing up-to-date information on the community via the World Wide Web, and providing community access to the information on the Internet. In 1994, BCN received a $250,000 grant from the Department of Commerce under the Telecommunications and Information Infrastructure Assistance Program (TIIAP). I've contributed to many areas of BCN: server architecture, indexing software, providing content, setting up on-line financial transactions, President of the Board, chairing the Policy Advisory Board, kiosk set-up and maintenance, work on a z39.50 gateway, community outreach, etc.

1993-1995

Boulder Public Library Commissioner

1988-1992

Member of the Energy Advisory Board for the City of Boulder

1988

Chief Judge for Colorado Science Olympiad Astronomy event

Education

Sept. 1980

M.S. in Computer Science, University of California, Berkeley.

Courses in software engineering, databases, operating systems, VLSI design, symbolic algebraic manipulation.

Masters project: software to provide packet switching between a network of Z8000s and a host computer.

Grade Point Average: 3.7/4.0

June 1979

Sc.B. in Computer Science, magna cum laude, Brown University, Providence, RI.
Grade Point Average: 3.95/4.0

Awards

1979

National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship: Honorable Mention

1979

Elected to Sigma Xi, the scientific research society

1975

Western Electric National Merit Scholarship

Some Recent Presentations

1997

Signed Java Applets, Trust, and Key Servers for the Boulder Java Users Group.

1996

Analysis of the PGP keyserver Web of Trust

1995

Agents and Safe-Tcl - an Overview with 2 Examples (internal talk)

1994

Electronic Mail Encryption: PGP and PEM (internal talk)

1994

The World Wide Web - Information Infrastructure for the Internet (for the Front Range Unix User's Group)

1994

The Boulder Community Network (for the Colorado Government Association for Technology and Information)

1994

The Boulder Community Network (for the Rocky Mountain Internet Users Group)

1993

Tcl/Tk: Tool Command Language and the Tk GUI Toolkit (for the Front Range Unix User's Group)

1982

Introduction to Unix (Professional Development Course for the Denver/Boulder chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery)

Outside Interests