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BIOGRAPHY:
I speak frequently (e.g. RSA, Affiliate Summit, CJU) on a diverse range of topics including e-commerce, advertising fraud prevention, spyware, security, experimental media, and community development. My publications and citations include Barron’s Financial Times, Forbes, New York Times, Playboy, Mercury News, Entrepreneur, Fox News, and Revenue Magazine among others. I have also collaborated with other researchers to solve some of the most complex and intriguing security cases to date such as the Orkut Worm, the KMeth Worm, and the SpazBox IRC Puzzle.
I have received the following honors: Affiliate Summit Pinnacle Legend Award; 2005, Google Responsible Security Disclosure Acknowledgement; 2006 and was named a Top Influencer in IT Security in 2007. I also received a Microsoft Windows Security MVP; 2006-2007, 2007-2008 and the Microsoft Enterprise Security MVP in 2008-2009.
I write prolifically and have received Marketing Sherpa Reader’s Choice Blog Award in 2006 as a part of Revenews. My collaborative work with other Revenews bloggers also garnered a Webby Awards Official Honoree 2007 (Revenews- Business). As a consultant for Gerson Lehrman Group Councils I hold a Teacher Rank- Top 20% 2007-2008.
I am a Co-founder of ReveNews.com, one of the oldest and top ranked collaborative writing efforts on online revenue generation. I was the CEO and co-founder of XBlock Systems, an anti-malware firm, acquired by the leading unified communications company, Facetime, in 2005. I remained as Senior Director of Special Research until 2008. I was instrumental in the development of two patent pending systems using an automated “codeless” approach to neutralize malware.
In 2004, I served as an expert panelist at the FTC Spyware Workshop to address the growing problem of spyware and rogue distribution practices. In 2003, I helped organize and chaired the New York Performance Marketing Summit at the Yale Club to open up dialog that helped the industry produce a nascent Code of Conduct.
My recent work has been in the Second Life platform where I co-created a number of experiences including work with my firm, Meme Science, to create an exact replica of the Vietnam Memorial Wall in Washington, D.C. I have has also been working in Alternative Role Playing Games (ARGs) the most recent being Eldritch Errors, featured in Wired Magazine, an immersive horror series playing out in real time — on the Internet and in the real world.
I am a recognized authority in security, performance marketing, and I excel in social network design, immersive and performance marketing as well as virtual world commerce. I currently sit on the Board of Advisors for the Association of Virtual Worlds.
HONORS:
Affiliate Summit Pinnacle Legend Award; 2005
Google Responsible Security Disclosure Acknowledgement; 2006
Microsoft Windows Security MVP; 2006-2007
Microsoft Windows Security MVP; 2007-2008
Marketing Sherpa Reader’s Choice Blog Award: 2006
Webby Awards Official Honoree 2007 (Revenews- Business Blog)
Top Influencers in IT Security 2007
Gerson Lehrman Group Councils: Teacher Rank- Top 20% 2007-2008
Microsoft Enterprise Security MVP; 2008-2009
FILM:
I provided funding and assisted as a creative consultant for the award winning film, Nothing So Strange (2002). The film, a documentary examining the December 2nd, 1999 assassination of Microsoft CEO Bill Gates in Los Angeles, and the group of key players seeking to unravel the mystery of his alleged assassin as well as the circumstances surrounding his death, received the New York Times Claiborne Pell Award for Original Vision. It was also the first film embracing the “open source” concept.
I served as the Consulting Producer on the drama/humor film Williamsburg (2006). Williamsburg is a voyeuristic picture about seven ‘artists’ living in Williamsburg, Brooklyn and their comical, usually absurd, intertwining lives. Based on the screenplay by Brad Saville. Williamsburg was selected as Winner Best Noir at the New York International Film and Video Festival.
SPECIALTIES:
Adware/spyware analysis, online fraud analysis, security concepts, management of performance based revenue systems and deal structures, versed in SEO, SMO & SEM, tactical and strategic blogging. Documented history of conducting interviews on key events in e-commerce. I am able to blend cross-discipline knowledge. Highly competent both strategically and tactically in experimental media, ARG development, NextGen marketing, micro-media, and Virtual World development concepts.
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