Consulting Letters of Reference for Dr. David Bakken

(Note: not updated since 2001 --- too busy alas!)

The entire collection of letters can be downloaded here (.pdf; 5 MB)

The following deeply technical letters of reference in this collection are:

• Dr. Aad van Moorsel, HP Labs.  Dr. van Moorsel is a recognized expert in fault-tolerant computing and serves on a number of prestigious conference program committees.  He has been very well aware of me and my work since circa 1997 at BBN and is well aware of my work at WSU.  I have visited HP Labs and given technical presentations on three separate occasions, and I have had numerous technical discussions with him at conferences.  View.jpg letter.
• Dr. Richard Schantz, BBN Technologies.  Dr. Schantz is considered one of the pioneers of distributed computing, having done one of the first PhD dissertations in distributed operating systems in 1974  and having conducted research on middleware for wide-area networks since 1979.  He was the principal architect of Cronus, a middleware framework that was a predecessor to CORBA and has been deployed widely by the military. Cronus was given recognization by the Smithsonian in the late 1990s. View.jpg letter Page1, Page2.
• Mr. Gregg Tally and Ms. Terry Benzel, Network Associates Inc. Labs.  Mr. Tally is a DARPA PI who has 18 years of experience for NAI Labs and its predecessor, Trusted Information Systems.  Ms. Benzel was VP of Advanced Security Research for Network Associates at the time of this letter; she is now at UC Berkeley.  I knew Terry well from PI meetings for the Air Force and DARPA, and when she knew I had left BBN and was available for consulting she immediately pursued this.  I consulted for her distributed security group, led by Mr. Tally, on research in the DARPA OASIS project.  This research provided toleration of Byzantine failures (including malicious takeovers by hackers) to CORBA. View.jpg letter.
• Mr. Dave Lounsbury, VP of Advanced Research & Innovation and Mr. Doug Wells, Research Director; both of the Open Group.  The Open Group, in Cambridge Mass., is a deeply technical organization that used to be called the “Open Software Foundation”.  In the 1990s it has developed vendor-neutral version of Unix with support from HP, IBM, Sun, and others.  It also does a lot of applied DARPA research and integration of others’ DARPA research, and in this context I interacted quite a bit with both signatories.  They are very well familiar with my BBN work on QuO, nad we teamed up with 3-43 other organizations on a proposal to DARPA in circa 2002. View.jpg letter Page1, Page2.
• Mr. Mark Riggins, Amazon.com.  View.pdf letter.
• Dr. John C. Shovic, Co-founder, President, and CEO of Blue Water Technologies Inc.  Dr. Shovic has worked with me at WSU but also at TriGeo Network Security.  He has a fairly unique perspective, because he has co-founded three companies. View .jpg letter.
• Mr. Ronald Riter, who was my mentor at Boeing (1985-1988) and with whom I have kept in touch and have interacted with many times since.  View.jpg letter.

The following non-technical letter of reference is also included:

• General Joseph P. Franklin, Commadant of Cadets, US Military Academy at West Point. View.jpg letter.  Again, this one is non-technical, but it sure helped me get a security clearance in record time when I was at BBN!