Robert Brown

About Robert Brown

Email me at w••••••••@liamekaens.com : · Lots of professional programming…

Experience

1. Software Development Engineer

   SonicWall

   Nov 2016 — Present

   EMAIL ANALYSIS AND DATA MODELING · Developing spear phishing and Business Email Compromise detection techniques. · Analyzing new mail message attributes that can be used as training features. · Boosting quality of data input into Bayesian-based machine learning model. · Evaluating effectiveness of each trained model. · Maintaining an intricate and extensive set of database back-up scripts. → SPAM FILTERING, PHISHING DETECTION, AND CYBERSECURITY · Publicizing filter performance via third-party objective tests. · Maintaining infrastructure detecting false-positives and evaluating spam catch rates. · Added web link security wrappers to prevent phishing attempts and malware. · Detected phishing emails via a third party API. · Beefed up parsing of HTML-based emails. · Made manual probability adjustments meaningful with any model. · Increased number of attributes in model for greater coverage. · Ameliorated the effects of extraneous text in spam messages. · Sped up Bayesian model building by preprocessing input data. · Ported core system code to a modern architecture on Linux and Windows platforms.

Skills

• Rsync
• C++
• Sql
• Tcp/Ip
• Gprof
• Computer Security
• Gnupg
• Virtual Machines
• Speech Recognition
• Scheme
• Redhat
• Perforce
• Perl
• Virtualbox
• Guile
• Berkeley Db
• Dovecot
• Bash
• Pthreads
• Go
• Pair Programming
• Ipchains
• Fedora
• Openssh
• Procmail
• Git
• Linux
• Apache
• Dns
• Macosx
• Expect
• Firewalls
• C
• Cygwin
• P2p
• Data Mining
• Spamassassin
• Emacs
• Debian/Ubuntu
• Javascript