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Richard E. Mackey, Jr.
SystemExperts
Dick Mackey is regarded as one of the industry's foremost authorities on distributed computing infrastructure and security. He has advised leading Wall Street, government and Fortune 500 organizations on overall security architecture, virtual private networks, enterprise wide authentication, Web services, and intrusion detection and analysis. Over the past two years, Mr. Mackey has worked extensively with organizations looking to securely embrace application and Web-based services. He has reviewed and advised companies on the benefits and risks associated with different application service and Web services models. He has helped companies develop architectural approaches to securely integrate application and Web-based services into their enterprise. He also has unmatched expertise in the OSF Distributed Computing Environment.
Prior to joining SystemExperts, Mr. Mackey was the Director of Collaborative Development for The Open Group (the merger of the Open Software Foundation and X/Open) where he was responsible for the integration of Microsoft's ActiveX Core with DCE and DCE - Release 1.2. Dick is an original member of the DCE Request For Technology technical evaluation team and was responsible for the architecture and defining the contents of DCE Releases 1.1 and 1.2. Prior to joining OSF, Mr. Mackey was a member of the Cronus Distributed Computing Environment research project at BBN Corporation. The Cronus Project which explored fundamental mechanisms in distributed security, adaptive user interfaces, and object oriented technology, was one of the intellectual forerunners to MIT's Project Athena and OSF's DCE. Prior to BBN, Dick was involved in hardware and software development in communications and fiber optics at RCA. Mr. Mackey has been a frequent speaker at major conferences such as Networld & Interop, Internet World, and USENIX and has taught tutorials on developing secure distributed applications. Mr. Mackey is has a BS and MS in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.

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