Michael Wayne Kutzko

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Richland, WA 99352
509-372-6951

Professional Experience

5/1/06 - Present PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY (PNNL)

National Security Directorate (NSD)
Responsibilities include:
  • SCinet '08 Fiber Chair for SC'08
  • SCinet '07 Network Security Team / Mentor to SC'07 Fiber Chair for SC'07
  • Cognitive Space Manager
  • Cooperative Protection Project
  • Cyber Security Response
  • SCinet '06 Fiber Chair for SC'06
  • Enterprise-wide Threat Characterization Project
  • 10Gb Sensor Research

1998 - 4/15/06 NCSA / UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS - CHAMPAIGN, IL

Distributed Applications Support Team (DAST) Member for the
National Laboratory for Applied Network Research (NLANR)

Responsibilities include:
  • Member of SC'05 SCinet crew, as part of the Fiber Infrastructure team in Seattle.
  • Writing bundles (shell scripts or Perl scripts) to make data from tools such as -traceroute-, -ping-, -top-, -pathchar-, -ifconfig-, etc., available to the NLANR/DAST Network Performance Advisor.
  • Member of SC'04 SCinet crew, as part of the Fiber Infrastructure team in Pittsburgh. (Worked with Ken Brice, captain of DNOC3. Photos)
  • NLANR/DAST Multicast Beacon Project Lead [ Beacon Central Server ]
  • NLANR/DAST Linux Server Adminstrator / Group Security Lead
  • NLANR/DAST Webmaster and NT Server Adminstrator
  • NLANR/DAST Projects / ColdFusion / mySQL Administrator
  • NLANR Traveling Immersadesk Coordinator
  • Distributed Computing Workshop Coordinator/Presenter
  • SC98/ SC99 NLANR Booth Coordinator
  • Providing Internal Support for NLANR/DAST
  • Technical and user documentation
  • Installing and maintaining NT-based Sendmail on the NLANR/DAST server
  • Contacting new High-Speed Research Network Awardees
  • Attending various meetings/workshops/trade shows as NLANR representative

1997 - 1998 NCSA / UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS - CHAMPAIGN, IL

Windows NT Support Lead for NCSA HPC Consulting
Responsibilities include:
  • Software Evaluation/Recommendation
  • Staff resource development and training
  • Technical and user documentation
  • Development of installation materials
  • Onsite installation of software components
  • Phone and email support

5/18/94 - 1997 NCSA / UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS - CHAMPAIGN, IL

Technical Support Lead for NCSA Joule
Responsible for all aspects of project support, including:
  • Performing Joule Demos
  • Supervising Undergraduate and Graduate students
  • Development of technical and user documentation
  • Development of installation materials
  • Onsite installation of client and server components
  • Perspective and collaboration with developers
  • Phone and email support
Technical Support Lead for NSF/NCSA Federal Consortium/Workplace
Responsible for the needs of the members of the Consortium, including:
  • Regular travel to Washington D.C. to meet with Consortium Members
  • Supervising Undergraduate and Graduate students
  • Maintaining the Consortium Web Server
  • Installing software tools
  • Writing and maintaining HTML documents
  • Writing and maintaining scripts
  • Phone and email support for Consortium members

Technical Support Lead for Mosaic for X and Mosaic for Mac
Responsible for total technical support of both products, including:

  • Supervising Undergraduate and Graduate students
  • Creating and maintaining Web pages and scripts
  • Coordinating information flow between Technical Support and Developers
  • Assisting with development of Automated Technical Support (ATS) system for NCSA Mosaic. Presented accomplishments at NCSA Federal Consortium '95 Annual Meeting
  • Answering email, telephone, and walk-in requests for technical support
  • Assistant to Coordinator of Volunteers for WWW Conferences ( Chicago in 1994, and Darmstadt in April of 1995, with informal support for Boston, in December of 1995.)

1991 - 94 COMPUTER TEACHING CORPORATION - CHAMPAIGN, IL

Manager of Customer Technical Support
Provided total technical support for the company's TenCORE product line, including:
  • Manager of both domestic and international technical support hotlines
  • Maintained bulletin board service, disk and manual library
  • Wrote several chapters of User Documentation
  • Performed troubleshooting and evaluation for product line
  • Tracked clients through maintenance contract verification and customer database updates
  • Provided marketing assistance and support
  • Provided setup, configuration, and problem diagnosis of hardware and software systems

1983 - 89 REGENCY SYSTEMS, INC. - CHAMPAIGN, IL

Programmer/Analyst
Over six year period, worked as both regular employee of and contractor to full-service computer-based training firm. Duties included:
  • Designed, developed, and maintained Source Editor for the TEL project (Training and Education Language)
  • Wrote User Documentation for TEL Language Manual
  • Conducted quality control procedures for TEL system release
  • Produced trade show demonstration materials for Regency product line
  • Programmed software to demonstrate hardware capabilities for federal government requirements and tutorial applications for the TEL system

1983 DUOSOFT CORPORATION - SAVOY, IL

Programmer/Analyst
Created and implemented a process-flow analysis package and provided direct client support for custom educational software company.

1980 - 83 UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS - URBANA, IL

Computer Graphics Programmer
Provided technical assistance to instructors, implemented software tools and translated storyboards into computer graphics and animation for television. Wrote device driver for floppy disk drive in 8080 Assembler.

Education

UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS - URBANA, IL

B.S., Engineering Psychology, 1990 [Dean's Honor List]

Programming Environments

  • C
  • Perl 5
  • PHP 4
  • ColdFusion 4.5
  • Tutor, Micro-Tutor, TenCORE, Use, TEL
  • 8080 Assembler

Operating Systems

  • Linux (Mainly Redhat/Fedora/Whitebox variations)
  • Unix (IRIX, Sun, FreeBSD)
  • Win95/98/NT/2000 (Server and Workstation)
  • DOS

Special Skills

  • Cisco CCNA Network certification obtained April 16, 2001.
  • Nationally certified Rape Aggression Defense Instructor, Instructor Trainer, and Co-Webmaster for National RAD web site.
  • Former Volunteer with local grade school on a weekly basis
  • 3rd Degree Black Belt in Isshinryu Karate
  • Former State of Illinois Emergency Medical Technician (EMT/A) Certification (Expired 1998)
  • Webmaster and former member for Illini Emergency Medical Services
  • Former webmaster and instructor for University of Illinois' Motorcycle Rider Program
  • Conversational in Japanese; Lived in Japan for one year during Study-Abroad program
  • State of Illinois Commercial Driver's License
  • SCUBA Certification
  • Hot Air Balloon crewing experience

REFERENCES AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST


Last reviewed October 4, 2008