James 'J.C.' Jones
Software Engineer

Tempe, Arizona
+1.361.433.5521
james.jc.jones@gmail.com
https://tacticalsecret.com/

ABOUT

J.C. is a distributed computing and cryptography geek. He co-founded an information security startup in Chandler, AZ; worked for the Air Force Research Lab, ViaSat, and General Dynamics C4S as a software engineer; and has been an active contributor to the Open Source Software community. Additionally, he holds several U.S. patents in the information security field. His goal in any project is to design away complexity wherever possible. Overall, J.C. loves solving hard problems with computer systems and making the world a better place through software.

WORK EXPERIENCE

Security Engineer, Mozilla

August 2014 – Present https://www.mozilla.org

J.C. is developing next-generation PKI functionality to increase user soverignity online.

HIGHLIGHTS

  • Maintaining the NSS security library used by Google, RedHat, Mozilla, and others.
  • Providing support to the Internet Security Research Group on behalf of Mozilla.

Security Architect, Internet Security Research Group

August 2014 – Present https://letsencrypt.org

J.C. is responsibile for the design and implementation of the Let's Encrypt Certificate Authority network architecture, removing the barriers to secure communication over the Web.

Co-Founder and Lead Software Engineer, SAIFE, Inc.

May 2008 – November 2014 https://saifeinc.com

J.C. designed and is responsible for the SAIFE framework, the core technology around which SAIFE, Inc. was built. J.C. provides leadership for the product's software and systems architecture, and is responsible for the availability of SAIFE's worldwide Internet security infrastructure, TIPRNET, used by the growing SAIFE partner community.

HIGHLIGHTS

  • Built the company on technology from a project in graduate school.
  • Re-imagined Public Key Infrastructures to blend Web of Trust techniques to increase usability without compromising security.
  • Designed, and hired the DevOps team to build, a globally-redundant all-black information security architecture.
  • Built upon SELinux, Puppet, and Ansible technologies using CentOS on respected cloud providers.
  • Led internal red-team testing on the network and follow-on improvements, resulting in 'all-clear' analysis from US DoD JVAB (Joint Vulnerability Assessment Branch).
  • Sold the technology into U.S. Special Operations Command and similar communities.

Software Engineer Consultant, ViaSat

May 2008 – June 2009 http://www.viasat.com

During the infancy of the SAIFE technology, J.C. consulted at ViaSat, providing expertise to help with one of their embedded cryptography products destined for Department of Defense use.

Software Engineer, General Dynamics C4 Systems

January 2007 – May 2008 http://www.gdc4s.com

After completing his Master's degree, J.C. moved to Arizona to work at General Dynamics C4S, taking with him his experience from working at the US Air Force Research Laboratory on military encryption projects.

HIGHLIGHTS

  • Re-designed and re-implemented a malfunctioning cryptographic management system late in the MUOS project. The resulting system was substantially less complex and helped ensure an on-time delivery.

Research Assistant, Bureau of Economic and Business Research

May 2006 – December 2006 http://www.bebr.ufl.edu/

Software Engineer, Jacobs Technology / US Air Force Research Lab

May 2002 – April 2006 http://www.eglin.af.mil/units/afrlmunitionsdirectorate/

SKILLS

Distributed Computing
Distributed Design Hadoop CouchDB Concurrent Programming HornetQ
Cryptography
FIPS 140-2 Information Security OpenSSL Development Asymmetric Cryptography Symmetric Cryptography
Software Engineering
Git Subversion Gerrit / Code Review Process Agile Development Process Rational Unified Process Test Driven Development Design Patterns UML
Web Development
Spring MVC REST API Design MySQL PostgreSQL Python
Linux Administration
CentOS RPM Development Kernel Driver Development Puppet Ansible IPTables
Network Administration
SonicWALL Firewalls VMWare vSphere 5 Windows Server 2008R2 Misuse of Cat6

EDUCATION

Master of Science in Computer Science

University of Florida

August 2005 – December 2006

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science

University of Florida

August 2002 – December 2005

International Baccalaureate Diploma

International Baccalaureate Organization

August 2000 – May 2002

PUBLICATIONS / PATENTS

Patent: Secure Communication System for Mobile Devices

A system for improving PKI performance and reliability by re-imagining the standard protocols into a disadvantaged and unreliable network architecture. This is a core technology of SAIFE®.

Issued 05 March 2013

US 8,392,699

Patent: Technique for Bypassing an IP PBX

A system for establishing tunnels for data transmission without requiring a central look-up database, such as DNS, a PBX, or HLR.

Issued 19 November 2013

US 8,588,746

Article: Agile Certificate Management and Trust Federation for Large Mobile Deployments

24 August 2012

IEEE Computing Now

Patent: Field Provisioning a Device to a Secure Enclave

Filed 28 December 2012

US 20130191897

Patent: Geospatial Cryptography

Filed 19 October 2012

US 20140112472

Patent: Certificate Authority Server Protection

Filed 17 June 2012

US 20140108785

Patent: Secure Non-Geospatially Derived Device Presence Information

Filed 17 August 2013

US 20140053255