Networking, Security, Workstations and Servers Group Staff

Before joining NERSC, Brent analyzed census data as an information specialist in Berkeley Lab's Work Force Diversity Office. Before coming to the Lab, he worked as a statistician at the National Council on Crime and Delinquency. He has completed a B.S. at the University of Utah and graduate course work in statistics.

Scott began working at LBNL/NERSC in April of 2002 on network security. Scott works on the Bro intrusion detection systems and incident response. Prior to LBNL, Scott has worked extensively in industry in the areas of Unix and network administration. Scott holds a bachelor of science degree in Physics from San Francisco State University.

Before joining the Networking and Computer Security Group, Stephen Chan was the lead for the Parallel Distributed Systems Facility (PDSF). Steve joined the Lab after working at several Silicon Valley Internet startups, Carnegie-Mellon University, Stanford University, Javasoft and Lucasfilm. Steve earned a B.S. in Information and Decision Systems at Carnegie-Mellon University.

Craig has more than 10 years of experience in a variety of computer security positions, with four years at Berkeley Lab and six years with UC Berkeley. His expertise includes firewalls, network intrusion detection systems, detecting compromised systems, and securing Internet accessible production systems, along with experience in incident response and network-based analysis to reconstruct intrusion attempts to develop appropriate defenses. At Cal, where Craig led the Campus System and Network Security Office, he also chaired the Campus Information Security Committee, which developed, reviewed and oversaw the deployment of information security policy.

Jason Lee holds a master’s degree in computer science from San Francisco State University. Jason has worked at Berkeley Lab for the last 15 years, working on projects that range from developing a parallel storage system to grid architecture in the Global Grid Forum. More recently, he worked on Bro, a network intrusion detection system developed by the Lab and the International Computer Science Institute. Jason was involved in the early quality-of-service (QoS) network tests with Van Jacobson back in 1994, when Jacobson was the head of the Network Research Group at the Lab and was known for his work on improving IP network performance and scaling. Jason worked on carrying out some of the first gigabit test beds, including the Multidimensional Applications and Gigabit Internetwork Consortium (MAGIC) project in 1993, Bay Area Gigabit Network (BAGNet) in 1995 and National Transparent Optical Network (NTON) in 1997. He also worked with the Advanced Internet Research group at the University of Amsterdam on 10-Gbps transatlantic links in 2002.

Trever Nightingale has been doing UNIX administration full time for over 10 years for a very wide variety of organizations, from higher education and scientific research environments, to fortune 50 corporations, to mega volume web startups, to defense. His IT career started at Minnesota Public Radio, where he did (among other things) the live webcast for Garrison Keillor's "Prairie Home Companion," including traveling with the show to stream it from Town Hall in NYC. Most recently Trever worked for over three years at the Naval Research Laboratory in Monterey, where he built JAVA web application servers and also work-group-sized HPC Linux clusters for the researchers and developers he supported. His involvement there was all the way up and down the stack, from motherboard firmware, to Infiniband drivers and library stacks, to touching upon code parallelization issues in MPI.