Soteria Team
Brian Garmey, Principal / Business Development
Brian co-founded Soteria with over 17 years of experience in business development and an unmatched entrepreneurial enthusiasm. He has a strong ability to identify market opportunities and develop strategies to drive the completion of the sales cycle. Brian has worked with a multitude of commercial accounts as well as government contracting. Listed among his many accomplishments: building a sales territory into a 80% market share for a fortune 100 company; growing a $15 million dollar printing company by 33% in 2 years; and developing, producing and managing successful marketing campaigns for various non-profits for fund raising and cause recognition.
Brian’s experience in working with diverse clients has allowed him to use creativity in problem solving. These skills along with his aptitude for technical knowledge set the stage for Soteria’s focus on growth and development in corporate, government and international sectors.
He is a 1989 graduate of John Carroll University with a BSBA in Business Finance.
Derek Gabbard, Principal / Technology
Derek has a wide range of experience in voice and data networking, computer and network security, simulation and exercise and education and training. He has managed large enterprise voice and data networks, developed and delivered training materials in network security and telecommunications and managed new technology development and rollout for a Competitive Local Exchange Carrier (CLEC).
Prior to joining Soteria, Derek enjoyed a distinguished career as a senior member of the technical staff at the world renowned CERT® in the Software Engineering Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. He was responsible for the development and delivery of information assurance and security curriculum. He developed courseware in cryptography, secure remote access methods, firewalls, intrusion detection systems and securing network infrastructure.
Derek also worked as a manager at Arbor Networks, the industry leader in behavioral analysis and DDoS detection and mitigation, where he was responsible for training development of products and technology aimed at large enterprises and Internet Service Providers.
He is a 1995 graduate of the United States Air Force Academy and is currently an MS candidate in Information Technology at Carnegie Mellon University.
Jason Lewis, Systems Architect
Jason has worked in network security since 1996 in various roles in the private sector, as a government contractor and as a government employee. Prior to joining Soteria, he worked for the National Security Agency. As a Global Network Exploitation and Vulnerability Analyst, Jason used his experience as a network security engineer to analyze network data and provide actionable reporting to target analysts. This work included analysis of BGP, packet dumps and various network protocols. He was responsible for founding and leading a group of subject matter experts in the field of Wireless Local Area Networks (WLAN). Jason has also worked for Internet Service Providers (ISP), a multicast event management company, a WLAN service and content provider and as a government contractor with Naval Sea Systems Command.
He is an experienced computer systems engineer holding several Microsoft Certifications in systems engineering and network administration. His background as a network analyst and global network security engineer is unparalleled. He has established, led and mentored several software development teams. Jason's major areas of interest are in processing large network data sets, database design and maintenance, network analysis, traffic analysis, systems architecture and process optimization.
Ken Hoxworth, Lead Developer
Ken joined Soteria after serving as a Global Network Exploitation and Vulnerability Analyst for the National Security Agency. Combining his knowledge of data networks with his expertise in software engineering, he has developed a number of systems and utilities to automate analytical routines.
As a member of the Network Analysis Center at NSA, he initiated an agency-wide shift towards analyzing real-time data by creating a prototype stream data processing system. By keeping things simple and utilizing lightweight algorithms, his prototype was an immediate success and was used as the basis for an enterprise-class processing system. Ken designed and orchestrated the development of a distributed data processing system to support a graphical network analysis utility boasting high fault tolerances, simple addition of logic modules and unlimited scalability.
Soteria experts understand operational network analysis, software development, and the protocols required to enable the global Internet.