Steven Pankratz, Freelance IT Security Consultant

Creative Security Software Engineer, who's Broad Base of Experience, makes him a IT Swiss Army Knife

Spring Branch, Texas, United States

About

A very brief summary of experience: Computer Programmer since age 13-1979 28 Years of Professional Programing Experience 23 Years of Database Development Programing 19 years of Professional c/c++ development including 5 Years of Professional Video Game Development 12 Years as Computer Security Programmer/Analyst. C, C++, Ruby, Flex, DB-IV, Informix, MYSQL, Oracle, Java, TGB, and Web Dev tools. WordPress, WooCommerce, Moodle, Google Analytics, Chrome plugins and other web based applications and tools. PhP, E-Commerce, Android dev, Other Mobile Platform dev... Automotive Security Research, Exploitation of Automotive CAN and ECU's. Specialties: Social Media, Moodle, Integration, Troubleshooting, Patch Verification and Validation, Exploit Testing and Development, Vulnerability Research, IT Security, Remote File System Searching, Video Game Development. Agricultural Experience: 7 Years of Aquaponics R&D 7 Years of related Aquaculture 7 Years of Beekeeping

Experience

  • Freelance Software Development / Freelance IT security Consultant at Steven Pankratz Consulting
    Jul 2012 - Present · 14 yrs

    Accepting IT Security and Software Development Contract Work, Preferably as a telecommuting task, Or near San Antonio or South West Austin, Tx. Also Open to offers of full time employment Tasks have included: Automotive Security Research for Client; Included Replication of Aspects of Miller & Valasek Exploitation of Automotive CAN and ECU's. Development in HTML5 and other Web technologies. Android App development, Completed a short term Contract for Caveon Inc. writing Comprehensive Exam questions for a class on "IT Security Policies and Standards" Voice recognition App, Prototyping chrome plugin for Startup.

  • beekeeper at steve
    2008 - 2014 · 6 yrs

  • Software Engineer Leader at Computer Sciences Corporation
    Mar 2010 - Jun 2012 · 2 yrs 4 mos

    Mr. Pankratz was with a IT security software development team, Developing a in house security software product. As a subject matter expert (SME) and Software Engineer Leader, he supported the research and development of multi tiered Cyber Network Operations (CNO) solutions within a geographically-separated team. He designed a CNO framework using his IT security knowledge and expertise, this included its evolution, its database schema, and his assistance with the UI design. His work included the integration of various small pen testing tools into the framework. He also researched, designed and/or implemented methods to integrate various more complicated 3rd party tools into the framework: ie SNORT and a proprietary tool set used for data visualization. He supported various demonstrations and business development activities, he created multiple instances and iterations of demo scenarios.

  • Adjunct Instructor at Northwest Vista College
    Sep 2009 - Apr 2010 · 8 mos

    Taught multiple sections of "Introduction to Game Design & Development". As an Adjunct I taught only some semesters.

  • Software development at Self Employed
    Nov 2008 - Sep 2009 · 11 mos

    Accepted Various Contracts Job, as a telecommuter