J Ekstrom is an Associate Professor in the School of Technology at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah. His research interests include information assurance, security and privacy, text and information retrieval, network management, data center management, and information technology curriculum. J was a member of the writing committee for the IT 2005 curriculum document. Prior to entering academia in 2001, J was Chief Scientist at Internap Network Services Corporation. He has also held CTO, VP of Engineering and Director level positions at SwitchSoft Systems, Novell, and Intel. Over a nearly 40 year career in software development and management J has lead teams and developed products for embedded control to banking and from inventory management to network management. |