Chas DiFatta
Education
University of Pittsburgh
MS, Systems Engineering/Information Science 1985-01-01 - 1987-01-01
University of Pittsburgh
BS, Computer Science/Minors EE, Math 1976-01-01 - 1981-01-01Work Experience
Software Factory Labs Inc.
Current
Software Factory Labs Inc.
The Aerospace Corporation
2015-08-01 - 2019-10-01
The Aerospace Corporation
McGraw Hill
2014-07-01 - 2015-07-01
McGraw Hill
Internet PortWorks Inc.
2010-08-01 - 2014-07-01
Internet PortWorks Inc.
Carnegie Mellon University
2004-08-01 - 2012-08-01
Carnegie Mellon University
Internet PortWorks Inc.
2003-04-01 - 2004-07-01
Internet PortWorks Inc.
Ponte Communications
2002-04-01 - 2003-04-01
Ponte Communications
Internet PortWorks Inc.
2001-04-01 - 2002-04-01
Internet PortWorks Inc.
Freeworks.com Inc.
1999-01-01 - 2001-04-01
Freeworks.com Inc.
Intuit
1996-09-01 - 1999-01-01
Intuit
Skills
Summary
Sr. Engineering and Product Development leader with extensive experience, creating and delivering product and solutions. Change-agent focused on product life cycle process for faster Time-to-Market (TTM) and building teams. Demonstrated business growth success in both disruptive and sustaining innovation situations. Tenacity to succeed with proven leadership and a track record of developing strong management and engineering teams through mentoring. • 15+ years of sr. leadership in developing complex and high-performance products, systems, and solutions in security architectures, methods and distributed diagnostics, in the security and networking industry. Working both at the big-picture and hands-on levels, with 1 US patent issued in the area of distributed systems. • 20+ years in the security space, pioneering network situational awareness methods at the CMU CERT, defining products and leading development teams in the SIEM and network security device management space. • Pioneering new methods for conducting large scale distributed system diagnostics in the systems, networking, security, IoT and cloud domains. • Proven track record of building and leading highly functional product development, research and operation teams within global engineering organizations, in Asia, the Middle East, and North America. Technology: Real-time, stream-based, pipelined, massively parallel, high speed network flow auditing systems, Software Deigned Networks (SDN), cloud services (AWS), and embedded systems within the Internet-of-Things (IoT) space, large scale configuration management systems for network devices. Methods and techniques for accelerating developer productivity, enabling rapid QA/test turnaround that not only affords velocity but momentum to product development teams.
