Work Accomplishments | Invited Speaker
Peter’s innovation provides testament to his scientific leadership for the past 20 years. Having developed key technologies for medical, industrial and security products, Peter recognizes the need to continually re-invent better ways to solve complex issues.
Work Accomplishments
When Peter was a senior in high school, he built an 8080 computer from scrap and pieces.
During the time he was in college, he independently wrote a cardiac pacemaker monitoring and management system on his own time. He also independently designed a computer-aided surgery system for cardiac balloon catheterization. Peter got experience as a chemical consulting contractor for KimKleen Manufacturing Co. when he was majoring in chemistry. While he was a student at Temple University, he got intrigued with computers
and it started his desire, ambition and dedication to the computer field. He designed and implemented the first library of computer books for faculty and students. He started the first Temple University computer games group which may have been the first system of it’s type in the world. The games were used by both the students and faculty for entertainment and training purposes. The system was also used by the College of Education to
assist special needs students in both learning skills and socialization.
While he worked for General Electric, he designed and worked on very early fiber optics computer networks. That predated the general availability of fiber optics. After General Electric, he worked for SRA on a contract for the Army JCALS program as a security engineer. In 1988, he started his own computer security company called CyberSoft, Inc. which sold primarily to the US Defense Department.
In 2002, CyberSoft, Inc. reorganized into three companies and the company now known as CyberSoft Operating Corporation created a new marketing and sales division in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, called CyberSoft International.
Peter designed and wrote the first UNIX antivirus product and it was also the first heterogeneous virus scanner available. He implemented the first virus description language called CVDL.
In 2002, CyberSoft, Inc. reorganized into three companies and the company now known as CyberSoft Operating Corporation created a new marketing and sales division in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, called CyberSoft International.
Peter designed and wrote the first UNIX antivirus product and it was also the first heterogeneous virus scanner available. He implemented the first virus description language called CVDL.
Year | Company |
1999 – Present | WildList Organization InternationalReporter |
1995 | Security on the I-Way ’95National Computer Security AssociationWashington, DCExhibitor |
1994 | International Virus Prevention & Information SecurityConferenceNational Computer Security AssociationWashington, DC
Exhibitor |
1993 – 1995 | System Research and Application Corp. (SRA)Member of the Professional StaffComputer Sciences Corporation/JCALS ProjectMoorestown, NJ |
1993 | Information Security and Virus Prevention Conference & ExhibitionNational Computer Security AssociationWashington, DCExhibitor |
1980 – 1993 | General Electric Aerospace/Martin MariettaMilitary & Data Systems Operations (M&DSO)Valley Forge, PASenior Systems Engineer
Senior Systems Programmer (Sun) Unix Senior Systems Analyst/Programmer (Sun/Unisys) Senior Systems Analyst (Unisys/Convergent Technologies) Systems Analyst (IBM) IR&D Manager (ART) Astrophysics Programmer (GEM) Test Analyst (1ASAT – GEM) |
1993 | Unix ExpoNew York, NYExhibitor |
1992 | Virus Prevention Conference and ExhibitionNational Computer Security AssociationWashington, DCExhibitor |
1992 | Unix ExpoNew York, NYExhibitor |
1991 | Unix ExpoNew York, NYExhibitor |
1979 – 1980 | Control Data CorporationJunior Systems AnalystRockville, MDand
Navy Advanced Development Center Willow Grove, PA |
1978 – 1979 | Temple UniversitySCI/Temple University Computer CenterComputer Consultant/System LibrarianPhiladelphia, PA |
1977 – 1979 | Temple UniversitySystem Computer TechnologySystem ConsultantPhiladelphia, PA |
1975 – 1977 | Wackenhut CorporationKing of Prussia, PA |
Invited Speaker
Peter was an invited guest speaker at approximately 70 conventions throughout the years until he had to stop doing them due to the needs of his company.
Year | Conference Title |
2006 | Passenger Terminal Expo USA Fort Lauderdale, FL Topic: Transportation Hub Security & Computers |
2006 | Transportation Systems Security Management Melbourne, FL Topic: Transportation Hub Security & Computers |
2006 | GOVSEC 2006 Government Security Expo & Conference Washington, D.C. Topic: Consideration of Targeted Hostile Software in Homeland Security |
2005 | Philcon 2005 Philadelphia Science Fiction Society Philadelphia, PA Panel: Big Science vs. Garage Science Panel: What We Don’t Know (moderator) Panel: Doves Among the Hawks Panel: Computer/Internet Security (moderator) Panel: From Scientific Breakthrough to Societal Change Panel: Science Under Siege (moderator) |
2004 | Philcon 2004 Philadelphia Science Fiction Society Philadelphia, PA Topic: Computer/Internet Fraud |
1996 | Conference on Web & Internet Security MIS Training Institute Washington, DC Invited Speaker Topic: Using Cyberspace Tools for Unix-TCP/IP Security & Audit |
1996 | Open Systems Security ’96 MIS Training Institute Orlando, FL Invited Speaker Topic: Using VFIND to Defend Unix and Non-Unix Systems |
1995 | IEEE/SPIE Philadelphia, PA Invited Speaker Topic: Protection Against Hostile Algorithms in Unix Software |
1995 | Symposium on Information Security in Government MIS Training Institute Washington, DC Invited Speaker Topic: Information Warfare: Protecting Your Unix-TCP/IP Systems |
1995 | CALS Expo 1995 Los Angeles, CA Invited Speaker Topic: A Guide To Defeating Virus Attacks in CALS |
1995 | VB95 Boston, MA Invited Speaker Topic: Protection Against Hostile Algorithms in Unix Software |
1995 | Open Systems Security ’95 MIS Training Institute Orlando, FL Invited Speaker Topic: Information Warfare on Unix-TCP/IP Systems: Knowing What the Hackers Know |
1993 | National Computer Security Association International Virus Prevention Conference II Washington, DC Invited Speaker Topic: The VFind Virus Scanner and CVDL |
1992 | Local Sun User’s Group Washington, DC Invited Speaker Topic: Unix Vulnerabilities and the VFind Virus Scanner |
1992 | National Computer Security Association International Virus Protection Conference I Washington, DC Invited Speaker Topic: Heterogeneous Computer Viruses In a Networked Unix Environment |
1991 | Sun Open Systems Expo San Jose, CA Invited Speaker Topic: Fiber optic and Optical Networks in the Sun Environment |
1990 | Sun Expo ’90 San Jose, CA Invited Speaker Topic: Fiber Optic & Optical Network Design, Including High-Speed 100Mb and 1Gb Networks |
1989 | Sun Expo ’89 Santa Clara, CA Invited Speaker Topic: Fiber Optic Ethernet Network Design and Implementation in the Sun Microsystems Unix Environment |
1988 | Open Systems Security ’98 & ISSA Annual Conference Invited Speaker Topic: Malicious Software in Multi-Vendor Networks |
1988 | Independent Computer Consultants Association Northeast Regional Meeting, Delaware Valley Chapter Invited Speaker Topic: Knock, Knock – Who’s There? |
1986 | Convergent Technologies Exposition Washington, DC Invited Speaker Topic: Fiber Optic Network Design & Large-Scale Workstation Distribution & Implementation |
1984 | Fifth General Electric International Software Symposium Daytona Beach, FL Invited Speaker Topic: The Design & Implementation of an ‘Automated Regression Testing System for Software (ART)’ |