Andrew David Hintz

drew@overt.org

Education	The University of Texas at Austin B.S. in Honors Computer Engineering expected May 2003 3.89 GPA College of Engineering Scholarship recipient IEEE and Communications Society Executive Officer Honors Dormitory Secretary
Work Experience	IBM, Spring 2002 Security Researcher for Extreme Blue Program Created a system that automatically responds to network attacks and defends against future attacks. Utilized open source intrusion detection software and XML standards for data exchange. Microsoft, Summer 2000 Test Engineer for Windows NT Advanced Programming Created a tool that automatically sets up and configures an enterprise network. Tested security and administrative features in the next generation of Windows. University of Texas at Austin, Spring 2000 – Spring 2002 Web Developer for Instructional Tools Working with professors under a FastTEX grant to develop JavaScript-based interactive education tools for the class Introduction to Electrical and Computer Engineering. Litton Loan Servicing, Summer 1999, Winter 1999-2000 Programmer in Information Technology Department Designed, created, and maintained object-oriented programs in PowerBuilder. Utilized SQL Navigator and Microsoft Access to manage and query large multi-table databases.
Refereed Publications	A. Hintz, “Fingerprinting Websites Using Traffic Analysis,” in Proceedings of the Workshop on Privacy Enhancing Technologies 2002, Springer Lecture Notes on Computer Science, Berlin, Germany, 2002. A. Hintz, “Promoting an Information Security Program via a Student Organization,” in George Washington University Journal of Information Security, Volume 1, Number 2, 2002.
Presentations	“Covert Channels in TCP and IP Headers,” DEF CON Security Conference, Las Vegas, NV, USA, 2002. “Attacking and Securing DNS Servers,” with J. Beale, Black Hat Conference, New Orleans, LA, USA, 2002. “Deceiving Information Systems in the Modern Enterprise,” IO Wargames Conference, Washington D.C., USA, 2001.
Computer Skills	C++, Java, HTML, Visual Basic, Perl, SQL, PowerBuilder Windows 9x / NT / 2000, MS-DOS, Linux, Unix TCP/IP networking, Web publishing and design Security penetration testing, Firewall configuration Intrusion Detection System configuration and monitoring
Accomplishments	Eagle Scout rank in the Boy Scouts of America Black Belt in the martial art of Tae Kwon Do National Merit Commended Scholar Teagle Foundation Scholarship recipient Texas Telecommunications Engineering Consortium Scholarship recipient and Undergraduate Scholar