Abdelilah Essiari 
Distributed Systems Department 
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory 
Email:AEssiari@lbl.gov
Phone:(510) 495-2872
Fax: (510) 486-6363

GENERAL
KNOWLEDGE & INTERESTS

• Object-Oriented Programming and Software Design.

• Public-Key Security Architectures and Authorization Systems.

• Distributed Systems and Applications.

LANGUAGES Technologies

• C, C++, Java

• SSL, PKI, XML, SOAP.

EDUCATION

• Master's degree in Computer Science @San Francisco State University, San Francisco, California.

• Bachelor's degree in Mathematics @Eureka College, Eureka Illinois.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Software Engineer

@Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

• Developed InterGroup A Group Communication suite of protocols that provide applications a number of properties like asymmetric membership, reliability and virtual synchrony.

• Developed Akenti , a certificate-based authorization system that is intended toprovide scalable security services in highly distributed network environments. (C/C++/Java)

• Helped design and implement SCISHARE a scalable and secure peer-to-peer information sharing tool. (Java)

Sept '98 - present

Graduate Research Assistant

@Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

• Have developed "The Anchor Toolkit", a secure mobile agent architecture that provides a secure runtime environment which allows mobile agents to interact and collaborate to accomplish specific tasks in an autonomous fashion. (Java/Swing)

May '97 - Aug '98

Selected Publications

• Securing Resources in Collaborative Environments: A Peer-to-Peer Approach.

  With K. Berket and M. Thompson.

  IASTED International Conference on Distributed Computing. 2005

• PKI-Based Security for Peer-to-Peer Information Sharing.

  With K. Berket and A. Muratas.

  IEEE International Conference on Peer-to-Peer Computing. 2004

• Certificate-based Authorization Policy in A PKI Environment
  With M. Thompson and S. Mudumbai

  ACM Transactions on Information and System Security. 2003

PERSONAL

• Ability to work in groups and under minimum direction. 

• Excellent critical thinking.

• Good communication skills.