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TL;DR
I am passionate and I do not suffer fools gladly. I am an order of magnitude the productivity of most people you know and I navigate information, media and technology in a way which borders on mystical.
I get frustrated when I am not challenged. I love solving difficult problems. I love working with smart people. I love film, media and breaking new ground in cross-discipline areas. I am only interested in doing freelance (or consulting) work because, bluntly, your organizational bureaucracy will likely only frustrate me.
Fun fact: I've slept between 3 and 5 hours a night, every night, since I was 13 years old.
I will not take an online programming test or solve an abstract problem for you. My time is valuable and my background, online presence and extensive references speak loudly enough of my abilities.
If you want to see some code, go to my github or visit kane-box for examples.
John vs. Kanen?
Born as "Baby Boy Allard" and adopted at birth and name John... I changed my name to Kanen a few years ago, realizing I could name myself after the nickname I was given at 11 -- "kanendosei".
My So Called "Work History"
I worked for Microsoft Corporation in the mid nineties, writing some code and providing high-end support for almost every Microsoft product. I built the Internet infrastructure for a Fortune 500 company, using Linux and Solaris and then went on to become a founding employee at Farcast (later InQuisit). From there, I founded nCircle Network Security in 1998, where I worked full-time until 2002. I spent almost two years traveling, then started kozoru (acquired by the co-founder of Ask).
I've worked on or had my software used in a ton of films, many are not listed on my rather pathetic IMDB page.
Now I work in film and visual media, while maintaining a strong foothold in networking, statistics and network security.
I maintain the Artful Code Lisp Modules for newLisp and have recently launched the company Scruffy dot TV.
Also, I wrote the book on Linux Security with penguins on the cover.
The Fun Stuff
- Listen to the fun iMovie chat at Typical Mac User, 2009
- Read The SANS: Thought Leader Interview
- Listen to Beyond the Perimeter #90 "kane box"
- Listen to Beyond the Perimeter #91 "horror films and hackers"
- Mactalk Australia interview
The Traditional Résumé
OVERVIEW
I worked on some films. I have appeared on THIS WEEK IN MEDIA, REDCentre, THE VFX SHOW and other fxGuide and PixelCorps productions. I'm the creator of That Post Show, the creator of Scruffy Thinking and a cast member at KnowTech. I have written a number of technology articles and blogs. I have taught editing and film at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco. I have been an instructor at fxPHD (Avid, Indie Film).
I am the co-inventor on over a dozen patents, including some in Network Security and advanced search methodologies ( Brute Force Pronoun Detection, Sentence Boundary Detection, Natural Language Based Search,Natural Language Based Search, Novel Systems and Methods for Contextual Data Retrieval, Syntacticly Accurate Messages Over a Network, Network Security Scanning and Device Profiling, Telephonic Information Retrieval Methods, Network Security Profiling, Interoperability of Network Security Systems, Natural Language Based Search,Natural Language Based Search ) and several more pending patents.
EXPERIENCE
I solve interesting problems. I want to do something challenging. I know media, software and technology. It is that simple.
Chief Mayhem Officer -- 2006 TO TODAY
Research and development, including design documentation and prototypes for a stealth Bay Area startup with specializes in high-volume, complex data analysis and statistical modeling for the purpose of event prediction across social networks.
A few highlights:
- Wrote, Directed and currently in Post Production for Jake Forgotten, a full-length feature film.
- Color Corrected, created visual effects and developed workflow (between different CODEC and video formats) using automated technologies (in Lisp and Python), for several feature films, including Wasting Away, now Aaah Zombies (available on Netflix and iTunes ).
- Created scripts and special effects for King Kong, Star Wars III and several other feature films -- especially those where data and video formats were transferred and workflow automation was needed -- in Shake, After Effects and Final Cut Pro.
- Built automated Color Correction tools, using statistical analysis (various forms) to correct several feature films (many of which would prefer I not share their name with the public).
- Twangle: A Mac Twitter Client
- DST - the Hard Drive Speed Test, which measures real-world video playback and recording speeds on Mac OS X systems.
- Jiles, the next generation of Ask.com, where I worked with the co-founder of Ask Jeeves.
The kane-box Project -- 2009+
An Open Source software project, written in Lisp and C and PHP, which uses the Linux or BSD kernel to create a new firmware for low-cost networking devices. kane-box uses a statistical and Bayesian method of determining network exposures, rather than a rules-based method. It is significantly faster than other technologies (Cisco/Linksys, Netgear, D-Link) and provides real-time threat protection against attacks, exposures, viruses and other network-based issues.
kozoru -- 2004-2006
Founded, designed, conceived and developed much of the kozoru search technology. A web-based, text-messaging and instant messenger platform-based search system which used natural language to answer complex questions. Several articles, including Business 2.0, were written about this platform, which was acquired by the founder of Ask Jeeves in late 2006. We were the first technology company to create a system in newLisp for any business of any size and we went on to contribute changes, modules and code to newLisp -- along with creating a large set of Open Source libraries and modules from our work.
nCircle Network Security -- 1998-2003
Founder and Chief Architect of one of the largest privately-held Network Security company in the United States. Designed and developed nCircle's vulnerability scanner, intrusion detection system, IPS and distributed communication system. Created IP360, the Ontology System (a complex scripting language for detecting vulnerabilities in a remote network), the IP360 Scoring Methodology, coined the phrase "Target Intrusion Detection System" and "Intrusion Prevention."
Farcast -- 1995-1996
Chief Architect for the first news-gathering and delivery system acquired by Ask Jeeves. Created and implemented technologies in Python, Perl and Objective C (NeXTStep and OpenStep). Designed a Data Center and environment which ran Linux, Solaris and other Unix-based systems as the back-end for the news delivery system.
