I am a graduate student in Socio-Cultural Anthropology at the University of Chicago slowly making my way along the arduous process of writing up my dissertation. I am also an attorney, licensed to practice in Illinois, and I concentrate in commercial, and contract law. Not surprisingly, my research interests are in Legal Anthropology, the study of how people interact with abstract institutions and the people who make them "real." My research focus is on the law and the phenomenon (and representations and popular conceptions about the phenomenon) of unauthorized accesses to computer and communication systems when no profit motive is involved. People have a lot of other names for it.
Presently, I am general counsel and compliance architect for Nexum, a Chicago-based IT security company with a serious no-nonsense attitude. Nexum's big differentiator is its emphasis on smart architecture as a security cornerstone -- not just tossing products at problems. With compliance and risk management in mind, my role there should be pretty obvious (for clients and for Nexum itself).This all takes place in Chicago, the city I have come to love, when it's not wrecking itself with corruption, and in New Hampshire, where I moved for a major change of lifestyle.
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