Timeline

My Life Summary 1996 - now 2008 spring My dog Maximus fathers puppies Attended ISOI4 conference in Sunnyvale, CA My dog Maximus gets cancer and dies.   summer got a puppy: Max's son Aragorn (Gosha) Attended MVI 2008 conference in Redmond, WA Promoted to software engineering manager at SonicWALL   fall Attended Burning Man '08 festival in Nevada Attended Virus Bulletin 2008 conference in Ottawa, Canada Trip to New York to visit my sister Trip to Mexico: Los Cabos 2007 spring Promoted to staff software engineer at SonicWALL Attended ISOI2 conference in Redmond, WA   summer presented at APWG Counter-eCrime Operations Summit attended BlackHat '07 conference in Las Vegas, Nevada Trip to Ukraine   fall Attended Burning Man '07 festival in Nevada Attended MVI 2007 conference in Redmond, WA 2006 summer Employed as senior security researcher at SonicWALL moved to Sunnyvale, California, USA Attended MVI 2006 conference in Redmond, WA   fall Attended Burning Man '06 festival in Nevada Attended Virus Bulletin 2006 conference in Montreal, Canada Attended RSA 2006 conference in San Francisco, CA 2005 spring Transferred to an Anti-Virus researcher role at Fortinet   summer Attended MVI 2005 conference in Redmond, WA Promoted to Manager, AV Research at Fortinet   fall Published a paper (Phishing) at AVAR 2005 proceedings 2004 spring Employed as Anti-Virus QA engineer at Fortinet   fall Promoted to QA Manager, Antivirus Engine at Fortinet 2003 spring Internship (4th) at Art In Motion, Coquitlam   summer SFU computing science (took 3 courses) worked part-time at Art In Motion   fall Completed graduation requirements for SFU computing science 2002 spring Internship (3rd) at Microsoft, Redmond, WA, United States   summer Trip to Ukraine, Israel   fall SFU computing science (took 5 courses) 2001 spring 1st internship term at NCompass Labs, Vancouver   summer 2nd internship term at Microsoft acquired NCompass Labs   fall SFU computing science (took 3 courses) 2000 spring Graduated from college. Diploma in Computing Science.   summer Transferred to Simon Fraser University, Arts Road trip with my Dad: Nevada, California, Arizona, Utah   fall Accepted into Department of Computing Science, SFU 1999 spring Second semester at Capilano College   summer Trip back to Ukraine brought my girlfriend to Canada for 3 months wrecked my first car Eagle   fall Third semester at Capilano College 1998 spring made seniors basketball team, got my driver's license   summer Graduated in June. Received 2 scholarships.   fall First semester at Capilano College, North Vancouver 1997 spring FML #27 Graduated with Honors in English   summer Permanently moved to Vancouver, Canada   fall Windermere Secondary School, Grade 12 1996 spring Ukraine high school FML #27 10-2 class   summer First trip to Vancouver, Canada   fall Ukraine high school FML #27 11-2 class