Rick Garvin
Managing Director
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About Rick
He began his career at BTG working in signals intelligence and worked his way up to become VP of Engineering. After BTG, Rick was the CTO for two technology startups that had successful exits. Rick has worked on internet-based application architectures for 35+ years and holds a BS in Computer Science from the University of Maryland.
AWARDS & CERTIFICATIONS
Author of “Sessioneer: Flexible Session Level Authentication With Off The Shelf Servers and Clients”, Computer Networks and ISDN Systems, Vol. 27, No. 6, April 1995 – first published paper defining web browser cookies
AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Microsoft-certified Systems Engineer (expired January 1, 2021)
Sun-certified Enterprise Architect (expired December 2018)
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