About Rick

Rick lives in Vancouver, WA, USA with his wife and son.

Rick has spent significant time backpacking on both the Appalachian and Pacific Crest trails, as evidenced by the numerous photos of him looking like a hippy which are easily found on Google.

Rick holds a MSc degree from Rutgers University and a BSc degree from the University of California, Irvine.

Rick has academic interests in multicast routing protocols, security as applied to networked and embedded systems, and kernel I/O and CPU scheduling.