Derek Atkins is the Chief Technology Officer at SecureRF Corporation. He specializes in architecting, designing, developing, and deploying network and systems security applications. Previously he was a Senior Member of Technical Staff at Mocana Corporation, Senior Principal Software Engineer at Symantec (formally PGP Corporation), Senior Research Scientist at Telcordia Technologies (Bellcore), Chief Technology Officer at Arepa, Inc. (Into Networks) and a member of the technical staff at Sun Microsystems. He is active in the IETF and ISO standards bodies and has chaired multiple IETF Working Groups. He received his Bachelor and Master degrees from MIT.