Primary Job Title VP of Technology Primary Organization Nexum
Location Chicago, Illinois, United States Regions Greater Chicago Area, Great Lakes, Midwestern US Gender Male
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J.D. Butt is a network security technologist with over 20 years' experience designing, testing, and implementing secure architectures for networks, application deployments, and software. J.D. serves as Nexum's Vice President of Solutions, with Nexum's Solutions (services) and first*defense® (managed services) organizations reporting
to him.
J.D.'s professional experience includes founding Midwest Communications, an Internet Service Provider that ultimately consolidated over 90 smaller ISPs into a coherent, secure whole. As an ISP industry spokesperson, J.D. helped drive the CLEC competition to SBC and helped force the design and implementation of the PPPoE standard for DSL.
J.D. designed Nexum's first*defense® (MSSP division) standards, processes, procedures, and much of the technology back-end.
Prior to Nexum, J.D. was Vice President and Senior Network Engineer for Midwest Communications, where in addition to his roles as VP and Engineer, he developed consumer training, network and security monitoring systems, and event correlation engines. Much of the code was given over to Open Source projects.
