Pedro Soria-Rodriguez

Current

• Head of Security Unit at Atos Origin

Past

• Information Security Consultant at Forbes Sinclair
• Information Security Consultant at Freelance
• Project Manager at Hispafuentes

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Education

• Campus FAES
• (ISC)2
• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

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Recommended

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Connections

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Industry

Information Technology and Services

Websites

• My Website

Pedro Soria-Rodriguez’s Summary

Electronics / Telecom Engineer, CISSP, with experience in:
- Management of Innovation & research projects
- Team leadership and resource management
- Consulting and auditing of information security in business process
- Contract negotiation
- Product design & development
- Technology research & innovation
- Application of technology to create and deliver business solutions

Project Manager of multi-million € innovation and research projects. Team leader working with multi-cultural and multi-disciplinary teams. Engineer with broad experience in Information Technologies (networking, communications and services) with special concentration in information security and data protection (cryptography, PKI, security audits and application of standards.)

Pedro Soria-Rodriguez’s Specialties:

Information security, Computer security, computer networking security, data security, cryptography, information security management systems, security policy, open source software, open source business solutions, software programming, research, innovation process, innovation, research, project management, HCI.

Pedro Soria-Rodriguez’s Experience

• Head of Security Unit

  Atos Origin

  (Public Company; ATO; Information Technology and Services industry)

  August 2005 — Present (4 years 5 months)

  Team leader and project manager, running a group of 17 researchers, and coordinating project work with research centers, universities and companies across Europe on R&D projects co-funded by the European Commission through its Framework Programmes (FP6, FP7)
  
  Project, risk and resource management for several R&D projects, coordinating technical work among industrial and academic partners, project administration and interface with the European Commission, ensuring quality and delivery.
  
  Other tasks:
  - Drafting research project proposals to request grants and funding for new R&D projects.
  - Sales of consulting services and R&D results to customers.
  
  Currently involved in projects developing: (a) a compliance checking and auditing framework for SOA-based environments, (b) privacy enhancing technologies for mobile on-line communities, (c) a biometric-recognizing phone to deal digitally signed transactions;

Pedro Soria-Rodriguez’s Education

• Campus FAES

  Political Science 2009

  3-day course on "Threats and challenges to liberal democracies", July 2009.

• (ISC)2

  CISSP: Certified Information Systems Security Professional , Information Security , 2004

  1. Access Control Systems & Methodology
  2. Applications & Systems Development
  3. Business Continuity Planning
  4. Cryptography
  5. Law, Investigation & Ethics
  6. Operations Security
  7. Physical Security
  8. Security Architecture & Models
  9. Security Management Practices
  10. Telecommunications, Network & Internet Security

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

  M.Sc. , Electrical Engineering , May 1996 — May 1998

  Including research on fault tolerance and data security.

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

  B.S. , Electrical Engineering , 1991 — 1996

  Research projects on cryptography and data security.
  Major qualifying project about a VLSI implementation of Galois Fields arithmetic for cryptographic applications. This work led to the paper:
  C. Paar, P. Soria-Rodriguez. "Fast Arithmetic Architectures for Public-Key Algorithms over Galois Fields GF((2^n)^m)", presented at EUROCRYPT '97.
  
  A copy of the paper: http://alum.wpi.edu/~sorrodp/EC97_Paar_SoriaRodriguez_FastGFArithmetic.pdf

  Activities and Societies:

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  IEEE Computer Society Member (4 years)
  HKN (Eta Kappa Nu): Corresponding Secretary (1 year)
  ISC (International Student Council, Vice President (1 year)

Additional Information

Pedro Soria-Rodriguez’s Websites:

• My Website

Pedro Soria-Rodriguez’s Interests:

Linux, Open Source Software, Cryptography, Photography

Pedro Soria-Rodriguez’s Groups:

OISSG, (ISC)2

•    Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSP)
•    Information Security Community
•    PICOS
•    The Official WPI Alumni Group
•    MASTER FP7

Pedro Soria-Rodriguez’s Honors:

- Successfully passed ISACA's Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) examination (Pending CISM certification)

- Member, Tau Beta Pi
- Member, Eta Kappa Nu
- Crimson & Gray Award from Worcester Polytechnic Institute

- Spoken languages:
Spanish (mother tongue)
English (business fluent)
Mandarin Chinese (basic level)
French (basic level)

Pedro Soria-Rodriguez’s Contact Settings

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