Mr. Birk has over 5 years of experience with the WebSphere Security Development team. Mr. Birk has worked on a variety of Security-related line items including the CSIv2 implementation for J2EE 1.4 compliance in WebSphere Application Server v5.0 and Security Attribute Propagation feature in WebSphere Application Server v5.1.1. He holds a Masters degree in Software Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin and a B.S. in Computer Engineering from the University of South Florida.