Edward Bonver, CISSP

I am a Software Engineer. I live in Los Angeles, California. Currently I am a graduate Computer Science student at California State University at Northridge (CSUN). In 2005 I became a CISSP (Certified Information Systems Security Professional). At about the same time I have obtained a CompTIA Security+ certification.

Here's a "recent-enough" picture of my happy family.

In 1998 I have received my BS in Computer Science degree at Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT). I came to the United States from Riga, Latvia of the former USSR in January, 1990. By September, 1993, I have graduated from Jamesville-DeWitt High School, in Syracuse, NY, and have started my quest for science and computers at RIT. Actually, I was 9 years old, when I have felt my first affection for computers. That has happened when my dad has shown me the Latvian Academy of Sciences, where he was working at the time. The Academy of Sciences was one of those few places in Latvia where one could see a computer, that is only if this one's father was working there. Ever since I have first seen my first computer, there has not been a single day in my life during which I would doubt my destiny of a scientist in the lieu of computers.

Don't take me for a computer freak, though! I do like to go fishing, play a game of chess once in a while, go to the movies with my friends, etc. I enjoy reading books at my spare time. I love poetry. Kung-Fu is an important part of my life. And then... there is music! -- I play piano, flute and guitar. Piano is my soul!