team

Yiman Jiang M.Sc, MCSE, CISSP

President

Yiman Jiang is the founder of Sumus Technology. In the past fifteen years, she has consulted for a variety of industries including Telecommunication, Healthcare, Software, Financial Services, Retail, Government and Educational Institutions, in the area of IT infrastructure and security design, implementation, leadership, mentoring, training and project management. Yiman has earned the reputation as a sound technologist, whose projects are always completed above and beyond clients' expectations. Yiman built Sumus Technology to provide the best of breed technical solutions that are focused on clients’ business. In her most recent engagements, she has been working on a large array of penetration testing, network review, web application code review, networks security planning, implementing intrusion detection systems, wireless security, and security strategies.

Besides her professional work, Yiman served as an executive member on the board of the CIPS Security SIG from 1999-2004, and played key roles in organizing the WestCoast Security Forum (conference chair for 2001). Yiman is also a computer professional with a social conscience and is active in studying the impact technology has on society.

Andrew Walker M.Sc, MCSD

Vice-President of Development

Andrew Walker is a senior software engineer, with over a decade of experience in C and C++ programming. He has worked on numerous development projects, ranging in size from a one-man-team to multiple teams. Projects have targeted many platforms, including Linux, and Windows, using a variety of Microsoft technologies, including MFC, COM, ATL, STL, and XML.

Andrew has played leadership roles in all aspects of software development, including design, architecture, and coding. Andrew not only masters the development cycle itself, but is also familiar with the business process and framework surrounding it. Andrew has a reputation for writing solid code the first time, rapidly understanding the code written by others, and an eagerness to utilize technological advancements to more rapidly bring products to their end-users.