Evan Booth

Guiding Philosophy

1. The right work is work that I'm compelled to complete with excellence.
2. The end results are far more important than using the “right” tools to achieve them.
3. If the floor were hot enough, I'd almost certainly be skating around on butter shoes.
   Said differently: have fun.

Work Experience

• Builder, Counter Hack Challenges — 2016–Present

  • Counter Hack exists to serve one mission: to empower corporations, government agencies, and military organizations to secure and protect their enterprises from cyber threats.

• Engineer, Skookum Digital Works — 2014–2016

  • Working with amazing people to solve difficult problems with technology.

• Owner, Recursive Squirrel Interactive — 2007–2016

  • Established as a tax shelter for income from freelance projects
  • Worked in a development/creative/consulting capacity on projects for a wide variety of clients, including: HP, 20th Century Fox, History Channel, A&E, AARP, Hess, and Prevost

• Developer/Creative, Trone Advertising — 2005–2007

  • Wrote client- and server-side code for web, desktop, and mobile components of direct marketing campaigns
  • Worked with small teams on creative ideation
  • Served as art director for print and digital work

Speaking Engagements

2011

• LayerOne— Los Angeles, CA
• DerbyCon— Louisville, KY

2013

• CarolinaCon 9— Raleigh, NC
• ISSA Security Conference— Charlotte, NC
• Hack in the Box— Amsterdam, The Netherlands
• CactusCon— Tempe, AZ
• Stir Trek— Columbus, OH
• DerbyCon 3.0— Louisville, KY
• Skookum Tech Talk— Charlotte, NC
• HouSecCon— Houston, TX

2014

• ShowMeCon— St. Louis, MO
• RVAsec— Richmond, VA
• Ohio Information Security Forum— Dayton, OH
• 614con— Columbus, OH
• NolaCon— New Orleans, LA
• Calgary Maker Faire— Calgary, AB, Canada
• Beakerhead— Calgary, AB, Canada
• Ignite Charlotte— Charlotte, NC
• NBTCon— San Francisco, CA

2015

• Skookum Tech Talk— Charlotte, NC
• ISSA Security Summit— Charlotte, NC
• ShowMeCon— St. Louis, MO
• NolaCon— New Orleans, LA
• NoCo Mini Maker Faire— Loveland, CO
• B-Sides Charleston— Charleston, SC

2016

• Charlotte Hackers Anonymous— Charlotte, NC
• CarolinaCon XII— Raleigh, NC
• CIAS Academic Technology Retreat— Chester, CT
• Stir Trek— Columbus, OH
• Denver Mini Maker Faire— Denver, CO
• DEF CON 24— Las Vegas, NV

Current Projects

• Jittery MacGyver

  • Thesis: One Keurig single-cup coffee maker can be repurposed to build things capable of substantially impacting a person's life, for better or worse.
  • Check out Hedberg — The Bionic Hand Made from One Keurig Coffee Maker
  • This project is currently in development. Follow @evanbooth on Twitter or bookmark this page for updates.

• Practical Post-Apocalyptic Electronics

  • If you take one baby step outside of our basic survival needs—water, shelter, food, clothing—it's difficult to get very far without being able to harness electricity and use it to get things done. That said, the electronics we use today represent so much rapid technological evolution, that it's easier to relegate their functionality to "smoke and mirrors" and/or "straight up witchcraft" than to maintain a basic understanding of the functionality.
    
    The goal of Practical Post-Apocalyptic Electronics is to develop content capable of equipping a layperson with enough knowledge to build circuits and components necessary to accomplish practical work with electricity.
  • Watch the ShowMeCon talk here
  • This project is currently in development. Follow @evanbooth on Twitter or bookmark this page for updates.

Past Projects

• Terminal Cornucopia

  • Thesis: It is possible to build dangerous improvised weapons using only items available for purchase inside airport terminals after successfully passing through security screening.
  • View the research here
  • Watch the DerbyCon 3.0 talk here
  • Press:
    • VICE News — Terminal Insecurity
    • NBC Houston — Man: Weapons easily made with merchandise found in airport shops
    • Wired — 10 Guns, Bombs, and Weapons You Can Build at the Airport
    • Al Jazeera America — Meet the man who builds weapons to challenge the TSA
    • Fast Company — The TSA Is No Match For This Mad Scientist And His Gun Made With Junk From Airport Stores

• The Mullet Run

  • The Mullet Run is a portable test of one's resourcefulness and creative problem solving aptitude. To succeed in the Mullet Run, participants pilot a small robot and knock down (or "capture") as many flags as possible in three minutes or less. However, some flags are guarded by obstacles that must to be countered with resourcefulness, creativity, and some random, everyday objects. The more difficult a flag is to capture, the more points it's worth!
  • An overview of the project is available here

FALE Association of Locksport Enthusiasts

• Co-founded in 2010 as a means of improving picking skill and overall knowledge of locks, as well as teaching others picking basics and fundamental lock mechanics
• Executed successful lock picking “villages” at a variety of industry conferences: Security B-Sides (Las Vegas, Atlanta, Greensboro, and Charlotte), CarolinaCon, CAD IT Hot Topics, Maker Faire, ISSA Security Conferences (Raleigh, Charlotte)
• Learn more at lockfale.com

Education

• East Tennessee State University —

  • Earned an undergraduate degree in Digital Media
  • Played copious amounts of ping pong

Contact

• evanbooth@gmail.com

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