I am pursuing a degree in Computer Science and working as a web designer and technology consultant in the greater Portland, Oregon area. My passion is in the intersection of high technology and design in Education and information access. To that end, I work with the Open Source Education Lab, partake (and helped run, for a while) the local Linux User Group and in general preach the good word of Open Source wherever it can make life easier and more transparent.

One Laptop Per Child

Initially, I was a fan and advocate of the open education OLPC project, and garnered developer and server resources from the Open Source Lab to get involved.

Since the Fall of 2006, I have given presentations (both ad-lib and planned) about OLPC to technical and non-technical groups alike throughout the state of Oregon. This includes technology-minded high school students, forward-thinking state representatives, incoming college freshman and prospective students, and business executives.

Snort

Extending my work for Oregon State University’s Network Engineering Team, I adopted the (deprecated) snort_stat.pl script. This script is ran against the Snort Alert text output log file and formulates an HTML/Plaintext e-mailable report to be sent to administrators. The report contains statistics on the number of attacks made by and against hosts on the network. This work, and deployments at OSU helped me earn the Snort Scholarship in 2007.

Alternative Spellings: Michael Andrew Burns, Mike Burns, Mike Andrew Burns.

Common usernames: mburns, maburns, burns210