Dean Wallraff

This is my home page, with a little information about me.

Professional

I'm a law student at Loyola Law School of Los Angeles, Before that I was a professional software architect, developer and information security expert. My professional résumé is online. I've been employed in the software industry since 1973.

  • I'm currently a law clerk at Trutanich-Michel in Long Beach.
  • I did a lot of work on the architecture for a large system at JP Morgan Chase.
  • Before that I worked as a software architect at Link2it Corp .
  • In what now seems like a previous life I was CEO and CTO of 3 Pasadena Internet companies, SoftWare Market, an Internet marketplace for wholesale software, hyperDrive.com, an Internet retailer of educational and entertainment software, and Wave Press, an electronic publishing company.
  • As the founder of Digital Music Systems I designed one of the first commercially available digital synthesizers, the DMX-1000. I did this after I was on the faculty of the M.I.T. Experimental Music Studio, a predecessor of their Media Lab.

I'm also a computer security expert, with a CISSP certification.

Music

I'm a composer who writes music for dance and film. A lot of my music is available on my music page. I've also scored 5 feature films, some of which can be found by searching for my name in the Internet Movie Database.

Writing

I write essays. Some of my writing is available on ArsNova's main page.

Other Interests

Contact info: deanraff@arsnova.org, tel. (818) 679-3141 - fax (818) 353-1476
My PGP public key is here.