Daniel joined Virginia Tech in 2000 as an application analyst in the Web Application Research and Development department where he helped design the campus enterprise directory and first single-sign-on system. His work led him to be Middleware project manager, overseeing the enterprise directory and centralized campus authentication and authorization services. He contributed to the development of version 2 of the Shibboleth IDP and supports several open source Java libraries related to password management and LDAP integration. He currently lives in the mountains of southwest Virginia with his family.