Chuck Black has over 35 years of experience in the field of computer networking, working in research
and development labs for Hewlett-Packard for most of that time before becoming co-founder of Tallac
Networks, a Software Defined Networking startup. Most recently he has been training engineering
staff and customers of major networking vendors in the areas of developing SDN applications. He has
been the innovator and creator of multiple networking products for HP in the area of Network Access
Control and Security, and holds eleven patents in these areas. Prior to this work, he developed products
in the field of Network Management for HP’s software organization. In the early days of local area
networking, he was author of some of the first network topology discovery applications in the industry.
Black holds a BS and MS in Computer Science from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis
Obispo.
