Timothy Chiu is currently the Director of Product Marketing, Security for Blue Coat Systems, responsible for ProxySG, ProxyAV, Webpulse, Reporter and Director products. Tim has been with Blue Coat for over 6 years, and has also managed Blue Coat’s Technical Marketing team.  Prior to joining Blue Coat Tim worked at Mirapoint for over 8 years with their messaging and security products, in roles as Director of Technical Marketing, Senior Product Manager, and as Director of WW Application Engineering. Tim started managing and administering systems in 1988 and has been postmaster and Systems/Network Administrator at many high technology companies including AMD and SynOptics. He has also held product management and marketing positions at Bay Networks, Cirrus Logic and Network Tools.

Tim holds a master's degree in product marketing from Santa Clara University, a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from the University of Pennsylvania, and a bachelor's in economics from the Wharton School of Business. Tim has been also worked as an instructor in Unix Administration for UC Berkeley Extension and writes for a number of blogs, including Blue Coat’s Security Blog.