Experienced professional who proactively consults, documents, develops, and verifies solutions that fully implement business functions while balancing and ensuring compliance to established industry standards. Expertise in computer security planning, secure systems design development and analysis, system and security test and evaluation, system certification and accreditation, contingency operations, risk analysis, and course development and execution. Researches, tracks, and monitors emerging technologies, standards, and practices incorporating them into useful solutions. Mentors and develops staff members. Guides the development of the next generation of leaders.

Other personal interests include research into on-line intellectual property and privacy, and computer ethics, with plans to develop and instruct a course in computer/information technology ethics at either the undergraduate or graduate level.

Guiding Quotes:

"How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?" Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Sherlock Holmes to Dr. Watson)

“The more I learn, the more I realize how much I don't know.” Albert Einstein

“Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.” Socrates

"The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office." Dwight D. Eisenhower