I’m the Assistant Director for Cyber Defense Education and Training with the Information Trust Institute in The Grainger College of Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC).
I have more than 25 years of large-scale information security and IT engineering, implementation, and management experience in challenging and cutting-edge public and private sector environments. In addition, I’ve been teaching in the higher education and commercial training space since 2000. 
My research follows two main threads: The first explores the technical, organizational, and human/social challenges of information and industrial control systems. This work leads to the development of tools and strategies that apply more broadly to the security of networked cyber-physical and information technology systems. The second investigates educational and training delivery solutions and content that results in a diverse pool of talent with the skills needed to protect organizations and improve critical infrastructure.
I was the Technical Editor of five textbooks published by Jones & Bartlett Learning: Ethical Hacking & Systems Defense, Linux Server Fundamentals, Information Security Fundamentals, Introduction to Scripting, and Networking Fundamentals.
I earned my B.A. in Psychology from the University of St. Thomas and an M.A. in Psychology from Duquesne University. I’m currently enrolled in a Learning Design and Leadership (LDL) Ph.D. program in the College of Education at UIUC.
For fun I love making things (e.g., woodworking), playing music (drums, uke), traveling, and scavenging for objects that can be re-purposed.
My current CV (.PDF).