University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School

M.L, Cybercrime & Privacy

Fairleigh Dickinson University

M.A.S, Information Technology Administration and Management

Rutgers University

B.A, Double Major in Criminal Justice & Sociology

Professor of Cybersecurity

Valley Forge Military Academy and College

2023 - present

Developed the curriculum and teaching to students internationally

Sr. Information Security Analyst

University of Pennsylvania

2006 - present

• Sr. SOC Analyst protecting 27,000 students, 5000 faculty members and 18,000 staff members. • Perfo... rming all four tiers of SOC roles • Triaging and resolving tickets • Incident response • Threat hunting • Relationship Management – Security Point of Contact for 1/3 of the University’s Schools and Centers, regularly meeting with senior management, deans, and directors. • Specializing in sensitive and complex incident investigations, coordinating with: • University’s Privacy Office • University’s Office of General Console • University’s Department of Public Safety • Outside law enforcement and law firms • Coordinate and manage outside forensic service vendors. • Providing reports, updates, findings, and presentations to University senior leadership • University service team lead for CrowdStrike Falcon • Brought the need for an endpoint solution to leadership. • Participated in securing funding for the service. • Participated in product evaluations and selection. • Lead creation of University policy for the service. • Lead the planning of the deployment to 27 Schools/Centers. • Overs saw an emergency mass deployment across half the University during an APT incident. • Lead the deployment of the product across the remaining half of the University. • Acts a subject matter expert using the tool in response and investigations. • Provides senior management with reports and presentations on the service’s utilization across the campus. • Collaborates with the University’s Training and Awareness Officer • Helps create and present awareness training to all technical levels of staff. • Conducts focus groups to gage levels of awareness. • Conducts outreach and education/awareness to students. • Assists with phishing campaigns as a service. • Skills and tools used in current role • Splunk • Tenable Nessus • Spirion’s Data Privacy Manager and Identity Finder • Cisco Firepower IDS • Paloalto Panorama firewalls • Powershell • CrowdStrike Falcon • AWS & Azure • Teams & Slack • Metaread more

Founder and Operator

Flying Monkey Cybersecurity Consultants

2012 - present

Providing a full portfolio of Cybersecurity services, including tactical and strategic operational g... uidance. • Security Audit reports • Security Improvement Road Maps • Security project design and project management • Security policy creation or review • Team building, Security Operation Center design, hiring and operations. • Security education and training • Incident response run-book design • Incident response • Penetration testing • Vulnerability scanning • Web security scanning • Tinman Ransomware Negotiations o Specializing in ransomware negotiations for individuals, small and medium business. o Assists in ransomware payment activity o Assists in the recovery process o Consults on preparing an organization for a ransomware attack o Provides run-books and play-books for ransomware attacks to be add to business continuity and disaster recovery plans o Consults on actions to be taken during a ransomware attack o Consults on after action reviews of ransomware attacks o Facilitates tabletop exercises for ransomware attacks – tactical and leadership level tabletop exercisesread more