Jul 2024 – Present · 1 yr 10 mos · Washington, District of Columbia, United States · Hybrid

• I provide strategic guidance and industry insights to ensure the Georgetown University Cybersecurity Risk Management Master's program remains relevant, rigorous, and aligned with current industry standards and needs. As a member of this committee, my expertise and experience shape the future of our Master's program. Georgetown University is one of the top universities in Washington, D.C., renowned for its academic excellence, distinguished faculty, and vibrant campus life. As a leading educational institution, Georgetown University consistently ranks among the best in the nation, offering a rich array of programs and a dynamic learning environment.

Aug 2023 – Present · 2 yrs 9 mos · Tbilisi, Georgia · Hybrid

• I teach a comprehensive 150-hour master's level course, equipping students with a deep understanding of cyber threat intelligence (CTI), its role, and its application. This multi-faceted course navigates through intelligence theory, cyber threats, prominent threat models, and frameworks and provides practical exposure via case studies and a capstone lab, all aimed at effectively protecting critical infrastructure.

Aug 2022 – Present · 3 yrs 9 mos

• CYBERSECURITY STRATEGY & INFORMATION MANAGEMENT (CSIM) Master of Professional Studies Advisory Board Member. Proud Member of the U.S. Cyber Command Academic Engagement Network. GW’s CSIM program aims to equip students with the knowledge to adapt to a continuously changing threat environment, create cybersecurity and risk management strategies, and manage to implement those plans. By developing leadership skills needed to address emerging cybersecurity challenges, students prepare to become the next generation of strategic leaders to secure the country’s digital infrastructure.
• WEB: https://www.cps.gwu.edu/masters-cybersecurity-strategy-information-management

Mar 2012 – Aug 2022 · 10 yrs 5 mos

• Teaches Cyber Defense Strategies. Deterrence strategy and control theory in the context of cyber defense. Formulation of effective defense scenarios and strategies to counter cyber attacks.

Mar 2022 – Present · 4 yrs 2 mos

• NATO - Center of Excellence Defense Against Terrorism (CoEDAT)

Jan 2020 – Present · 6 yrs 4 mos · Laurel, Maryland, United States

• Reviews and validates cybersecurity higher education program goals and objectives; and discusses recommendations for curriculum development. Capitol Technology University is a National Security Agency (NSA) cyber center of excellence.

Oct 2019 – Present · 6 yrs 7 mos · Lisbon Area, Portugal

• IntellCorp is the first Lusophone (Portuguese Speaking) Intelligence Company; its main objective is to offer private Intelligence, Counterintelligence, Security and Close Protection services.
• IntellCorp has headquarters in Lisbon, Portugal.
• We control risk and fear. We go where few go and do what few do.
• Lusophone Countries. Where Portuguese is the common language: Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, Portugal, and Sao-Tome and Principe.

Sep 2018 – Present · 7 yrs 8 mos · Israel

• Ben-Gurion University is a center for teaching and research with about 20,000 students. Ben-Gurion University was established in 1969 as the University of the Negev with the aim of promoting the development of the Negev desert that comprises more than sixty percent of Israel.
• The need for the creation of a faculty start-up pre-accelerator emerged from the first lecture of Prof. Jeffrey Ullman of Stanford University, at BGU (when the Computer Science Department became independent, back in 2000). Prof. Ullman delivered his belief that research in computer science should lead to industrial realization, in particular as part of a start-up founded by faculty members.
• http://in.bgu.ac.il/en/natural_science/cs/NHSA/Pages/Advisors.aspx

Aug 2017 – Present · 8 yrs 9 mos · Stockholm, Sweden

• The Swedish Defence University (SEDU), (Försvarshögskolan in Swedish) has existed in its present form since 1997. The University's roots can be traced back as far as the establishment of the Artillery College at Marieberg in Stockholm in the 19th century. Today's University marks the latest development in a long line of military educational tradition.
• http://www.fhs.se/en/

Jan 2017 – Aug 2020 · 3 yrs 7 mos · Washington D.C. Metro Area

• The Cyber Intelligence Initiative at The Institute of World Politics.

Dec 2014 – Present · 11 yrs 5 mos · United Kingdom

• CENTRIC (Centre of Excellence in Terrorism, Resilience, Intelligence & Organized Crime Research) is a multi-disciplinary and end-user focused research network, located within the Cultural, Communication and Computing Research Institute (C3RI) at Sheffield Hallam University. The global reach of the CENTRIC network now links both academic and professional expertise across a range of disciplines providing unique opportunities to progress ground-breaking research.
• The strategic aim of CENTRIC is to facilitate the triangulation between the four key stakeholders in the security domain;
• Government
• Academia
• Public
• Private industry
• The mission of CENTRIC is to provide a platform for researchers, practitioners, policy makers and the public to focus on applied research in the Security domain.
• Sheffield Hallam University (SHU) is a university in South Yorkshire, England, based on two sites in Sheffield.
• The university is the third largest in the UK, with more than 37,000 students (of whom over 4,000 are international students), 4,170 staff and 747 courses.

Dec 2014 – Aug 2015 · 8 mos · Israel

• Visiting Research Fellow at the Institute for National Security Studies, Tel Aviv University, Israel (INSS) - Cyber Security and Military & Strategic affairs Programs.
• Areas of Research:
• Cyber Security
• Terror organizations and the use of Cyberspace
• War against terror
• US-Israeli Cyber Security Cooperation

Oct 2014 – Jul 2023 · 8 yrs 9 mos · Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Loyalty to the United States, the Constitution, the American people, and each other. Duty to do what is right and what is needed. ⚔

Dec 2012 – Mar 2013 · 3 mos · London, United Kingdom

• National Cyber Defense Strategy (Section 4 of Future Threats and Cyber Security)
• Strategic Intelligence Management: National Security Imperatives and Information and Communications Technologies
• Publication Date: March 28, 2013 | ISBN-10: 0124071910 | ISBN-13: 978-0124071919 | Edition: 1

Feb 2012 – Oct 2012 · 8 mos · Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Manages team of educational consultants across the globe, conducts review of training and support materials, generates high-level reports for strategic federal accounts, organizes cyber security workshops, conducts periodic market research to remain current on best practices in the cyber security field as well as demand and viability for professional development services, stays abreast of new and updated regulations/requirements and attend/participate in industry events to support the national security mission area, promotes and ensures execution of organizational initiatives, and continually assess training and education progress in achieving key priorities and initiatives in the federal domain.
• Achieves operational objectives by contributing information and recommendations to strategic plans and reviews; preparing and completing action plans; implementing production, productivity, quality, and customer-service standards; resolving problems; completing audits; identifying trends; determining system improvements; implementing change. Enhances department and organization reputation by accepting ownership for accomplishing new and different requests. Works with Malware Analyzer G2 technologies.

Apr 2009 – Present · 17 yrs 1 mo

• The organizer of the Cybersecurity Innovation Workshop in coordination with the US Czech Republic Embassy in Washington DC.
• Panelist - Defense Innovation Network Summit - CONNECTING HIGH-TECH INNOVATORS TO MILITARY LEADERS (Virtual conference) Defense Innovation Network, March 19, 2020
• A Mass Casualty Threat? The Risk to Water Infrastructure from Cyber Hackers, Washington DC (Panel Moderator), July 28th, 2020 - Israeli Embassy in DC/CSFI
• RSA Speaker, May 20th, 2021 - Cyber Workforce Development: Experience, Education, and Certification.
• Moderator at Hack The Port - Dreamport FL 2022.
• Moderator at Hack The Capitol, DC 2022.

Feb 2009 – Present · 17 yrs 3 mos

• Cyber Warfare/Cyber Security SME
• JNCIA-FWV, SEC+, NET+, CCSE, NSA-IAM, CHCP, BCCPP, SANs E-Warfare, MITRE ATT&CK Purple Teaming Methodology (PMT) Certified.
• Speaker at Hacker Halted 2009, Miami FL.
• Speaker at Techno Forensics/NIST 2009, D.C
• Speaker at Lewis University MIS Program 2010 IL
• Speaker at Baker College (Cyber Games) 2010 MI
• Speaker at University of Great Falls 2010, MT
• Speaker at TCC's Military Cyber Security Conference, Washington DC 2011 (Attribution and Response)
• Speaker at ISSA National Capital Chapter, Washington DC Jan 2012
• Speaker at TCC's Military Cyber Security Conference, Washington DC 2012 (Social Media and the DoD)
• Speaker at TECHEXPO Top Secret Conference (Cyber Warfare Global Market), Columbia, MD 2012
• IDGA's Electronic Warfare 2013 panelist, Washington D.C., March 2013
• Session Panelist – “Cybersecurity Leadership: Past, Present, and Future” Cyber Education Symposium, Arlington VA, Nov 2013.
• Discussion of Syrian Electronic Army (Panelist) - Potomac Institute for Policy Studies, Dec 2013
• Panelist at the U.S.-Israel Innovation Leadership Program for HLS/Cyber Executives
• Irvine, California 2015
• DCOI 2015 Event Organizer - ATC (Air Traffic Control) Cyber Security Panel Manager - DC April 2015
• Breaking the National Security Backbone, SS7 Vulnerabilities, and Nation State Signals Intelligence (Panelist) - Washington DC August 2016.
• PRESENTED AT THE NINTH ANNUAL CYBER SECURITY/IA DAY NOVEMBER 3, 2016 - Indiana, PA. Topic: The Current State of Cyberspace Operations in the Context of American National Security
• Presented at the Michigan Collegiate Cyber Defense Network (CCDN) event 2017 - White Cell Team Member.
• George Washington University Cyber 9/12 Student Challenge Coach - Atlantic Council Washington DC 2017
• Institute of World Politics - Cyber Intelligence Presentation, Washington DC 2017
• Panelist at National Defense University's Cyber Beacon V 2018
• Panelist at National Defense University's US - Czech Republic Information Sharing 2018

Feb 2009 – Present · 17 yrs 3 mos

• 🇦🇺 Speaker at CebIT, Sydney Australia Nov 2010.
• 🇪🇪 Speaker at CSFI workshop at NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence Tallinn, ESTONIA June 2011.
• 🇬🇪 Speaker at GITI 2011 Tbilisi Georgia 2011
• 🇨🇿 Panelist at The Association for International Affairs in cooperation with NATO, ONR, Estonian Embassy in Prague. "CONFRONTING CYBERTERRORISM: POLITICAL ASPECTS OF CYBERSECURITY" Czech Republic, Dec 2011.
• 🇧🇪 Speaker at IQPC Conference ( Current Cyber Security Strategies of Major State Actors), BRUSSELS, Belgium 2012
• 🇪🇪 Workshop organizer at the 4th International Conference on Cyber Conflict, Tallinn, ESTONIA
• 🇸🇪 Panelist at Internetdagarna (SWEDEN), "Cyber Conflict Escalation Exercise," 2012
• 🇪🇸 CSFI-DCOE event, Madrid SPAIN, May 2013.
• 🇮🇱 Speaker at Yuval Ne’eman Workshop for Science, Technology and Security, Tel-Aviv ISRAEL June 2013.
• 🇮🇱 Speaker at the Annual International Cyberspace Conference: Challenges of the Financial Sector
• Tel-Aviv ISRAEL July 09, 2013
• 🇮🇱 Organizer/Speaker at DCOI Tel Aviv 2014
• 🇩🇪 Presenter at the IT-Sicherheits-Kongress 2014 - Fürstenfeldbruck bei München GERMANY (Privacy and National Security).
• 🇷🇴 Speaker at DEFCAMP (Bucharest- ROMANIA) Nov 2014 - Cyber Ranges
• 🇹🇷 Presenter at the 2015 NATO Centre of Excellence Defence Against Terrorism (COE-DAT) - Ankara 2015 TURKEY
• 🇬🇧 Summit Producer of The UK Cyber View Summit 2015, London UK.
• 🇹🇷 Panelist at Turkish Universities of TOBB and THK (TURKEY, Mar 2016)
• 🇪🇸 Collections/ICWOD Training - Madrid (Spanish Cyber Command) - 2016
• 🇸🇪 Presenter at SIG Security SWEDEN 2017
• 🇨🇷 Presenter at Cyber Security Summit COSTA RICA 2017
• 🇸🇪 Presenter at CYBSEC 2017, SWEDEN 2017
• 🇸🇪 Presenter at The Swedish Defence University Försvarshögskolan, SWEDEN 2017
• 🇧🇷 Presenter at CYBER DEFENCE, COMMUNICATIONS AND ELECTRONIC WARFARE EVENT, BRASÍLIA BRAZIL 2018
• 🇸🇪 Keynote speaker at the Next Generation Threats Göteborg, Sweden 2018
• 🇬🇧 IO Panel Producer, UK 2019

Feb 2009 – Present · 17 yrs 3 mos

• 🇧🇷 An observer of the EXERCÍCIO GUARDIÃO CIBERNÉTICO 2.0. Brasilia, Brazil, 2019.
• 🇧🇷 Organizer/Instructor: Cyberspace Operations Planning Training course to the Fórum Ibero-Americano de Defesa Cibernética in partnership with the Brazilian Cyber Command, NOV 2019, Brasilia.
• 🇮🇱 Presenter at CyberTech, Israel 2020 - AI in the Context Of Offensive Operations.
• 🇹🇷Panelist at VShield, Virtual Cyber Security Conference 2020 (Turkey). Cyber Security Banking Compliance, BRSA regulations.
• 🇦🇪 Speaker at CyberTech UAE-Dubai 2020
• 🇦🇪 Speaker and Event Moderator at GISEC 2021 UAE-Dubai 2021
• 🇮🇱 Organized CSFI American Delegation to Israel 2022
• 🇦🇪 Speaker and Event Chair Moderator at GISEC 2022 UAE-Dubai 2022
• 🇦🇪 Speaker and Panel Moderator at GITEX 2022 UAE-Dubai
• 🇮🇱 Organized CSFI American Delegation to Israel 2023
• 🇸🇰 Presenter at ITAPA, Bratislava, Slovakia 2024
• 🇷🇴 Panelist/Presenter at Orange, Romania 2025
• 🇫🇷 Panelist at SME digital security in the age of AI - D4SME 2025
• 🇱🇺 Trained NATO Support and Procurement Agency (NSPA) in Cyber Threat Intelligence, Luxembourg 2026

Sep 2007 – Sep 2009 · 2 yrs · Greater Chicago Area

• Responsible for reviewing and approving Security Architectures of various technologies: Cisco, Checkpoint, SUN, Blue Coat, Nokia, McAfee, Juniper, etc. Also ensures AT&T’s clients’ Network Security Architectures satisfy SOX, HIPAA, GLBA, PCI-DSS, and FISMA requirements.
• Responsible for gathering technical details necessary to install and configure Proxy and Anti-Virus services, Firewalls, IPS/IDS, and DDoS mitigation services.
• Has worked with Blue Coat technologies: SG-210s, SG-510s, SG-810s, SG-8100s, and Director-510s.
• Firewalls: Cisco ASA 5510-5550s, Check Point on Nokia (IP150-IP1280), and Juniper SSG140-ISG2000.
• Reviewed and approved network security architectures for hundreds of MSS AT&T clients.

Nov 2006 – Jun 2007 · 7 mos · OCONUS

• Responsible for developing MSS (Managed Security Services) of Web Content Inspection using Blue Coat technologies.
• Responsible for implementing, configuring, troubleshooting and giving support to clients using Blue Coat SG Proxies. Has given pre-sales presentations and provided training on Blue Coat technologies.

Jan 2006 – May 2006 · 4 mos · OCONUS

• Responsible for researching vulnerabilities and creating countermeasures against cyber attacks. Wrote technical documentation about zero-day vulnerabilities, researched the underground looking for the latest hacking tools and the latest exploits. Responsible for intelligence collection, analysis, and dissemination. Conducted all-source analysis.
• Multi-INT approach to collection activities, established collection strategies, input customer information needs into tasking systems, monitored and disseminated intelligence reports, and monitored report evaluation and feedback. Worked with open source intelligence (OSINT), document and media exploitation activities, drafted collection requirements and collection emphasis guidance in a clear and accurate manner. Applied knowledge of INT-specific techniques, collection methods, and tools as required.
• Interacted effectively and confidently with professionals on all levels of responsibility, and utilized a variety of data sources, applications, and programs to collect, analyze, and identify potential information of interest, intelligence gaps and critical information needs to help draft collection requirements.
• Provided strategic, operational, and/or tactical collection support in the “front end” of the Intelligence Cycle in one or more collection disciplines supervising and conducting information collection missions.

Mar 2003 – Oct 2005 · 2 yrs 7 mos · United States

• Responsible for securing Linux servers, Nortel and Cisco WAN devices. Responsible for hardening Red Hat OS.

May 2006 – Oct 2006 · 5 mos · United States

• Responsible for reviewing security policies for the database warehouse, light UNIX administration on AIX IBM servers, hardening UNIX servers, performing vulnerability assessments and pentesting.
• Responsible for setting up, troubleshooting, and maintaining Connect:Direct secure transfers from more than 14 plans to the Data warehouse.

May 2002 – Mar 2003 · 10 mos · United States

• Responsible for troubleshooting USR routers and wireless devices, for training on new technologies, and for translating technical documentation for USR networking products. English/Portuguese.

Dec 1999 – Jan 2002 · 2 yrs 1 mo · United States

• Engineer responsible for providing support for various Cisco Systems products, TCP/IP network support including Pix Firewalls, Cisco Catalyst 1900 and 2820 series switches, Routers (from 800’s to 7000’s), and Cisco VPN 3000 Series Concentrators.