Welcome to GTRA

About Me

Agency/Company/Association:

FAA

Title:

Acting Chief Information Security Officer

Sector:

Public Sector

Presentations:

The Intersection of IT & Emerging Threats in Cyber Space and Cloud Computing

About Me:

Born and raised in the suburbs of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, I joined the Federal Aviation Administration as an air traffic control specialist in 1982 after serving as a professional pilot and flight instructor with a corporate flight department. After working at towers and TRACONs in Philadelphia, Allentown, Reading, and New York, I left the Eastern Region Headquarters Air Traffic Division NAS Implementation Office for the Operational Support (AOS) organization at the New York TRACON in 1996. In 1997, I was asked to help develop the Air Traffic Services Year 2000 (Y2K) program office, AAF-6, and served as the Executive Officer in Washington DC. I later served as the Site Manager in Atlantic City, New Jersey, responsible for Y2K Implementation Deployment Testing teams. Later, I served the AOS organization as the Executive Officer, AOS-3 in Washington DC. When the decision was made to develop the Office of Information Services, AIS, I was asked by the CIO to participate in the development of the organization in May 2000. In October, I accepted the position of Outreach Program Director. When the CIO added the Computer Security Incident Response Center (CSMC) as a responsibility of the AIS directorate in June, 2001, I accepted the challenge to ensure that the facility was designed, built and implemented within record time. A graduate of Valley Forge Military Academy and Junior College, the academy ROTC Program, Aviation Training Academy of New York, Villanova University College of Arts and Sciences, and American College, my wife Stacie and I volunteer our time to the Small Paws Rescue organization of Tulsa, Oklahoma. I live with my wife and our two Chihuahuas in South Hills, Pennsylvania.