Jason Zeller
Instructor
Network Development Group
Jason began working as a Research and Development Technician
at a Rural Internet Service Provider implementing Fiber to the Home. In 2011, Jason made the transition to Network Development Group where he was a Senior Product Engineer for over 9 years. During this time, in 2014, Jason became an adjunct professor for Fort Hays State University and in 2019 became a full-time assistant professor responsible for the undergraduate Cybersecurity program as well as the graduate
Cybersecurity and Information Assurance programs.
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Network Development Group
Kerry Bruce
Raspberry Pi Certified Educator
Central New Mexico Community College
Kerry A. Bruce is a community college instructor and Raspberry Pi Certified
Educator who teaches Computer Information Systems courses at Central New Mexico Community College in Albuquerque, NM. Kerry is also the founder and faculty adviser for the CNM HackerSpace, a collaborative space designed to foster creativity, experimentation, and discovery of any and all technology related interests the students may have. The CNM HackerSpace is home to many student opportunities to learn, including Raspberry Pi workshops, several robotics teams, Cyber Olympics, Gameathons,
Open Source 3D Printing, supercomputing, plus PC building, networking and security. Additionally, Kerry has created and implemented a popular CIS course using the Raspberry Pi to teach the Internet of Things (IOT), Computer Science, and Computer Information Systems concepts at the community college level. Starting this fall the course will be a required course in 2 CIS degrees at CNM. Kerry’s personal mission is to encourage and ignite the passion for learning through the acts of doing, tinkering, and making.
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Raspberry Pi Certified Educator
Central New Mexico Community College
Irvin Lemus
Cybersecurity Professor
Cabrillo College
Irvin Lemus has been in the industry for 10+ years as an MSP technician, consultant, instructor, and coordinator. He is currently the cybersecurity professor at Cabrillo College in Santa Cruz, CA. He also is the Bay Area Cyber Competitions Regional Coordinator as well as a contest creator for SkillsUSA CA and FL. Irvin has spoken at various cybersecurity and educational conferences. Irvin holds a CISSP and a bachelor’s degree in Information Security.
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Cybersecurity Professor
Cabrillo College
Sam Bowne
Instructor
City College of San Francisco (CCSF)
Sam Bowne has been teaching computer networking and security classes at City College of San Franciso (CCSF) since 2000. He has given talks and hands-on trainings at DEF CON, DEF CON China, HOPE, BSidesSF, BSidesLV, RSA, and many conferences and colleges.
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Instructor
City College of San Francisco (CCSF)
Michael Masino
Information Security Program Director
Madison Area Technical College
Michael has developed numerous courses in Information Technology and
Cyber Security. He developed several of the labs that will be used in this
workshop. Michael holds several industry certifications including GIAC
Certified UNIX Security Administrator (GCUX) GIAC Certified UNIX Security
Administrator (GCUX) GIAC Python Coder (GPYC) GIAC Penetration Tester
(GPEN) GIAC Certified Intrusion Analyst (GCIA) GIAC Certified Forensic
Analyst (GCFA) GIAC Advisory Board.
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Information Security Program Director
Madison Area Technical College
Adrian Iliesiu
Technical Leader
Cisco
Adrian Iliesiu (CCIE R&S No. 43909) is a Cisco DevNet Technical Leader that specializes in network programmability and automation, SD-WAN, Cisco DNA Center and Data Center technologies. Before joining Cisco, he worked as a systems administrator, senior network engineer, and team leader throughout Europe and North America. He holds a BS from Technical University of Cluj-Napoca in Electronics and Telecommunications, a MSc from Politehnica University of Bucharest in Telecommunications Networks and has 15+ years of IT and telecom industry experience.
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Technical Leader
Cisco
Faysal Shaarani
Principal Solution Architect
Treasure Data
Faysal has been in the field of Information Technology for three decades working with Oracle Databases and Oracle products. He has spent 10 of those years with Oracle Corporation working in different capacities (Consulting, Technical Support, and Sales and Marketing IT). While at Oracle Consulting, Faysal delivered on-site training to Oracle customers in the United States and overseas.
In addition to writing numerous Oracle technical articles, Faysal has edited and provided technical reviews to various technical articles and books on Relational Databases, Oracle, and the SQL and PL/SQL programming languages.
Faysal spent 13 years at Cisco Systems working in different capacities (Data Warehousing as a Senior IT Engineer/Operations and infrastructure Lead, IT Compliance, IT Architecture, and Borderless Networks). Over the same period, he has been teaching various Oracle classes (Oracle Database
Architecture and Administration, Backup and Recovery, Performance Tuning, PL/SQL Programming, SQL Programming, Oracle Forms, and Oracle Reports) at both UC Santa Cruz and UC Berkeley Extensions as well as at the University of Phoenix and at Ohlone College.
Over the past decade, Faysal has worked as a Senior Business Intelligence Data Analyst at Hightail, Inc., as a Senior Solution Architect at Snowflake and is currently a Principal Solution Architect at Treasure Data where has been part of their technical sales team for the past four years. Faysal holds a BS in Computer Science and an MBA in Marketing.
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Principal Solution Architect
Treasure Data
James Stanger
Chief Technology Evangelist
CompTIA
James has worked with Information Technology (IT) subject matter experts, hiring managers, CIOs, CISOs, and educators worldwide. James has a rich 20-year history in the IT space including roles such as security analyst, penetration tester, Linux systems administrator, network administrator, and certification program designer. He has also designed certifications, curricula, and courses. Organizations he has consulted with include Northrop Grumman, DBS Bank (Singapore), Dell, the Japan Self Defense Force, Boeing, the United States Department of State, IBM, Symantec, the University of Cambridge, and West Point.
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Chief Technology Evangelist
CompTIA
Jorge Crichigno
Associate Professor
University of South Carolina
Dr. Jorge Crichigno is an Associate Professor in the College of Engineering and Computing at the University of South Carolina. He received his PhD in Computer Engineering from the University of New Mexico. He has over 70 publications in peer-reviewed journals and conferences related to networks and cybersecurity. Prior to working in the academia, he worked in the telecommunications industry as a network security/software engineer. He currently leads projects involving workforce development, big science data networks, cybersecurity, and Science DMZs (secure high-speed networks operating at 100 Gbps).
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Associate Professor
University of South Carolina
Kristina Kaldon
Program Manager of Learning Alliances & Technical Certifications
UiPath
Kristina helps professors, students, and the community develop skills to be successful RPA professionals. Prior to her role on the Learning Alliances team, she was on the professional services team as an RPA developer, developing software robots that automate manual tasks for businesses, training the next generation of RPA developers, and consulting as a subject matter expert for the certification team. Prior
to that, Kristina worked as a software engineer at Abarca, a pharmacy benefit manager in San Juan, Puerto Rico, and as assistant technical staff in the space division at MIT Lincoln Laboratory in Lexington, Massachusetts. Kristina’s passions are advancing diversity and inclusion and STEAM education in underrepresented areas, traveling to new places (and back to Puerto Rico), and her dog, Snax.
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Program Manager of Learning Alliances & Technical Certifications
UiPath
Luke Duffy
Principal
V-Learn Australia & The Quill Consultancy
Luke Duffy, Principal at V-Learn Australia & The Quill Consultancy, Experienced Information Technology Specialist with a demonstrated history of working in the information technology and services industry. Skilled in Visual Basic, SQL, SharePoint, Requirements Analysis, ITIL, and Customer Relationship Management (CRM). Strong information technology professional with a BBIS focused in Database Design from Victoria University.
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Principal
V-Learn Australia & The Quill Consultancy
Matthew Cloud
Founder
Notre Dame
Since July 2021, Matthew directs the Computer Science program as Prof.
of the Practice at Holy Cross College at Notre Dame. While an undergraduate at Texas A&M University in the early 90’s, he created a company, Cloud Technologies, which ranged from automatic calibration of imaging systems for human function to logistics of building the US network.
In 2008, he began to focus on understanding the network of the human brain as a biomedical engineer (MS-Univ. of Texas Arlington and UT Southwestern Medical School) to help those with Stroke, TBI, pain, PTSD or ADHD recover.
Since 2014, he has served in several State roles for Indiana as Director of a DOL grant supporting the IT Pathways for the School of IT at Ivy Tech CC with over 22,000 IT students and 150 faculty, Department Chair for Ivy Tech Lake County, State Vice-Chair for CS, member of the Indiana K12 IT and CS DOE Committees, and Indiana Governor’s Cybersecurity Executive Council. He has served as an Advisor for CISCO Academy Global Board, NetAcad 4 Diverse Abilities, think tanks for Federal Reserve Banks and the National Skills Coalition. He currently directs NSF research on IT paths, and a grant from the National Center for Academic Excellence in Cybersecurity focused on AI, forensics, and cloud systems, CWCT.us.
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Founder
Notre Dame
Elizabeth Shaw
Instructor
Cabrillo College
Elizabeth Shaw has been involved with BACCC CyberCamps and Cyber Competitions for two years as a trainer, coach, and mentor. She has taught for Santa Cruz County Office of Education for over 12 years and serves as local coordinator and trainer for Cabrillo College’s summer CyberCamps and Santa Cruz County Office of Education student CyberClub training. Elizabeth provides a high school teaching perspective for recruiting and supporting high school teachers to be camp trainers and competition coaches.
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Instructor
Cabrillo College
Eric Skagerberg
Instructor
Santa Rosa Junior College
Eric brings over 30 years of community college teaching in Computer Science/Computer Systems Support at Santa Rosa Junior College and over 32 years of industry experience as a small business owner, including over six years as a BACCC summer CyberCamp Trainer. Eric led curriculum development for the summer 2020, 2021, and 2022 in Linux, Networking, Windows, and Digital Forensics topics. Eric provides a community college teaching perspective for recruiting and supporting community college teachers to be camp trainers and competition coaches.
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Santa Rosa Junior College
Bob Blencowe
Sr. Instructor
VMware
Bob Blencowe is currently a Sr. Instructor with VMware where he provides training in vSphere, Containers and Kubernetes as well as vSAN technologies. He also serves as adjunct faculty at local colleges where, through the VMware IT Academy, he teaches courses using VMware vSphere technologies to the next generation IT workforce. Before joining VMware, Bob was an IT professional specializing in the design, deployment, and management of highly available physical and virtual data centers in both the small and large enterprise space.
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Sr. Instructor
VMware
Bhumika Patel
Solutions Architect
Alteryx
Bhumika joined Alteryx in 2019 as a Sales Engineer and later became a Solutions Architect. With an MBA, deep technical knowledge of Alteryx and many years of enablement experience, Bhumika is excited to empower educators, learners, and career changers to develop their data analytic skills.
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Solutions Architect
Alteryx
Stephen Bolt
Global Security Operations and Engineering,
Bechtel Corporation
Career cyber security professional with over 20 years of operational and leadership experience. Proven track record in leading a globally dispersed threat intelligence-based operational security program. Subject matter expertise in cyber threat intelligence, digital forensics, and incident response. Over 15 years of teaching cyber security subjects at Universities, community colleges, and to local, state and federal law enforcement agencies.
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Global Security Operations and Engineering,
Bechtel Corporation
Rob Locke
Senior Solutions Architect
Red Hat
Rob has been an instructor, curriculum developer, lab platform architect, and exam developer in his 19 years with Red Hat. Today, he loves helping find the right paths for our customers along their technology journeys. He has been teaching in the technology industry for over thirty years. Rob lives in Connecticut with his wife and enjoys researching his family history in his spare time.
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Senior Solutions Architect
Red Hat
Stephen Burns
Instructor
Goldenwest College and Santa Monica College
Stephen Burns (www.chromeallusion.com) is a digital artist and author of books on being creative with your digital tools. He is an Adobe AEL (Adobe Educational Leader) and has taught digital creativity internationally. He is an Instructor at Goldenwest College and Santa Monica College. He is a Pro-Artist for WACOM Technologies and a consultant for “The Space” (www.thespace.com) and EON XR Reality (https://eonreality.com/). He is
also the president of the Photoshop Users Group the largest Adobe Photoshop Users group in the country.
He is guest writer for several magazines to include the feature article and front cover of Photoshop User Magazine (http://www.chromeallusion.com/articles_index.htm).
Stephen Burns has been a corporate instructor and lecturer in the application of digital art and design for the past 29 years internationally. He has been exhibiting digital fine art around the world at galleries such as Durban Art Museum in South Africa, Citizens Gallery in Yokahama, Japan, and CECUT Museum Of Mexico to name a few. Part of his exhibiting won him 1st place in the prestigious Seybold International digital arts contest.
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Instructor
Goldenwest College and Santa Monica College
Koda Kol
Computer Information Systems Instructor
El Camino College
Koda is a faculty lead on the CA Cloud Workforce Project and an AWS Faculty Cloud Ambassador. He has over 14 years of experience teaching IT & Cisco Academy courses with the LA Unified School District. With his secondary and post-secondary success, he has contributed to the development of effective dual enrollment Cloud Computing programs in Los Angeles.
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Computer Information Systems Instructor
El Camino College
Khai Lu
Computer Information Systems Instructor
El Camino College
Khai is Faculty Lead for Cloud Computing curriculum, Computer Information Systems faculty, and teaches Amazon Web Services and PC Support and Networking. He has been a motivated IT strategist of 20 years and has expertise in developing data-proven technical solutions from inception to implementation. He has a strong background in systems analysis, application programming, and business data communications. Khai is a certified Amazon Faculty Ambassador.
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Computer Information Systems Instructor
El Camino College
Jeff Davis
Google Authorized Training Partner:
Jeff is a Director of Strategy and Customer Success at ROI Training, focused on Google Cloud Platform. He partners with Google to develop learning strategies and products, and he leads high-stakes training engagements for Google employees, customers, and partners. In a previous life, Jeff led the global Customer Success and Enterprise Evangelism practices at Google. Other roles have included serving as the Vice President of Customer Success at Highfive Technologies (a SaaS video conferencing vendor), and seven years as an Adjunct Faculty member of the Santa Rosa Junior College Computer and Information Science (CIS) department. Jeff holds a BA in Economics from U.C. Davis, and an M.B.A from Duke University.
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Bruce Regittko
Instructor
Oracle Academy
Bruce has been Oracle Academy's Principal Instructor for North America for over 10 years. Prior to Oracle Academy, Bruce taught IT courses and developed courseware for companies such as RedHat, Sun Microsystems, Hewlett-Packard, and others. Early in his career, he was an instructor in the Computer Engineering Technology department of Wake Technical Community College in Raleigh, NC.
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Instructor
Oracle Academy
Habib Matar
Instructor
Chandler Gilbert Community College
Hello! I am Professor Habib Matar. I am the lead instructor at Chandler Gilbert Community College for our Artificial Intelligence Program. This program aims to teach first- and second-year students about the subject of Artificial Intelligence and is one of the first programs in the country to do so! I have been involved in this program since its inception two years ago, which I was informed of while working at Intel as a Production Leader. I have always loved my studies in this subject from my graduate degree at Arizona State University and try to keep that the foundation of my teachings. This is an exciting new field, and I am grateful to be in the position to introduce it to anyone who is willing to learn.
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Chandler Gilbert Community College
Tim Hart
Senior Learning Specialist
Apple Professional Learning
Tim is a Senior Professional Learning Specialist focusing on Apple’s coding initiatives. He utilizes the latest Apple developer technologies to help learners world-wide think in new ways and bring their ideas to life. Experts in the Everyone Can Code and Develop in Swift resources, Tim is ready to help whether you’re just starting out or ready to bring your idea to the App Store.
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Senior Learning Specialist
Apple Professional Learning
Rich Lombardo
Senior Learning Specialist
Apple Professional Learning
Rich is a Senior Professional Learning Specialist focusing on Apple’s coding initiatives. He utilizes the latest Apple developer technologies to help learners world-wide think in new ways and bring their ideas to life. Experts in the Everyone Can Code and Develop in Swift resources, Rich is ready to help whether you’re just starting out or ready to bring your idea to the App Store.
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Senior Learning Specialist
Apple Professional Learning
