• Education: MSCSS University of Washington Tacoma, BSCS Chapman University
• Associate Teaching Professor, BSIT, MSIT, & MCL Programs
• University of Washington Tacoma
• School of Engineering and Technology
• Cherry Parkes 215 (top of the big stairs first door on right)
• TEL 253-692-5980, MOB 253-777-5387, Zoom #2537775387 passwd 253777
• My Research Home Folder
• Zoom Office Hours Appointments - (many times are available Mon-Thu)

Background: My areas of research are Honeynets, hardening Honeynets against detection by Botnets, Network defense and Cybersecurity applications of C#.NET, including secure coding and automation of security tools. I have co-authored journal and conference articles. I am faculty advisor for the campus GreyHat security group, and a member of The Honeynet Project, an international cybersecurity organization. I am a contributor to the development efforts of the IT curriculum in the areas of networking, programming and system administration, to include a Masters in IT. I have held Cisco CCNA certifications in Routing and Switching and Security as well as Network Engineering and Information Assurance Certificates from the UW's Professional and Continuing Education. I am a certified CCNA instructor and the director of SET's Cisco NetAcad. I have been programming UNIX, Linux, Vax, DOS, LEGO Mindstorms, Tandy, and Windows computers in QBasic, Pascal, FORTRAN, Ada, C, C++, Java, JavaScript, R, PowerShell, and C# since the early 1990's.

My regular teaching assignments here at the University usually include the following (annually):

• Autumn: TInfo-250 Foundations of Information Networking, TInfo-451 Routing and Switching
• Winter: TInfo-200 Programming II for ITS (C#.NET OO programming)
• Spring: TInfo-452 Windows System Administration
• Summer (full term): TCSL-550 Network and Internet Security, TInfo-452 Windows System Administration

• My cybersecurity philosophy: High quality basic system administration is the basis of all cybersecurity. In other words, put the network together correctly in the first place and you already avoid more than half the attacks out there.

• I am the Faculty Advisor for the UWT GreyHat computer security group. We meet in CP206I on Fridays at 12:30pm during regular weeks of instruction. You can find the Greyhat Group in the University's Student Groups pages: Greyhat Group

• You can also find me often in the CP206C ITNL (Information Technology Network Labratory) right across the foyer from my office. Check out the pictures of the lab as it is now, as it was over years past, and the equipment that we have located there - much of it generously donated by Cisco, Boeing, and the United States Navy. Students use these commercial grade routers and switches to study hands on networking labs and cybersecurity in hardening networks against attacks.
• BSIT students hard at work in the ITNL labs

As a teaching professor who regularly teaches graduate courses (MCL and soon MSIT) I mentor students who are doing their MCL Capstones in the areas of:

• pen-testing - attacking network protocols
• network defense and server hardening
• botnet tracking
• honeynets, honeypots, hardening against honeynet aware botnets
• .NET programming topics - secure coding, network analysis, security tools automation, other security related areas of .NET
• ASP.NET - CSS, CSRF, and OWASP Secure Coding

Hobbies:

.NET: In my spare time I like to learn about .NET Core full stack web application development and I have a passion for learning anything having to do with C# and .NET.

Music: I studied music extensively as a child & teen and again later at USC and I am still involved in playing and recording with friends, using digital recording, digital amp simulators and instruments, speaker cabinet impulse responses, DAWs, and web-based music sharing and collaboration sites. I play guitar, trumpet, and piano and love just about all styles of music.

Guitar Method: For the past 50 some years now, from my teenage years through college and then playing clubs and concerts, recording, etc. I've been thinking about getting more than a few of the ideas that have been floating around inside my head down into some kind of "book" and although it is definitely a work in progress, I've tried to collect some of the best of the best ideas that I've been exposed to over the years of having the absolute best music teachers in the world. Please feel free to comment and let me know what you think. I don't think you'll find a collection of applied fingerboard harmony ideas quite like these in any other location or collection - at least, none that I've ever seen. Useful Guitar Chord System is the working name for now. And although that was my original intention, the title is a little misleading and narrow at this point. The book is more like a collection of ad hoc fingerboard harmonic systems and organizations of tones and harmonic structures. Fits a variety of music styles from rock to jazz, funk, R&B (original), blues, country, folk, americana, etc. and all of it is ultimately immediately usable.

Driving/Travel: I'm an avid traveler and love taking extensive road trips to visit family.

• 2022 - This Summer my wife and I logged over 7,000 miles with stops in South Dakota, Tulsa, Memphis, New Orleans, Tupelo, Atlanta, Cocoa Beach, Orlando, and Dallas! We squeezed in a cruise to Alaska including Endicott Arm and Dawes Glacier before the end of Summer, and a quick trip down to Arizona to check out ASU where my youngest is probably going to go to school.
• 2023 - Our oldest daughter lives in South Dakota and we go there often to see our 3 beautiful grandchildren. In May I'll fly to Orlando to spend time with my son Tony and after graduation Nichole and I are heading for the open seas again - this time we are going back to the Caribbean for 10 days with Tony and his girlfriend Carthi, our younger daughter Tiana and her friend Ella. We didn't make it up to Alaska this summer, but after finishing my MCL course, I already visited my father-in-law in Tulsa and will soon head back to South Dakota with my older daughter and then down to Dallas to see my sister Cindy and wrap up my summer on a "guitar hunt" with my nephew Dillon. I'm looking for a good quality strat to add to my collection and he wants something too, so we'll check out Big D's guitar shops while I'm there..
• 2024 - This Summer was a busy one with work with little time for travel, but my wife and I did manage to squeeze in a cruise to Alaska after the end of Summer quarter. This was a 7 day that took us up to Endicott Arm and Tracy Arm to view the Dawes glacier up close. It was gorgeous and we were able to book it on our favorite line Celebrity. Nothing like a week on the inside passage and at sea to put things back in perspective. Next summer, we're already booked on a really cool smaller ship that we'll be going all around Tahiti and South Polynesia. We were there in 2006 and pray it hasn't changed much.

Contact: costarecuw.edu