Education
Masters of Business Administration - MBA, Brigham Young University - Provo, UT
Emphasis: Executive Masters of Business Administration (August 2011)
Bachelor of the Arts - Business Information Systems, Utah State University - Logan, UT
Emphasis: Major - Managerial Information Systems, Minor - Dutch (May 2000)
Experience
Assistant Professor - Faculty of Math & Computing - Brigham Young University-Hawaii (Sept 2018 - Current)
Director of Enterprise Information Systems - Brigham Young University-Hawaii (Oct 2014 - Aug 2018)
Platform System Engineer/Linux Chief Engineer - Brigham Young University (Apr 2005- Oct 2014)
Senior Consultant - Gideon Taylor LLC (Apr 2005-2014)
Database Administrator - LDS Business College (Feb 2001-Apr 2005)
Help Desk Admin/Lead Corporate Headquarters - Saddleman, Inc.(Mar 1999-Jan 2001)
Classes
Brigham Young University–Hawaii
- IT 420 Advanced System Administration (Winter 2018, Winter 2019, Winter 2021(2), Winter 2022, Winter 2023, Winter 2024)
- CIS 101 Beginning Programming (Fall 2018)
- IT 240 Web Design (Fall 2018, Spring 2019, Winter 2019, Winter 2020 (2), Winter 2021 (2), Spring 2021, Fall 2023)
- IS 350 Database Management Systems (Fall 2018, Winter 2019)
- CIS 470 Ethics in Computer and Information Sciences (Spring 2019, Fall 2019, Winter 2019, Spring 2020, Fall 2020(2), Spring 2021, Fall 2021, Spring 2022)
- IT 280 Computer Networking (Spring 2019)
- IT 320 Linux Essentials/System Administration Essentials (Fall 2019(2), Fall 2020 (2), Fall 2021 (2), Fall 2022 (2), Fall 2023(2)), Fall 2024 (1)
- IT 426 Computer Network Services (Fall 2019, Fall 2021, Winter 2022, Winter 2023, Fall 2023, Winter 2024, Fall 2024)
- IT 482 Advanced Topics in Information Security (Winter 2019, Winter 2020, Winter 2022, Winter 2023, Winter 2024)
- IT 390R Special Topics in Information Technology - Cloud Architecting (Spring 2020, Spring 2021)
- IT 390R Special Topics in Information Technology - Data Analytics and Machine Learning (Spring 2022)
- IT 224 Computer Hardware and Systems Software (Fall 2022)
- IT 310 Data Analytics and Machine Learning (Spring 2023, Spring 2024(2))
- IT 324 Internet of Things (Fall 2023)
- IT 381 Cybersecurity Analysis (Fall 2024)
Active Certifications
- CISSP – ISC2, Certified Information Systems Security Professional (May 2017-Present)
- GISP - Global Information Assurance Certification, GIAC, Information Security Professional (March 2017-Present)
- CEH – EC-Council, Certified Ethical Hacker (Jun 2023-Present)
- DFE – EC-Council, Digital Forensics Essentials (Jun 2023-Present)
- EHE – EC-Council, Ethical Hacking Essentials (Jun 2023-Present)
- NDE – EC-Council, Network Defense Essentials (Jun 2023-Present)
- CCAP – CompTIA, Certified Cloud Admin Professional (Jan 2023-Present)
- CIOS – CompTIA, IT Operations Specialist (Dec 2022-Present)
- CLNP – CompTIA, Linux Network Professional (Dec 2022-Present)
- Linux+ – CompTIA, Linux+ ce (Dec 2022-Present)
- Network+ – CompTIA, Network+ ce (Dec 2022-Present)
- CSIS – CompTIA, Secure Infrastructure Specialist (Dec 2022-Present)
- CSSS– CompTIA, System Support Specialist (Dec 2022-Present)
- Security+ – CompTIA, Security+ ce (Jun 2023-Present)
- A+ – CompTIA, A+ ce(Jun 2023-Present)
Elapsed Certifications
- Red Hat Certified System Administrator – Redhat (Feb 2014 - Feb 2017, Aug 2020 - Aug 2023)
- AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner - Amazon (Dec 2019 - Dec 2022)
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate - Amazon (Dec 2019 - Dec 2022)
Academic Presentations
Gamifying a Database Management and Design Final Exam by adding a Choose-Your-Own-Adventure Twist (EDSIGCON Proceedings 2023) https://iscap.us/proceedings/2023/pdf/5939.pdf
Mismatch in Academia and Industry: An Exploration of Perceived Graduate Competencies and Industry Expectations in Information Technology (EDSIGCON Proceedings 2023) https://iscap.us/proceedings/2023/pdf/5962.pdf
Teaching Tip- Let's Get Cracking – Teaching about cyber security and better password management by starting with cracking a safe (ISCAP 2022) https://iscap.us/proceedings/2022/cases/5757.pdf
Abstract - AWS Academy as an economical and effective Pedagogy for IT Systems Administration Essentials Course (ISCAP 2022)
Analysis of STeM Student Perceptions of a Re-Engineered General Education Program (EDSIGCON Proceedings 2021) https://iscap.us/proceedings/2021/pdf/5535.pdf
Awards
Quest for Business - 2000 2nd place
Memberships
- ISC2 - International Information System Security Certification Consortium (May 2017-Present)
- GIAC - Global Information Assurance Certification (March 2017-Present)
- AWS Educate Cloud Ambassador - Faculty Ambassador (2020- 2022)
- Higher Education User Group / Alliance (2001-2014)
- Boy Scouts of America (Multiple)
- Freedom Festival Parade Committee (2009-2013)
- Church Education System - Developers Forum (2004-2014)
- Citizens for Families - Layton co-chair (2003-2005)
Professional Presentations
Oracle UTOUG Presenter
PeopleSoft Over Time - The PeopleSoft Internet Architecture, March 14, 2013 – Salt Lake City, UT
Higher Education User Group
Alliance 2012 Session #30551, Monitoring Performance in a Virtual Server World (Technical), March 20, 2012 – Nashville, TN
Alliance 2010 Session #27572, The PeopleSoft Internet Architecture Virtualized and Simplified (Technical) - How we simplified while moving to the virtual world, Mar 01, 2010
Alliance 2010 Session #27574, Automating Administrative Tasks - Collection of data/etc with script snippets to collect needed data, Tue, Mar 02, 2010 - San Antonio, TX
Church Education System Developer Forums
Workshop 2007, - (PeopleSoft PIA, Platform Development) Laie, HI
Workshop 2009, PeopleSoft Change Management tools and processes, May 20, 2009 - Salt Lake City, Utah
Workshop 2010, Web services in BYU core application development frameworks, May 19, 2010 - Rexburg Idaho *Co-Presenter
Workshop 2010, End user query & reporting tools, May 20, 2010 - Rexburg Idaho *Co-Presenter
Workshop 2011, PeopleSoft -- upgrade considerations, modifications, platform, 21 June 2011 - Laie, HI *Co-Presenter
Workshop 2011, PeopleSoft -- custom support tools, code versioning and change management (Phire), RESTful web services, 21 June 2011 - Laie, HI *Co-Presenter
Workshop 2012, Service Oriented Architecture and Web Services, May 23 2012 - Provo, UT *Co-Presenter
Workshop 2012, Technology Updates/ Advances/ Futures/Interests at Your Institution, May 23 2012 - Provo, UT *Co-Presenter
Workshop 2012, Implementation, Enhancements, and Upgrades, May 24 2012 - Provo, UT *Co-Presenter
Workshop 2012, Authentication—CAS, API Keys, B2B Trusted Systems, May 24 2012 - Provo, UT *Co-Presenter
Workshop 2012, PeopleTools/App Environment and Platform Configuration, May 24 2012 - Provo, UT *Co-Presenter
Workshop 2012, Stage/Dev Database Refresh (from prod) Patterns, May 24 2012 - Provo, UT
Workshop 2012, System Management, Monitoring, Metrics Tools, May 24 2012 - Provo, UT
Workshop 2013, Cloud service integration, May 23 2013 - Salt Lake City, UT
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