Assistant Professor La Roche University’s Department of Justice, Law and Security
Subject matter expert in cyber national security, cybercrime, and international terrorism
Retired Supervisory Special Agent (SSA) of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
EDUCATION/CERTIFICATION:
B.B.A., Temple University, 1990
M.B.A., Saint Joseph’s University, 1994
M.S.I.T., Carnegie Mellon University, 2017
Graduate, FBI Academy, New Agent Training, Quantico, Virginia, 1999
FBI Evidence Response Team – Certification
Intelligence Community Joint Duty Credit
ACADEMIC HONORS AND AWARDS:
Dean’s List, Temple University, 1990
COURSES TAUGHT:
Computer Crime
Theories of Criminal Deviance
Constitutional Law
Crime, Terror and the Environment
Cloud Computing and Client Architecture (Graduate Course)
Legal and Ethical Issues in Information Systems (Graduate Course)
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE IN THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE AND NATIONAL SECURITY FIELDS:
Computer Specialist, Federal Bureau of Investigation, 1996-1999
Special Agent, Federal Bureau of Investigation, 1999-2024
Investigative experience in financial crimes, fugitive task force, public corruption, cybercrime and national security matters
Coordinated Pittsburgh FBI’s High-Tech Crimes Task Force
Supervised Pittsburgh FBI’s Computer Analysis and Response Team and Computer Scientist Programs
FBI Cyber Division SSA, led Cyber Division Initiatives for the Financial and Telecommunications Fraud Threat Cells Received; assisted on multiple botnet takedowns and remediation efforts through industry cooperation and received the 2011 FBI Director’s Award for “Outstanding Cyber Investigation”
FBI Squad SSA, led the Joint Terrorism Task Force with a focus on International Terrorism and led the Pittsburgh Threat Assessment–Threat Management Team who work with the FBI’s Behavioral Analysis Unit.
Assistant Section Chief, FBI Criminal Justice Information Services Division, helped lead the Global Law Enforcement Support Section units supporting NCIC, IRIS Pilot Program, Contactless Fingerprint and Mobile Biometric Devices, Uniform Crime Reporting, and Virtual Command Center systems.
FBI Squad SSA, led 14 employees who won the 2019 FBI Director’s Award and U.S. Attorney General’s “Outstanding Cyber Investigation” Award for USADA/WADA indictments, and led a Cyber Squad investing Russian National Security matters, Cyber-Criminal matters, led the Pittsburgh National Academy Chapters, and the Pittsburgh Evidence Response Team.
FBI Cyber Division Unit Chief, led 40 technical employees in a Unit overseeing computer intrusion data; led an FBI Director’s Pilot Project to take intrusion data to one of the first U.S. Government Cloud instances and received a Director’s Citation for Special Achievement for the project.
FBI Acting Assistant Legal Attaché – Europol (The Hague, Netherlands), led FBI liaison efforts at Europol’s European Crime Centre (EC3) by assisting in Cybercrime, Anti-Terrorism and Money Laundering investigations with Europol, Eurojust and EC3 Cyber Crime subject matter experts.
Acting Assistant Legal Attaché – Legat Kyiv (Kyiv, Ukraine), Led Cyber Liaison efforts as Assistant Legal Attaché at U.S. Embassy in Kyiv, Ukraine; Interfaced with Ukrainian Law Enforcement, the U.S. Ambassador and U.S. State Department; led cooperation efforts on Zeus malware takedown with Ukrainian Law Enforcement, and assisted with the Ukrainian investigation into a Russian dissident murdered in Ukraine.
Adjunct Professor, Robert Morris University, 2021 – 2023, taught Cybercrime
Adjunct Professor, La Roche University 2022-2024, taught graduate and undergraduate courses
