About Me

I am full-time faculty at East Texas A&M University and RELLIS Academic Alliance, where I teach computer science, information systems, artificial intelligence, and cybersecurity. With over four decades of experience in the computer industry, including 15 years at a Fortune 500 bank and brokerage, I bring real-world expertise into the classroom. As a network performance and capacity engineer, I ensured the bank's enterprise global networks remained highly secure with integrity and always available—skills I now pass on to prepare students for impactful careers in IT.

As a doctoral student at Texas A&M University’s SPIES Lab, my research explores cognitive security and cyberpsychology, focusing on cyberattacks such as phishing and deepfakes. I am also passionate about network defenses, performance optimization, AI, ethics, and advancing computer science education. My interdisciplinary background spans plant physiology, molecular biology, supply chains, and agricultural development, providing a unique perspective on problem-solving and innovation.

As a cancer survivor and disabled individual, I believe that our challenges and unique perspectives are our greatest strengths. I strive to inspire my students and colleagues to embrace diversity of thought, fostering new ideas in academia and industry. For instance, did you know that a higher percentage of CEOs are dyslexic compared to the general population?

Respect, Excellence, Leadership, Loyalty, Integrity, Service (RELLIS) "is where passion meets purpose, innovation roams freely, and limitations are ignored." - video, https://rellis.tamus.edu/

"Chance favors the prepared mind" - Louis Pasteur

"True, the initial ideas are in general those of an individual, but the establishment of the reality and truth is, in general, the work of more than one person" - My Great Uncle, Dr. Willard F. Libby, Nobel Laureate Chemist and Discoverer of Radiocarbon 14 Dating