Gregory Hess

 Class(es) I'm Currently Taking:

I am currently taking:
ITM 913  and EC420 (Spring 2024)

Classes I'm Currently Teaching:

This semester I am teaching

ITS 3510 (Ethical Hacking)
CIS 4310 (Enterprise Architecture)

Certifications and Memberships:

• Member: Utilities Telecomm Council (2014)

• Vice Chair: APPA Technology Group (2015)

• Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer 3.51/4.00/2000/2003/2008R2.

• CCNA with security, Industrial, route/switch  specializations.

• CCDA Route/Switch path.

• Certified Novell Engineer 4.x/5.x.

• Certified Exchange server 2000/2003.

• Certified MS SQL Server 2000 / 2008.

• Certified IBM DB2 v8.x

• RCDD certified (2014)

• CISSP

• A+/Network+/Security+ ce

• AWS Certified Solution Architect

• FEMA certified in ICS-100/100 for public works, Incident Command, National Response, NIMS and ICS for initial action.

• NERC-CIP SME for Mid-west region.

Education

Lansing Community College: 1993
Graduated - Associate Degree: Paralegal and Business Finance
Dean's honor roll

Capella University: 2014
Graduated - Bachelor of Science in Computer Science
GPA: 3.94

Montana State University: 2019
Graduated - Master's of Science in Computer Science
Adjunct Faculty - Cyber Infrastructure Class

Michigan State University: Current
PhD candidate - Computer Science / ITM
3.66 GPA / Golden Key Honor Society

Career Positions

2024 - I am a professor of cyber infrastructure and security at Baker college.

2021 - current: I've accepted responsibility for leading the Network Operations team as well as the Planning at MSU. 

2020 - current: I've accepted a job as the Manager of Network Planning for Michigan State University

2020 - current: Enterprise Architect for State of Michigan
- Develop and design solutions for Michigan Department of Corrections Cyber Infrastructure and Security Projects

2016 - 2019: Director of Network Services, Montana State University
- Oversee campus telephony system
- Oversee campus wireless network and standards
- Oversee campus wired network and devices and standards
- Oversee campus copper and fiber optic wiring and standards
- Creation of strategic plan(s) for secure cyber infrastructure

1998 - 2016: IT Manager, Lansing Board of Water and Light
- Oversee IT staff for Utility
- Oversee programming
- Oversee cyber infrastructure
- Oversee Operational IT
- Oversee Helpdesk
- Oversee redundant and NERC-CIP data centers

Paper Reviews

• Quantifying Uncertainty in Random Forests via Confidence Intervals and Hypothesis Tests 

• Surrogate regret bounds for generalized classification performance metrics 

• LSTM: A Search Space Odyssey 

• Online reinforcement learning with task hierarchies 

• CODA: Runtime Detection of Application-layer CPU-Exhaustion DoS Attacks in Containers 

• MQT-TZ: Hardening IoT Brokers Using ARM TrustZone 

• Using Heuristics to the Controller Placement Problem in Software Defined, Multihop Wireless Network 

Academic Membership and Activities

• Warming Center (homeless shelter) volunteer - Bozeman, MT

• Member of Montana State University 'Gaymers' student group

• Member of Montana State University 'Queer-Straight-Alliance' student group

• Volunteer Science Olympiad 2016-2018 - Bozeman, MT

• Member of 'Women in Data Analytics' Association

• Golden Key Honor Society

• Volunteer 'Homeless Angels' - Lansing, MI

• Volunteer 'It's a Breast Thing' - East Lansing, MI

• Member of Michigan State University 'Campus Edge'  student group