Andy Pennington Email & Phone Number

Texas, United States

Austin, Texas Metropolitan Area

Teach Cyber Security (MS Windows and Linux platforms) and work with community IT leaders to recruit and place students.

Lago Vista, Tx

Owner of office product manufacturing and distribution business. Producer of the "FlipNail" cubicle wall hanger.

Albany, Ny

Computer Security and Business professor.

Austin, Texas Metropolitan Area

Advise and training commercial and federal organizations to adopt and utilize Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning.

Austin, Texas Metropolitan Area

Mckinney Tx

UX/UI Lead for an Artificial Intelligence-enabled web portal that accelerates procurement of other AI and Machine Learning solutions for the USAF. DoD contracted project, executed October 2018 - July 2019.

Austin, Texas Area

As a Vistage Chair, Andy Pennington guides high-integrity business leaders to work together to improve themselves, their companies and their communities. He is dedicated to addressing their common struggles and complex challenges on the path to personal and professional excellence.

Austin, Texas Area

Andy served as a trusted adviser to clients who are CIOs from Global 1000 organizations and government agencies. Andy helps CIOs identify key initiatives that are critical to achieving their specific enterprise goals. Partnering includes activities (all based on the application of Information technology and management principles) such as: defining, developing, coaching and/or critiquing strategies; helping develop and/or transform their organizations; assisting/advising with the development and execution of vision and strategy; aggregating and delivering Gartner research insights on key initiatives, priorities, and implementations; and in general, becoming a consigliore for the CIO.

Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii

Colonel, USAF Reserves. Individual Reserve Augmentee to the Director, Air and Cyberspace Operations (A3/A6), at USAF PACAF (Pacific Air Forces). Acting CIO and Director of Cyber Forces for Pacific Theater.- Directed operational-level command and control of air, space & cyber operations in the Pacific theater and managed a $17.2M annual budget - Organized, trained, equipped and presented both air and cyber forces and capabilities (256 mil/gov/civ/contract operations personnel) - Advised fellow C-level leaders on PACAF IT capabilities and roadmap.- Integrated/synchronized cyber, air and space war-fighting execution

Nsa, Ft. George Meade, Md

AFCYBER Forward synchronizes air, space, cyber, and information operations at the strategic and operational levels to ensure supported commanders receive all required support. In addition, the AFCYBER Forward ensures integrated support at all levels of military planning and execution.

Cedar Park, Tx

Responsible for managing contracting, program management and business development efforts in support of Cybersecurity, Intelligence, and Training Development for Tier 1 and 2 UAS systems. Business Unit and Program Manager for USMC Tier 1 training projects for Wasp, Puma and Raven UAS.

Lackland Afb, Tx

Served at the 688 IOW as Individual Mobilization Augmentee to the Commander. Colonel, USAFR.

Austin, Texas Area

Led Marketing, Business Development, Acquisition (proposal and capture management), and Project Management activities. Led business activities supporting integration of FPGA-based encryption and avionics onto Tier 1 Unmanned Aircraft Systems.

San Antonio, Tx

Led a group of consultants who provided Business Development support to small, entrepreneurial firms entering the DoD and federal markets.

SME, online instructor and course developer for 10 cyber security courses under a DHS grant.

- Department chair for over 70 full-time and adjunct faculty providing Business and Computer Information Systems instruction- Enterprise Networking and Information Assurance course developer and Assistant Professor- Program Chair for Information Security & Assurance, PC Help Desk, and Network Administration curricula- Developed 2 IT Associate's Degree programs, and 2 Certificate programs- Developed dozens of IT course curricula and built/maintained/administered associated laboratory systems/networks

M.I.M., International Business

Ms, Project Management

Bba, Informations Systems, Statistics

Activities and Societies: AFROTC, Sigma Tau Gamma