The Department of Technology, located in the John Mitchell Center on the Gorham campus is part of the College of Science, Technology, and Health and provides degree programs in Cybersecurity (CS), Information Technology (IT), and Technology Management (TM) (ATL).

The Cybersecurity Ambassador Program (CAP) is a University of Southern Maine (USM) sponsored organization that encourages cybersecurity research and community awareness through outreach events. CAP promotes sought-after workplace skills for students while simultaneously allowing them to give back to their communities.

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Responsible to leverage the power of HP Enterprise's (HPE) technology solutions to help our clients in North and South Carolina achieve transformational business outcomes. It is through this customer focused approach that the team accelerated overall growth across HPE's entire solution portfolio which includes systems, applications and services. Charged with the creation and execution of the sales strategy, GTM modeling, market segmentation, channels approaches and executive relationships in the Carolinas leading a high performing integrated sales team.The One Carolinas Team within the Southeast Enterprise Group managed customer sales engagement, customer relationships and customer satisfaction across every segment in the Carolinas. This sales organization built deep and strategic relationships with customers spanning Enterprise, Commercial, SMB, and SLED accounts.

eGroup is a South Carolina provider of hybrid cloud solutions, software, data analytics, security, mobility, cloud and managed services. As VP, Services, managed $26M portfolio and created services strategy and plans. Success was evidenced by the company winning the 2014 & 2015 CRN “Triple Crown” and the following accolades: 2015 Inc. 5000 Fastest Growing Companies in America; 2015 CRN Fast Growth 150; 2015 CRN Solution Provider 500; 2015 CRN Tech Elite 250; 2015 List of 40 Dynamic Companies - Charleston Magazine; 2015 Channel Partners 360⁰ Business Value Awards - Channel Partners Magazine

Senior Director of Operations/Strategy & Planning (Cisco) who created the strategic direction and ran operations for Cisco Services Sales which is a $6B+ book of business in North & South America. Known for building an innovative strategy and plans process with specific tools and practices that were copied globally by other sales organizations. Measurable results included:Aligned operational excellence with execution to improve sales bookings per head by 12%-- Introduced business analytics and propensity to buy modeling which drove up bookings by 9% in piloted areas-- Aligned operational excellence with execution to improve sales bookings per head by 12%-- Created a customer success proposal that was accepted and adopted by Cisco-- Created a multi-organization “war room” to address shortfalls in quota achievement goals and went from behind 29% in the first half to achieving goal by year end.-- Led the services organization on its first true strategic planning cycle which produced a multi-disciplinary year plan before the end of year; something they attempted but failed up to that point-- SC Team Captain for Tour de Cure and was #1 fundraiser at Cisco

General Manager delivered the fastest growth of professional services in the Americas. Supported 1 - 2 VP(s), 5 to 7 Operations or Client Directors and was responsible for delivering at least $27 - 40M annually with a team of fifty to seventy-five comprised of Cisco Engineers, Project Managers, and High Touch Operations Managers.-- Achieved more than 13% annuity offer growth each year-- Created an enterprise approach to consolidate and grow accounts which led to three deals in excess of $100M over two years

General Manager of professional services organizations responsible to deliver innovative IT solutions that achieve business results. Key to this role was successfully leading a P&L organization, driving industry leading delivery activity, managing customer sentiment, developing highly skilled technical talent, mentoring managers, and providing holistic program management so that global US Defense clients received industry leading professional services from a “One Cisco” Delivery Team.-- Drove over 12% growth three years in a row-- Sold and delivered using an innovative approach to get the first Advisory Services engagement in US Federal which served to increase business 300% with the US Air Force and over 500% with the US Army-- Known for taking situations where client satisfaction was low and changing them into a reference accounts-- Created a new high touch delivery model that improved satisfaction from 4.1 to 4.75 (out of 5) without increasing headcount

Key strategy, planning and operational role designed to expertly focus the 340 person JIEDDO staff on key issues of primary concern to the four star JIEDDO Director. As such, this role required daily interaction with civilian and military senior executives such as the Deputy Secretary of Defense, the Deputy Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Combatant Commanders, and other key stakeholders providing requirements to this $5B rapid acquisition effort. Advisor on development of a wide range of strategic policy items, congressional briefings, relevant information technology policies and input to directives guiding DoD’s electronic warfare employment in support of defeating improvised explosive devices. Reviewed all operational matters ensuring highest quality products were delivered to the President of the United States, Secretary of Defense, Congress and their supporting staffs.

Commanded the 5,000 Solider unit responsible for all IT training in the US Army. The school trained over 17,000 Signal and Ordnance Soldiers annually and was responsible to make sure that each Solder had the right physical, technical, and tactical skill sets to make an immediate contribution to their first unit of assignment.

Strategist serving as a Special Assistant directly to the Chief of Staff of the Army (CSA) with primary focus in the area of Strategic Communications. Led Army level strategic planning that produced capstone documents such as the Army Posture Statement, the Army Modernization Plan, the Army Program Objective Memorandum (POM) Summary and the Army Vision Statement.

Commanded 684 Soldiers who installed and operated the tactical and installation IT networks critical to US forces throughout the Demilitarized Zone in the Republic of Korea. Concurrent responsibility as CIO with a $12M budget to maintain critical secure network infrastructure for 10,000 2ID Soldiers dispersed in 7 camps across the border between the two Koreas.

DoD Space Architect responsible for developing plans, policy, and doctrine for DoD organizations to access space based IT services in order to leverage integrated command, control, communications, and computer (C4) systems. Conducted strategy and planning efforts that produced doctrine and policy governing secure space based systems integrating into tactical and strategic networks. As Executive Officer, provided strategy, planning, and operational oversight for the 140 person J-6 staff on key issues of primary concern to the three star general who was the Director/CIO.

Served as Presidential Communications Officer providing instantaneous voice and data communications at all times.Developed and implemented both the IT service desk and end user customer support desk organizations for the President and support staff.Provided oversight for all programs necessary to migrate from a mainframe computer center architecture to a state-of-the-art data center with premier network infrastructure, security, mobility, storage, and end user interfaces.