WESLEY ALVAREZMember, Advisory Council Wesley Alvarez is a Cybersecurity and technology enthusiast with a passion for education. He has been working in secondary and post-secondary education environments for over 15 years, focusing on career-based Cybersecurity courses and program development. His experience includes national and global cybersecurity program design and implementation across leading colleges and universities…
ZOAIB MIRZAFaculty Member Zoaib Mirza has over 20 years of experience as an Educationalist. He currently works as an Associate Vice President at Ultimate Medical Academy with prior experience working for non-profit, for-profit, and ivy league education institutions. As a faculty and facilitator for over 15 years, Mr. Mirza has taught and developed various Technology,…
YONATAN ASHERFaculty Member Yonatan Asher is a Cybersecurity Consultant with over 20 years of experience within federal government and private industry. He is a Retired United States Air Force Officer with 25 years of service. He has performed various roles within cybersecurity, to include Data Analyst, Information Systems Security Officer, Information Systems Security Manager, Security…
TONYA BODDIEFaculty Member Tonya Boddie-Wright has over 30 years’ experience specializing in strategic development and consulting for corporations across several industries; higher education, banking/finance, healthcare, private, government, chemical, manufacturing, not for profit and pharmaceutical. She has worked with many brands providing customer relationship management solutions, integrated marketing, business development, and sales process engineering. Tonya is…
KANCHAN PANTAFaculty Member Dr. Kanchan Panta currently works as a Sr. Principal Cyber Engineer at Raytheon Company. Before working at Raytheon, Dr. Panta served in the United States Army and worked for Booz Allen Hamilton and Harris corporation in the cybersecurity field in various capacities. Dr. Panta received a Doctor of Science majoring in Cybersecurity…
JOSEPH ISSAFaculty Member Dr. Joseph Issa is a senior software engineer and data scientist with over 25 years of industry and academic experience. Dr. Issa’s educational background includes a Ph.D. in computer engineering from Santa Clara University and a Master’s degree in Information and Data Science from the University of California at Berkeley. Dr. Issa…
APRIL RAYInterim Dean & CAO April is an innovative leader with over a decade of higher education experience, working most recently as the Dean of a University Campus for Rasmussen University. She has worked in compliance providing supervision for programmatic accreditation, and leading compliance for accommodations policies and procedures. April has also worked with multiple…