Initiatives

Initiatives I am currently involved in are:

  • Improving Pathways into the Geospatial and Unmanned Aircraft Systems Technician Workforce (GeoTed-UAS Drone Project) – Faculty Institute to be better qualified to provide geospatial analysis and sUAS instruction within the CS discipline.
  • Program Evaluator for ABET’s Computing Accreditation Commission (Cybersecurity & IT)
  • Virginia Moose Association, Youth Awareness Coordinator – Youth Awareness Program provides scholarships to Virginia’s high school students to attend college or trade schools
  • Inspire CS-AI Fellowship, alongside staff from MIT TSL and CMU – will work together to creatively and playfully co-design equity-focused practice spaces using Teacher Moments and ELK.
  • Delta Phi Chapter of Epsilon Pi Tau – Trustee at Laurel Ridge Community College. Epsilon Pi Tau (EPT) is an international technology honor society that provides students and practitioners to network and scholarship together.

Former or completed initiatives I worked on are:

  • Lord Fairfax Community College Interim Point of Contact for Cybersecurity program and Cybersecurity CTF Competition Team Coach 2021-2022
  • Virginia Cyber Range, Executive Board Member, Guide the states cyber range education initiative as a representative of a Center for Academic Excellence (CAE) institution.
  • Virginia Community College System’s Technology Peer Group Lead for the states 700+ technology faculty and coordinating the technology meetings and track at the bi-annual STEM conference.
  • National Center For Women & Information Technology (NCWIT) Learning Circles
  • The Journal of Technology, Management, and Applied Engineering published by ATMAE – Reviewer.
  • Cybersecurity Skills Journal: Practice and Research – Reviewer, The the nation’s first hybrid-access scholarly publication focused exclusively on cybersecurity skills published by the National CyberWatch Center.
  • ACM Committee for Computing Education in Community Colleges (CCECC) Work to advance computing education at associate-degree granting colleges and similar post-secondary institutions throughout the world.
  • Frederick County Public Schools CTE Advisory Committee appointment for three years.
  • Core Team Member, ABET 2YCy Project Establish ABET accreditation for two-year degrees in cybersecurity.
  • Tech Talent/Cyber Faculty Fellow with Old Dominion University
  • The Twelfth International Conference on Mobile, Hybrid, and On-line Learning (eLmL), Serve on the Technical Committee and chair of a special track for student research.
  • American Journal of Computer Science and Technology Editorial Board, Review manuscripts carefully and give suggestions without any bias and promote scholarly work in the CS & Technology fields.