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CompTIA Advanced Security Practitioner
Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH)
Offensive Security Certified Professional (OSCP)
Digital Forensics
Past Credentials
Sr. Security Consultant, Booz Allen Hamilton International
Chief Information Security Officer, (CISO) CRIPTIQ
Contractor, United States Government
Haydar Majeed
Academic Director and Professor of Practice
USD, Master's in Cybersecurity Engineering
Nikolas Behar
USD Adjunct Faculty and Information Security Consultant
Expert in leading offensive security, red and purple teams
Pradeep Kathail
CTO - Enterprise Networking, Cisco and USD Advisory Board Member
Ex-Senior Scientist at Apple
Haydar Majeed, MS
Academic Director, Professor of Practice
Award-winning contractor for the US Department of Defense.
Imane Khalil, PhD
Associate Dean of Graduate Programs and Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Led structural analysis for NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity.
Nahid Farhady, PhD
Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft
Ex-cybersecurity head at Google Cloud
Brad Lunn
Managing Director, Gerenal Atomics
Leads cybersecurity initiatives for General Atomics
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$145,000
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$170,000
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$155,000
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$135,000
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$190,000
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BS, Electrical Engineering Commander of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-8 mission
Jim Parsons
Actor, Primetime Emmy and Golden Globe Winner
Mike Brown
Associate head coach for the Golden State Warriors of the National Basketball Association (NBA)
Lowell McAdam
Former President CEO of Verizon Communications
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American biochemist & geneticist. Founder of Celera Genomics, Institute for Genomic Research and the J. Craig Venter Institute
Monte Berm
Co-founder, Chairperson of board of Directors, StepStone
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BS/BA, Electrical EngineeringLed over 20 LEED sustainability projects worth multi-million dollar projects
