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These people manage the MassBay Cybersecurity Range and organize competitions for students and faculty, as well as setting policy and enforcing standards.

Darrin Austin

Mr. Austin teaches Networking and Cyber Security classes. Before joining Keefe, Mr. Austin was the network and system admin for Northborough Public schools. Prior to that he worked in the IT department at Tufts Medical Center in Boston. Mr. Austin is a graduate of MassBay.

Margaret Leary

Dr. Margaret Leary has more than 35 years’ experience consulting and working in the IT and Cyber fields, serving as a senior cybersecurity policy advisor to Federal agencies in the Washington, D.C. region, including performing various studies on e-Authentication, identity theft, and privacy. Dr. Margaret Leary is a Co-PI for National CyberWatch Center, and serves as the Director for an NSA Center of Academic Excellence National Resource Center, where she assists educational institutions find program development and mentoring resources as they pursue their CAE-CD and CAE2Y designation.

Tony Sena, Alternate POC

Tony Sena is a Professor and Chair of the Computer Science department at MassBay in the areas of computer networks, IT, Linux OS, and databases. He has been an instructor and Academy Leader for MassBay’s Cisco Networking Academy since 2015. He is also an Associated External Collaborator at the CMINDS center at UMass Lowell.

Michael Lyons

With over 30 years of experience in IT, Mr. Lyons holds numerous industry certifications.  As a computer instructor, technology advocate, and lifelong learner, he is passionate about educating others and advancing technology.

Sashank Narain

Dr. Narain received his PhD in User Privacy, Mobile Security, Side-Channel Attacks, Network Security from Northeastern University prior to joining UMass Lowell. Dr. Narain’s primary research focus is on the implication of smartphone sensors like GPS, Wi-Fi, Camera, Microphones, Accelerometers, Gyroscopes and Magnetometers on User Privacy. His ongoing research aims at mitigating traditional wireless, network and systemic threats plaguing billions of smart devices worldwide.

Sashank_Narain@uml.edu

Robbie Harriman

Mr. Harriman is the Director of Advisory Services at OCD Tech and oversees the IT Advisory services teams. Prior to working at O’Connor & Drew, P.C., Mr. Harriman worked in IT for other companies, including the heavily regulated casino industry. He has a diverse range of experience in the IT field, with a deep background in IT systems administration and control areas.

rharriman@ocd-tech.com

George Erhorn

Mr. Erhorn has been working in security for around 20 years. He has had roles related to audit and compliance, compliance engineering, and security management and leadership.

Michelle Drolet

michelled@towerwall.com

Ms. Drolet is responsible for all aspects of business for Towerwall. She has more than 24 years of network and cybersecurity experience. She has leveraged that knowledge to make Towerwall a leading cybersecurity service and solution provider. Well respected in the analyst and trade community, Ms. Drolet is often published in national magazines and is a regular contributor to the Forbes Council and IDG CSOonline.

Andrew Liberatore (MassBay alum)

andrew2252@hotmail.com

Mr. Liberatore is a security engineer working for SaaS fintech company.

He is primarily involved in SOC, Enterprise security controls, SIEM Administration, WAF & DDoS, ZTNA, and Security testing.

Mr. Liberatore is the first graduate of MassBay’s Cybersecurity A.S. degree.

Shamsi Moussavi, POC

Shamsi Moussavi, POC, has been with MassBay Community College since 2004. She developed MassBay’s Cybersecurity program curricula: two certificates and an Associate in Science degree in Cybersecurity. The Associate in Science degree in Cybersecurity is the first (and only) degree of its kind approved by the Massachusetts Department of Higher Education.