Chad is a versatile, well-rounded security expert skilled in a wide variety of incident response, forensics, investigation, assessment and remediation skills. Chad is also a highly effective cyber security instructor and lecturer for Gray Hat Research with a career focus on security project management.

With over 10 years of instructor experience, Chad is instrumental in developing and teaching security courses for both law enforcement and corporate investigators, including a six day cyber crimes investigation course for the Texas Department of Public Safety's Computer Information Technology & Electronic Crime Program team (CITEC).

During his career with Gray Hat Research Corporation, Chad has assisted in the design of a video conferencing system for classified government video communications, headed a corporate network hacker intrusion investigation and remediation, and developed security policies for a telecommunications organization per U.S. government Federal Information Processing standards. Chad also served as project manager for implementation of an enterprise class secure email system.

Chad holds a Master of Science degree in Technology Project Management with a specialization in Information Systems Security.