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Thomas P. Dover
Butler County Community College

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Thomas P. Dover has worked with technology since the early 90's and currently serves as Senior Information Security Specialist for a Health Delivery Organization (HDO) in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

He is a retired Supervisory Special Agent with the US Secret Service and during his tenure with the agency was a founding member of its Electronic Crimes (ECSAP) program; worked on the development of its Critical Systems Protection (CSP) {Threat Assessment} program; and served as Resident Affiliate to the Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) at Carnegie-Mellon University.

Tom teaches a variety of technology courses at the college level including Cybersecurity, Physical Security, Business Continuity (COOP) and Digital Forensics. He holds a doctorate in Computer Science from Warren University, certification in Computer Security and Information Assurance from George Washington University and several industry-standard (security) certifications.

He can be reached at thomas.dover@bc3.edu.