Pittsburgh Cybersecurity Conference

As the Associate Vice President/Deputy Chief Information Officer/Chief Information Security Officer (AVP/DCIO/CISO) Tom responsible for overseeing operations of Computing and Technology Services (CTS). CTS is Duquesne University’s central IT organization. As the AVP/DCIO/CISO Tom oversees and directs the efforts of CTS including the oversight of Information Security, Administrative Applications, IT Engineering & Operations and IT Service and Support Management. Tom is also an occasional Adjunct Professor of Cybersecurity in the McAnulty College of Liberal Arts.

Tom is the recipient of the 2023 EDUCAUSE Community Leadership Award and in 2019 was recognized as the CISO of the Year by the Pittsburgh Technology Council.

Tom has been featured in Network World, Inside Higher Education, University Business, and Mighty Guides for his work in Higher Education Cloud Computing. He has spoken at conferences nationally and regionally on topics ranging from leadership, cloud computing, information security, customer support, project management and service management.

Tom serves as a leader as a Vice President and Board member of the Pittsburgh InfraGard Chapter. He is also on the Advisory Board for the Greater Pittsburgh CISO Group and Evanta Pittsburgh Governing Body. He also is an active member of the Internet2 Cloud Scorecard Working Group, Educause Cloud Computing Community Group, AICUP Information Security Consortium, and Steel City Information Security Group. He previously served as co-chair of the EDUCAUSE ECAR Cloud Computing Working Group. Tom has also been a member of the Internet2 Cloud Services Working Group(CSWG) and also the ECAR Cloud Total Cost of Ownership(TCO) Working Group. Tom served several years as the co-lead of the EDUCAUSE Cloud Computing Constituent Group.