Bill has served as a consultant in several professional service organizations and now works as the Vice President and Chief Information Security Officer of Motorola Information Protection Services. He is responsible for the company's overall program to protect critical digital proprietary information, intellectual property and trade secrets. He also directs the people, processes, and technology programs that safeguard the company's global network, computer systems and electronic business initiatives.

Bill has been quoted by leading print publications such as The Wall Street Journal , US News & World Report, The Financial Times, LA Times, and CIO Magazine. He has also appeared on many network broadcasts including Prime Time Live , CNN and CNN/fn discussing espionage and cyber crimes directed against American high technology corporations. Other assignments in his distinguished career include work as a U.S. Army Counter-intelligence Officer; Federal Agent and Investigator; Investigator and Security Consultant; Vice President of Information Security for First Interstate Bank; and Project Security Officer for “Star Wars” programs and other defense work with Hughes Aircraft Company and Rockwell.

Bill is the past chair of the American Society of Industrial Security (ASIS) Council on Safeguarding Proprietary Information ( http://www.asisonline.org/safeguarding.html ) and co-authored both the 1999 and 2001 ASIS-PwC Report on Loss of Proprietary Information. He chaired the 1999 Information Systems Audit and Control Association annual conference on Computer Audit and Security. Bill is on the Board of Directors of the International Society for Policing Cyberspace ( http://www.polcyb.org ) where he established the International Cybercrime Law Enforcement Award. He has served as industry delegate to the G-8 Cyber Crime Task Force, sponsored by the U.S. Department of Justice. He is Vice President and Board member of the global Information Systems Audit and Control Association (ISACA).

In July 2003, he received a CSO “Compass Award” from the publisher's of Chief Security Officer magazine recognizing him as one of a handful of thought leaders who “helped build security culture not just in their own organization but in the broader business community and the nation.” He holds the Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) from ISACA and has held both the Certified Protection Professional (CPP) from ASIS International, and Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA).

Bill is co-author of, I-Way Robbery: Crime on the Internet , and High Tech Investigator's Handbook: Working in the Global Environment, published by Butterworth-Heinemann ( www.bh.com) in 1999. His most recent book Netspionage: The Global Threat to Information was released in September 2000.

Randy Cetin joined CITES in 1986 as research programmer in the “Graphics Group,” and has since held numerous positions in the organization. Currently, Randy is the Director of CITES Systems and Technology Services.

The division encompasses a wide range of service responsibilities that include the CITES computer labs, cost-recovery services for Unix workstations, CITES' two data centers and Operations Center , management of numerous production servers and services, and the development of integration tools and infrastructure services.

An alumnus of the University of Illinois, Randy never received the memo indicating it was “OK” to leave campus after graduation and has been here ever since.

Alex Breen graduated from the University of Illinois in 1989. He spent the next six years working as the network administrator in Agricultural Engineering (now called Agricultural and Biological Engineering).  For the last ten years, he has worked for CITES Departmental Services in a variety of roles, such as OCCSS/Lincoln Hall Network Administrator, Manager of CITES OnSite Consulting, and Manager of Departmental Services Technical Operations. Alex was one of a group of CITES Departmental Services consultants who participated in creating the UIUC Active Directory back in 2000. Alex is an original member of CCSP and still finds it valuable to compare and discuss what's going on in different units and departments on campus.

Erik Coleman has been with CITES for five years, serving as technical lead for Windows Systems with the Systems Management Group (part of CITES Systems and Technology Services) supporting many core production systems based on Microsoft Windows Server platforms, such as the UIUC Active Directory. Erik also spent time as a UNIX system administrator with the former Production Systems Group (PSG). He graduated in 1990 from UIUC with a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Engineering and has over 17 years of experience in system management and support in a wide variety of operating systems. When away from work, Erik spends most of his free time with his wife and three children.

Devin Gengelbach  is a Windows Systems administrator within the System Management Group (part of CITES Systems and Technology Services). He has worked for CITES for twelve years in various capacities including being a charter member of the OpCenter Staff and an Operator in the Machine Room. Devin's current responsibilities include system management of several Windows based servers providing core services to campus -- most notably the UIUC Active Directory and the campus implementation of Microsoft Windows Server Update Services (WSUS). In his spare time Devin can be found playing pool or camping with friends.

James Phillips joined the Theoretical and Computational Biophysics Group (TCBG) in the Beckman Institute as a physics graduate student in 1994. Having finished his Ph.D., he is now a Senior Research Programmer responsible for the highly parallel molecular dynamics code NAMD, for which he and collaborators in the UIUC Parallel Programming Laboratory received a Gordon Bell Award at SC2002. Dr. Phillips has played a major role in the design, installation, and operation of four generations of Linux clusters serving the simulation needs of TCBG researchers.

Tim Skirvin is a Senior Systems Administrator for the Theoretical and Computational Biophysics Group (TCBG) in the Beckman Institute. He has been working as a system administrator in some form on campus for seven years, and has spent much of the last five of those years working with Linux clusters; these are documented at http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Development/Computers/Cluster/ .

Tim is also the president of Usenet @ UIUC, an organization that still runs a free campus Usenet news server (see http://news.ks.uiuc.edu/ ).

Mike Smeltzer has been CITES' Director of Network Communications since March of 2005. In that role he has focused on coordinating campus input and collaboration on the Campus Network Upgrade project, and also worked with campus units on projects that are “outside the box.” If you need help making “the box” a little bigger, Mike is your guy.

Mike came to CITES from McLeodUSA, where he was the local Operations Manager. In that capacity, he worked with the campus on a variety of voice and data projects. In addition to working in the communications industry, Mike has been a faculty member in both the UIUC College of Communications and University High School , and was publisher and general manager of the Illini Media Company.

Mike Corn joined CITES as the Director of Security Services and Information Privacy in December 2003. Mike originally came to Urbana for graduate school and has worked and taught in both the School of Music and the Department of Astronomy. During the mid to late 90's he worked as a developer, database designer, and policy wonk with University Administration. He lives in Urbana with his (still) aging Labrador Shiva and a vastly younger pup named Newt.

Brynnen Owen is a Computer Systems Specialist with the Graduate School of Library and Information Sciences. He is co-head of the GSLIS Systems Group, which is responsible for core operations of computer systems. Computer usage in GSLIS varies from simple word processing and web browsing to advanced information systems research.

Brynnen joined the University community in 1994 as a graduate student in Physics. While part of the nuclear physic space program, he helped manage Unix systems necessary for research. While finishing his Ph.D., he joined CITES Departmental Services working with Prairienet (a community network supported by GSLIS) to assist in LDAP directory service migration. Later, he joined GSLIS full-time in his current position.

Neil Thackeray has worked on systems for the Graduate School of Library and Information Science since March of 2001. He was originally hired for workstation support and server maintenance for GSLIS offices and instruction labs. Soon he became co-head of the Systems Group where he collaborated with other GSLIS units to redesign the infrastructure to better serve all GSLIS users. Since then, the Systems Group at GSLIS has implemented an infrastructure capable for supporting the needs for all faculty and staff at GSLIS.

Rich Williams is Director of CITES Departmental Services. For over 30 years, he has been involved in information technology and services at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His experience runs the gamut from data analyst in the age of mainframes to management of one of the top self-supporting academic IT units focused on distributed services to colleges and departments.

Randy Cetin joined CITES in 1986 as research programmer in the “Graphics Group,” and has since held numerous positions in the organization. Currently, Randy is the Director of CITES Systems and Technology Services.

The division encompasses a wide range of service responsibilities that include the CITES computer labs, cost-recovery services for Unix workstations, CITES' two data centers and Operations Center, management of numerous production servers and services, and the development of integration tools and infrastructure services.

An alumnus of the University of Illinois, Randy never received the memo indicating it was “OK” to leave campus after graduation and has been here ever since.

Mike Corn joined CITES as the Director of Security Services and Information Privacy in December 2003. Mike originally came to Urbana for graduate school and has worked and taught in both the School of Music and the Department of Astronomy. During the mid to late 90's he worked as a developer, database designer, and policy wonk with University Administration. He lives in Urbana with his (still) aging Labrador Shiva and a vastly younger pup named Newt.

Mike Grady holds the position of Senior Technology Architect and Strategist within CITES. A focus of the position is to coordinate the CITES effort to identify, assess, and prioritize emerging IT technologies, needs, and architectures that will be strategic to the campus in the next several years. Another focus is to develop roadmaps that provide CITES and the campus information on the direction of key CITES services over the next months and years. Mike is also active in the Internet2 community, participating in middleware-related efforts. Mike has worked full time for the University since 1978, and for CITES since 1985. During his time with CITES, he has worked in computer graphics, consulting, information retrieval, full-text indexing and searching, web application development, service management, directory services, and management of software development.

Chuck Thompson manages IT services for the Department of Computer Science where he has spent most of the last 18 years as either a student or staff member. In conjunction with the department's move to the Siebel Center for Computer Science, Chuck has overseen an upgrade of the department's entire computing infrastructure. This new infrastructure embraces the goal of ubiquitous computing by providing easy but secure access for faculty and students to shared resources through SAN technology, distributed servers and extensive wired and wireless networking. Chuck serves on the Senate IT Committee, the UIUC Virtual CERT team and is actively involved with IT efforts within the College of Engineering.

Neil Thackeray has worked on systems for the Graduate School of Library and Information Science since March of 2001. He was originally hired for workstation support and server maintenance for GSLIS offices and instruction labs. Soon he became co-head of the Systems Group where he collaborated with other GSLIS units to redesign the infrastructure to better serve all GSLIS users. Since then the Systems Group at GSLIS has implemented an infrastructure capable for supporting the needs for all faculty and staff at GSLIS.

Lanny Arvan is the Assistant CIO for Educational Technologies and an Associate Professor of Economics. He oversees CITES ClassTech and CITES EdTech and has responsibility to serve as an ambassador and promoter of learning technology around campus. His blog, Lanny on Learning Technology, has a fair international readership and gives his views on a host of issues the campus must address in the teaching and learning with technology area.

Craig Jackson is the Director of an instructional and information technology center (ATLAS) in the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences since 2003. Previously, he was a consultant for CITES/Departmental Services after leaving Student Affairs where he worked as an Assistant Dean for eight years. He is a graduate of the University of Pittsburgh , and holds a Masters' Degree in Higher Education Administration from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale .

Mike Smeltzer has been CITES' Director of Network Communications since March of 2005. In that role he has focused on coordinating campus input and collaboration on the Campus Network Upgrade project, and also worked with campus units on projects that are “outside the box.” If you need help making “the box” a little bigger, Mike is your guy.

Mike came to CITES from McLeodUSA, where he was the local Operations Manager. In that capacity, he worked with the campus on a variety of voice and data projects. In addition to working in the communications industry, Mike has been a faculty member in both the UIUC College of Communications and University High School , and was publisher and general manager of the Illini Media Company.

Debbie Fligor has been working for CITES in some form or another since she was a student in 1988. Many folks in CCSP met Debbie when she was a member of the NDO from 1993-2000 and worked on building designs across campus. She is currently working in Network Engineering where she does various interesting things including researching wireless technologies and acting as the Service Manager for UIUCnet Wireless. She's been interested in radios since first getting her ham license in 1981, went on to get a BSEE here at UIUC, and has been investigating wireless network technologies since the NDO first got a set of Motorola wireless bridges around 1993-94.

Mary Stevens has worked for CITES for the past eight years. She worked the first few years as a CITES Departmental Services consultant. She supported a broad range of users and platforms in several departments on campus. Currently, she works in Network Engineering where she is the Service Manager for the campus firewalls, and the campus VPN. She is the Technical Manager of the campus IPS devices, and she is also the backup Service Manager for UIUCnet Wireless.

Scott has developed various training courses for law enforcement, and has taught them for local and State law enforcement agencies throughout Indiana . He is currently working to develop a Regional Inforensics Center to further assist law enforcement, and to provide training and research opportunities in information forensics for students and faculty at Purdue.

Scott is also actively involved with students on the Purdue campus. He has served almost 15 years with the University's Faculty Fellows program, and was recognized by the Purdue Alumni Association with their Special Boilermaker Award, which recognizes “individuals who have contributed significantly to improving the quality of life and betterment of the educational experience for Purdue students.”

Scott is a self-described "computer geek." His passion for computing and technology started as the result of a 5th grade science project, and has continued ever since. Scott received a BS degree in Computer Science from Purdue University in 1974. He then joined Control Data Corporation in Minneapolis, Minnesota, where he worked with the operating systems development group for Control Data's high performance, research computer systems. He left Control Data in 1984 to join ETA Systems to help design and build what was, at that time, the world's fastest supercomputer. In 1987, Scott returned to Purdue to join the Purdue University Computing Center.  Scott served as an Associate Director of the Computing Center, responsible for building the campus data network and the instructional computing facilities.

It has been said that "law enforcement people are from Mars and technology people are from Venus." Scott's work over the past few years has been dedicated to bringing those two groups together to ensure that law enforcement has access to the wealth of information available from information forensics.