About
me...
I graduated from the iSchool. Twice.
Now I teach classes on information security, privacy, and surveillance for the University while holding down a day job in the tech industry.
My interests are eclectic. From roots in a military family, I have experiences that span the public, private, and academic sectors. For nearly twenty years I've worked for organizations ranging from the CIA, technology and consulting companies, and UT. I like to explore technology and technological processes, particularly social and organizational issues like management, marketing, and resistance. Power, security, and surveillance as technology challenges are all specific areas that I find quite interesting, but I'm equally interested in the ways that we use language, discourse, and culture to construct and contest these challenges. For several years now I've had the privilege of teaching on some of these subjects, and this has proven especially rewarding to me.
I live here in Austin with my wife and our son (who took the picture of "ghost dad" above).