Professor Mike Libassi, Sc.D 

Summary

Doctor of Computer Science, Professor of CIS and Cybersecurity at Sinclair College. US Navy veteran gamer, guitar player and all around technologist.

Experience

Professor of Computer Information Systems 

Sinclair Community College Aug 2022 - Present 

Promoted to full professor and tenure August 2022.

Teach:

• CIS-2808 Computer Forensics (developed and manage this course)
• CIS-1107 Introduction to operations systems
• CIS-2550 Linux Operating System
• CIS-2640 Network Security (developed and manage this course)
• CIS-2642 PenTest (developed and manage this course)
• CIS-2266 Data Analysis with Python

Associate Professor of Computer Information Systems

Sinclair Community College
Aug 2017 - Aug 2022 (5 years 1 month)
Associate Professor with CIS department teaching many aspects of technology, cybersecurity and computer crime for Criminal Justice department.

Develop and teach Computer Science and Cyber Security courses; specifically in Linux, Penetration Testing, Network Security, Digital Forensics and Python for Data Analysis.

Adjunct Professor - Computer Information Systems

Sinclair Community College
Jan 2006 - Aug 2017 (11 years 8 months) Adjunct Professor - CIS Department

Taught classes in: CIS-1107 Introduction to operations systems. CIS-2550 Linux operating system.
CIS-2560 Linux security, and CIS-1111 Introduction to programming.

Key team member in development of the Linux Security course syllabus and objectives.
Developed full quarter of Linux Security content (presentation material, labs, assignments and tests) around system security, testing and system security audits. Part of the CIS Advisory Board since 2011. Awarded CIS Adjunct of the year for 2011.

InfoSec Officer

Elsevier
Jun 2015 - Aug 2017 (2 years 3 months)
Part of the Information Security and Data Protection (ISDP) organization as a software security advisor. Work in conjunction with developers on the techniques used for secure software
development from the multitude of attack vectors used to exploit software to avoid the introduction of flaws.

Independent Contractor

Strong Crypto Innovations (DBA SCI)
Aug 2017 - Present 
Independent contractor preforming security analysis and penetration testing for SCI. Developed in Python solutions for automated cybersecurity testing. Coordinated and executed penetration testing, social engineering attacks, mobile app and web application security testing.

Independent Consultant

International Cyber Institute Nov 2019 - Jul 2020 (9 months) Contract Cybersecurity

Sr. Performance Engineer

Elsevier
Jul 2007 - Jun 2015 (8 years)
Sr Performance Engineer on web services system and software for Elsevier products.

Data center and cloud application performance and capacity. Preform analysis of performance data and development of instrumentation for data collection. Analysis of upcoming software changes for performance and reliability impacts. Develop SAS code and scripting for use in performance analysis. Amazon Web Services training and use of cloud performance tools.

Completed Security training in the following areas: - Fundamentals of Application Security
- Fundamentals of Security Testing
- How To Test for the OWASP Top 10

- Classes of Security Defects
- Software Testing Tools and Techniques
- Advances Software Security Testing Tools and Techniques

Performance Engineer

RELX
Jul 2007 - Jul 2009 (2 years 1 month)
Engineer performance and capacity solutions (instrumentation and reporting) for data center and cloud hosted applications.

Systems Engineer

The Reynolds and Reynolds Company

Jul 2005 - Jul 2007 (2 years 1 month)
Configure Red Hat Enterprise 3.0 for use in the Reynolds Application on Demand environment. This includes kernel and driver changes and shell scripting to provision new servers in a blade and SAN environment.
Configure disk to sever mapping on SAN (IBM DS4400). And assist in managing the SAN environment.

Engineer

Quest Diagnostics Healthcare IT Solutions (formerly MedPlus)
2002 - 2004 (3 years)
Senior QA Engineer – UNIX / LINUX Systems – Mason, OH
- Install and maintain Red Hat Linux and HP-UX UNIX servers for the QA department. This entails configuring Oracle dB severs with ChartMaxx Applications software, configuring HA clusters (HP-UX 11i) and web servers farms (distributed web servers running Red Hat).

- Manage EMC CX-400 SAN for QA and development team.
- Test installing and upgrading of new software releases, test and document software bugs at the server level. Create test cases and test scripts.
- Install software at customer sites for Beta testing.

Applications Engineer

KLA
Mar 2000 - Aug 2002 (2 years 6 months)
Install and support enterprise Yield Analysis Software at seven customer sites worldwide. System runs CORBA C++ application software on UNIX Solaris 2.6 and 5.8 (Sun) servers with NT 4 clients. The database runs Oracle version 8 and 8i, with 9i application server. High transactional system on 30 - 50 Gigabyte databases including image handling.
• Work with end users to document new client features and bugs. Provided training on client use and system administration.
• Managed initial system evaluation project lasting one year. Successful evaluation led to company wide installation of system. Managed two field beta tests lasting over 6 months each.
• Perform KORN Shell, Perl scripts and PL/SQL queries to support production needs and issues
• Experience with Oracle Enterprise Manager software to monitor and modify database.

Programmer Analyst

Intel Corporation
Feb 1998 - Mar 2000 (2 years 2 months)
Programmer Analyst - January 2000 to March 2000, Chandler AZ
• Technical development for internal demand planning system using Visual Basic 6 and Microsoft SQLServer 6.5
• Incorporated design changes into SQL Stored Procedures. Checking changes into Microsoft SourceSafe and testing changes then incorporating changes into the production environment.
• Visual Basic 6 programming training and experience.

Information Services Analyst - February 1998 to January 2000, Chandler AZ
• Software testing at the unit and integrated levels on client and server for company supply planning software. Tasks included:
o Test Case and test plan design and execution on black and white box levels.
o Collection of testing metrics and controlling integration testing with a development team.

o Extensive Year 2000 testing.
o Planning, development and execution of automated tests using Rational Team Test software (specifically Rational Robot version 6 and 7)

Education

Colorado Technical University

Doctor of Science (Sc.D), Computer Science 2012 - 2015
Focus on Digital Security

University of Phoenix

MSCIS, Software Development
1999 - 2001
Bachelors studies in software development and coding in C. Masters in CIS with a masters project on complexity metrics. IT professional during the day while attending in class sessions in the evenings.

Licenses & Certifications

Completed Quantum Computing Foundations Course - Mach 2025

Red Hat Certified Tech. REHL 4.0 - Red Hat Certification # 604006470599306

Web Application Penetration Tester - GIAC Issued Dec 2016 - Expires Dec 2020
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CompTIA PenTest+ (PT0-001): 3 Select Your Attacks - Lynda.com

Skills

Unix • Linux • Testing • OperatingSystems • Perl • ShellScripting • Servers • Databases • Troubleshooting • System Administration

Honors & Awards

CIS Adjunct of the year for 2011 - Sinclair Community College
Jun 2011
Key team member in development of the Linux Security course syllabus and objectives.
Developed full quarter of Linux Security content (presentation material, labs, assignments and tests) around system security, testing and system security audits.

Division Recognition Award - Intel Corp. Jun 1997

For role modeling effective 7 step problem solving and implementing a root cause fix for the flash memory “circle” defect.

General Manager Award - KLA-Tencor
May 2001
For successful beta test of the KLArity system that lead to acceptance and customer adoption.