About the Speaker
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    Jerry Petru, CISSP, CISM, FBCS, CITP
    President, Washington State InfraGard Chapter

    Mr. Petru is the President of the Washington State InfraGard Chapter and a Fellow of the British Computer Society, The Chartered Institute for IT. He is an innovative, and technically sophisticated professional, offering substantial years of broad-based experience in evaluating large corporate systems. Powered with a comprehensive background in development and implementation, he has authored more than forty-seven different courses based on AIX, Encryption, Linux, Networking, Security, and Virtualization technologies, teaching to an audience of tens of thousands around the world for the past twenty-five years. Mr. Petru has spent more than two years in Ukraine over the past 20 years and has seen much change. Equipped with a proven track record of success in designing and implementing system and policy based on Confidentiality, Integrity, and Availability, to meet business continuity and disaster recovery for long-range strategic plans of Fortune 100 Companies. Mr. Petru is armed with stellar qualifications in all facets of project lifecycle development, from initial analysis and conceptual design to implementation, quality review, and enhancement to optimize operational efficiencies that improve business and IT operations.