Tom currently leads the ExtraHop Public Sector technical practice as Director of Systems Engineering. He has spent most of his 20-year career looking at networks, protocols, and packets in one way or another. Tom has a passion for utilizing data-driven techniques to solve the complex problems faced by modern IT practitioners. When he's not working with ExtraHop's extensive customer base, he is deeply involved in developing and defining techniques for intrusion detection, having informally launched ExtraHop's foray into the cybersecurity world with the award-winning Ransomware App for ExtraHop (http://bit.ly/2fAt2WM).

Tom resides in Houston, Texas, along with his wife and three daughters. He remains actively involved with his alma mater Texas A&M (Electrical Engineering), and can be found most weekends cheering his Aggies on to victory.