The Transitioning Military Cybersecurity Professional is designed to help transitioning military personnel evaluate and understand their potential for transforming themselves into a marketable commodity within the public and private sectors as cybersecurity employees and managers. The book provides guidance for the translation of military experience to the commercial cybersecurity world. Veterans gain insight of their personal military experience, understand the value of their learned knowledge and confidently approach their transition into the civilian marketplace as IT professionals through application of their learned and inherent skills. Transitional knowledge is codified through the use of authoritative sources, IT certifying organizations, Defense Acquisition University (DAU) and other veterans who have successfully transitioned into the cybersecurity career field. This book provides a method for personal change and surviving the transition from the service into the civil service or commercial sectors. In addition to authoritative cybersecurity management information, The Transitioning Cybersecurity Professional also contains real-world success stories, self-evaluation, personal assessments and Personal Strategic Roadmap development. Insight is provided for those seeking the most satisfying job beyond their military career, while simultaneously giving guidance for the newcomer to the commercial environment and associated challenges. This book is for everyone transitioning from the military, considering cybersecurity as their occupation after the service.
Dr. Ray Letteer is currently the Chief, Cybersecurity Division, C4 Department, and the Marine Corps Senior Information Security Official at Headquarters, US Marine Corps, and has over 30 years of experience in computer security, information systems security, information assurance, and cybersecurity. He has a master of science in network security and a doctor of science in information assurance. Through the course of his 20-year military career he served first in the intelligence field as an analyst and linguist, with assignments world-wide, including an 8-year tour in Berlin from 1982-1990. Letteer took his current assignment with the Marine Corps in 2003, where he was selected as one of the Federal Top 100 in IT in 2005.
Jay Hicks is an author, instructor and consultant, with over 30 years of business and government planning and leadership. With a special kinship for military personnel, Jay provides guidance on successful civilian career transition. He is the co-founder of Gr8Transitions4U, where advocating the value of hiring military personnel is the key focus. He frequently speaks and advocates for service members at project management symposiums and military transition programs, sharing his passion for successful career transition.
Sandy Cobb has been a visionary in the Information Systems sector for close to three decades. She has worked in the Big 4, owned her own software utility company, a trainer, and has been a contractor providing expertise in Project, Program, Portfolio, and Strategy Management at both USCENTCOM and USSOCOM. Her comprehensive business and product management expertise, combined with a highly intuitive sensitivity to organizational and strategic dynamics, has been evidenced in both start-up and structured corporations. Sandy is passionate about helping clients build effective strategies, efficient management and exceptional execution through the right mix of process, discipline and rigor.
