Ed has over 10 years of experience in Marketing, Business Operations, and Production in the high-tech industry. In the early 2000s, he was a Web Production Manager with a team of 17 direct reports when the “dot com bust” hit, severely affecting the San Francisco Bay Area job market. He was kept on staff as one of the last employees at egghead.com as the doors closed. He then faced a decision to make about the next stage of his career.

With the uncertainty of the web development job market at that time, Ed decided to go back to school.Since he already had technical experience and was enjoying his job as a manager, he decided to further develop his management skills. In 2004, Ed completed a Bachelors of Science in Business Management. He then decided to specialize in a technology segment that he thought would show significant growth and opportunity for many years to come… Information Security. Ed went on to pursue his Masters Degree and in August 2007, he earned his Masters in National Security with a concentration in Information Protection from the University of New Haven.

As the final step towards his degree, Ed completed an internship at the Technology Administration in Washington D.C. working directly with Robert Cresanti, the Under Secretary of Commerce for Technology and Chief Privacy Officer for the Department of Commerce. During his time with the Technology Administration, Ed was involved in several projects relating to privacy and security. These included reviewing the President’s strategic plan to combat identity theft and working directly with William C. Barker chief of Computer Security at NIST. Ed has developed a personal interest in the innovative uses of RFID technology and in personal information protection.

Throughout Ed’s career, he has managed and delivered high profile projects, effectively facilitated communications between technical and non-technical parties, and managed small to large teams. He is now leveraging his professional experience and his education in his career in Information Security. To see what some of Ed’s colleagues have said about his work, please see his profile on Linked-In at: http://www.linkedin.com/in/edstruz