Experience

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  Speaking Engagements, Corporate Consulting, Education Delivery

  • WHERE IN THE WORLD IS BUZZ?

    • 2015 - Present

    March 2020 - Library of Alexandria Egypt, Cairo, Luxor, Dubai Arab Emirates, Amman JordanFebruary 2020 - Las Vegas NV, Dallas, TX, Alexandria, EgyptJanuary 2020 - Arlington, TXDecember 2019 - San Jose CA, Melbourne Australia. Then home for the Holidays!November 2019 - Chicago IL, Los Angeles CA, Dallas TX, SingaporeOctober 2019 - Tampa FL, Washington DC, Dallas TX, Orlando FL. Los Angeles CASeptember 2019 - Washington DC, Ottawa Ontario, Tampa FL, Orlando FLAugust 2019 - Seattle Washington, Ottawa Ontario, Washington DC, Raleigh North CarolinaJuly, 2019 - Washington DC, Doha Qatar, Kuala Lumpur Malaysia, Shanghai ChinaJune, 2019 - Springfield IL, Chicago IL, Denver CO, Dallas TXMay, 2019 - Alexandria VA, Singapore, Hong Kong China, Philadelphia PAApril, 2019 - Seattle WA, Oak Ridge TN, Huntsville AL, Melbourne AUMarch, 2019 - Atlanta GA, Washington DC, Tokyo Japan, Juneau AK, Houston TXFebuary, 2019 - Singapore, Dallas TX, Atlanta GA, Phoenix AZ, Los Angeles CA, San Francisco CAJanuary - 2019 - Washington DC, Boston MA, Hong Kong China, Fiji, Orlando FLDecember 2018 - Manilla Phillipines, Sydney AU, Boston MANovember 2018 - Beijing China, London UK, Kuala Lumpur Malaysia, Galveston TX, Hartford CTMore...

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  CyberSpace Intelligence International, LLC.

  • Arlington, Texas

  • Chief Executive Officer

    • Feb 2010 - Present
    • Arlington, Texas

    A consultancy firm providing cybersecurity, cyber defense and regulatory/contractual compliance to both public and private sector clients. Specializes in educational content, mission critical training courseware, whitepapers, publishing, research, and vertical projects. Provides comprehensive content analysis and project requirements through completion and deliverables in numerous formats. Clients include many US federal agencies including the Department of Defense, Defense Intelligence Agency, National Security Agency, Defense Information Systems Agency, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Department of Energy, Department of State, US Federal Reserve Bank, and the National Government of Canada. Projects are on-going and have been completed for Executive Branch as well as congressional departments and committees. Clients also include government, banking and corporate entities in eighteen countries.

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  Dark Web Council

  • Atlanta, Ga

  • Founding Partner

    • Feb 2016 - Present
    • Atlanta, Ga

    The Dark Web Council is a cybersecurity training and certification organization offering advanced cyber courses for international security professionals in both the private sector and government sector. The organization specializes in Deep Web and Dark Web technical training courses that allow companies and government organizations to plan and execute defensive strategies combating ransomware, data exfiltration and business disruption from entities based in the Dark Web.

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  Planet Imagine, LLC.

  • Arlington, Texas

  • Founder / CEO, Principal Technology Consultant, Technology Coach

    • 2011 - Present
    • Arlington, Texas

    Planet Imagine is an international firm specializing in the development and presentation of highly specialized, mission critical, technology training projects for medical, corporate and industrial clients. Clients include Department of Defense, US Army/US Navy, Lockheed Martin, Defense Information Systems Agency, Defense Intelligence Agency, and 83 Fortune 500 industry entities. Government agencies from Australia, Singapore, Ireland as well as across the European Union have utilized the firms specialized talents. The firm also works with startup and small business companies in technology learning and adoption.He regularly conducts cyber security training programs to enable IT engineers and Information Assurance personnel to become DOD directive 8570-1 compliant. This includes ISC2 CISSP, CompTIA CASP and Security+ certification examination preparation courses and a Cyber Security Computer Forensics course. The most requested course is the Information Worker Cyber Threat Awareness and Compliance course to meet specific audit guidelines within companies.He regularly trains computer forensics practitioners in the latest innovations in the areas of cyber forensics, system forensics and digital evidence. He recently participated on a cyber-forensics team during a major court case.He is a recognized expert in both cybersecurity and cloud computing and currently has a best selling cyber security book published by Sybex (Wiley Publishing).Recently he also served as Technical Editor on several 700+ page cyber security text books for two major international text book publishers.

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  Tink Tours and Travel

  • Dallas/Fort Worth Area

  • Partner/Co-Owner

    • Jul 2010 - Present
    • Dallas/Fort Worth Area

    Full service travel agency providing executive and group travel packaging and arrangements. Specializes in large group travel and transportation in US, Europe and Asia-Pacific. Provides executive and corporate security, pre-arrangements, and in-country security liaison. A Disney travel partner.

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  BransonAmerica Entertainment

  • Arlington, Texas

  • Owner/Manager

    • Sep 1996 - Present
    • Arlington, Texas

    An international event production company specializing in large format live corporate and private functions and presentations. Provides speakers, entertainers and specialty production shows as well as jingles and A/V productions. Specializes in musical based presentations through acts such as the Buzz Murphy Orchestra and the Dynamic Swing Machine. Venues have included Las Vegas, Atlantic City, and most major US cities, as well as numerous locations in Europe and Australia. Industrial presentations have been staged for many Fortune 500 companies.

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  BransonAmerica Publications, LLC

  • Arlington, Texas

  • Owner/Manager

    • Jan 1990 - Present
    • Arlington, Texas

    An international publisher of books, multi-media and recorded content. Produces specialized educational and promotional material for corporate, industrial and technical industries. Provides A/V production facilities with studios located in Dallas/Fort Worth and Vancouver, BC. Provides full service scripting, staging, virtual sets, product packaging and on-line streaming for clients.

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  Murphy Properties LLC

  • Dallas/Fort Worth Area

  • Founder/Owner

    • Apr 1979 - Present
    • Dallas/Fort Worth Area

    Owns and manages residential, retail and corporate real estate. Provides rental and management for corporate vacation and meeting properties.

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  Dell

  • Plano

  • International Technology Training / Dell Cloud Services

    • 2011 - 2012
    • Plano

    Services Learning Technology TrainingInternational Services Operations & StrategyRecruited by Dell as a senior cloud and cybersecurity technology executive to develop and facilitate world-class C-level executive level training delivery and learning programs for senior account executives and technology services delivery leaders who manage multi-million to billion dollar international accounts. Emphasis placed upon leadership in cloud computing, cyber security, cyber forensics, cloud access controls and security systems compliance and awareness, and IT project management programs.Participated at high levels of Dell University and the Dell Innovation and Dell Creative teams.

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  Broadlane

  • Manager, National Technology Training & Development

    • Dec 2007 - Dec 2010

    As the senior corporate training executive, manage and direct all technology training to internal employees and external suppliers and clients. Direct eLearning course creation. Manage both internal and external facing Learning Management Systems (LMS). Create and deliver ILT (Instructor Led Training) across numerous advanced technology topics. Direct technical writing for all internal applications including application help screens and corporate wide Wikipedia. Produce and conduct live client facing presentations in both pre and post sales client support. Directed all awareness and compliance training for IT security including computer forensics techniques and methodology, ITIL, OWASP to include all proprietary SQL products and databases.

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  eRightnow.com, Inc.

  • Senior Vice President, Technology Development

    • Nov 2000 - Dec 2004

    Directed the design and development team of this Dot-Com startup in developing major hosted apps. Lead staff to develop national client presentations, training and developed/presented investor presentations.Company developed ASP applications for the executive and corporate travel market. Emphasis on advanced information security applications. Corporation also created hosted solutions for back office applications.

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  Citadel Technology

  • National Sales Manager - Enterprise Security Software Products

    • 1997 - 2000

    National Sales Manager / Director of Client Training / Director of Client Computer Forensics programs for enterprise wide server and PC based security software. Clients included Federal government agencies, US military, university and K-12 School districts across the US.Company created server security management software specifically for the educational and federal government markets. Company, as an outsourced contractor, conducted forensic analysis of events and incidents on behalf of universities and school districts leading to adoption of company cyber security solutions. Conducted and supervised forensic investigations.

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  MP Systems, Inc.

  • Senior Vice President Sales & Marketing

    • 1985 - 1990

    Supervised 95 sales personnel in six regional offices for this computer hardware distributor. Introduced 23 vendor lines to the company. Pioneered advanced training and learning programs for vendor products. Managed numerous departments including customer care, repair and maintenance, shipping and receiving, warehouse operations and public relations.

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  Intellegent Electronics

  • Vice President Operations

    • 1983 - 1984

    A founding executive team member of this computer products retailer/distributor based in Philadelphia, PA. with distribution centers in New York, Philadelphia and Washington DC. Company specialized in computer stores located in retail department stores. Murphy coined the name "Today's Computers" which eventually labled over 1,700 retail computer locations nationwide. Murphy pioneered national distribution techniques with various major name PC manufacturers. Supervised general operations team of 43 and sales team of 109 persons. Led the team during the evaluation and purchase of the Xerox computer store chain.

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  Tandy Corporation (Radio Shack Division)

  • Division Computer Marketing Manager

    • 1978 - 1983

    Designed pilot retail computer center store in Dallas, TX. Transferred to Northeast and opened 321 retail computer locations in thirteen states. Managed six regions, 39 districts with 1,730 store personnel. Pioneered the national computer center manager training program. Designed and administered the store employee sales training program to over 3,000 sales personnel. Acted as company spokes person and participated in over 250 speeches, radio & TV interviews, and presentations over a three year period. Including presentations at COMDEX.

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  U.S. Army Signal Corps

  • Ft. Monmouth, NJ - Giessen, Germany

  • Senior Network Engineer - Data Center US Army STRATCOM Europe

    • 1975 - 1978
    • Ft. Monmouth, NJ - Giessen, Germany

    U.S. Army STRATCOM Europe, Senior Network Engineer - Strategic Data Center, Giessen, Germany * Special Category (SPECAT) Top Secret Clearance, NATO Top Secret Clearance Giessen, GermanyCommand: Cryptography Section, Data Center Technicians & EngineeringConducted courses on Network Engineering Security Hardening and IT Systems Cryptography for US Army and NATO countries IT Network Engineers at the NATO Training Complex in Karlsruhe, Germany. Specialized in foreign entity persistent threat investigations and forensic analysis of penetration cases.Ft. Monmouth, NJInstructor - CPU & Server Systems Network Engineering Course Module