External Advisory Board
Chair
Ms. Melissa Livesey
Sr. Manager
Cybersecurity Risk Management
Tennessee Valley Authority
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Board Members
Ms. Sharon Burlingame
Retired Professor
Pellissippi State Community College
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(board secretary)
Ms. Maria McClelland
Group Leader
Cyber Security Operations & Engineering
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Ms. Sandra McLeod
Sr. Manager
Advanced Security Initiatives Group
Cisco
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Mr. Curtis Clan
CISO
State of Tennessee
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Mr. Mark Brown
Program Management Support Specialist
QuantiTech
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Ms. Sarah Kennedy
Senior Security Vulnerability Engineer
HCA
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Mr. Chris Hodge
Director of Technical Development
Naval Surface Warfare Center
Dahlgren Division
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Mr. Regis Billings
Special Agent
Federal Bureau of Investigations
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Cybersecurity Education, Research and Outreach Center
Office Hours: Monday–Friday, 8AM–4:30PM CDT
(931) 372-3519 | ceroc@tntech.edu
Street Address:
Cybersecurity Education, Research and
Outreach Center (CEROC)
Ashraf Islam Engineering Building (AIEB) 238
1021 Stadium Dr.
Cookeville, TN 38501
Mailing Address:
Tennessee Tech University
Cybersecurity Education, Research and
Outreach Center (CEROC)
Campus Box 5134
Cookeville, TN 38505




