Meet the Team!

Director, Infrastructure

Austin develops the networking, servers, and systems within the competition environment. Working with the applications team, they build the targets students will attack during the penetration test. Leveraging his background in both Red Teaming and Blue Teaming he creates as many fires as possible from real world experiences.

Wizard, Infrastructure

From hacking thirty year old ATMs to writing entire PLCs in PHP, Forrest is the guy who is usually putting together the crazy, insane, industry specific systems within the competition environment each year. By day, he works for RIT as the main engineer and architect of the CyberRange at the GCI.

The development pipeline has never made less sense then when Gideon joined and somehow made his way to co-director of Apps. Whether its dropping tables or slamming your head through a table (in frustration), he always enjoys adding twists to both the infrastructure team, and competitors alike.

Director, Scoring

Global Director

In addition to leading CPTC, Justin is the Director of the Cyber Range and Training Center in RIT's Global Cybersecurity Institute. He is also a combat veteran and currently serves as a Lieutenant Colonel in the U.S. Army Reserve.

Director

You'll find Meredith Kasper lurking around many areas of the competition helping out with everything from registration to competition integrity. When she isn't busy helping organize CPTC, she can be found at Hurricane Labs as their SOC Technical Account Manager, Consultant, and Office Cat.

Director & Founder

Lucas helps to organize the volunteer team, develop competition systems, coordinate with the various teams, and has a deep experience with cat herding. By day, he’s also a Senior Manager at Security Risk Advisors and moonlights as an Adjunct Professor at RIT’s Global Cybersecurity Institute.

Director, Applications

Creating a new company annually, including the applications, is no easy task. Working as a team with Infrastructure, our Applications leads develop new systems and apps each year. He is also a Senior Penetration Tester at a security consulting firm and OffSec tool developer.

Director, Infrastructure

Director

Stuart is a former competitor turned volunteer who has been fortunate to learn from and contribute alongside members of many teams. These days Stuart spends most of his time focusing on the future of CPTC and operational strategy as a member of the Transition team.

Stuart sees security as a field that demands constant improvement, and is committed to empowering the next generation of defenders in an effort to help secure our digital future.

Director, Monitoring

Always watching.

Director & Founder

Tom handles the communications and operations on a day to day basis and does a bit of everything wherever he is needed. By night, he is the Director of Technical Operations at Hurricane Labs and is an expert on everything Splunk. You'll also find him at Baldwin Wallace University as an Adjunct Professor.