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National Intelligence and Cyber Strategy

Mr. Ferrer is a business professional with over three decades of experience and work in the National Security, Intelligence Community (IC), Homeland Defense and Cyber. While much of his experience has been concentrated in the training, education, and curricula management, the last ten years has been in the private sector, focused on supporting Government clients in critical national security and defense positions; market-shaping and analysis for large-scale integrators and building business partnerships for success in the Homeland Security and Cyberspace domain marketplaces.

Prior to establishing NSC Consulting, Mr. Ferrer served as a Cyberspace Director for ARINC/Booz Allen Engineering Services; as a Homeland Security Director for the Northrop Grumman Corporation and, before that, as a Senior Policy Analyst in the Pentagon’s Homeland Defense office for Analytic Services. Prior to his work in Cyber, Homeland Security and Defense, Mr. Ferrer taught at the Central Intelligence Agency’s University and at the Florida State University, where he completed a three-year Ph.D. program of studies for History. Mr. Ferrer holds a Master’s of Science in Strategic Intelligence from the accredited (and classified) National Intelligence University.

In addition to his full-time job and part-time teaching, Mr. Ferrer serves in a number of public-private leadership capacities. Governor O’Malley appointed him to the Maryland Commission on Cybersecurity Innovation and Excellence. He is a member of the National STEM Consortium Advisory Committee; elected to the InfraGard Maryland Members Alliance Executive Board; the Board of Directors for the Chesapeake Regional Tech Council; and serves as a cyber advisor to the Maryland Department of Business and Economic Development, CyberMaryland and several regional colleges and universities.