Our owners and cofounders, Marilyn McAllister and Andrew Smith have collectively over 30 years experience in Computer Network Operations, Information Assurance, and Communications in government, academia, and commercial industry.
 Marilyn McAllister, CEO |
Marilyn McAllister, CEO, has a Masters of Science in Information Systems Security Management and is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame. She is a retired Army communications officer who has 25 years of Information Assurance (IA), Computer Network Operations, and Communications research, development, and operational experience. She served on active duty in the U.S. Army Signal Corps for 21 years, planning and employing space, air, and ground communications systems in hundreds of real world and training missions worldwide. She performed duties as a network planner and manager in the Gulf War, Bosnia, Haiti, Somalia, and Hurricane Andrew. She also served as a troop commander during overseas tours in Europe and Korea. As the network and network security manager for the Pentagon, she served on the front line of Information Warfare by planning and responding to daily cyber attacks directed at critical national security systems. As the chief communications architect for the National Security Space Architect's Office, she led the development of the next generation National Security Space Communications and Architecture, including Advanced EHF, Advanced Wideband, and the Military Users Objective System (MUOS). While serving at the U.S. Army Signal Center Chief of Architecture Division, she led the development of the Warfighter Information Network-Tactical (WIN-T) and Army Future Combat System (FCS). She was a lead architect of the Airborne Communications Node for High Altitude Airships (HAA) and Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV). She has extensive experience in providing joint and allied communications interfaces to Combined Joint Task Force Headquarters (CJTF) US Army, Navy, Air Force and Marine Corps, along with British, Canadian, German, French, and Turkish forces. She is actively involved in animal rescue and wildlife conservation. |
 Andy Smith, President and Principal Security Engineer |
Andy Smith, President and Principal Security Engineer, has a M.S. in Computer Science with specialization in Information Assurance from Purdue University and a B.S. in Computer Science from Mississippi State University (both NSA Centers of Excellence in Information Assurance). Mr. Smith has been actively involved in Information Assurance research and development for the last 7 years. His primary expertise includes intrusion detection, computer forensics, deception systems, security policy, database systems, access control, cryptography, and trusted systems. He is a leading expert on honeypots and malicious insider defense, digital forensics, and denial of service attacks having conducted extensive research on these topics at the Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security (CERIAS) at Purdue University. Mr. Smith has served (or is serving) as a lead security engineer for 13 MDA SBIR security projects and has been the Principal Investigator for 6 ISAC MDA SBIR efforts. Mr. Smith has a history of SBIR success; 81% of the SBIR's that Mr. Smith has been involved with have moved from Phase I to Phase II and 100% of the Phase II's currently being developed by ISAC are candidates for Phase III or technology insertion. Mr. Smith has participated in numerous vulnerability assessments (physical, ESS, computer, and personnel) for government and commercial entities worldwide. |
 James Chamberlain, Product Development Manager and Security Engineer |
James Chamberlain is a Product Development Manager and Security Engineer at ISAC. He supports commercialization of ISAC R&D efforts, including product development and expansion of engineering services support to DoD, NASA, and the healthcare industry. He received his M.S. in Computer Science from UNC - Chapel Hill and a B.S. in C.S.-Mathematics from Furman University. He brings over 20 years of research and development experience in real-time communications and distributed collaboration to the company. He has extensive experience in developing collaborative projects and working with a variety of public and private organizations and researchers. Mr. Chamberlain has served as Principal Investigator on nine NASA and National Institutes of Health research projects and received six NASA Technical Innovation Awards for experiment and C3I systems. Prior to joining ISAC, Mr. Chamberlain was the IT Group Manager for AZ Technology, Inc., leading the development of flight-qualified computer control software and IP-based voice, video, and telemetry ground support systems. He also serves as a peer reviewer of telehealth-related applications for extramural R&D funding for the National Institutes of Health, Center for Scientific Review. |
