Glenn Schoonover Executive Director Worldwide Technical Strategy – National Security, Defense and Public Safety Microsoft

Glenn Schoonover is currently the Executive Director for Worldwide Technical Strategy – National Security, Defense and Public Safety at Microsoft. For the previous two years he has been a Security Advisor on the U.S. Federal Advanced Solutions Team (FAST), Public Sector at Microsoft. He is responsible for developing and executing on the Technical strategy for Public Safety, Defense and National Security solutions worldwide and spends most of his time helping governments build a secure, connected infrastructure on Microsoft technology. He serves as a subject matter expert on Microsoft Security Solutions that include integrated security and patch management.

Before joining Microsoft, Glenn served in a variety of command and staff positions as an officer in the U.S. Army. A 1986 graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point, he is an authority on network security architecture, vulnerability assessments and intrusion detection with experience using a wide variety of commercial and open source tools. His military career culminated as the Chief of Network Security for the Army at the Pentagon. While there he established the first comprehensive Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) at the Pentagon for the Army. He has extensive experience in applying industry best practices for security, authentication, intrusion detection and emergency response and has been invited to speak at such conferences as the Lockheed Martin IT Day 2005, U.S. Department of Homeland Security G-First Conference 2005 and the Gartner Government Summit 2004.

Glenn is a veteran of combat operations during Operation Just Cause in Panama (1989-1990) and Desert Shield/Storm in Kuwait (1990-1991) and is the recipient of the Bronze Star, Meritorious Service Medal, Army Commendation Medal and numerous other awards. He is also a former Master Parachutist and Parachute Rigger having earned Zaire airborne wings during operations in Africa as well as being Air Assault qualified.