Byron A. Love, MBA, PgMP, PMP, CISSP

Mr.  Byron Love is a Cybersecurity Program Manager for a federal agency.  He has over 35 years of experience in information technology and cybersecurity.  He retired from the Air Force Reserves as a Communications and Information Officer after 21 years of service on Active Duty and in the Reserves, rising through the enlisted and officer ranks to become a Major.  Mr. Love led a four-year, $30 million program to convert every Air Force dental clinic in the world from film-based to digital dental processing, a historic program that impacts every member of the Air Force and their dependents.  Mr. Love performed as Sr. Program Manager for the Department of State Vanguard 2.1 contract, a 300 person, $26 million a year contract for managing the DoS global IT Service Center and for providing desktop support for their 29,000 desktops in the Continental US.  Mr. Love holds a Masters of Business Administration from Averett University, a BA in Computer Science from Thomas Edison State College, and two Associates degrees as well. He currently holds the Program Management Professional (PgMP), Project Management Professional (PMP),  Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) Foundation, and CompTIA Project+ certifications.  He is one of less than 2000 PgMP certified professionals in the world, and one of very few professionals worldwide with PgMP and CISSP certifications.