Director of Research Technology at George Washington University. Don has more than 25 years of research and development experience in cybersecurity and data informatics. He is an active contributor to the fields of Smart Cities, IoT, systems engineering and adaptive networking. He is the Director of the Capital Area Advanced Research and Education Network (CAAREN); a high performance networking collaboration located at GW's Ashburn campus. He also operates the Colonial One High Performance Computing environment at GW, providing advanced computational systems to support research across the University.