Keith has 22 years in the IT field with vendor certifications from Novell, Microsoft, and Cisco.  He has 15 years in security.  He has worked for Internet Security Systems (ISS) and IBM acting as an SE for Intrusion Prevention Systems, Unified Treat Management, Network Anomaly Detection Systems, Data Loss Prevention and Host based protection agents. At IBM he was an X-Force speaker and virtualization security specialist.  Before joining ISS he was IT Security Manager for a multi-national company.

He joined VMware as a member of the Security and Compliance team focusing on the vShield product suite.  At VMware he speaks to security as a whole and particularly how it relates to virtualization and Cloud computing.

Keith has been certified to act as an instructor for the Certificate of Cloud Security Knowledge (CCSK) put forth by the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA).