Boise ISSA

Officers

Lee Neely
President
Lee Neely is a senior IT and security professional at LLNL with over 35 years of extensive experience with a wide variety of technology and applications from point implementations to enterprise solutions. He teaches cyber security courses, and holds several security certifications including GMOB, GPEN, GWAPT, GAWN, GPYC, GEVA, CISSP, CISA, CISM and CRISC. He is an ISSA International Director, Member of the SANS NewsBites Editorial Board, SANS Analyst, and Security Weekly podcast host. You can keep up with Lee @lelandneely
Rachel Zahn
Communications

Accomplished and skilled professional with technical skills and proven success providing key development and support for critical network systems and their users. Involvement in analysis, planning, hardware and software selection, implementation and migration projects. Demonstrated accomplishment coordinating projects from concept through design and completion, delivering on-time and on-budget results with minimal disruptions. Identify gaps or deficiencies in security controls and existing policies and standards. Provide threat intelligence, incident response, and forensic investigations.

Sin Ming Loo, PhD
Education

Sin Ming Loo is a professor of electrical and computer engineering at Boise State University with interests in cyber/physical/systems security research and education, and sensing systems. He directs the Cyber Operations and Resilience program at Boise State University. He is responsible for the Hartman Systems Integration Lab and Cyber Lab for Industrial Control Systems Lab. He holds a joint appointment with Idaho National Lab. His amateur radio call sign is KI4AKS.

Fuli Chavez
Membership

I have over 20 years experience in Information Technology alongside over 15 years experience in Information Security. In addition to my current position, I have been a technical integration engineer, manager, and post-secondary educator. As an educator, have been the program chair for accredited associate and bachelor level degrees in Information Technology and Information Security as well as an Instructor in these programs. I manged the direction of these degrees through both high-level input and direct curriculum development to lead to the success of the students and the programs. As an IT integration engineer, I provided implementation and management on variety of IT and IS solutions to small companies. I hold an MS in Engineering and a BS in Chemical Engineering from the University of Washington and also several certifications including CISSP, CISA, and MCSE.

Chelle Clements
Treasurer

Chelle is an Army Veteran, one of the first women in the Corps of Engineers in 1974, and she has some great stories! She has an AAS in Envr Sci from NVCC (Northern VA), and a BS and an MS in Comp Sci from University of San Francisco. She spent 30 years at Lawrence Livermore Nat’l Lab as a researcher in three different fields (chemistry, physics and computer science). She currently supports 5 Veteran non-profits with pro-bono web development, and she enjoys presenting on cyber security with her hubby.

Kevin Reddish
Webmaster

An Air Force veteran, Kevin Reddish is a seasoned security practitioner with 25 years of experience in the design, implementation and support of secure, enterprise local and wide area networks.  Kevin holds several security certifications and has earned a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration and Master’s degree in Cybersecurity & Information Assurance.  Kevin currently serves as CIO at Your Health Idaho.

John Neely
Vice President
Experienced Owner with a demonstrated history of working in the computer networking industry.
John Neely has 48yrs in the information technology arena and is the CEO and owner of Integrative Solutions Northwest LLC (ISNW) since 2003. Technology Director at Camas County School District and contracted Sys, Admin for the University of Idaho Aquaculture Research Center. Mr. Neely provides leadership for the continued development of an innovative, robust, and secure information technology environment throughout the education and business environments. The primary responsibilities for this office encompass a wide variety of strategic technology issues: product and resources, governance, policy, resource allocation, information technology direction and protocols. ISNW provides support for academic research and technology, delivery of IT infrastructure design and services, information security systems and compliance, administrative systems, troubleshooting and client support services.

Mr. Neely represents the information technology interests by serving on several regional and higher education organizations including the Idaho Education Technology Association and currently a board member of InfraGard Idaho chapter.

Prior to ISNW, Mr. Neely served in the Air Force in network security and informational technology infrastructure roles global deployments. He has also worked for Planned Systems International, Digital Switch Corporation, American Satellite Corporation, General Dynamics, Boeing Information technology services and Micron Technologies. and Troubleshooting. Strong business development professional with a yes focused in Electronic Technology.