Matt Burden is the Vice President of Information and Technology, Chief Information Officer. Matt actively serves as the official mentor to student veterans and ROTC cadets on campus, as well as the sponsor and mentor to the college's eSports club.
A veteran who enlisted at seventeen and rose through the ranks to become a commissioned officer, Matt has been deployed on four continents, serving in leadership positions from Fire Team Leader to Battalion Commander. Matt also served in Special Operations and worked as an intelligence officer with the Defense Intelligence Agency. His last award was from the Secretary of Defense for modernizing intelligence gathering techniques.
Matt served as a member of the cyber security working group at the Brookings Institution that identified and studied the key policy questions surrounding cyber security. The group focused not just on the internal parameters of the cyber issue, but on its connection to U.S. diplomatic, commercial, and national security policy.
Matt has held senior technology positions at the John G. 谢德水族馆, Northwestern University, 和OfficeMax, and has served on the boards of The Center for Research in Information Management, The Warrior Legacy Foundation, 士兵的天使, 英雄拉布拉多, 和卢比孔河队. In addition, Matt has consulted with the George W. 布什和奥巴马. Obama White House administrations on military and veteran issues.
Matt has also been a guest on media outlets including CNN, ”, 微软全国有线广播电视公司, c - span, 美国国家公共电台, 美国公共电视台, 英国广播公司, SkyNews, AP, 日本新闻网, the Wall Street Journal, 华盛顿邮报, 《立博在线体育》杂志, 和WGN电台.
选定的奖学金
The Blog of War, Simon & 舒斯特,2006