Jesse has been teaching for more than 20 years at both undergraduate and graduate level at a number of colleges and universities. He also taught for five years at the Defense Cyber Investigations Training Academy (DCITA) where he was a member of the network intrusions track. Jesse has spoken at several conferences including many of the DoD Cyber Crime Conferences. He has a master's degree from the University of South Florida (Tampa, FL), and a bachelor’s from George Mason University (Fairfax VA). Jesse has written and contributed to several publications, including Defense against the Black Arts: How Hackers Do What They Do and How to Protect against It. Jesse also wrote the entire series of labs for Security+, Ethical Hacking, Forensics, and Network Security for NDG's netlab. Jesse lives with his son Mason and daughter Kayla in Ellicott City, Maryland.