Cybersecurity talk series: Cybersecurity Teams and Human Factors (Team Dynamics)

Friday, November 14, 2014, 1 PM
Room 140 Little Hall
University of Maine

This talk is part of a series of talks presented by the Cybersecurity Lab of the School of Computing and Information Science

Cybersecurity Teams and Human Factors (Team Dynamics) – It’s Not Just About the Digits

Mr. W. Vince Quintana
Principal Engineer, Bath Iron Works Corporation

ABSTRACT: Mr. Quintana has studied cybersecurity teams in competitions and other high pressure environments. He has found that team organization and team dynamics are very important factors in determining whether a given team successfully solves the problems it encounters. In this seminar he will present some of his findings. These will be useful for teams trying to solve problems in domains other than cybersecurity.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER: Vince Quintana is currently the principal human factors test engineer at Bath Iron Works working on the US Navy’s next generation DDG 1000 Destroyer. His US Navy background includes over twenty years of experience conducting operational ASW in all of the worlds major oceans on six different US Surface Navy tactical ASW platforms, using active and passive sonar systems in conjunction with non-acoustic sensors. As an ASW specialist and master level acoustic analysts, he was instrumental in the creation of multi-level, multi-sensor ASW training systems which encompassed every aspect of the global ASW problem across all ASW platform domains including sub-surface, surface, air and theatre level ASW surveillance systems. He has received US Navy decorations for his work on US Navy special ASW operations, and for the development of advanced operational acoustic methods and ASW weapons systems. Most recently he has been working on team dynamics to determine what permits teams to function well in difficult environments.