Tim Watkins started his U.S. Marine Corps avionics career in 1993. He was commissioned in 1998 and became a communications officer. He has a BS from the University of Idaho and graduated with an MSA in international leadership from Central Michigan University in 2010. Additionally, he graduated at the top of his class in a master's level FA 24 Telecommunications Systems Engineering Course at Fort Gordon, Georgia in 2004. Following 20 years of DoD experience as a network and cyber engineer, Tim joined Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Inc. (SEL) in 2013. He is now a global accounts business development manager, focusing on securing critical control systems and designing defendable architectures for system owners around the world. Tim concentrates on holistically reducing risk at the enterprise and organization levels. Ultimately, his expertise prioritizes network and cyber efforts, increases resiliency, and matures system owners' plans, policies, and procedures.