Matthew Harttree is an IT professional with over 15 years of experience, specializing in cyber security defense, cloud computing, and large-scale system architecture design. He has worked with Fortune 50 companies, start-ups, and government agencies in securing advanced real-time Internet-facing services. With a focus on cloud computing before such terminology was used, Matthew is an expert in artificial intelligence-managed cyber security defense, terra-scale network design, and real-time communications, including SIP. He is proficient in AWS, having deployed EC2, Dynamo, S3, SageMaker, neural nets for machine learning, and real-time decision support, and is also experienced in Python, C++, and Java development. He has proficiency in VMWare architecture and OpenStack, and IT leadership skills, assembling large teams quickly and excelling in leading ninja projects off their tracks. With expertise in advanced Linux system administration and data center design, optimization and conversion, he has designed multi-tier and high threat API REST session designs in JSON secure session design. An expert in Cisco R+S, he has managed large software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN) dynamic border networks. Matthew's leadership skills extend beyond his professional domain. He is a peer leader and mentor, teaching classes on crisis management and technical communication.