Doc Farmer is an accomplished IT professional with over 37 years of experience in Information Technology, specializing in Information Security, Business Continuity Management, and Information Systems Auditing. With 33 of those years spent in the large-scale mainframe Security/Auditing environment, Doc's main experience hones in on IBM, AS/400 systems, RS/6000 systems, Novell, and Windows NT networks. He has a strong background in technical systems, security protocols, and project planning and execution, specifically, controls, security, planning, testing, and execution, as well as Sarbanes-Oxley requirements, FDIC-Comptroller regulations, UK Information Security and Privacy Act, ISO17799, Role-Based Access Controls, DIACAP/NIACAP analysis, and remediation.

Doc Farmer's expertise in contemporary data security issues has been acknowledged by mainstream news agencies such as Time Magazine, naming him as "Person of the Year - 2006" (along with about a billion other Internet users). He has also been inducted into the Cambridge Who's Who Registry and named VIP 2010-2011. Doc has spoken in public seminars on Security and Disaster Recovery and has authored articles on Information Security, Physical Security, and IT Audit issues. A distinguished member of the Free and Accepted Masons, Wayne Lodge #25 F&AM, Fort Wayne IN, Doc also holds positions in Fort Wayne Valley's 32° Scottish Rite and in Fort Wayne Commandery's Knights Templar°, York Rite. He is also an Arch° Shriner, Mizpah Shrine, Fort Wayne.

Specialties: RACF, z/OS, TSO, ISPF, CICS, MVS, OS/390, IBM, Mainframe, Security, Policy-Procedure-Standards Development, Project Management, IT Security Consultant, Contingency Planning, Disaster Recovery, Writer, Author, Public Speaker, Mason, Shriner, TopLinked.com, SOX, GLBA, PCI, HIPAA, DIACAP, NIACAP, InfraGard, LION, Greater IBM Innovation Community, American Biofuels Council, DallasBlue, ExecuNet, LinkedInnovators, MyLinkedinPowerForum, MLPF, Relevante, No IDK, Open Networker