Lee McWhorter
Lee McWhorter
IT Expert Generalist and Educator
Lee has been involved in the PC revolution since his first PC, a Commodore VIC-20, on which he taught himself to program BASIC. He has stayed involved ever since and currently runs his own IT consulting, managed services, and security firm, McWhorter Technologies (http://www.mctechs.com).
Along the way Lee learned about hacking and the Net via dial-up; Linux before it was a 1.0 kernel; HTML before it was a 1.0 spec; managed countless applications, networks, and websites; supported every major operating system; wrote applications using C, Java, PhP, dBase, Btrieve, and MySQL to name just a few; and more recently began to master Docker to make custom nodes for use in GNS3 to teach Security concepts.
Lee has an MBA in Economics & Finance and has held many positions ranging from the server room to the board room, including running a web-based education startup during the 'dot.com' days. Lee has also designed and taught programming, networking, and security courses for CompTIA, Tulane, ITT, Midwestern, ACC, and Woz U; as well as for CEU and certification level training firms.
Over time Lee has earned many certifications: Microsoft, Novell, and SCO Certified Instructor; Access & Visual Basic Development; Advanced Project; Certified Pervasive Instructor; and Windows Optimization & Support. He currently holds all of CompTIA's current certifications including A+, Network+, Linux+, Server+, Cloud+, Security+, PenTest+, CySA+, CASP+, Cloud Essentials, Project+, and CTT+ as well as being an Advisory Board member and Ambassdor of the CompTIA Instructor Network.
Lee taught the CompTIA Instructor Network's first Train the Training series on PenTest+ in the Summer of 2018 and has participated in numerous other CompTIA webinars and conference events. He is also currently writing a PenTest+ book for Packt Publishing due to be released in 2019 and will be teaching Linux+ and PenTest+ at the CompTIA Partner Conference in Summer of 2019.
In his limited free time, Lee is a Big Brother in the Big Brothers Big Sisters program, highly involved in helping expand InfoSecCareer.org, and is a Board Member of a wonderful animal rescue charity, Amen for Animals (http://amenforanimals.org).
IT Expert Generalist and Educator
Lee has been involved in the PC revolution since his first PC, a Commodore VIC-20, on which he taught himself to program BASIC. He has stayed involved ever since and currently runs his own IT consulting, managed services, and security firm, McWhorter Technologies (http://www.mctechs.com).
Along the way Lee learned about hacking and the Net via dial-up; Linux before it was a 1.0 kernel; HTML before it was a 1.0 spec; managed countless applications, networks, and websites; supported every major operating system; wrote applications using C, Java, PhP, dBase, Btrieve, and MySQL to name just a few; and more recently began to master Docker to make custom nodes for use in GNS3 to teach Security concepts.
Lee has an MBA in Economics & Finance and has held many positions ranging from the server room to the board room, including running a web-based education startup during the 'dot.com' days. Lee has also designed and taught programming, networking, and security courses for CompTIA, Tulane, ITT, Midwestern, ACC, and Woz U; as well as for CEU and certification level training firms.
Over time Lee has earned many certifications: Microsoft, Novell, and SCO Certified Instructor; Access & Visual Basic Development; Advanced Project; Certified Pervasive Instructor; and Windows Optimization & Support. He currently holds all of CompTIA's current certifications including A+, Network+, Linux+, Server+, Cloud+, Security+, PenTest+, CySA+, CASP+, Cloud Essentials, Project+, and CTT+ as well as being an Advisory Board member and Ambassdor of the CompTIA Instructor Network.
Lee taught the CompTIA Instructor Network's first Train the Training series on PenTest+ in the Summer of 2018 and has participated in numerous other CompTIA webinars and conference events. He is also currently writing a PenTest+ book for Packt Publishing due to be released in 2019 and will be teaching Linux+ and PenTest+ at the CompTIA Partner Conference in Summer of 2019.
In his limited free time, Lee is a Big Brother in the Big Brothers Big Sisters program, highly involved in helping expand InfoSecCareer.org, and is a Board Member of a wonderful animal rescue charity, Amen for Animals (http://amenforanimals.org).
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Lee McWhorter
CIN Board Member and
Proud holder of (almost) every current CompTIA certification
CIN Board Member and
Proud holder of (almost) every current CompTIA certification
