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Volume 74  Issue 45                          Rotarian of the Week: Doug MacLean                             December 2, 2021

Our Club meets weekly at the River Creek Country Club, Leesburg at 6:30 PM

 Our Speaker, Andrew Wild, Chief Information Security Officer QTS

Andrew Wild is currently the executive vice president of converged security at QTS Data Centers, a leading provider of secure, compliant, data center solutions.  Mr. Wild has spent over 25 years developing effective, customer-driven information security, incident response, compliance and secure networking programs for IT and security organizations including Lancope, Qualys,  EMC, and Transaction Network Services,  with significant experience building and securing cloud and SaaS environments.
Most recently, Mr. Wild was the CISO for security solution provider Lancope, now a part of Cisco, where he was responsible for the risk management, security and compliance of both the internal enterprise network and Lancope’s enterprise network visibility and security intelligence solution, Stealthwatch.  Prior to joining Lancope, Mr. Wild was the CSO for security solution provider Qualys, where he was responsible for the risk management, security and compliance of both the internal enterprise network and the production SaaS environments.
Before focusing on information security and risk management, Mr. Wild held management and network engineering roles with Transaction Network Services, British Telecom and Sprint, as well as five years as an officer in the United States Army Signal Corps.
Mr. Wild holds a bachelor’s and master’s degree in electrical engineering from the United States Military Academy at West Point and the George Washington University, respectively.

President Bruce Receives Paul Harris Society Award

 
President Bruce Roberts receives recognition as a Paul Harris Society Member from District Foundation Chair Michael Arietti. Rotarian Arietti gave the club an update on the Rotary Foundation and the millions of dollars it has generated for local and global grants. (A Paul Harris Society member is someone who contributes $1000 a year or more to the Foundation each year.)

Tom Edmonds Receives Paul Harris Fellow

President Bruce hands Tom Edmonds his Paul Harris Society Certificate. The honor was given in recognition for his extreme generosity in donating the winning proceeds for the 50/50 of more than $2100 dollars.

Shenandoah University President Dr. Tracy Fitzsimmons

 
Dr. Tracy Fitzsimmons talked about how Shenandoah University stayed open when other schools closed during the Pandemic. "Before we knew there would be a pandemic, we had drafted  a plan in preparation for just an event," Dr. Fitzsimmons said. They followed the science, not the politics following CDC guidelines. The results were just 7 cases of Covid across all of their campuses. Staff and students with a high rate of interactivity with others were required to get vaccinated. That included professors and students participating in sports and other activities. Up to 90 percent of the student body chose to get vaccinated as well as the staff. "We are non-political in everything we do," she said. This promotes an openness for free expression of opposing viewpoints. 
   Dr. Fitzsimmons pointed out the school's dedication to customer service to ensure students are getting what they expect from their university experience. She stressed they were not a liberal arts college and focused on preparing their students for a job after graduation in a good paying field. Unlike many schools that were forced to close their door because of declining enrollment, Shenandoah has continued to grow. 
Shenandoah University President
Dr. Tracy Fitzsimmons expresses her
enthusiasm during her talk.
Howard Moody looks on with rapt
attention during Tracy's talk.
Ariel talks about the upcoming Croquet
Tournament for 2022 and charity
selection.
 
Executives & Directors
President
 
President-Elect
 
Secretary
 
Treasurer
 
Immediate Past President
 
Director
 
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