Abe Usher
Chief Technology Officer
HumanGeo
United States

Biography
Abe has worked in support of intelligence, security, and Special Operations within the US Government. After serving as a cyber-security expert at the NSA and before joining USSOCOM, Abe was a senior engineer in Google's Enterprise Division. Abe is a recognized expert within the DOD and the Intelligence Community on quantitative methods of data processing and visualization as well as an acknowledged leader in the rapidly-evolving field of decision support through data analytics, data visualization, and social network analysis. He possesses over 18 years of combined government, commercial, and research experience in these areas. Abe's books and articles on data analysis and cyber-defense have been published by the Defense Technical Information Center and Wired Magazine. Abe co-authored the Defense Information Systems Agency's state-of-the-art report on malicious code trends and defenses. Abe was named one of Federal Computer Week's Fed 100 in 2015. He earned a BS from the United States Military Academy at West Point and an MS from George Mason University. Abe holds the prestigious CISSP, CCHP, and Google Enterprise Search Engineer certifications.