Gary M. Deckard, PhD

Semi-retired. Still building things.

About

Thirty-five plus years of technology and military service, in roughly that order of stubbornness: Marine Corps avionics technician on electronic warfare systems, corporate network manager, Army Infantry officer, then CTO and program director of the Muscatatuck Cyber Range, cybersecurity strategist at Idaho National Laboratory, and a stint at Peraton Labs. I taught a couple of semesters of security at Indiana University's Luddy School along the way.

I'm semi-retired now, which mostly means I pick the problems. This is where the things I build end up. Most of it runs in the cloud or on hardware I own and maintain myself, which is half the reason it stays interesting.

PhD and MS in Security Informatics, Indiana University Bloomington · MBA, Oakland City University · BA, Purdue University · CISSP · PMP

Projects

• PrimeTime Trivia case study

  A pub trivia system built for a real weekly game night. Players join on their own phones, the big screen runs in a browser, and the question bank holds just under two thousand questions across several decks. Node and TypeScript on the server, websockets throughout, Preact on the client. Self-hosted on a Jetson board behind a Cloudflare Tunnel. A walk through one question, screen by screen.