About Us

Andrew Macpherson

Director, Technical Analysis Group

212 Huddleston Hall
Phone: (603) 868-1145
Fax: (603) 862-7040
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Mr. Macpherson is a Research Assistant Professor of Justice Studies in the University of New Hampshire Justiceworks program and serves as the director of the Technical Analysis Group. TAG is currently serving as the interim J-One project manager for the New Hampshire Department of Safety’s J-One initiative. The J-One is a state wide criminal justice information sharing project. TAG completed support to the New Hampshire Attorney General's office and state law enforcement partners as they increased the state's capabilities to respond to cyber crimes in the spring of 2008. Mr. Macpherson also advises the Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force Training and Technical Assistance Program and Fox Valley Technical College on strategic planning. Mr. Macpherson has served as an advisor to the Department of Homeland Security National Cyber Security Division on state and local law enforcement matters. Prior to his appointment at the University of New Hampshire Mr. Macpherson served at Dartmouth College's Institute for Security Technology Studies. In his role as Technical Program Coordinator he received funding from the Department of Homeland Security Office for Domestic Preparedness and National Institute of Justice for research efforts including the studies titled Examining the Cyber Capabilities of Islamic Terrorist Groups and Law Enforcement Tools and Technologies for Investigating Cyber Attacks: A National Research and Development Agenda. Prior to his work at Dartmouth Mr. Macpherson served at the United Nations Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia. He is a graduate of the London School of Economics where he received his M.A. in the History of International Relations. Mr. Macpherson earned his undergraduate degree, cum laude, at Mercyhurst College in the Research Intelligence Analysts Program. Mr. Macpherson was named one of the top 40 under 40 in New Hampshire for 2007 by the Union Leader newspaper. The award honors 40 individuals, under the age of 40, who are making a difference in the state.

Stacy Kollias

Project Director, Technical Analysis Group

Huddleston Hall
Phone: (603) 862-7134
Fax: (603) 862-7040
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Stacy Kollias served in the United States Army for more than twenty years, during which she gained extensive experience with the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), the National Security Agency (NSA), and various Special Operations Programs. She has directed, planned and executed multidiscipline counterintelligence operations with national level agencies, host nation national elements, service cryptologic elements, and installations, including classified contingency operations and operations Just Cause and Desert Storm. Ms. Kollias has participated in several “red-team” efforts assessing physical, transmission, cryptographic and computer security, and provided counterintelligence support to NATO operations in the Former Republic of Yugoslavia as well as during the Kosovo crisis.

Ms. Kollias has most recently been involved in projects focusing on National Security and tools and technologies to assist the law enforcement community in the investigation of cyber crime. Specifically:

• Served as a subject-matter expert on the Department of Homeland Security’s behalf evaluating applications to the 2004 Homeland Security Information Technology Evaluation Program. This Joint Program between the Office of the Chief Information Officer and the Office for Domestic Preparedness was intended to foster and evaluate novel uses of existing, “state-of-the-market” information technology demonstrate how to remove barriers and improve information sharing and integration.
• Researched, developed, and tested a prototype national contact database for cyber attack investigators. This restricted-access national database prototype of law enforcement contacts, searchable by geographic location, position, and technological expertise was available to investigators through partnerships with law enforcement organizations and information sharing entities. Research in this area focused on schema design, leveraging existing data, and national coordination and information sharing. Plans are underway to provide this prototype at no charge to the law enforcement community.
• Participated in a National study assessing the interoperability of available Crisis Information Management Software (CIMS) and data fusion solutions. This report delivered a consensus-driven framework for the development and implementationof standards required by emergency management agencies in this domain.
  

Kevin O'Shea

Project Director, Technical Analysis Group

Huddleston Hall
Phone: (603) 996-1826
Fax: (603) 862-7040
E-mail

Kevin O’Shea is currently employed as a Project Director for the Technical Analysis Group in the Justiceworks program at the University of New Hampshire. In this capacity Mr. O’Shea supports the implementation of the New Hampshire Strategic Plan to Combat Cyber Crime.

Prior to working with the University of New Hampshire, Mr. O’Shea was a Research Associate for Project Management within the Technical Analysis Group in the Institute for Security Technology Studies at Dartmouth College. He was a member of the research team and substantive author of three critical national reports to document and present the most pressing impediments facing the law-enforcement community when investigating and responding to cyber attacks.

Mr. O’Shea is a certified GSEC and has lectured on information security, law enforcement technology, cyber terrorism and online research methodology to numerous organizations including the Silicon Valley HTCIA and the Board of Directors of The International Association of Fire Chiefs (IAFC). Most recently, Mr. O’Shea provided content and instruction on open source intelligence research methodology and terrorist use of technologies based on the TAG Examining the Cyber Capabilities of Islamic Terrorist Groups report at the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center’s pilot Counter Cyber Terrorism Investigator Training course. Mr O’Shea recently contributed to the Office for Domestic Preparedness sponsored study assessing the interoperability of available Crisis Information Management Software (CIMS) and data fusion solutions.