This is where I get to write about myself in the third person. Hey, let's talk about me like I'm not here, m'kay?
Greg Hughes is a high-tech executive working in the Security and Information Technologies fields. He lives outside of Portland, Oregon in the United States. Greg grew up in Los Alamos, New Mexico. No, he does not glow in the dark. Well, not anymore, at least.
39 40 41 years old and losing his hair, Greg's spent most of his life completely stressing himself out, yet enjoying pretty much all of it. After working seven years in photojournalism, he shifted gears and became a police officer. After another seven or so years (itchy eh?) of being paid very little to take big risks and deal with mean people and bad-smelling drunks, he remembered his years of programming classes back in high school and made the bold move to become a professional computer geek. He now makes better money with something like one tenth the risk - Not such a bad deal, he says.
But, without a regular dose of adrenaline there comes a desire to continue to find new ways to walk out there "on the edge," so now he also blows things up as a hobby. Not bad, he says, when you consider get to have all your fun and someone else pays thousands of dollars to buy the materials. "Win-win," they call it.
These day's he's involved in some stuff he can't talk much about, but it is security related and it's quite enjoyable. No surprises there. Greg's recent day job as the Chief Security Executive and VP of Security and IT at the world's leading online banking company allowed him to combine the geekiness of managing and building complex and important technology with the law-enforcement-edness of forensics and investigation, and his personal weblog (you're reading it) combines security and technology with the art of journalism in its own conversational way. You could say it's the perfect way for him to culminate his interests and communicate them with so many others on whatever terms seem to work at the time.
People who know him wonder how he has managed to pack so many experiences into his life. They also wonder if he ever stops to oh, say, sleep. When it comes down to it, Greg is one of those guys who doesn't want to miss out on all those things that most people dream of. Whether it's helping catch cyber-criminals, skydiving, blowing things up, teaching, working with at-risk kids, climbing mountains, catching bad guys, riding motorcycles, hauling up and down the river in a jet boat, or being the halftime highlight on Sports Center because some lanky basketball player crushed him while he was shooting pictures on the court, there's a decent chance he's done it - because hey, it's all about the experience.
Greg Hughes is a single, available, kind and (his friends tell him) pretty darned decent human being. He's convinced his future wife will magically show up on his front doorstep any day now (which probably explains the whole being-single thing). He has been a foster parent for 14 at-risk and special-needs kids, as well as a cop, photographer, geek, student, movie theater projectionist, paperboy, bakery cleaner, camera salesman, volunteer, bionic man, pyrotechnician, friend, and a whole slew of other random things.
It should be noted that he is not the same Greg Hughes who works for another security company called Symantec. So if you're looking for that Greg Hughes, please try looking at symantec.com.
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- phone: 503-766-2258 (or use the interface below to call me)
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