He is a Computer Engineer from the National University of Tucumán (U.N.T.), Argentina. He has a Diploma in Cybersecurity Strategy and Cybercrime Intelligence from the Universidad del Norte Santo Tomas de Aquino (UNSTA).

Industrial Cybersecurity Expert with more than 17 years of work experience in the Oil & Gas and Electric Power industry.

Engineering professional with multiple international certifications in industrial networks, industrial cybersecurity and risk analysis:

• GICSP – Global Industrial Cybersecurity Professional
• CSSA - Certified SCADA Security Architect- Information Assurance Certification Review Board
• ISA99/IEC 62443 Cybersecurity Expert
• ISA99/IEC62443 Cybersecurity Maintenance Specialist
• ISA99/IEC 62443 Cybersecurity Design Specialist
• ISA99/IEC 62443 Cybersecurity Risk Assessment Specialist
• ISA99/IEC 62443 Cybersecurity Fundamentals Specialist
• Cisco Industrial Networking Specialist
• CERTIFIED MANAGER, WisePlant HQ

He has held positions of various responsibility in large companies such as SCANIA Argentina S.A., E&Y, EDET S.A., Pluspetrol Energy S.A, and YPF S.A. becoming Manager of Industrial Cybersecurity and Critical Infrastructures of the latter. Today he works as an external consultant in Industrial Cybersecurity for private and government companies, mainly in Latin America, and as an expert in industrial cybersecurity for INVAP S.E. within nuclear energy projects.

President of the Industrial Cybersecurity Committee of ARPEL for the period 2020-2024 (Regional Association of Companies in the Oil, Gas and Biofuels Sector in Latin America and the Caribbean).

Since 2016 it has been an “Information Member of ISA99/IEC62443 Committee”.

As of 2018, he participates as a technical representative within ISA-SECURE.

Member of CoNCIME (National Cybersecurity Committee for the Electricity Market).

Coordinator of the Industrial Cybersecurity Center (CCI) for Argentina.

Teaching experience:

• National Technological University (UTN FRBA), Teaching assistant of the subject "Industrial Cybersecurity", in the Information Systems Engineering degree.
• UNSTA – Universidad del Norte Santo Tomas de Aquino – Cybersecurity Diploma in Industrial Systems.

He is a writer and author of documents and articles of an investigative nature for different publishers and magazines of a technological and industrial nature.

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