Hi, my name is Michael Thibodeaux, and I currently live in Neustadt an der Weinstrasse. I was born in Morris, Illinois and lived in St. Martinville, Louisiana until I joined the U.S. Air Force in 2000. After completing training for Munitions Systems Specialist, I accepted a tour (move) to Okinawa, Japan for two years.

     After one year of being there I started taking classes with UMUC Asia.  I was only able to take 2 classes when I was given orders to report to Turkey. Where I stayed there for 15 months and completed nine classes right before the Iraq War started. Family members were evacuated and basically everything was shut down. I had to take a break from school until I came to Ramstein Airbase Germany.

     Here in Germany I have decided that I need to focus more on school.  So after a year from arriving I put an application to separate early for two reasons. The first is to finish school and the second is that I do not want to increase the chance of not seeing the next day by being sent to Iraq. After five years in the military I have figured out that I cannot use this experience for many things and I figured that more goals could be achieved if I were able to put school first and the rest second. 

As of May 2009, I have accomplished a Master of Science in Information Technology and Information Assurance Certificate at the University of Maryland University College Europe, School of Information and Technology Systems with a 3.9 out of 4.0 GPA. Now, I am looking to learn more about Information Security themes and to apply my knowledge, that encompasses the 10 domains in the CISSP, to an international organization.