Tobi West, PhD, CISSP
Director of Coastline College’s Center of Academic Excellence in Cyber Defense (CAE-CD) education.
Professor of Cybersecurity
Technology Department Chair
Professor West is the Faculty Department Chair of Computer Information Systems and Cybersecurity at Coastline College and teaches cybersecurity and computer networking courses. Professor West focuses on the development of education pathways for students to achieve their goals to become cybersecurity professionals. She enjoys organizing CyberTech Girls events and GenCyber Girls camp activities for middle school and high school girls to develop their interest in cybersecurity and technology. Professor West also assists with coordination of the Cybersecurity Apprenticeship Program for Coastline College students to help build the cybersecurity workforce and to help apprentices prepare for careers in cybersecurity.
Grant Projects
Experience
Coastline College
(2015 – Present)
Department Chair BC | CIS | CYBR | ICS | IT
Professor
Achievements at Coastline College
NCAE-CD Re-designation 2024
Teacher of the Year 2021-2022
Nominated as Woman of Distinction 2021
Exemplary Program Award 2020
NCAE-CD Re-designation 2019
National University
(2020 – Present)
Adjunct Instructor
CYB 602 Threat Modeling & Intel
California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
(2014 – 2019)
Adjunct Instructor
CIS 231 Fundamentals of Computer Information Systems
CIS 466 Systems Development Project
CIS 481 Computer Forensics
GBA 673 Information Systems Seminar
Second Image (now Ontellus Records Retrieval)
(2001 – 2015)
Technology Consultant
Applications Manager
Project Manager
Lead Systems Analyst
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