Tom Kopchak is the Director of Technical Operations at Hurricane Labs, where he pretends to manage a team of network and Splunk engineers but is still an engineer and technology geek at heart. Tom is a Splunk Certified Architect and Accredited Consultant and has several years' experience building, designing, and managing Splunk deployments; he also manages teams of Splunk engineers, designing Splunk deployment strategies, and developing Splunk training materials.nHe holds a Masters degree in Computing Security from the Rochester Institute of Technology and has spoken at numerous Infosec conferences around the country (including Splunk .conf and DEFCON). You will often find him researching digital forensics topics or tinkering with any and all forms of computer hardware. When he is not working with computers, Tom enjoys composing, music improvisation (Acts of Music), and playing both the piano and organ.