The Quirktree Team
Get to know the experts.
Clinton Campbell, CISSP is founder, principal consultant, and instructor for Quirktree. He has more than 16 years of experience in cybersecurity and privacy as well as 8 years of academic and professional experience in mental health. Upon completion of an MS in Computer Science from the University of Tulsa’s Center for Information Security, Clinton joined the National Security Agency’s Information Assurance Directorate where he spent several years digging for weaknesses in cryptographic systems. Over the years, his perspective on cybersecurity has evolved through various technical and leadership responsibilities in the security domain. Oddly enough, Clinton says that his work as a psychotherapist has played an equal if not greater role in shaping his approach to the industry’s most difficult challenges.
Clinton’s current focus is on growing the Quirktree team to provide affordable, high quality support and services to businesses, non-profits, and public entities. He currently serves as adjunct faculty for the University of Washington iSchool where he has taught Enterprise Risk Management and Introduction to Database Systems.
Serina Isch is co-founder, managing consultant, and instructional designer for Quirktree. She joined the Quirktree team in July of 2016. Serina holds a MA from Columbia University and a BA from Oklahoma State University. She is a passionate, long-time educator, administrator, and instructional designer who brings that expertise to the compliance and cybersecurity industry. Serina’s passions for educational design and technology come together as she works to design training materials and policies and procedures that help employees navigate the realities of security and compliance in today’s workplace through deep learning and meaningful transfer. She loves helping others understand complex concepts and designing efficient and effective compliance plans to put their business on a firm foundation.
Serina has worked for small startups and large corporations and has a base of experience in learning/instructional design and development, performance analysis, media integration, training development, curriculum design, benchmarking, business development and assessment, research, marketing, blogging, social media, risk assessment, and management that help her examine and attack complex problems or goals from many different angles.
John Duksta is a staff consultant for Quirktree. He has over 30 years of experience in information technology, with 25 of them being focused on cyber security. After graduating from the University of Rhode Island with a BA in Physics, he has worked across the IT industry, for networking software and hardware vendors, a tier-1 ISP, a managed security service company, an Ivy League university, and two FAANGs. His primary professional focus is on infrastructure security and automation, with a significant side focus on applied cryptography.
He is also a security community organizer, having founded DC401, Rhode Island’s Defcon group, and QuahogCon, which was a one shot security conference in Providence, RI. Because herding nerds gets old after a bit, he now focuses his community contributions on individual mentoring of folks who want to learn about or get into the information security field.
John’s current focus at Quirktree is helping our clients ensure that their security infrastructure is auditable and reproducible through the use of infrastructure as code (IaC). He is working on a library of IaC modules that implement an opinionated cloud environment that provides strong controls and boundaries between the various security tiers of their systems.
Rachel Petillo is on our content creation team who helps create the videos you see on Quirktree’s thinkific website. She believes that the information we deal with every day is quite boring. That being said, the information is incredibly important. She wants to find more ways to help make this topic a little more entertaining and digestible. What good does training do if you're so painfully bored that you don’t retain it?
Rachel studied Film and Video Production at Oklahoma City Community College and was placed on the President’s Honor Roll for maintaining a 4.0 GPA. She left OCCC right at the end of her second year to work for film director Francis Ford Coppola at his winery in California. She assisted him for 2.5 years before returning back to Oklahoma where she briefly worked on local productions. Her experience helps push our videos a bit more towards the “entertaining” side of the spectrum and we aim to strike a balance between value and entertainment/retention. Rachel is currently studying the more technical side of what we do since joining our team 3 years ago.
Preston Petillo was brought on to the Quirktree team in January of 2020. He graduated from Oklahoma City Community College in 2019 with a Digital Media Production Degree. Throughout college and in the years he has been employed he has 7 years of experience in the Film Industry, and has worked on numerous projects including the recent Oklahoma show Tulsa King.
Since being brought on, Preston has moved up to the Lead Editor & Colorist position, as well as being one of our Video Production Managers.
Faith Petillo is a video producer and digital designer who brings a love and understanding of artistic design to her role at Quirktree. She graduated in 2018 with a degree in Digital Cinema Production and has since spent over five years in the film, television and media industries. Faith was drawn to the industry by her belief in the power of digital media and art to share unique perspectives across the world and to teach, learn, and communicate across physical barriers.
Faith currently works to infuse entertainment into the digital security space by assisting in creating fun educational videos for Quirktree.
