Welcome to the personal website of Brian Schaeffer!

I finally cut out my own little corner of the Internet to share a little more about myself and to create place to experiment with a few ideas I have from time to time. Feel free to take a look around and let me know what you think.

The name of the website came from a conversation I was having with a few people I used to work with back during the hectic days of our start-up. One of the people in the group was trying to express his frustration with the number of times we had gone through a recent development cycle. He went on to mention that he felt like he was on “iteration 54” of a large code loop and going nowhere. At the time, we all laughed because we all were feeling the grind of start-up life and could certainly relate. It wasn’t until much later that a good friend and co-worker at the time Bill Toffel, referenced that conversation and thought that life was much like that code loop we were talking about back then. Basically, we are somewhere in the middle of life’s loop, trying to debug things as we go alone. The rest is history.

In the 19+ years I’ve been working I’ve built a reputation of designing solid technical solutions and processes that meet and/or exceed any security and risk management requirements in several regulated industries. I’ve earned the respect of my coworkers, industry professionals, law enforcement, and regulators, not by regurgitating technobabble, but by building strong relationships, using plain English, and working cooperatively on solving real problems. In addition, I actively support National Security and Critical Infrastructure Protection initiatives, donating expertise and providing insight to Federal Law enforcement and Intelligence Agencies.

I’ve been pretty fortunate in my career so far. I attribute my good luck to actively looking for opportunities to share, learn and give back. We don’t get anywhere on our own. That being said, I have and continue to build a substantial professional network to help foster my future growth.

I maintain a pretty current version of my professional experience on LinkedIn. Click here to see

For an electronic version of my resume, Click here