Quirktree

Serina has served as co-founder, managing consultant, and instructional designer for Quirktree™ since 2016. She is a passionate, long-time educator, administrator, and instructional designer who brings her expertise to the compliance and cybersecurity industry. Serina holds a MA from Columbia University and a BA from Oklahoma State University. Her experience in 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. With a base of experience in instructional design and development, performance analysis, media integration, training development, curriculum design, benchmarking, business development and assessment, research, risk assessment, and management, Serina's expertise is to examine and attack complex problems or goals from many different angles.

With more than 20 years of experience in cybersecurity and privacy as well as 8 years of academic and professional experience in mental health, Clinton acts as founder, principal consultant, and instructor for Quirktree™. 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. 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. He currently serves as adjunct faculty for the University of Washington iSchool where he has taught Enterprise Risk Management and Introduction to Database Systems.

Rachel Petillo is on our content creation team who helps create the videos for Quirktree's courses. 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.