Luis Omar Rivera-Lopez

After spending 20 years in service, I retired from the United States Army in 2009 and decided to make a change. I enrolled in classes at the Colorado Technical University and started my new life as a full-time student. I received my bachelor’s degree in Computer Systems Security in 2012, then a master’s degree in Computer Science in 2014. 

I reconnected with the love of my life after 18 years of being separated due to a transfer in duty station. We got married in 2017 and she was a key factor in the successful completion of my doctoral degree.  I continued my studies, and in 2018 I received a Doctor of Computer Science degree with a concentration in Cybersecurity and Information Assurance.

Due to health reasons I had to pause my plan on continuing the path on Computer Science and in the mean time kept myself busy as much as I could learning  astrophotography.  Currently I still doing astrophotography and producing images of celestial objects and share them to the public.