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My name is <Stanley L. Fidge > MSIA-UPE, CISSP, GSLC, GSTRT, GSNA, GLEG, GCCC, CPP and Security+ and I am the son of Geraldine M. Job and (Ottis N. Fidge). Geraldine M. Job (my Mother) is the daughter of Ludwig and Magda (Egerdahl-Kristiansen) Job (Jopp) who married on October 2, 1940. Geraldine M. Job (My Mother) obtained her Bachelor of Arts degree from Indian River State College in Business Administration with a major in Marketing. Ludwig Job (my grandfather) bought farm land and established a homestead and farmed 640 acres near Nortonville, North Dakota. Ludwig Job (my grandfather) is the son of Jacob and Eva (Mayer) Job (Jopp) (my great grandfather) who immigrated from Odessa, Ukraine along the Blacksea (Russia) to St. Francis, Kansas USA on May 10, 1911 and then relocated to buy farm land and establish a homestead near Streeter, North Dakota USA in December of 1911. Jacob Job (my great grandfather) also acquired 160 acres of farmland east of Jud, North Dakota from the 2nd U.S. Homestead Act of 1912. Jacob Job (my great grandfather) is the son of Ludwig and Katharina (Geigner) Job (Jopp) (my great-great grandfather) who were also from modern day Ukraine near Odessa along the Black Sea who are decendants from the Job (Jopp) family surname from Germany who immigrated from Germany to modern day Ukraine (Russia) along the Black Sea from the early 1800's based upon the Edict of Catherine the Great from Russia in 1763. In 1763, Catherine II (Catherine the Great, German born empress of Russia) sent agents into the German states for the purpose of recruiting German settlers for Russia's new territory along the Black Sea with the promise of free land, no taxes, and freedom of religion as long as the new territory was settled. Many Germans and other Europeans began flooding into the area, starting particularly after the Napoleanic wars (1803 through 1810). Hundreds of German colonies sprang up in a semi-circle around Odessa, now in modern-day Ukraine. By 1816, over 1,500 German families moved into and around the Black Sea near Odessa in modern-day Ukraine. However, due to impending war in Russia and the rise of communism, all that was achieved and promised to the German settlers by Catherine the Great was taken away. Jacob Job (Jopp) (my Great Grandfather) immigrated to the United States of America when he was 21 years old to escape the impending bulshevik revolution and Ludwig Job (Jopp) his father and (my great great grandfather) came to America with Jacob Job (Jopp) (my great grandfather) to arrange Jacob's first marriage to Eva (Mayer) Job (Jopp) whose family were also German's who immigrated to Odessa, Ukraine (Russia) and then to the United States in which there marraige was arranged by Jacob Jopp (Job) (my great great grandfather) and they were married in 1912 and had four children (Katherine, Ida, Eva, and Ludwig) (my grandfather). Ludwig Job (Jopp) (my great great grandfather) returned to Russia to bring back the rest of the Job (Jopp) family and was never heard from again. I started this family tree for the German-Russian surname of Job (Jopp) going back 1646 to Michael (Jopp) Job whose descendants immigrated from Ottersheim, Germersheim, rheinland Pfalz, Germany to Odessa, Ukraine (Russia) under the Edict of Catherine the Great and then to the United States of America at the initial start of the Bolshevik revolution before 1917 in which my Great Grandfather Jacob Job came to the United States to start a new life in May of 1911 with the same promises made from Catherine the Great, now realized via the U.S. Constitution's freedom of religion, free land to settlers (2nd homestead act of 1912), and no initial tax on free land for immigrants who lived on the land for at least 5 years, learned English, and became U.S. citizens by settling, improving, and peacefully living on 160 acres of land granted thru President Taft during the 2nd Homestead Act of 1912.
Stanley L. Fidge, son of Ottis Nels Fidge and Geraldine M. Job (Fidge), MSIA-UPE, CISSP, GSLC, GSTRT, GSNA, GLEG, GCCC, CPP and Security+ was born in Breckenridge, Minnesota at St. Francis of Assisi hospital on October 29, 1971. He lived the first few years of his life in Jamestown, Williston, and Nortonville, North Dakota including living on the Job family farm in Nortonville, North Dakota. At 7 years of age and in August of 1979 his mother (Geraldine M. Job) and himself left North Dakota to move to Hollywood, Florida to join with his mother’s older sisters (Stan's Aunt Darlene and Shirley) who were already living in Sourth Florida since the 1960's. Stanley grew up in Hollywood, Florida and he graduated from Hollywood Hills High school in June of 1990. Stanley earned his Associate of Arts degree from Broward Community College in 1995 with a major in Liberal Arts in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. He obtained his Bachelor of Art’s degree in Business Administration with a major in Management Information Systems from Florida Atlantic University as of May 2007 in Boca Raton, Florida.
Stanley continued his education and obtained a Master’s of Science - Information Assurance and Cyber Security degree with honors from Norwich University online in Northfield, Vermont in June of 2012 and simultaneously took the exam during residency week at Norwich University to earn the prestigious ISC2 - Certified Information Systems Professional Certification (CISSP) in August of 2012, Certificate Number 425088. Stanley also was honored as a lifetime member of the Upsilon Pi Epsilon (UPE), International Honor Society for the Computing and Information Disciplines – Norwich University Chapter in June of 2012 for his collegiate studies in Information Assurance and Cyber Security with honors within the online distance learning program at Norwich University Northfield, Vermont. The online program at Norwich University was the first Information Assurance and Cyber Security distance learning education offering in the United States of America to be recognized and accredited as a Department of Homeland Security (DHS)/National Security Agency (NSA) Academic Learning Center of Excellence for distance learning. Stan earned the SANS GIAC Global Security Leadership Certification (GSLC) in June of 2018, the SANS GIAC Global Critical Controls Certification (GCCC) in June of 2019, GIAC Strategic Planning, Policy, and Leadership (GSTRT) in 2020, GIAC Law of Data Security & Investigations (GLEG) in August of 2021, and the GIAC Systems and Network Auditor (GSNA) in June of 2022. Stan started his career in information assurance and Cybersecurity by earning the Comptia Security+ Certification in December of 2006.