Fred Simpson is a veteran construction manager, published author, and cyber safety advocate with nearly five decades of experience in the utilities and industrial construction industry. Over the course of his 48-year career, Fred has served as site manager, engineering manager, civil superintendent, and QC manager on 23 power plants and approximately 8 major process plants across the United States, including a $2.74 billion and a $1.8 billion facility, working with every fuel source imaginable, from coal and natural gas to wood chips, rice hulls, and tires. Most recently, he served as Senior Site Manager at ITAC, Industrial TurnAround Corporation, coordinating multiple capital projects totaling $92 million.

But it was a deeply personal chapter of his life that led him to a second calling. After losing his wife of 46 years, Fred found himself suddenly alone and targeted by over 100 online scammers who preyed on his grief. Rather than walking away, he stayed engaged long enough to understand how these schemes worked from the inside, studying the tactics, reporting the perpetrators to the FTC and the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center, and turning the entire experience into a resource for others.

The result is Cyber Time, published under the pen name Jameson Lyon and available on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Walmart, and over 80 platforms worldwide. The book offers 10 concrete steps to identify whether someone online is real, platform-by-platform scam statistics, and practical tools to protect against romance scams, crypto fraud, gold trading schemes, and more. Fred's mission is simple, if his story can help even one person stay safe and feel less alone online, it's worth it.