• Founded and led a cybersecurity and technology minority owned small disadvantaged business focused on US Government end client.• Managed all aspects including business development, capture, proposal efforts, recruiting, HR, accounting, and technical delivery.

• Leading and supporting the local area with strategic information technology support, and consulting.• Information Security, Security Training and Awareness.• Security Control Assessments, Risk Assessments, System Security Posture• IT Training, Advisory, Acquisition, Audio, Surveillance

Install, build, configure, and upgrade Splunk 9.x in Amazon Web Services (AWS) hosted on hardened Red Hat Linux instances and migrate on-premises Splunk to new AWS Splunk.

• Cybersecurity advisory and RMF Assessment support as a Splunk engineer within a managed serviceenvironment.• Configured Splunk v8.2 index eval at ingest time feature to solve customer attribution problem inmulti-tenant Splunk environments.• Supported Governance, Risk, Compliance and Security Operations Center team with SplunkEnterprise, Splunk Enterprise Security, and Splunk Qmulos app.• Provided leadership, mentoring, training through all facets of Splunk, and NIST security controls.• Standardized getting data into Splunk, identified data sources, building reports, dashboards, as wellas troubleshooting Splunk configuration issues.• Worked with Splunk Professional Services during long engagements and architecture reviews.• Built an Amazon Web Services test lab with Linux AMI and Splunk Enterprise.• Manage tasks via Jira sprints, ServiceNow change requests and work tickets.

• Successfully support planning of Splunk v6 upgrade to Splunk v8.• Achieving successful integration of FireEye and Splunk within Red Hat Linux utilizing python.• Daily monitoring and identifying Splunk operational issues via dashboards and Splunk log reviews.• Oral and written presentation to client, management and team on technical knowledge sharing.• Research solutions in Splunk Docs, Splunk Answers, vendor specific documents, and Internet.• Tear down of existing Splunk integration and Syslog-NG configurations.• Installation of Splunk Enterprise Security Search Head with Ansible and Satellite.

Security Control Assessor and ISSO responsible for full network assessments to ATO. Cyber Operations Administrator of Tanium, ACAS, Palo Alto, Red Seal, Splunk, Splunk Enterprise Security.

• Mission Security Engineer / Vulnerability Lead / Cloud Lead ensuring cyber security for information systems that support critical missions.

• Security engineer assessing multiple systems based on NIST security control standards.

• Leading security control assessments utilizing cyber security and information systems security (INFOSEC) technical knowledge in accordance with NIST SP 800-53 revision 4 and the Risk Management Framework (RMF) as part of the Information Assurance (IA) team.• Providing technical knowledge and dissemination of information in a team environment by interpreting NIST and FISMA regulations. Training system owner support analysts how to remediate vulnerability findings in their systems post-assessment, and using BMC Remedy ticketing system.• Assessing and documenting Virtual Machines, Windows and Linux systems deficiencies while creating written reports of unresolved vulnerabilities.• Peer reviews of team member’s work, mentoring team members, and working professionally with clients on-site.• Meeting with executives discussing system level vulnerabilities with relationship to custom government applications, cloud systems, security applications, web applications, and cross-domain solutions.• Develop a new and improved risk calculus methodology based on NIST SP 800-30 and NIST SP 800-39 to assess risk ratings, and vulnerability ratings to systems as part of the clients risk management strategy team.• Lead recruiting efforts including resume review, phone and in-person interviews for cyber security analysts.• Discover cutting edge end-point security solutions; write whitepapers, and present to stakeholders.• Review Mcafee Vulnerability Manager scanning results, .VMX files, Windows 2008 Server/IIS 7.0/SQL Server security configuration settings.• Evaluating System Security Architecture and reviewing system design documentation such as Security Plans, Information System Contingency Plans, and Configuration Management Plans.

• Project leadership, strategy, advisory• Red Hat Linux, and STIGs• Certification and Accreditation documentation• Data center mapping / relocation• Windows 2008 Enterprise Server STIGs• SharePoint Administration• FISCAM IT Audit• Opnet, Modeling and Simulation• Web Application Functional Testing• Risk Management Framework (RMF)• Risk Assessments• Industrial Control Systems (ICS)• Identity Credential Access Management (ICAM), Identity Access Management (IdAM)• Web Application System Design Documentation Security and Technical Review• Jenkins web application automation build, IIS 7.0, Windows Server 2008R2, XML, SQL, batch scripts.

• Leading and supporting technical projects with all Information Assurance and Information Systems related expertise.

• Accountable as a leader of the operations team with ongoing initiatives of the Enterprise Service Desk (ESD) involving the many details of operations reporting, and process improvement.

• Lead and supported staff to senior executives with all technology related issues.

• Lead and supported major project initiatives for major clients on a variety of projects during my tenure including, Security Auditing, IT Support, Wireless Networking, Proposals, Documentation, Diagrams and Data Mapping.

• Responsible for all technology in the continuing care retirement facility, a medium sized organization.

• Primary duties consist of Internet recruiting prior military for Saudi Arabia National Guard, FT. Irwin, War Reserve Material, Qatar Security & Transportation, VBR Turkey Base Maintenance, and corporate headquarter positions.

• Performed as a Team Lead supervising five to ten installation engineers supporting the United States Department of Treasury Internal Revenue Service.