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United States

Redmond, Washington, US

Redmond, Washington, US

• Drove efforts to streamline internal team processes, stakeholder experience and minimize control redundancy.
• Lead the assessment and analysis of the Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) control ecosystem for the infrastructure space to ensure the highest level of control relevance, effectiveness and most efficient control placement in our.
• Drove tool and process efficiency gains through collaboration, regulatory expertise and ability to influence regulatory partners.

Reston, Virginia, US

• Systems Administration Lead, General Dynamics Enabled operational success through the management of a focused team to ensure optimal capacity planning and management, high systems and data availability, disaster.
• Managed budgeting, forecasting and oversight of $5 million IT hardware and software budget.
• Implemented and enforced physical access, acceptable use, and monitoring policies, processes and tools for all levels of government classified computer network systems.
• Coordinated IT response to US Congressional information requests and criminal investigations requiring strict evidentiary procedures and documented chain of custody records.
• Designed archive and recovery policies, procedures and systems to achieve compliance with Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests and to meet government regulations regarding critical communications records retention.

Bethesda, MD, US

• Drove course of action (COA) analysis for the warfighter by collaborating across teams and agencies.
• Part of a globally distributed team that aggregated, validated and reported out worldwide metrics covering localized hostilities and activities related to US and coalition security posture
• Ensured appropriate risk mitigation strategies were applied to protect personnel and sensitive data as appropriate
• Minimized redundancy and improved data accuracy by driving the development of critical government intelligence systems through requirements gathering and representing a global user base during the application.

Owner and manager of a fine dining restaurant, catering and yacht provisioning business on the Ft. Lauderdale waterfront.

Falls Church, Virginia, US

• Lead a team that designed, implemented, and documented the Information Assurance program which ensured the task force would receive an independent Authority to Operate (ATO) from DISA critical to operate.
• Built from the ground up the physical and network security guidelines, audit policy and compliance procedures for a new government installation.
• Reduced security incidents and influenced local government and civilian authorities to establish fair and consistent security policies and processes that applied uniformly to military personnel, contractors and third.
• Improved overall security posture while supporting investigations that ranged from violations of network acceptable use policy (NSFW browsing) to criminal actions.
• Protected user rights and limited the unnecessary disclosure of classified information through regular coordination with legal staff to ensure evidentiary procedures were followed and to limit discovery to only.
• Identified, analyzed and tracked security incidents and vulnerabilities, prioritized remediation activities.