Austin Gardner Email & Phone Number

Chantilly, Virginia, Us

Technical Director within the Cyber Warfare directorate who leads technical strategy, innovation, and execution across multiple contracts focused on big data analytics for offensive and defensive operations.• Domain and subject matter expert across USCYBERCOM’s Joint Cyber Warfighting Architecture (JCWA)• Senior Solutions Architect and SME for Cyber Operations• Develops opportunity pipeline and engagement strategy with Cyber Warfare leadership• Task Lead and Key Personnel on dozens of growth opportunities across the DoD and IC• Leads internal research and development (IR&D) new capability development for Cyber Warfare

Chantilly, Virginia, Us

Led RDT&E for a GOTS capability, which has been jointly funded through Army PEO IEW&S, Air Force Life Cycle Management Center (AFLCMC), and Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD). The GOTS capability has been fielded to ARCYBER, AFCYBER, and Army Multi-Domain Task Forces (MDTF).• Led the transition of a 100-engineer matrixed team from traditional waterfall development to use a SAFe agile software development methodology to manage the requirements development, planning, engineering, testing, and fielding of the capability. • Acted as Lead Architect for the Extract, Transform, Load (ETL) processing pipeline to enable offline and near-real-time streaming analytics. Leveraged technologies such as Kafka, Zookeeper, Kubernetes, Docker, Elasticsearch, MongoDB, Accumulo, and PostgreSQL to develop the solution.• Traveled around the globe to support both CONUS and OCONUS cyber operations and deployments• Subject-matter expert that assists analysts and operators with Offensive and Defensive Cyber Operations

Chantilly, Virginia, Us

• Met with dozens of stakeholders, including program offices and end users/operators, each quarter to prioritize and plan for new feature development. Effectively managed requirements across multiple programs and developed a unified backlog, so that all stakeholders were made aware of planned requirements.• Defined requirements utilizing Agile User Stories and wrote Acceptance Criteria for QA• Supported business development and marketing by providing product demos and input to RFIs/RFPs• Wrote dozens of Cyber Network assessment reports supporting OCO and DCO• Extensive reverse engineering and analysis of networking protocols

Chantilly, Virginia, Us

Responsible for all technical aspects related to the NIST SP 800-53 - Risk Management Framework (RMF)• Awarded a 3 year Authority to Operate (ATO) for multiple enterprise platforms with Army G2• Worked with engineering architects on Security Technical Implementation Guidelines (STIGs/SRGs), Static Code Analysis (Fortify), and Automated Compliance Scanning (ACAS) implementation• Maintained a Plan of Actions and Milestones (POA&M) that detailed resourcing, cost, and remediation schedule estimates for identified vulnerabilities. The POA&M provided a detailed roadmap for remediation that was discussed at weekly and monthly status meetings with program office leadership• Identified legacy and end-of-life software components to ensure RMF compliance and align to cloud modernization efforts for performance and scalability

Chantilly, Virginia, Us

Transitioned from an internship role to a full time employee after graduation from RIT. Was hired as a front end developer.

Chantilly, Virginia, Us

Served as a Junior Computer Engineer Intern on the front end software development team.Responsible for designing, developing, and testing a web application.- Tasked with implementing multiple frontend user features.- Worked with backend and system architects defining APIs. - Point of contact for all new hires to the team for purposes of onboarding and training.Tools: JavaScript (jQuery, D3), Python / Django, HTML / Handlebars, CSS / Less, SVN

Chicago, Il, Us

Served as a Software Intern working on the Trip Optimizer Team. Responsible for creating the board support package (BSP) for an embedded hardware system.- Worked on BSP for booting into an QNX operating system.- Developed functionality for a daemon interface.- Refactored code for use in current production.- Received 4 Star Rating (Exceeds Standard and Expectations) from Assignment LeaderTools: C, C++, Assembly, Eclipse IDE, Freescale PowerPC, U-Boot, Git, Debian & QNX OS

Chicago, Il, Us

Served as a Control Systems Intern on the Vehicle Control team. Tasked with automating design and requirements gathering processes, and consolidating designs with scripts.- Designed and implemented algorithms for determining relationships within computer aided design (CAD) software. - Reduced document creation time, saving team around 50 work hours per year.- Received 4 Star Rating (Exceeds Standard and Expectations) from Assignment Leader.Tools: DXL, VBA, IBM Rational DOORS database, GE Locomotive Simulators

Syracuse, New York, Us

Served as an IT Intern at a small non-profit homeless and rehabilitation center. Worked directly with staff, volunteers, and clients to assist in computing problems. - Volunteered 250+ hours.- Prepared and imaged ~50 workstations from Windows 7 to 10 for staff.- Identified and contained two ransomware incidents.- Deployed credit card readers and registers for consignment stores.Tools: Windows OS, Windows Servers, Ingenico Card Reader, Ransomware

Master Of Science - Ms, Cyber Security

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Software Engineering