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Phoenix, Az, Us

• Led, built, and developed a high-performing team of IT professionals, achieving a near 0% turnover rate by fostering trust, communication, and accountability to build strong relationships and deliver exceptional results. • Created efficiencies by taking charge, initiating and tracking strategies and metrics, fostering innovation, and promoting collaboration within the team to enhance overall performance. • Collaborated with executive leadership on critical business decisions, KPIs, and strategic initiatives to align IT goals with organizational objectives. • Worked with vendors to acquire cutting-edge technologies and strengthen partnerships, enhancing the organization's technological capabilities. • Developed policies and procedures to standardize operations and ensure compliance with industry standards. • Managed the team’s annual budget, balancing business goals with team needs to optimize resource allocation and financial performance. • Extensive experience working with customers across various sectors, including higher education, government, healthcare, utilities, critical infrastructure, SaaS, technology, and hospitality. • Expertise in NIST, PCI, GLBA, and HIPAA standards, performing security assessments and penetration tests to assist customers in achieving compliance. • Managed a team of 12 penetration testers, successfully conducting 150-200 penetration tests annually to provide valuable insights and assisting customers in securing their environments. • Evaluated new tools and maintained servers within a virtual infrastructure to support penetration testing tasks and goals. • Participated in sales calls with customers and prospects as Subject Matter Expert (SME), to discuss penetration testing needs.• Assisted in creating proposal responses to Request For Proposals (RFPs) and contracts, coordinating penetration testing requirements with customers and documenting rules of engagement.

• First penetration tester on staff, created the penetration testing product offering, infrastructure, processes, and documentation. • Built and led the team, successfully performing testing and providing value to customers, enabling them to secure their environments. • Performed an average of 20-30 penetration tests annually, which included testing DLP implementations by attempting data exfiltration during testing. • Created and maintained a deployable solution for performing internal penetration testing remotely. • Utilized industry tools such as Nessus, Kali Linux, Metasploit, Wireshark, nmap, sqlmap, Burp, Acunetix, Qualys, Social Engineering Toolkit (SET), Veil framework, and more. • Evaluated new tools as needed, and created, managed, and maintained servers within a virtual infrastructure to accomplish penetration testing tasks and goals. • Performed PCI ASV vulnerability scans and penetration testing to assist clients in achieving PCI compliance, maintaining up-to-date knowledge of PCI standards. • Assisted in creating proposal responses to RFPs, coordinating penetration testing requirements with customers and documenting rules of engagement.

Lanham, Maryland, Us

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Austin, Tx, Us

Mclean, Va, Us

• Manage a team of penetration testers, performing vulnerability scans and security assessments against Army websites and leading penetration testing against Army systems, both on-site and remote missions. • Utilize tools such as Tenable ACAS/Nessus, Retina, WebInspect, Kali Linux, Metasploit, CoreImpact, Wireshark, nmap, and manual testing procedures to identify and exploit system weaknesses. • Create and modify simple scripts to assist in the automation of tasks. • Provide executive briefings to senior management and advise site administrators on best business practices and remediation techniques for the vulnerabilities found. • Conduct research on newly discovered vulnerabilities and exploits. • Serve as a back-up system administrator for the organization.

Colorado Springs, Co, Us

• Performed vulnerability scans and security assessments against Army websites. • Conducted penetration testing against Army systems, both on-site and remote missions. • Utilized tools such as Tenable ACAS/Nessus, Retina, WebInspect, Kali Linux, Metasploit, CoreImpact, Wireshark, nmap, and manual testing procedures to identify and exploit system weaknesses. • Created and modified simple scripts to assist in the automation of tasks. • Provided executive briefings to senior management and advised site administrators on best business practices and remediation techniques for the vulnerabilities found. • Conducted research on newly discovered vulnerabilities and exploits. • Served as a back-up system administrator for the organization. • Acted as the senior Boecore employee on the contract, serving as the point of contact for other local Boecore employees from 2011 to 2015. • Collaborated with contract staff on multiple work proposals.

Colorado Springs, Co, Us

• Prepared and presented threat briefings to various commands and groups within the US Army. • Monitored network traffic, IDS sensor data, and router logs along with open-source information to determine threats against US Army networks. • Analyzed data within SIEM systems to identify security issues. • Developed appropriate countermeasures and conducted damage assessments. • Performed internal research and development efforts aimed at evaluating new tools, analyzing exploits, and developing new security solutions and strategies. • Served as a back-up system administrator and a Penetration Tester for the organization.

Colorado Springs, Co, Us

• Managed, maintained, and administered information systems including workstations, servers (both Microsoft and Linux operating systems), McAfee firewalls, Cisco ASA firewalls, and network switches. • Created batch files to automate time-consuming or scheduled tasks. • Performed vulnerability scanning and ensured systems were compliant with Army standards and applicable IA (information assurance) regulatory requirements for the infrastructure. • Authored and updated IA documentation, compliance reporting, and operating procedures. • Led the scanning, remediation, and hardening efforts for the infrastructure team during three Command Cyber Readiness Inspections, resulting in "outstanding" scores for the organization. • Performed impact assessments, made recommendations for improving the network architecture, and implemented the proposed changes, resulting in 90% of the functions being virtualized, drastically reducing the physical server footprint and the cost of life cycle replacements. • Conducted vulnerability research and coordinated with other agencies to improve security guidelines and correct 80+ vulnerability definitions within the scanning software. • Served as a Penetration Tester for the organization.

Reston, Virginia, Us

• Administered and managed the US Army’s Enterprise Active Directory Infrastructure for the classified network. • Managed the creation of all top-level organization units (OUs), sub OUs, groups, and appropriate security permissions for all top-level OU administrators. • Performed day-to-day management of domain controllers by monitoring replication and synchronization. • Provided user support by resolving problems at sites, completing requested actions from site administrators, and providing troubleshooting assistance. • Authored standard operating procedures, system inventories, and configuration baselines to capture the organization's business processes.

• Provided on-site technical systems support to approximately 800 John Deere users by analyzing and isolating system and software/hardware failures. • Identified and documented conditions and criteria required to resolve problems and evaluated problem areas to determine if failures were the result of software, hardware, or user-related issues. • Provided additional user training as necessary to ensure effective use of systems and software. • Set up and installed new hardware, completed end-user configurations, and applied new versions of software and updates.