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Rockville, Md, Us

I serve in this role as a HQ Information System Security Officer for the headquartering office located at Rockville, MD. With over 15,000 employees at IHS, my responsibility is to ensure the levels of system security and network security are being assessed and maintained to its most optimal security standards and program across the organization. In this role, I serve as a liaison for ensuring stakeholders of systems within the Department of Security (DIS). I take part in collaborating with contracting partners from GDIT, Leidos and Deloitte. From Steps 1-7 of the RMF Framework, each stage of the lifecycle is followed using documentations of NIST 800-53 Security Controls and NIST 800-37.

Washington, Dc, Us

At the Department of State, I am a Cybersecurity Architecture Designer SME serving a high-priority project for the Bureau of Overseas Buildings Operations (OBOs) on implementing highly effective smart building solutions for the overseas ambassador's offices across the countries. I work closely with Accenture Project Managers, Government Senior Officials, Technical POCs, and System Owners to bridge the IoT designs of the smart building solution. For my daily tasks, I aid the Project Managers in tracking the project phases, gathering artifacts, and reviewing security controls.

Washington, Dc, Us

At the Department of Defense for the Pentagon HQ G4 U.S Army of Logistics, I played a key role as an IT Policy Specialist for enforcing, reviewing, and aiding Senior Leaders, Systems Owners, System Administrators, and Cyber Incident Response Teams in baselining system controls. These IT duties involved reviewing project assignment reports and administering on-site system assessments by testing, conducting system deployments, and bringing systems into the production stage using NIST 800-53 Rev 4 controls.

Washington, Dc, Us

At Army Corp of Engineers, I serve as an information Assurances Analyst for assessing, configuring and evaluating systems levels. With over 37,000 of civilians and solders deployed for engineering and implementing high efficiency systematic buildings it is my duties for assuring the criticality’s of systems. I work closely with Senior leaders, Leidos contractors on several high priority projects and IT management lifecycles.

In this position, I have worked with Whole Point Systems who is partnered with Salient CRGT, along with Tenable.sc, Cisco and other major partners on fulfilling the IT Security Industry. As a Senior System Engineer, I work with senior leaders on remediating, reporting, and configuring task items using ServiceNow Ticketing Platform. In this position, ServiceNow is utilized by the IT Service Management Lifecyle of the ITIL Service Operation, Service Strategy Lifecycle. I oversee the operation of systems and monitors the activities within the Salient CRGT Organization.

I served as an AWS Datacenter Operator for assessing server configuration reports, performing system kernel initializes and BIOS boot ups. Furthermore, I am the liaison for communicating to Datacenter Security Team on breaches and server downs.

Bethesda, Md, Us

At NIH, I am a hybrid for both IT Engineer and Security Operation Analyst working with the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR) for aiming to improve the security of the network infrastructure and IT systems. Through the configuration management and system modernization stage, I evaluate, assess, and prepares individual assets for the IT Lifecyle. Tasked with assessing and reporting vulnerabilities findings to CIOs and senior leaders.

Gaithersburg, Md, Us

During my time at NIST, I have been heavenly involved with the Office of Information Systems Management (OISM) improving and supporting over 3000+ employees with the production lifecycle of the IT systems. As an IT Security Specialist, I am engaged with SIRT Team, IT Networking and Operation Team, Application Systems Team and Division of Customer Access and Support Team. Throughout my time at NIST, I have advised and provided support for security awareness training for employees across the agency. Each division PML, EL, ITL, NCNR, MML, CTL I have provided rigorous system preparation on the ITIL lifecycle of the Service Operation Stage.

Atlanta, Georgia, Us

Being in the frontline of IT innovation with NCR Corporation, I have served them on supporting over 30,000+ Post offices in the US with over 680 million customers. As a Senior System Analyst, I have provided system support in a IT Operation Center located at Germantown, MD location. Alongside with Peachtree Location in Atlanta, GA. I am engaged with the initial transition phase of upcoming Point of Sales (POS) Systems. As a leading industry across many Retailers, with over 38,000+ employees internally. I play a major role and a mission as a system expert for escalation, remediation and configuration of failures of Point of Systems.

During my time working for ITT Technical Institute it has been my passion to serve mentoring and coach students on completing major lab projects and implementing a working IT architecture solution. I aided professors in preparing class-work and assigning students with proper documentation and guidelines for completing the assignment.

- Provided training to new employees and onboarding paperwork's. - Assisted Restaurant Owner publishing and developing advertising brochures- Ordered new and assisted IT Team on developing POS Equipment's. - Ensured Restaurant Operation are being mannerly managed by Employees.

Master Of Professional Studies (Mps), Cybersecurity

Bachelor Of Applied Science - Basc, Information Security And Cybersecurity

Associate Of Science - As, System, Networking, And Lan/Wan Management/Manager