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San Antonio, Tx, Us

Remote, Us

San Antonio, Texas, Us

Lead global team of architects, engineers, developers to meet business and customer needs, ensuring consistent delivery dates that align to larger efforts for security centric projects.Principal architect, engineer, and security subject matter expert of a $250+million revenue product portfolio.Technical escalation point for internal and customer security investigations and remediations.Authors technical processes, articles, and blogs for internal and external audiences at all technical levels.Mentored SOC leadership on best practice security operational procedures and tool capability development.Conducts testing, analysis, process creation, and operationalization of tools to support security operations.Architects and integrates solutions for EDR, AV, IDS/IPS, vulnerability management, compliance management, cloud native tools, and other security related requirements.Advises teams on workflow and processes for monitoring, Incident Response, and hunting operations.Sought as primary security advisor on issues and resolutions for customers and leadership on a daily basis.Provides guidance to senior and C-suite leaders for security and business decisions.

 Build and leads a calm, highly effective security team to secure 65+ customer networks worldwide, across all sectors of business industries and applications, in a fast-paced hectic environment Serves as mentor, trainer, and leader for SOC teams, including hiring/promotions/disciplinary action, training development, technical strategy direction, scheduling, and performance reviews Responsible for 24x7 monitoring of customer networks, ensuring Incident Response and defense actions are taken according to industry standards and defined policies Manages daily operations for SOC Analysts and Engineers, developing metrics to report to higher for intrusions, response times, SLAs, project management, and alignment with customer requirements Responsible for SOC services and strategic roadmap and future planning requirements, 1-5 years in advance Responsible for strategic and operational planning committees, most recently GDPR for the entire organization Supports enhanced monitoring, response actions, and reporting to meet HIPAA, PCI-DSS, NIST, and other compliance requirements Project Manager for new customers during highly fluid deployment period into their networks, often working with senior and technical members alike to meet deadlinesEvans, Page 2 of 3 Manages contracts from customers and service providers and enforced SLAs both internally and externally Conducts research to evaluate security tool effectiveness, technological limits, and process modifications required as part of roadmap development for SOC operations

Fort Eisenhower, Ga, Us

Cyber Forensics CND Manager and Incident Response Team Lead. Responsible for defense of National level assets designated by the President of the United States. Also responsible for Forensics Squad management, tactics and training development. Additionally responsible for training development, employee development, and lab environment engineering and development. Dealt with the following topics/technologies on a daily basis: threat intelligence focused defense, Forensics, ethical hacking, SOC operations, vulnerability assessment, threat analysis, architecture/design of training and production networks, SIEM, HBSS, log analysis, packet analysis, threat modeling, cyber-security,virtualization using VMWare and OpenStack, Cisco HW/SW, IDS/IPS/FW/SW/RTR configuration, and information security.

Arlington, Virginia, Us

Telecommunications Systems engineer and Signal Corps Captains Career Course. IT and telecommunication project manager, dealing with enterprise level projects and improvements. PhD level instruction on the following: Mathematics (advanced Calculus), security information and event managment, CCNA, network design/architecture, compliance, deep packet analysis, Layer 1-3 theory, security strategy, and CISSP training.

Arlington, Virginia, Us

Held various positions at Ft Carson, culminating in the Deputy G6 position for Mission Support Element, responsible for: project management, compliance management, cyber-security, information assurance/security, network architecture, regulatory controls for subordinate units, telephony both wireless and POTS, and life cycle project management for Division of more than 10,000 computer systems.

Arlington, Virginia, Us

Fire Support Officer for Light Infantry unit, deployed in support of OEF. Responsible for IT and physical security planning and management, and threat intelligence. Planned and executed two movements of 100+ personnel and multi-million dollars of sensitive equipment. Led large element under extreme stress with distinction, improving personnel motivation and productivity.

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Electrical And Electronics Engineering

Communications, Leadership And Signal Corps Equipment.

Masters Certificate, Defensive Cyber Operations