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Virginia, United States

• Primarily responsible for maintaining the test and operational environments to include all cybersecurity tool sets and collaborating with systems and network engineers.• Creates and implements methods and procedures for inspecting, testing, and evaluating the security and effectiveness of products and production equipment.• Effectively choose the appropriate standards, processes, procedures, and tools throughout the system development life cycle to support the generation of the security engineering products.• Design technical, operational, and organizational controls to maintain acceptable security posture for the organization.• Assist with the design, deployment, and administration of a multi-site, distributed Splunk environment. Including Multi-site Clustering, Search Head Clustering, Universal Forwarders, Deployer, and Deployment Server.• Administration and operation of information security compliance tools and platforms with a special concentration in managing the Assured Compliance Assessment Solution (ACAS).• Installation, monitoring, testing, troubleshooting, and administration of the ACAS/Nessus Vulnerability Scanner applications.• Ensure scheduled scans are covering 100% of intended assets and are being run successfully.• Ensure SC is being updated regularly; address unsuccessful updates of the SC and identify the root cause of the unsuccessful update.• Configure, optimize, and test vulnerability scans against new and existing Operating Systems and platforms.• Provide guidance on vulnerability and malware remediation.• Configure, operate, and maintain ForeScout tool suites.• Identify potential conflicts with implementation of any cyber security tools within the enterprise and develop recommendations to remediate these conflicts.• Provide Tier 3 maintenance support for deployed cyber security technologies.• Assist with periodic and regular security assessments.

Newport News, Virginia, United States

Served as 7th Transportation Brigade Information Service Technician; accountable for the Brigade Information Services Contracts, Plans Tactical Network Support for Missions/Exercises and daily administrations. Lead lifecycle process for garrison information systems and battle command common services. Conducted all Information Technology procurements for the organization. Utilized Army Portfolio Management Systems and Information Technology Acquisition Service to coordinate the validity and authorized purchase of over 2,000 pieces of IT equipment.

Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States

Served as the Information Assurance Manager; implemented cybersecurity posture and audit policies. The brigade tactical enterprise services architect, consisting of: Active Directory controls, Exchange mail, SharePoint collaboration, SQL Database, McAfee Virus protection, SCCM/WSUS patch upgrades, and data disaster recovery.Led the Information security management team. Managed 1,700 user accounts across the Brigade improving compliance rate among users to 97%. Implemented ACAS and HBSS to protect the unit’s enterprise and warfighter servers.

Fort Lewis, Washington

Served as communications chief in a Reconnaissance, Surveillance, and Targeting Acquisition (RSTA) Squadron in the Army’s first Stryker brigade. Supervised all activities of the retransmission section and Command Post Node team. Configured the entire Squadron’s upper tactical internet capabilities in no loss of services during Yakima Training Center Rotation. Knowledge of signal systems and their integration resulted in the restoration of 81 tactical vehicles to mission capable throughout the Squadron.

Fort Shafter, Hi

Technical expert directly responsible for network operations of strategic and tactical systems supporting Army, Joint and Coalition operations. Planned, coordinated and integrated the deployment , operation maintenance and management of satellite assets supporting USARPAC and PACOM missions.Planned, engineered, operated and maintained closed network that provided the Mongolian Armed Forces with Microsoft Active Directory, Exchange, SharePoint and Printer services. Developed ticket systems and trained technicians on its use; resulting in over 450 tickets being resolved during operations.