• Managed all Cyber Security personnel through Principal Engineer, Operations Manager, and Policy and Compliance Manager.• Grew department from 8 full-time employees to 26 including hiring all three manager positions and rewriting Cyber Security job descriptions• Taught three graduate level courses on information security operations and incident response with a team of three instructors including lecturing, creating assignments, and grading• Built out Compliance department to assess research project compliance with DFARS 252.204-7012/NIST 800-171 requirements• Built Institute IT Risk Catalog• Co-authored, with CISO, three-year strategic plan for Cyber Security at Georgia Tech• Co-chaired Institute Data Governance Committee• Presented Cyber Security incidents to and evaluated security of incident response efforts on Institute Executive Incident Response Committee • Presented at EDUCAUSE SPC on developing a security operations center with Jason Belford, CISO UVA, and Daniel Basile, CISO Texas A&M

• Directly managed all information security engineering personnel• Created security operations department separate from engineering including recommending, promoting, and working with operations manager to build student staffed operations center.• Completed nine-month IT leadership program offered by MOR Associates• Presented at EDUCAUSE SPC on the operation and takedown of Nigerian Fraud rings with Special Agent Tyson Fowler, FBI

Develop and recommend information security policies, standards and best practices.Perform periodic risk analysis, vulnerability scanning and testing; responding as appropriate.Identify and mitigate vulnerabilities posing threats to information assets of assigned units.Evaluate and, as appropriate, recommend acquisition of new and improved information security technology.Develop and conduct training and instruction on information security related areas.Maintain security systems in compliance with applicable regulations.

Wrote and presented training for users on configuration of F5 load balancing productsDeveloped patching and provisioning best practices for enterprise database platforms and administrative web and app serversDesigned file integrity monitoring systems for LinuxCowrote course material on securing Linux servers for campus sysadminsAdministered 100+ Unix and Linux Systems

Oversaw platform audit compliance of Unix and Linux systems and associated load balancing infrastructure for administrative systems.Represented OS/platform technologies on BC/DR planning groupEvaluated and purchased systems for wide area load balancingRecommended purchase and architecture of administrative platformsMaintained 100+ Linux and Solaris Systems

Maintained over 50 Linux and Solaris systemsImplemented and administered NAS and SAN systems for administrative computingMaintained F5 BigIP load balancing infrastructure for web and app server pools

Support Solaris systems including accounting and leak tracking databases.

• Developed embedded operating systems code for phone switches in C • Wrote web based issue tracking system in Python• Taught class in Object Oriented programming in Python