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Colorado Springs, CO, US

Boston, MA, US

Kansas City, MO, US

Kansas City, MO, US

Austin, Texas, US

• Responsible for technical oversight and execution of all penetration tests (root9B “Attack SurfaceBaseline”) and assessment services, including: network-based vulnerability and penetration tests, web and mobile.
• Provides business operations units timely scoping, manning requirements, and additional clientinformation essential for securing business opportunities.
• Maturing the department by creating our first-ever training plan, operations checklists, andinformation wiki used to established continuity and standards across our assessment services.
• Championed several new communications and collaborations platforms including Microsoft Teams, Slack, and Mattermost. Use and implementation of these products have reduced internal communications inefficiencies and gaps.

• Performs vulnerability analysis and penetration testing services for critical industry clients usingcurrent attack techniques and open source methodologies
• Provides meaningful consultation to technical and senior leadership on critical attack vectors and assessment results; empowers client security teams to obtain additional manning and funding
• Delivers common sense and cost effective solutions to reduce the client’s attack surface, identifysecurity gaps, and provide strategies to mitigate existing and future vulnerabilities
• Establishes and integrates new capabilities and procedures to increase team efficiency, add value to our clients, and reduce overhead by utilizing automation and industry best practices

Englewood, CO, US

• Responsible for initiating, testing and deployment of enterprise-wide secure web (SSL) inspection
• Designs, implements, and maintains security controls, policies, and procedures for Dish Network’s 20k+ employees/resources across two enterprise data centers and 100+ remote locations worldwide
• Responds to network intrusions and malicious activities by performing log analysis, packet capture analysis and correlation of events from network devices such as Intrusion Detection/Prevention Systems (IDS/IPS).
• Performs packet-level troubleshooting on a regular basis to determine root cause for network and web traffic faults, anomalous activity, and Tier III troubleshooting; routinely coordinates efforts across multiple IT.

Randolph AFB, TX, US

• Conduct vulnerability assessments and risk analysis through use of spear phishing exercises and Opposing Force (OPFOR) tactics that enhance security awareness for 300 employees
• Reduced risk by 25% to the enterprise network by analyzing and briefing upper leadership on current threats to national security and information systems based on actionable intelligence
• Perform network defense actions including log analysis, forensics and packet analysis resulting in the identification and removal of malicious actors and safeguarding of critical data
• Develop and employ standardized network security policies, central management and configurations for firewall, web proxy, network infrastructure and session-layer intrusion detection/prevention (IDS/IPS) devices that.
• Provide Tier III troubleshooting for customers throughout the enterprise Air Force Network (AFNET) to include routing, switching, firewall, proxy, DNS and application layer issues
• Lead for technical planning, configuration and coordination of network security appliance upgrades; impact directly resulted in the hardening of security, increased reliability/availability of services and at a minimal.

Randolph AFB, TX, US

• Configured and installed routers, switches, firewalls, Blue Coat web proxies and Microsoft Active Directory and Exchange environments within Department of Defense secure templates and guidance
• Lead technical trainer of 50 coworkers for a vast IT curriculum consisting of TCP/IP, routing/routed protocols, VLAN/VTP, STP, ACLs, port security, cable maintenance, Microsoft Windows XP/Server 2003, IIS, Veritas.
• Utilized as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) leading a 10-person team to architect a network for use in a multinational environment; testing and lessons learned provided invaluable experience with operating system.
• Monitored and updated ingress and egress access lists, VLANs and routing protocols for over 120 Layer 2/3 devices
• Redesigned squadron’s software library of over 5,000 CDs/DVDs resulting in consolidation of software to a standard list which could be effectively utilized and updated in a timely manner

Randolph AFB, TX, US

• Expert technician consistently chosen above peers to troubleshoot and resolve problems for senior leadership, distinguished visitors and other high-visibility projects
• Installed and configured software patches, antivirus updates and installation of operating systems locally or through Remote Installation Services (RIS)
• Processed over 1000+ Remedy trouble tickets providing customer service, troubleshooting and Information Assurance training to 5,000+ users
• Performed 275 remote deployments of Windows XP and Server 2003 which saved 600 hours