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Provided Cryptographic Support Provided cybersecurity engineering, data analysis, and analytic services and applied cryptographic knowledge services to the National Manager (NM). Worked independently and as part of a team in support of NM authorities and responsibilities outlined in National Security Memorandum-8 (NSM-8), directing and monitoring USG Department and Agency (USG DA) National Security Systems (NSS) implementation of Executive Order 14028 cybersecurity requirements & NSM-10 cryptographic risk mitigation, modernization, and transition planning to ensure quantum-resistant cryptography by 2035- Evaluated relevant NM directives and US Government and Department reporting templates, extracted template data fields, and derived reporting ‘asks’ & metrics to establish a supporting data dictionary and initial data model. Identified data inconsistencies and overlaps between reporting templates and reporting template shortfalls to enable holistic risk management and actionable risk mitigation insight.- Communicated identified template overlaps/inconsistencies and recommendations to streamline reporting and integrated process enhancements to leadership.- Consolidated available NM directives USG DAs’, consisting of 60+ organizations, structured and unstructured reporting extracting and consolidating response data into applicable directive dataset tables aligned to a common data model- enabling data completeness/quality analysis while reducing ad-hoc reporting response time from weeks to hours.- Fueled by ad-hoc reporting ‘asks’ and derived NM metrics, created NM Directive Excel analytic workbooks to enable near-term actionable senior leader insight and drive follow-on Power BI reporting use cases.- Demonstrated and recommended Power BI as a scalable alternative to optimize current efforts, expedite data integration, and improve collaborative analytics reporting.

Established and communicated the overall TBCS organization and joint R&D program technical direction and vision. Developed and maintained a technology roadmap aligning current and evolving mission needs, customer services, and technology to deliver timely, comprehensive threat-informed cybersecurity architecture and capability assessment services. Assisted and guided customers in optimizing and transforming their security architecture and portfolio, maximizing cybersecurity effectiveness against real-world threats.- Reinvigorated executive cross-agency Tri-Chair steering group and TBCS community of practice (COP), promoting cross-agency, department, industry, and academia collaboration and information exchange to drive innovative approaches and implementation strategies.- Revamped outdated practitioner training curriculum and material and transitioned from physical in-classroom training to TBCS instructor-led online synchronous and asynchronous training, maximized accessibility, and removed travel costs.- Drove assessment process workflow automation, scoring approach optimization, and analytic enhancements, increasing evaluation consistency and efficiency by 70%.- Guided execution and delivery of 30+ architecture component evaluations and capability comparative assessments focused on cybersecurity effectiveness against real-world threats and prioritized recommendations for optimal coverage.- Spearheaded Agency’s public release of MITRE D3FEND™ framework and technical countermeasure knowledge base to maximize security design and postures in response to real-world MITRE ATT&CK techniques; coordinated NSA Cybersecurity Director public messaging to promote visibility and elicit community contributions. MITRE D3FEND™ received over 50K unique visitors within the first week.- Initiated cloud, zero-trust, and endpoint security architecture and capability security function decomposition to inform market research and technology evolutions.

Served as the primary representative to globally deployed cryptographic customers and after-hours organizational senior leadership representative to Agency executives. Established and maintained cross-agency mission partnerships and organizational relationships to facilitate situational awareness, communication, workflow coordination, and synchronization. Responsible for categorizing, escalating as needed, and coordinating timely mission-critical support and incident response to Key Management Infrastructure (KMI), fielded and managed communications security (COMSEC) systems and products, ensuring secure communications across C4ISR and throughout enterprise information infrastructures. Communicated KMI planned and unplanned outages, directing and coordinating emergency response procedures as needed to assess root causes, required repair actions, restoration timelines, and operational impact and status updates to senior leaders and customers. Disseminated relevant advisories, guidance, and information to protect critical high-value systems and data. Participated in Continuity of Operations Planning (COOP) and exercises to ensure uninterrupted and resilient mission essential functions and services; identified areas of improvement, adjusted and documented updated procedures and processes to ensure readiness.

Managed and ensured all technical aspects of day-to-day military operations ran smoothly and efficiently. Coordinated and oversaw continuous, timely military support and efficient delivery of National-to-Tactical intelligence and analytic services to forward-deployed Agency and combatant command cryptologic analysts. Synchronized planning and implementation of Agency and Directorate strategic objectives across organization branches, coordinated implementation of technical workforce and mission services initiatives to optimize mission outcomes. Forged enduring partnerships to advocate for and respond to emerging cryptologic analytic mission needs and enterprise solutions.- Spearheaded and advocated Agency cross-directorate National to Tactical cryptologic critical mission needs and initiatives, resulting in a shared Agency vision and prioritized inter-agency innovative approaches to drive near and long-term outcomes.- Established in-house analytic tradecraft innovation cell, drove high-impact Warfighter rapid analytic development, and worked with corporate mission partners to transition proven analytics to corporate platforms for border availability at speed and scale.- Proactively recruited talent from agency computer science, data science, and math development programs, providing opportunities to tackle high-impact warfighter analytic needs and big data initiatives, resulting in highly sought-after rotational billets.- Partnered with National Cryptologic School (NCS) to provide on-site critical skillet course offerings and pipelined qualified senior analysts for certification as adjunct NCS trainers to address NCS course offering shortfalls.

Led agency-proven cloud analytic platform technology transfer and cross-functional team implementation of a government open-source solution. Work with Agency experts and Department of Defense mission partners to scope and prioritize high-value component enhancements and advanced analytics to accelerate a scalable DISA enterprise CyberSA visualization and analytic solution and a DOD community-driven deployable common big data platform.- Oversaw and managed Agency program lifecycle engineering and development activities, providing technical and cybersecurity domain expertise to optimize architecture enhancements, innovative service, and solution delivery.- Minimized department redundancy and cost through agency technology transfer and adoption of government open-source analytic computing technology solution.- Established a CSA-TECS innovation lab, enabling agile research and development (R&D) enhanced platform eco-system service, application, and advanced analytic development- Negotiated and prioritized high-value new capability and service enhancement R&D efforts with key stakeholders.- Oversaw development, testing, and integration of identity access, data, and analytic management platform services, accelerating the maturity of DISA’s common Big Data Platform (BDP)- Led CSA-TECS defensive cyber analytic tradecraft knowledge exchange to inform streaming analytic solution prototyping, resulting in a portfolio of reusable and deployable platform advanced analytics to shared challenges.

Advised Trusted Engineering Services (TES) and newly formed EMO senior leadership on best practices for portfolio and program management strategic planning, communication, continuous evaluation, and prioritization approaches to enable and enhance cross-organizational transparency, oversight, and accountability. Guided and assisted EMO in implementing PfM and standardized program management processes and procedures.- Performed qualitative review and analysis of Agency, NSA/IAD TES, and DOD strategies, capability, and program/project baseline review documents and worked with program managers, capturing clear alignment and cross-program dependencies.- Engaged with senior leaders and stakeholders to gather input and ensure buy-in for TES portfolio/program management process.- Designed a TES Portfolio/Program Management SharePoint portal, enabling workflows and customed user views/dashboards; reduced duplicative reporting while improving consistency, accountability, and risk transparency to enable confident resource decisions.- Conducted monthly TES portfolio program reviews to track progress, evaluate performance, and make necessary adjustments based on changing circumstances.

Columbia, Md, Us

Served as the overall Secure Configuration Management (SCM) R&D lead engineer responsible for enterprise planning, applied research and analysis, current and emerging technology integration and development efforts into the DoD SCM, and integrated cybersecurity architecture. Oversaw SCM R&D enterprise implementation plans. Provided routine task management activities and prepared and delivered technical reports and briefing material to the client.- Actively collaborated with NSA/IAD, DoD CIO, United States Cyber Command (USCC), and DoD Information Systems Agency (DISA) Planning Teams to define near-term and future SCM cybersecurity capability needs; related process, data, and technology architectures and solutions.- Defined and executed SCM R&D program technology development and capability implementation plans, capturing government-approved initiatives and capability integration projects.- Performed system analysis and worked with NSA/IAD, DoD, and industry partner subject matter experts to define and document Infrastructure Interface and Software Specification Requirements. Create Use Cases, process/data models, and proof of concept implementation models.- Worked with multi-vendor/multi-platform and contract development teams. Provide SCM enterprise engineering expertise to implement system enhancements/modifications, rapid prototype and pilot capability integration, solution development, and demonstration.- Perform data analysis/modeling and mappings to support continuous monitoring/risk scoring data analytics and sensor/management platform data integration

Formalized strategic reporting and information exchange partnerships with extended DoD and Partner agency cyber enterprise. Develop internal processes and procedures designed to facilitate all-source intelligence fusion and analysis of the cyber threat picture and vulnerability data to identify and assess risks to theater network operations. Performed cyber threat analysis necessary to increase joint situational awareness and understanding of nation states, criminal elements, and terrorist entities' computer network operations, TTPs, and capabilities; created cyber-intelligence products to include AS&W and I&W to network defenders; engaged with extended cyber enterprise on actions and recommendations to affect and increase SWA network security.

Mclean, Va, Us

Technical product manager responsible for the overall design, development, and deployment of an integrated enterprise portfolio management solution. Provided project management, technical expertise, and program/portfolio management knowledge to advise and scope customer-prioritized product features and requirements. Responsible for developing, maintaining, and communicating customer-driven product roadmap, system architecture design, and concept of operations with internal stakeholders and external business/system owners to drive seamless data integration and value-added product release development. Leveraged agile iterative approach to guide execution and continuous release improvement. Hosted pre-release product demonstrations with the user community to support follow-on user testing per release requirements. Revised and developed system engineering lifecycle documentation to support system accreditation and authority to operate (ATO). Led BAH capability-based architecture and analysis team support to DOD and US Government Agencies, providing adaptive capability-based architecture development, integration, and evaluation approach. Drove development and integration analysis of enterprise, capability, and system design architectures to identify current capability shortfalls and weaknesses, areas for R&D market research, and rapid prototyping to support and inform program acquisition strategies. Developed capability-based architecture measures of effectiveness used to evaluate and assess architecture implementation solutions and system courses of action, identifying strengths, areas of weakness, and gaps to inform capability-based architecture trade space recommendations for optimization and acquisition strategies.

Bethesda, Maryland, Us

Enterprise Architect, AONS Division, Army CIO/G6 Crystal City, VA // Mar 08 – Apr09Lead AONS EA core team design and development of the Army’s EA business transformation methodology, federated EA framework model, establishment of program management activities and associated policy necessary to achieve strategic transformation alignment and line of sight between the business / mission area initiatives and IT strategy.Enterprise Architect, Corporate Information, HQ Us Army Corps Engineers, DC // Jan 07-Feb 08Responsible for the development, implementation and lifecycle maintenance of the Corps Enterprise Architecture (CeA) Program, a strategic business management asset integrating US Army Corp of Engineers (USACE) Strategic guidance; Mission and Cross Functional Lines of Business, Sub-Functions and activities and the Technology Environment to ensure the right technical solutions and services are in place to meet today’s and tomorrow’s USACE Mission requirements

Mclean, Va, Us

Enterprise Architect, Joint Planning and Development Office, FAA, DC | Jan 07-Jun 07 Provided enterprise, system-of-systems architecture, and capability-based engineering services to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)/Joint Planning and Development Office (JPDO) Next Generational Air Transportation System (NextGen), a large-scale FAA initiative to modernize the U.S. National Airspace Systems. Responsible for NextGen analysis, concept development, and enterprise architectural design and development and NextGen Partner technology alignment and integration to enable Vision 100 – Century of Aviation Reauthorization Act DOD Biometric Task Force (BTF) | Aug 06- Jan 07Principal engineer for DOD BTF Joint Combatant Command/Services/Agencies (CC/S/A) Quick-Turn Capability-Based Assessments (CBA). Advised and led DOD BTF QT-CBA study plan execution. Facilitated BTF requirements working group and capability-focused IPTs aligning CC/S/A mission needs and existing efforts with JROC-approved USCENTCOM Urgent Operational Needs (JUONS) 36 critical capability gaps funded in the amount of $301 million and captured and presented prioritized non-materiel-and-materiel-funding-strategies-.

Arlington, Virginia, Us

- J2 ISR Architecture & Requirements lead, USCENTCOM, MacDill AFB, FL - Company Commander HOC/741st MI BN- Assist Battalion S3 Operations Officer, 741 MI BN - WMD Analysis Team Chief & Targets Collection Mngr, USCENTCOM - Readiness and Capabilities Assessment Tm Chief, NSA/CSS - C4ISR Collection Manager, European Joint Analysis Center (JAC)

Master'S Degree, Digital Forensics And Cyber Investigation

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