Daniel Embry Email & Phone Number

Alexandria, Virginia, United States

Qualified as a Blue Team Operation Team Lead (OTL).Perform 8 evaluations on the Coast Guards Enterprise Mission Platform.Coordinated with multiple Coast Guard entities to arrange the logistics of travel and arrival and presented a comprehensive Mission Plan to the Branch Chief before an evaluation was given approval to occur.Provided on-scene leadership for 4 missions as OTL for Blue Team operations.Compiled the results of an evaluation into a Mission Report that included physical, administrative and technical findings to be reported to the stakeholders for remediation.Conducted risk and vulnerability assessments of the Blue Team’s Mission Kit.Developed policies and procedures to ensure reliability and accessibility of the Blue Team’s Mission Kit.Supervised the creation of systems security contingency plans and disaster recovery procedures while assisting in the Authority to Operate (ATO) process for the Blue Team’s Mission Kit.

Alexandria, Virginia, United States

Performed 7 evaluations on the Coast Guards Enterprise Mission Platform.Qualified as an Apprentice Blue Team memberDeveloped, documented, deployed, and trained Uniform members to use laptop build process that was ~90% more efficient than the way it was being done.Began process to become qualified as Operation Team Lead.Wrote and disseminated 2 reports of findings from Blue Team missions that document the results of the evaluations and recommended remediation for any issues discoveredDeveloped and documented a BASH script to automate the scanning of multiple networks.Wrote and published multiple guides for operations that the Blue Team performs.

Washington Dc-Baltimore Area

Member of the Cyber Talent Initiative FellowshipCreated procedures to administer the Coast Guard’s Cloud Based Internet Isolation (CBII)Trained Uniformed members of the team in the administration of CBIIClosed 249 of 526 User Remedy tickets for the CBII platform in 5 monthsImplemented change to the CBII system that restored connectivity to 35 websites, impacting 1500 user, which had be unavailable for 4 monthsCreated process to Audit the changes to the CBII Proxy Auto Configuration file (PAC)Acquired and updated the process and procedures for modifying the Web Content Filters (WCF) Access Control Lists (ACL) on JRSS and XGATETrained Uniformed members of the Team in the administration of WCFImplemented approximately 10,000 WCF blocksUpdated documentation to accurately depict the process for obtaining access to JRSS, XGATE and CBIICoordinated with the Technical Management Branch (TMB) Team Leads to gather requirements for monitoring, reporting and alerting on their required systems in Elastic SIEMCreated dashboards for each team in TMB to meet their requirementsCreated ad hoc dashboards for the monitoring of CVEsCoordinating and providing expert technical support to TMB to resolve cyber defense incidents, such as Log4j.Proactively made dashboards for the ISSOs to assist in the retrieval of information needed for investigations and auditsFollowed up with TMB Team Leads to verify that all requirements were met and gather additional requirements, if needed

Woodbridge, Virginia, United States

• Assist Dean in creating class and room schedules for future semesters.• Tutored and assisted with development of curriculum of basic network communication, including but not limited OSI model, TCP model, subnetting and wiring standards.• Tutored students and assisted with curriculum of Linux/Unix (Kali, Centos, Ubuntu, Parrot) and Windows Server (2008, 2012, 2016), including, but not limited to, installation of virtual machines, setup and configuration and scripting.

Chicago, Illinois, United States

• Recruited to implement Software Configuration Management strategy that was used by the development, testing and productions teams, impacted the design, testing, implementation, operation, and support of proprietary software being created.• Administrated an AIX Unix Development and Test environment for a Software Development Team that used Java and Sun's Forte.• Coordinated with client to determine, recommend, and plan the program that would package the credit reporting tool being created for TransUnion.

Denver, Colorado, United States

• Install, configure and maintained Oracle databases for Qwest proprietary software.• Maintain directory repliclication between primary and secondary Oracle database servers.• Monitored 12 Test and Development databases and 2 Production databases to ensure optimal performance.• Automated backup procedure to ensure data integrity• Performed recovery drills to verify that that data was saved and valid in case it was required.• Provided ongoing optimization by creating automated rebuilding of Oracle scripts to rebuild.

Denver, Colorado, United States

Concurrently administered 3 Development Solaris environments, 3 Test Solaris environments, and a Production Solaris environment for an internal U.S. West/Qwest Project.• Maintained software on all environments to includes Forte, Cold Fusion, Java, Netscape Enterprise Server, WebLogic and Visibroker for Java.• Integrated and System Tested major and point releases of U.S. West/Qwest proprietary software.• Coordinated the creation of operation, maintenance and security procedures to keep the CRM system functioning properly• Created testing procedure for the order processing portion of CRM system, including validation procedures and documentation of procedure.

Denver, Colorado, United States

Promoted from Tier 1 to Tier 3 support after 3 months• Created IT policy for organizational security application (Intelligent Desktop (iD)) Tier 1 and Tier 2 Help Desk Personnel.• Independently diagnosed and resolved 80 to 100 customer incidents per day while on Tier 1 Help Desk using available documentation and applying that information. Most incidents took less then 5 minute to resolve.• Independently diagnosed, tracked and resolved 10 to 15 customer incidents per week. Made judgement on how to resolve by researching, choosing, interpreting, modifying and applying available documentation. Most incidents took 2 to 4 weeks to resolve.• Administered accounts for 30+ network applications, this includes access to systems and access to network devices.• Hand-selected to serve on a team that created and supported an early form of Single-Sign-On for users in a 14-state region and more than 30 different applications.• Traveled to multiple remote locations to deliver training to local support for iD to educate them on meeting the needs of our customers

Bachelor'S Degree, Cybersecurity, 3.9

Activities and Societies: AFCEA Treasurer, CyberFusion 2019, National Cyber League Fall 2019, Spring 2020

Associate Of Arts And Sciences - Aas, Cybersecurity, 4.0

Activities and Societies: Officer in AllCyber Club, AFCEA Member, CCDC 2018 and 2019 (Captain), CyberFusion 2019, National Cyber League.

Associate Of Arts And Sciences - Aas, Electrical And Electronics Engineering