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United States

Huntsville, Alabama, United States

Manage all aspects of the Incident Response engagement, including team's performance, delivery and client development. Operating as industry leader in Incident Response, and trusted advisor, to the client and breach coach ensuring 100% client success. Provide breach coaches and insurance carriers tailored detailed analysis and reports on how unauthorized access and cyber intrusion occurred. Ensure the forensic project timeline is on track, daily updates are provided from the assigned analysts to the IR Director, and Analyst SLAs are met. Be client facing to ensure accurate updates are conveyed as they relate to the investigation. Conduct digital forensic examinations and perform quality control reviews on examinations relating to intrusion, ransomware, data leak, personnel, and other types of investigations. Conduct performance reviews of forensic analysts. Draft and conduct final review of forensic reports to ensure all possible investigative questions were addressed in the analysis and requesting additional context or analysis when the report requires more work. Monitor and track forensic budget and burn rate across multiple engagements.

Lead projects and work with our clients, apply incident response, forensics, log analysis, and malware triage skills to solve complex intrusion cases at organizations around the world. Comfortable working in teams to tackle challenging projects, communicating with clients, and creating and presenting high-quality deliverables to clients, carriers, and council. Mentor and lead analysts new to Arete, as well as ensure that data is collected, delivered, and processed in accordance with project SLT. Participate in client update and findings calls, client correspondence related to forensic analysis, data collection, and investigative questions verbally and in writing.

Huntsville, Alabama, United States

In addition to leading the digital forensics team, responsible for working with senior business development leadership to identify and pursue new work. Wrote and responded to RFIs and RFPs. Identified expansion areas for capabilities in response to industry trends. Created and proposed SOWs and pricing for new and existing contracts. Business development SME for arenas of cyber security including incident response, insider threats, security engineering, eDiscovery, threat hunting, malware analysis, digital forensics, and threat intelligence.

Huntsville, Alabama

In addition to performing digital forensic examinations, developed, matured, and managed a commercial digital forensics service. Created and implemented ISO/IEC 17025 compliant policies and procedures. Prepared and reviewed contractual documents. Cultivated and maintained relationships with stakeholders, including legal, HR, CISO, and cyber security leadership. Developed and integrated tools to impact workflow and efficiency. Coordinated forensic response with incident response and threat hunting teams. Conducted on-site and remote collection of data for analysis. Prepared and technically reviewed reports to relay findings and recommendations to the customer and senior leadership. Managed internal and external EDR and forensic tools. Interviewed and selected candidates for employment.

Huntsville, Alabama

In addition to performing digital forensic examinations, developed, matured, and managed a commercial digital forensics service. Created and implemented ISO/IEC 17025 compliant policies and procedures. Prepared and reviewed contractual documents. Cultivated and maintained relationships with stakeholders, including legal, HR, CISO, and cyber security leadership. Developed and integrated tools to impact workflow and efficiency. Coordinated forensic response with incident response and threat hunting teams. Conducted on-site and remote collection of data for analysis. Prepared and technically reviewed reports to relay findings and recommendations to the customer and senior leadership. Managed internal and external EDR and forensic tools. Interviewed and selected candidates for employment.

Greater Denver Area

FBI Certified Computer Analysis Response Team (CART) forensic examiner in an ANAB accredited laboratory. Examined physical evidence, carried out research and development activities, and performed search and seizure operations. Certified to perform forensic examinations on Windows systems, UNIX/LINUX systems, cellular telephones, tablet computers, GPS devices, and utilized multiple forensic software suites. Endorsed as an expert witness in digital forensics in multiple judicial jurisdictions. Coached and mentored new examiners in training.GCFE, A+, and ACE certified. Specialties in Windows, Linux/UNIX, virtualization forensics, mobile and GPS devices.

Greater Denver Area

Investigate allegations of criminal conduct; prepare criminal cases for prosecution and subsequent trial. Prepare and execute search warrants, arrest warrants and other orders of the Court. Assigned to several investigative units including Crimes Against Property, Crimes Against Persons, and Special Investigations, including computer crime.

Greater Denver Area

Greater Denver Area

Greater Denver Area