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Eden Prairie, Minnesota, Us

Glastonbury, Ct, Us

East Hartford, Ct, Us

I sought out and promoted opportunities for business efficiency as a liaison between corporate enterprise digital technology and the company's secured computing facilities and networks. This included tooling convergence as appropriate between enclaves as well as policy harmonization, leveraging specialized experience with federal government cybersecurity compliance requirements and industry best practices to develop standards most workable in company environments.Additionally, as a member of the Factory Cybersecurity Program Council, I collaborated with partner business units and the corporate office to develop vision, strategies, and plans for factory cybersecurity improvements as part of Industry 4.0, establishing priority functional areas and joining forces with targeted working groups to ensure execution of projects to address the most critical vulnerabilities and risks.

East Hartford, Ct, Us

In my first role as a personnel manager, I transformed the culture of the organization to one that empowers the individual contributor to make operational cybersecurity decisions in support of multi-million-dollar Military Engines propulsion programs. Within the first two years, I more than doubled the size of my team supporting these programs and turned a near-100% personnel turnover rate to a 100% retention rate.I led our group's transition of security information and event management (SIEM) processes to Splunk, achieving a higher quality of system and network auditing not previously possible while reducing the team's time spent performing weekly auditing by 60%. Annual licensing costs were also reduced by $75,000.As the Department of Defense transitioned to Risk Management Framework (RMF) oriented security compliance requirements based on National Institute of Standards and Technology Special Publication (NIST SP) 800-53, I led our team's development of policies and procedures applicable to 15 independent local and wide area networks (LANs/WANs) and several hundred users across multiple company locations. This was done while supporting a 20% year-over-year business growth through new program development.

East Hartford, Ct, Us

I managed the compliance-focused cybersecurity operations for several small LANs and WANs in support of military engines efforts. Operating in a strongly hands-on capacity, I acted as a technical lead with multiple Information System Security Officers to ensure regular security auditing was completed thoroughly, deployments of new hardware and software were tracked and monitored, and system security plans were kept up-to-date in support of government requirements and inspections.

Washington, Dc, Us

I managed four IT product development and testing teams, acting as Scrum Product Owner, for an office in a federal government agency. I used Agile methodologies, particularly Scrum (managed through JIRA Agile), and business analysis expertise to produce and field incrementally developed, bandwidth-intensive network security and high-speed processing applications, all while continuously improving our methods.Over the year, I overcame the challenges of limited financial resources and highly matrixed DevOps staff to enable our office to produce twice as many product releases with more relevant features than before. I also negotiated with off-site operational product deployment teams, occasionally traveling abroad, to improve schedule coordination and reduce release delays by several months.Other successes included surpassing schedule and scope requirements for our portion of a congressionally funded program and increasing our products' enterprise footprint by 20% while maintaining customer satisfaction, server uptime, and data quality.

Washington, Dc, Us

Using C++, Perl, and Python languages, I worked across multiple projects to:- Identify and transfer data in a high-speed filtering and query system,- Produce new dataflows to link systems to corporate, cloud-based repositories, and - Monitor application performance on a 24/7 basisSpanning a wide and diverse customer base, I led a team of four developers in a full SDLC project for a high-speed, stream-based data processing application. Our successes included a 300% improvement in overall system bandwidth, thus eliminating input backlogs, and a successful transition of the application to a new enterprise framework four months ahead of schedule, for which we received a cash award.Over this time, I presented the results of our successes at two global, industry-internal conferences, helping other offices perform similar achievements. I also created and taught a specialized annual C++ application development and optimization workshop.

El Segundo, Ca, Us

I continued the same work as I did at Stinger Ghaffarian Technologies, just under a new title, company, and contract for NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) in Earth Science Mission Operations (ESMO).Nearly all of my effort during this time was spent completing our portion of the backup operational control center.

Greenbelt, Md, Us

I served as technical lead on a three-person systems engineering team charged with maintaining 24/7 technical operations for NASA GSFC's Mission Management System (MMS) for scheduling and mission planning for the Terra, Aqua, and Aura earth science satellites. Our team continuously sought to improve MMS's functionality, developing Perl scripts to reduce operator demands and improve process failure alerting and response.In response to a lack of software upgrades and to reduce our system administrators' workload, I led an MMS consolidation project, cutting the number of servers needed for operations in half and eliminating old hardware. I also led coordination of instrument support teams in Japan, England, Canada, and the Netherlands through subsequent hardware upgrades and development and testing of a newly created backup operational control center, for which our team won an award.I wrote improved standard operating procedures and led development of automated application restart scripts to significantly reduce response time to anomalies. I improved communications among flight dynamics, operations, and management teams to improve problem resolution, cutting system downtime from hours to minutes.

Greenbelt, Md, Us

I singlehandedly led development of NASA GSFC's ESMO Mission Planning Tool suite for all three earth science satellites. As part of a team of developers and testers, I co-led integration of a suite of automation products for future use by ESMO ground system operators.Writing and testing in PHP and MySQL, I simplified operations by combining all code into an integrated web interface on a single Linux Apache server, reducing hardware requirements by two-thirds. I developed new functionality that console operators had wanted for years to produce graphical daily timelines of spacecraft events and contacts.To ensure continuity of information during console operator shift changes, I performed all project management phases from initiation to closure on a new web-based user activity log tool. Within three months, I had trained Mission Operations teams on all new software and had given Mission Management more than they requested in less time than they expected.

I served as part of a 20-person team of system administrators and helpdesk personnel to provide technical support to 2,000 users throughout South Carolina, resolving customer hardware and software problems via phone calls, remote access, and field visits.To get better acquainted with our diverse customers, I voluntarily led the deployment of a new job-bank database to servers and PCs at 40 remote sites across the state, tracking installations handled by team members during field visits.At their request, I led the agency's Quality Control department in their complete technology overhaul, installing 21 new systems and providing user training on the new environment while directing other team members on system and printer upgrades and customer file migrations.

Initially, I managed all technical radio network operations, maintenance and support for the studio control room, remote broadcasting systems, and all office computers. I quickly learned where additional help was needed and began filling on-air and production roles within two weeks of being hired.I performed a wide variety of vocal work for advertisements and on-air roles, including substitute hosting of a three-hour talk show, and added on full production duties within a year. I created hundreds of show advertisements for clients, collaborating with them to turn their business and sales needs into customized, digitally edited recordings that would drive revenue.Replacing a paper-driven system, I voluntarily designed a new database for compiling, reporting, and protecting prize winners' contact information and trained all staff on the new system, ensuring that there would no longer be delays in contest winners receiving their prizes.

Philadelphia, Pa, Us

I was originally hired as a temporary employee to help organize employees in a summer-long conversion of customer information to a new database. With call center management, I directed 50 employees in migration and verification of all customer data in the new system within two weeks' time.I was subsequently hired full-time, using my extensive database expertise to produce real-time subscriber and revenue reports to analyze company marketing campaigns. As part of a team of eight, I provided future revenue forecasts and helped create new campaigns that reduced customer churn by multiple percentage points and increased company revenue.I teamed up with the legal department to co-lead a project to address cable theft that quickly reaped thousands of dollars in revenue. I worked with other departments to organize technical audits to identify target customers, devise amnesty campaigns to invite people to become paying customers, and institute legal responses as needed.

Master’S Degree, Computer Science

Bachelor’S Degree, Mathematics And Computer Science