- Shape NSA’s cybersecurity activities, leading an organization of thousands with yearly budgets in the hundreds of millions.- Direct strategic change implementations underway across the DOD cybersecurity community, orchestrating NSA support to DOD Chief Information Officer (DoD CIO) strategic cybersecurity priorities.- Orchestrate and execute high-impact campaigns to thwart cyber intrusions from foreign global adversaries - Execute incident response activities with FBI, CISA, DOJ, and other partners to detect and neutralize sophisticated nation-state cyber threats.- Formulate and implement national-level executive orders, regulations, and government guidelines shaping national cyber policy.- Influence national policy on technology, exports, cyber operations, and public/private partnerships- Lead strategic communications and key engagements with internal and external stakeholders, including Congress, DHS, FBI and DoD, building close working partnerships to ensure mission execution.- Cultivate a unified workplace that values and encourages diversity and inclusion, directing recruitment strategies to achieve hiring and diversity objectives.- Spearheaded the expansion of the Cyber Collaboration Center (CCC) to enable and increase partnerships across the Department of Defense, allies, and industry.

- This C-suite position represented the highest-ranking-civilian (3-star equivalent) and third-in-command - Led an organization of over 12,000 personnel that included cyber service, mission force teams, and Department of Defense forces. - Shaped high-level strategy and a headquarters budget of nearly $700M, and elements of the DOD budgets totaling in the billions.- Advanced the cyber tradecraft of USCYBERCOM via the creation of cyber tools, infrastructure, training, exercises, and analytics. - Leveraged extensive knowledge of NSA to integrate SIGINT and Cybersecurity capabilities with USCYBERCOM, and teamed across CISA, FBI, industry, and academic partners.- Drove the Cyber Mission Force to defend forward and maintain persistence presence, resulting in the ability to counter, disrupt and impose cost on adversary behavior in cyberspace.- Helped elevate USCYBERCOM from a sub-unified command to a full combatant command, ensuring streamlined, comprehensive command contribution to national security.- Established an Academic outreach program for USCYBERCOM in partnership with NSA- Helped shape the future of cyberwarfare in the Defense Science Board's study on the Future of Military Superiority.

- Led the multi-disciplined cryptologic center, leveraging partnerships to produce integrated intelligence critical to warfare in support of national missions and priorities world-wide.- Managed enterprise center for Technical SIGINT collection and processing and the hub for management of the global overhead SIGINT mission. - Empowered innovative cryptologic discovery and the focal point for ELINT analysis and tradecraft development.

- Applied extensive knowledge, expertise and exceptional management skill to enhance operational posture of the organization to better support Combatant Commanders and national agencies.  - Enhanced relationships between the Program Office and the Department of Defense and federal government entities.- Created executive teams to identify process improvements and organizational changes, resulting in a long-term organizational strategy for identifying requirements, capitalizing on opportunities, and managing risks.- Lead innovative initiatives across a diverse technology spectrum to better respond to emerging needs in a highly dynamic environment.

- Provided leadership and expertise in computer network exploitation to deliver foreign intelligence outcomes to the Intelligence Community, DOD, and national leadership. - Provided expertise to train the next generation of computer network operators to deliver foreign intelligence used in a range of activities – from national policy making to military operations that support our warfighters around the world, 24 hours a day. - Established U.S. Cyber Command as a sub-unified command, working as part of small, hand-picked team. Advised senior leaders on all aspects of starting a new Command, and on pathways to reinforce the enduring partnership between the Command and NSA.

- Elevated to the U.S. Government Senior Executive Service in 2008- Unified threat mitigations and risk assessment activities, bringing together NSA’s SIGINT and Cybersecurity missions, an unprecedented methodology to eradicate the ever-evolving and growing threat to national security. Served overseas supporting national decision makers and warfighters around the world.