I primarily herd cats; sometimes it feels like manically evil cats hell bent on turning my hair even more grey. I am also responsible for selling things; ironic as I normally don't like sales. However, I have the privilege of only selling things I truly believe in. In reality, I have the honor of working with a team of the smartest and hardest working people I have ever met and with customers who truly care about securing their systems. Best. Job. Ever.

Basically the same job as when I was a director. Just given a new title to reflect the larger team I built. ATD grew to 30 team members, $7MM in revenue, hundreds of assessments a year and dozens of conference presentations given by my team members.

Built and manage all corporate penetration testing services, information security research and training delivery services, as well as provide senior oversight and account management for multiple Fortune 500 commercial clients and major Federal agencies. Lead a fast growing service line of over a dozen penetration testers, trainers and security researchers.Lead developer and instructor of penetration testing and red teaming courses conducted at information security industry conferences and specialized for individual customers. Speak on various topics related to penetration testing for customer senior leadership and at industry conferences

Lead all penetration testing efforts across the company. Responsible for assessment execution, quality control, strategic planning and business development of VA/PT services.

Technical Lead and SME for Vulnerability Analysis and Penetration Testing programs, supporting various customers in program development, training development and expert guidance on methodology and tool use. In addition, lead high profile vulnerability assessment and penetration testing engagements.Develop and conduct penetration testing training courses and present at on various penetration testing topics at industry conferences and events.Technical SME for wireless security engineering and operations. Conduct mobile device technology risk and vulnerability analysis, secure mobile solution architectures and develop mobile device platform security policy and requirements.

Vice Chair of the Operational Security Testers (OST) Panel. The mission of the panel is to establish competency models for security testers for various experience levels. The end goal of the panel is to provide trainers and educational institutions a set of standards to train against and design a set of assessments to measures how individuals match up against the competency models.Operational security testers include penetration testers, red team operators and blue team operators.

Technical lead for a major Federal agency Vulnerability Analysis and Penetration Testing program, conducting program development and leading engagements for multiple customers within the department. Created department information technology security policies, including technologies such as BlackBerry, Wireless Systems Security and Voice over IP.Subject Matter Expert on wireless systems security, specializing on WLAN, Bluetooth and public safety wireless Land Mobile Radio (LMR) systems.Conducted analysis on emerging information security products & technologies for improved defense of department information systemsConducted IA engineering for security systems and manage security practices for a large Federal LMR network, including network defense and monitoring systems, security-related documentation and user training.Served as the ISSO for multiple LMR systems, developing and maintaining System Security Plans (SSPs); performing risk assessments, risk mitigation activities, threat and vulnerability auditing activities and monitoring systems for security violations. Responsible for maintaining compliance with Federal and Agency-specific FISMA security mandates.Gave presentations at U.S. Government conferences covering various topics in cyber-security.

Senior Technical Lead at NSA Red Team, providing technical leadership, mission planning, attack execution, interfacing with customer elements and directing cyber team training for diverse multidisciplinary teams.Wireless operations Subject Matter Expert (SME) and team lead, conducting external wireless operation mission planning and execution, as well as research of new technologies and real world wireless attacks.Lead team in simulating real-world computer vulnerability attacks and adversarial exercises, identifying information security vulnerabilities and improving the security readiness posture large scale DoD networks. Performed research and analysis on new technologies, real-world computer network attacks and vulnerabilities in US Information Systems to better simulate the computer network adversaries.Served as an instructor for a adversarial network operations bootcamp, training over 60 multi-disciplinary members on computer vulnerability assessment methods, reconnaissance, technical knowledge and adversarial network operationsRegularly composed and presented the findings and results of exercises and operations to senior leadership and senior customer personnel.

Served as a Digital Network Intelligence (DNI) team leader in a large forward area of operations, where he had the sole responsibility for DNI analysis; supervising targeting, collection, analysis and reporting on intelligence related to digital networks.Prepared and lead a multi-disciplinary team on numerous tactical survey, analysis and passive collection missions, uncovering new sources of information related to adversarial communications.Trained members of multi-disciplinary teams to effectively use tools organic to the Digital Network Intelligence mission.

As a senior analyst, lead and coordinated a four person multi-disciplinary team, conducting computer network exploitation, target development and providing detailed Digital Network Intelligence to senior leadershipServed as an system ISSO, monitoring usage and providing training to ensure compliance with Information Assurance Directives