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Redmond, Washington, Us

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Responsibilities as a Cyber Threat Intelligence Architect. Helping customers implement Threat Intelligence into their layered defense strategy. Collaborate with sales teams to understand customer requirements and provide product demonstrations.

Vienna, Virginia, Us

Responsibilities include: prepare and deliver technical presentations explaining IronDefense and IronDome to customers and prospective customers for IronNet. Confer with customers and Site Reliability Engineers to assess equipment needs and to determine system requirements for different level of sensors and AWS Backend Services. Collaborate with sales teams to understand customer requirements and provide product demonstrations.

Lynchburg, Va, Us

Facilitate online course instruction in support of Liberty’s Master of Cyber Security program. Courses taught: • Secure Software Engineering• Web App Security• Ethical Hacking.

Arlington, Virginia, Us

Developed, implemented, and led the Army’s Information Protection Warrant Officer Advance Course (WOAC), including designing and instructing curricula in network penetration testing, ethical hacking, incident handling, cyber law, intrusion and network analysis, computer and network forensics, Windows and Unix security, and network auditing. • Create and implement course validation strategies that support new technology training standards. • Facilitate team training across all staff levels on advanced network security administration and capstone events. • Created new three Cyber Security courses from the ground up. • Provide leadership and mentorship as Academic Counselor and Evaluator for staff attending both advanced and basic professional development courses. • Instructed courses in Ethical Hacking, basic Linux Operating System, and Windows Security. • Recognized by the Development College Director for successfully graduating 135 new Cyber Security Warrant Officers, with a 97% success rate for graduates.

Arlington, Virginia, Us

Served as Chief of Active Cyber Defense and Hunt Operations and managed a team of 15 incident response, digital forensics, and contract personnel, one insider threat detection team, and two external hunt teams. Analyzed and reported external and internal cyber threats to senior USCENTCOM leadership. • Formed and built the first active cyber defense team from the ground up while simultaneously developing the first active insider threat detection team. • Successfully detected 15 different Red-Team operations attempting to compromise USCENTCOM networks. • Designed, implemented, and led new operational methodologies and programs across the organization. • Developed customized processes and policies to detect network threats utilizing a host of tools.• Directly collaborated with the NSA, FBI, and other agencies to provide early threat warnings and intrusion detections across the USCENTCOM networks. • Led cross-functional cyber security teams in investigating 18 cyber incident responses to ensure all networks were clear of hostile cyber adversaries and that networks were fully operational. • Recognized by senior leadership for achieving a top 1% ranking out of 34 officers.

Arlington, Virginia, Us

Oversaw the Computer Network Defense team responsible for top layer stacks for all Army ports in the United States. Managed and mentored a team of 27 military, civilian, and contract support personnel. Collaborated cross-functionally with regional computer emergency response teams, Army Criminal Investigators, FBI, NSA, and other key players to provide early warning threat and detection of adversarial activity. • Outlined situational awareness of cyber threats to senior leadership. • Served as ITIL Service Manager for the McAfee IPS, McAfee HBSS, and ArcSight SIEM systems. • Recognized by a senior leader as being in the top 1% of all staff he had worked within 26 years of service.

Arlington, Virginia, Us

Duties as the Automations Officer-In-Charge and IASO for a 3250 troop/soldier Air Assault Regimental Combat Team, Fort Campbell Kentucky. Responsible for:• Automations/Server support to the Regimental Combat Team composed of six Combat Battalions• Implement and manage Information Assurance plans in the Regimental Combat Team• Provide technical assistance to user owned and operated information systems• Manage and integrate the tactical LAN, including two HP Server Suites with DHCP, DNS, File Server, Exchange Server, SQL Server and an WSUS Server• Manages all communications related automations, network defense and security ( IAVA/VA) upgrades• Responsible for the readiness, training and professional development of all noncommissioned officers and soldiers in the Regiments Automations Shop

Arlington, Virginia, Us

Duties as the System Administrator and Information Management Officer for a Training Support Battalion, Mesa Arizona. Responsible for:• Perform duties of a Systems Administrator• Monitor information and physical security of a network & computer systems• Service and complete minor repairs on desktop and laptop computers• Manage Microsoft MS 2000 Server System, Cisco Routers, Sidewinder Firewalls, network analyzers and sniffers• Control access to network and other computer systems by issuing accounts and passwords to only authorized personnel• Provide input for Battalion level staff on computer issues and teach classes on computer security

Arlington, Virginia, Us

Doctor Of Technology, Cyber Security

Masters Of Business Administration (Mba), Business Administration And Management, General

Masters Of Science, Information Technology Management/Information Assurance

Bachelor Of Science, Computer Engineering