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Suffolk, VA

• Developed cybersecurity focused training plans for 27 sailors over a 24-month period that directly impacted mission readiness for short-fused cyber operations.
• Created, managed, and deployed Splunk dashboards that reflected network operations monitoring requirements of firewalls, routers, DNS servers, and Domain controllers.
• Utilized NetScout monitoring tools to evaluate enterprise level connections and monitor for network issues
• Processed Splunk data and defined ingested data into fields.

Suffolk, Virginia, United States

• Lead a team of 10 people to manage, operate, and implement access control lists and user defined signatures (UDS) across Intrusion Detection/Prevention Systems (IDS/IPS) to ensure mitigation across the DoD.
• Direct peers in SOP review to ensure operating procedures evolve with technological changes in a highly regulated industry.
• Conduct open-source research (OSR) to gain insight to complete daily operational duties and to stay current on emerging cyber threats.
• Evaluate and deploy vendor defined signatures (VDS) to mitigate current and on-going threats.
• Research and review exploit proof of concepts to create Snort and Suricata signatures to detect and mitigate malicious traffic.

• Evaluated countermeasure reports utilizing TCP, IP, DNS, and HTTP criteria to generate over 400 Snort signatures to detect and eradicate malicious activity.
• Monitored for IPS/IDS alerts and analyzed offending traffic to draw conclusions through thorough research and reporting.
• Routinely use Cisco, McAfee, and IDS solutions to provide support for the Defensive Cybersecurity Operations (DCO) mission.
• Communicated and collaborated between multiple stakeholders to achieve defense-in-depth goals.