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Strategically design and execute comprehensive data architecture and cloud security strategies, fortifying client environments across microservices and data layers. Specializing in optimizing Data Lake infrastructure, implementing advanced data store solutions, and enhancing data catalog functionality. Deploying Zero Trust methodologies to ensure robust security across all seven pillars, driving impactful outcomes.Responsibilities:• Development and design of zero trust data pipelines to deliver seamless end-to-end solutions. • Deliver robust architectures to optimize secure data flow and support diverse business needs.• Dependable artifacts i.e. schemas, data dictionaries, and transforms related to ETL processes.• Seamlessly integrating data pipelines with AWS cloud services to unlock actionable insights. • Architecting security solutions that harness the power of cloud technology for data extraction and analysis, driving informed decision-making.• Overseeing production data across diverse datasets, prioritizing fault tolerance and redundancy measures for robust data management, ensuring uninterrupted operations and data integrity through strategic management practices.• Design and implement the security for resilient dataflows to efficiently handle raw and expected data, creating robust architectures that ensure smooth data processing and delivery, driving impactful business outcomes.• Provide Tier 3 technical support for deployed applications and dataflows.• Cloud messaging APIs and usage of push notifications.• Collaborate with the rest of the data engineering team to design and launch new features. Includes coordination and documentation of dataflows, and capabilities.•Learning and using the latest software tools, methods, and technologies to solve real-world problem sets vital to national security.

(CONTINUATION OF CONTRACT AT THE SAME CUSTOMER PREVIOUSLY STAFFED BY CygnaCom)• Drive strategic change by building key cross-functional partnerships and developing multi-year security program roadmaps to enable the implementation of risk-centric solutions.• Manage an Enterprise end-to-end SAAS solution for Cloud Application Security assuring vulnerabilities are identified and monitored, and the response necessary is managed, reported, and assured.• Participate in projects that develop new intellectual property.• Develop and interpret security policies and procedures.• Emerging Technology security assessment.• Conduct acquisition and vendor risk assessment due diligence.• Identify security issues and risks, and develop mitigation plans: architect, design, implement, • Support, and evaluate security-focused tools and services.• Perform general security awareness and specific security technology training.• Perform technical activities for delivering effective and secure cloud hosting services.• Evaluate and recommend new and emerging security products and technologies.• Evangelize security within the customer and be an advocate for customer trust.• AI Ethics Board Member.

Cygnacom is an Entrust Datacard company, The certificate provider for the GSA Managed Service Offering which provides HSPD-12 credentials to 90+ agencies and is also the certificate provider for the U.S. Treasury offering, which has issued PIV certificates to over 450,000 federal employees, including those at U.S. Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Department of Treasury, Social Security Administration, NASA and others. Mr. Hester is a Senior technology professional with architect, engineer, cybersecurity policy, and Venafi automation experience. He is an experienced full-service delivery Identity and Access Management (IAM) and PKI Engineer providing operational and technical engineering support for the implementation, testing, integration, interoperability, and sustainment of information technologies comprising the Enterprise. He has experience in network security, project management, personnel management, and customer support. Strengths include experience in the inner workings of data centers and working to solve performance monitoring and security issues. He will bring the understanding and knowledge of performance and reporting capabilities of an enterprise IT network environment as well as Entrust PKI Certificate Issuance, Tracking, Reporting through the Entrust Security Manager and Venafi applications.

Clients include:• LoyalSource, Contractor to Federal Emergency Management Agency, FEMAAdministrating and configuring the IDMS/CMS, Identity Management System.• Facility Engineering Services, Joint Command Air Force Base, Omaha NebraskaProgramming GCL+ Code for Delta Controls.• Lochner Law Firm, Administrating PCLaw, Abacus, and Amicas Platforms.

• Responsible for migrating the Domestic data centers from iron to virtual machines.• Maintaining the systems Authority to Operate through the Certification and Accreditation, C&A process.• The Enterprise Architecture of the WAN to include Disaster Recover, DR; High Availability, HA; and Continuity of Operations, COOP.• Leading a team of approximately 13 individuals that were accountable for specifying, procuring, installing and configuring servers, workstations, networking equipment, Physical Access Control Systems, PACS, and Intrusion Detection Systems, IDS. Specific experience includes:• A high level of understanding of the OMB memo M-11-11.• Applied knowledge of government IT requirements, policies, and procedures and industry- accepted best practices for such items as Microsoft Windows, Linux, PII, FISMA, FICAM.• A high level of competency in understanding FIPS 201-2, Federal Information Processing Standards.• Federal Bridge (FBCA), PKI Revocation managed through OCSP and HSM appliances.• The accomplishment of project management assignments that required a wide range of expert knowledge.• Lead Architect/Deployment Team Lead for the upgrading of the IDMS/CMS, Identity Management System / Credential Management System. The IDMS/CMS system creates badges for employees and contractors and manages the credentials for both physical and logical access.• Data analysis methodologies, presentation techniques, and related software, analyzing organizational functions and developing performance measures.• Program and specific support to include calculating IT budgets•Communicating effectively with technical and non-technical audiences.• Installed and configured multiple different platforms including CitrixZen, VMWare, EMC, and Jetstor storage solutions.