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Chesapeake, Va, Us

Chesapeake, Va, Us

Provides supervision and guidance for all Geodesicx business areas. Oversees a team of 60 employees supporting Defense contracts in excess of $100M including services such as Software Development, Software Testing, Cybersecurity, System Administration, and Communication Systems Installation.• Effective servant leadership and team player with strong emotional intelligence that exhibits empathy, self-awareness, confidence, and ability to manage conflict.• Maintains corporate network security IAW NIST Cybersecurity Framework and SP 800-171 guidelines. Preparing for 2024 Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) Level 2 Assessment.• Spearheads the corporate MS365 Cloud migration from a hybrid on-prem / cloud solution to enable effective IT service integration and CMMC compliance.• Establishes team, short/long-range goals, objectives, policy, procedures, and processes for recently awarded contract providing software application testing, modeling, and CyberSecurity using DevSecOps methodologies with applied Agile development practices.• Directs Geodesicx Foreign Military Sales (FMS) support. Current projects include design, development (both hardware and software) and installation of Geodesicx products in Egypt onboard former US Navy ships. • Oversees numerous projects in support of the US Coast Guard’s new Fast Response Cutter (FRC). Geodesicx provides installations, commissioning activities, and training for radars and GMDSS consoles installed on new FRCs being delivered to the Coast Guard. • Responsible for business development in the mid-Atlantic operating area, creating positive and meaningful relationships inside and outside of the organization, and dedicated to building an effective team founded on trust.• Anticipates challenges and addresses each with a positive attitude as an inspiring change agent for the company’s future.Technologies: O365 ∙ AWS ∙ Zero Trust ∙ ADP ∙ Jamis

Washington, Dc, Us

Directed operations support for Navy communications and network systems. Provided high-level assistance managing a tier 3 help desk with a team of 5 direct reports and 60 personnel. Oversaw IT system modernization projects, including planning, organizing, controlling, and evaluation of IT and electronic data. Designed, developed, implemented, and coordinated system policies and procedures. • Supervised employment planning for WIN10 updates to over 340,000 Navy and Marine Corp Intranet (NMCI) workstations, which mitigated WIN10 1607/1803 end-of-life quarantines and vulnerabilities for thousands of customers.• Oversaw the employment of 600 security updates, 1200 application updates, and resolution of over 90 significant network problems across NMCI.• Supervised NMCI Contract Service Level Requirements (SLR) oversight. Measured vendor performance that informed operational decisions.• Provided telework options for over 700,000 NMCI customers during the COVID-19 pandemic, creating network improvements that tripled remote access capacity.• Oversaw Cloud transition efforts that introduced new and innovative solutions expanding the NMCI scope to include delivering Commercial Virtual Remote services to over 340,000 NMCI customers and providing Microsoft Office 365 and Microsoft TEAMs productivity tools to 160,700 NMCI users.• Supervised several NMCI contract transition efforts that ensured IT services were maintained during an arduous contract transition.• Led the command alignment and revisions of NNWC governing documents such as Missions, Functions and Tasks(MF&T), Standard Organization and Regulations Manual (SORM), Defense Readiness Reporting System – Navy (DRRS-N), and Activity Manpower Document (AMD).Technologies: O365 ∙ MS Exchange ∙ CVR ∙ AWS ∙ Azure ∙ CBII ∙ Zero Trust ∙ Intune ∙ ABM ∙ Blackberry UEM ∙ Purebred ∙ MPLS ∙ Pulse Secure ∙ Radia ∙ Splunk ∙ NetScout ∙ Tanium ∙ ACAS ∙ HBSS ∙ C2C/Forescout ∙ CISCO Routers/Switches

Washington, Dc, Us

Directed a team that standardizes and consolidates IT applications and systems on U.S. Navy afloat units. The team conducts network scans to identify obsolete or unauthorized hardware and applications affecting IT modernization and security.• Coordinated the execution and evaluation of computer networks across 50 ships and submarines, identifying more than 209 unauthorized applications and their corrective strategies.• Directed the world-wide deployment of the Navy’s Personnel Identification System, developing a strategy to manage 128 Common Access Card administrative terminals across 115 ships. Technologies: Real-Time Automated Personal Identification System (RAPIDS) ∙ ISNS ∙ CANES ∙ NTCSS

Washington, Dc, Us

Supervised and managed two teams that validate the U.S. Navy’s Communication Systems modernization process by testing cross platform interoperability in a stressed operational environment.• Executed over 30 strike group integration testing events with a $20M annual budget, identified and corrected system issues enabling ships to achieve full mission capability for deployment operations worldwide. Technologies: CISCO Routers/Switches ∙ NMT ∙ CBSP ∙ DSCS ∙ HBSS ∙ GBS ∙ BFTN ∙ CANES ∙ ISNS ∙ ADNS ∙ AIS ∙ WSUS ∙ ACAS ∙ Bluecoat

Washington, Dc, Us

Supervised 60 personnel ensuring the sound management, operation and safeguarding of three computer networks (500+ clients), four tactical communications networks, and over 50 satellite and line-of-sight communication circuits.• Managed and prioritized shared networks and communication circuits for over 3000 people ensuring connectivity requirements were met with minimal disruptions throughout deployment to the Persian Gulf.• Planned and managed the ship’s $20M, 15-month communications system modernization period. Coordinated the installation, interoperability, and testing of 20 essential communications and weapons systems. • Orchestrated USS KEARSARGE’s first U.S. Cyber Command’s Command Cyber Readiness Inspection, producing a score of 86.5%, the highest LHD-class score in the Navy at the time.Technologies: CISCO Routers/Switches ∙ SATCOM ∙ HBSS ∙ ISNS ∙ NTCSS ∙ ADNS ∙ WSUS ∙ ACAS ∙ Bluecoat ∙ SolarWinds

Washington, Dc, Us

Responsible for six personnel who conducted theater-wide satellite communications (SATCOM) and spectrum management in support of critical Homeland Defense, Civil Support, and Theater Security Cooperation operations.• Led the planning, coordination, and operation of all SATCOM theater support including Vancouver Winter Olympics, Southern Border Operations, Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill, Hurricane Isaac, Hurricane Sandy, 2013 Moore Oklahoma Tornado, 2013 Alabama Hostage Standoff, Boston Marathon Bombing, two National Special Security Events, four FBI missions, two National level exercises, RNC, DNC, G8, G20 and NATO Summits. • Led SATCOM planning in support of USNORTHCOM’s Mexico counter-narcotics initiatives with DHS, CBP, DEA, and intelligence mission partners. Guided the engineering team that developed the command and control full-motion video architecture to ensure situational awareness availability to mission commanders.• Facilitated drafting, staffing, coordinating, and negotiating a Communications Interoperability and Security Memorandum of Agreement (CIS MOA) between the US and Mexico. Attended to details with host nation and U.S. Embassy in Mexico City, honorably representing USNORTHCOM and the United States while furthering theater security and operational capability.Technologies: MILSTAR ∙ AEHF ∙ CBSP ∙ DSCS ∙ MUOS ∙ WGS ∙ GBS ∙ Ground Terminals ∙ JIST

Washington, Dc, Us

Led 24-hour strategic and tactical network operations and maintenance for 50 Forward Operating Bases within the Iraq Theater of Operations.• Arranged and supervised a Tactical Network Architecture redesign with 14 engineers and an $8M budget, enhancing reliability and reduced routing and switching anomalies by 90 percent.• As Joint Network Operations Control Center (JNCC) Watch Officer, supervised over 50 personnel that resolved over 2,000 network outages enabling full-spectrum counter-insurgency operations to continue uninterrupted theater-wide.Technologies: CISCO Routers/Switches ∙ Riverbed ∙ SolarWinds

Master'S Degree, Computer Engineering

Bachelor'S Degree, Computer Engineering