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San Antonio, Texas, United States

San Antonio, Texas, United States

- Oversaw project timelines, resource allocation, and performance metrics, ensuring on-time delivery of infrastructure enhancements while proactively managing risks to meet program milestones and support OCO mission success.- Provided strategic leadership by developing long-term infrastructure plans, monitoring progress, and delivering briefings to senior leadership, ensuring alignment with future OCO requirements and emerging cyber threats.- Led cross-functional teams to oversee developing and deploying next-generation infrastructure supporting current and future Offensive Cyber Operations (OCO), ensuring scalability, resilience, and operational readiness for DoD missions.- Directed program management efforts for infrastructure modernization, aligning technological capabilities with evolving OCO requirements and coordinating with OCO teams to meet mission-critical goals.- Collaborated with stakeholders across the DoD, contractors, and vendors to assess, procure, and integrate cutting-edge solutions, ensuring compliance with the Risk Management Framework (RMF), legal frameworks, security protocols, and DoD policies.

Fort George G. Meade, Maryland, United States

- Conducts behavior analysis and characterization of adversary decision processes, their technological dependencies, and social network connections to provide collection avenues. Identified individual targets that would provide the best foreign intelligence value for that drove Cyber Network Exploit (CNE) ops by discovering, curating, and nominating the appropriate vectors for action. Produced collection of unprecedented Foreign Intelligence (FI) value and volume.- Analyze target digital network topographies and highlight vulnerabilities between network nodes (protocols, switches, routers, servers, satellites, cables, etc.) to enable CNO mission objectives.- Utilized SIGINT analysis tools to construct complex and thorough social and digital networks of targets of interest. - Prepared and delivered presentations for resident and international executive customers/leadership.- Qualified Mission Auditor and Targeting Adjudicator.- Collaborated effectively and routinely with members of the Intelligence Community to produce timely and insightful analysis that identified intelligence gaps.

Clearwater, Florida, United States

- Planned, managed, and evaluated the intelligence operations and initiatives through domestic and international Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) operations.- Guided the long-term target development of criminal enterprises, identifying high-value targets through the fusion of all-source and pattern of life analysis.- Spear-headed intelligence program by creating collection and intelligence requirements, all-source analytical procedures, and multi-agency coordination.- Provided support to multiple domestic and international law enforcement agencies through the utilization of tactical ISR operations, open-source analysis, GEOINT, and timely dissemination of intelligence products- Conducted daily site-wide collaboration briefings and provided intelligence focal points between several Coast Guard units and multiple other law enforcement entities.- Oversaw site-wide compliance for classified information handling, storage, and usage, OPSEC, PHYSEC, and counter-intelligence at both domestic and international sites.

Bellingham, Washington, United States

- Conducted intelligence analysis, including data entry, HUMINT collection, and development of comprehensive intelligence products to support mission objectives.- Enabled intelligence-driven operations by coordinating with local and international law enforcement entities to identify, interdict, and apprehend high-value targets engaged in illegal activities.- Delivered pre-patrol intelligence briefs, providing detailed information on targets of interest (TOIs), areas of suspected illegal activity, and identified intelligence gaps within the Area of Responsibility (AOR).- Leveraged OSINT and GEOINT tools to create actionable intelligence products for area familiarization and to enhance the effectiveness of pre-patrol briefings.