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Burke, VA, US

United States

Senior Program Manager for multiple Cyberspace platform capabilities developed for the DoD. Multi-faceted role includes traditional PM responsibilities include cost management, schedule management, and ensuring contract deliverables are met. Additionally, act as a SAFe advisor to developers on our Agile Release Train.

Rome, New York, United States

• Leads 33 military and civilian personnel. Directs activities related to mission system support, cyberspace defense, and mission assurance.
• Provides risk assessments to mission owners and recommends mitigations to improve mission assurance. Translates operational needs between vendors and mission owners.
• Ensures team is resourced appropriately to execute the mission. Manages 24/7 shift schedule. Oversees administrative processes for personnel to include performance reports, recognition, and administrative discipline.
• Coordinates with external agencies to include the Federal Aviation Administration, the Department of Homeland Security, and the United States Secret Service to assure national airspace defense and to guarantee the.
• Operates and manages the Battle Control System–Fixed (BCS-F) weapon system. Evaluates mission data using the Cyber Vulnerability Assessment/Hunter (CVA/H) toolkit which relies heavily on the ELK Stack for data.
• Manages enterprise network and radar outages with mission partners using enterprise IT service management

Rome, New York, United States

• Attended the inaugural Information Assurance Fellowship hosted by the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL). Worked with 21 US and UK scientists to perform SATCOM risk assessments using the Cyber Blue Book® methodology.
• Provided a strategic level brief to USAF senior leaders that outlined how to deter and defeat an adversary utilizing only Cyberspace means on the DIME instruments of national power.

Biloxi, Mississippi, United States

• Led 96 personnel in providing critical communications for the Keesler AFB mission. Provided “Five Nines” availability for AETC missions, supporting 8,500 permanent users and 20,000 transient students annually.
• Managed Base Area Network utilizing a variety of network monitoring and configuration tools. Enforced DISA Security Technical Implementation Guide (STIG) compliance to maintain the base network accreditation.

Montgomery, Alabama, United States

• Led a 24-member team in 24/7/365 operation, maintenance, and defense of the Air Force Enterprise Network (AFEN) security boundary.
• Maintained a Crew Commander certification on the Air Force Intranet Control (AFINC) cyber weapon system and executed AFCYBER Defensive Cyberspace Operations (DCO) tasks.
• Ensured rapid network outage detection and resolution across 385 Air Force locations. Charged with executing network isolation, degradation, and cyber incident response processes to restore connectivity for vital Air.
• Utilized an array of tools to include SolarWinds Orion, Nagios, NetQoS, McAfee e-Policy Orchestrator, and Palo Alto Panorama to provide confidentiality, integrity, and availability of the AFEN.

Montgomery, Alabama, United States

• Led a team of 56 personnel responsible for maintaining command and control, situational awareness, and security capabilities for the AFEN boundary.
• Oversaw management of the Air Force Enterprise Domain Name System (DNS) services to provide global accessibility to Air Force applications with InfoBlox DNS.
• Operated and maintained the McAfee Email Gateways to provide enterprise mail filtering capabilities. Employed the use of regular expressions to reduce attack surface and mitigate spear phishing campaigns.

Montgomery, Alabama, United States

• Led a 14-member team charged with transitioning the Air Force to a $3.4B Department of Defense (DoD) joint security architecture.
• Orchestrated aggressive program management schedule for large-scale enterprise security transition, including complex change management dependencies and network downtime coordination for 60+ DoD organizations.
• Briefed senior leaders on the employment of the next-generation JRSS. Provided migration decision briefs to mission owners globally.
• Gained experience with multitenant operations on a joint security environment. Utilized security and transport appliances to include Cisco and Juniper network equipment, Cisco and Palo Alto security appliances, and the.

Biloxi, Mississippi, United States

Completed 920 instruction hours in preparation for Air Force Cyberspace Operations officer duties.

• Authored and executed white box testing to identify misconfigurations in type 2 hypervisor virtualization technology.
• Developed automated regression tests using Perl and Bash scripts to ensure previously identified code flaws were not reintroduced to production releases.
• Managed a diverse physical test range including 200 unique platforms that provided the ability to discover manufacturer-specific bugs.

Rome, New York, United States

Attended the AFRL hosted Advanced Course in Engineering (ACE) internship. Conducted cyberspace research for AFRL programs focused on design and implementation of secure communications channels between a ground control station and an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV). Learned technical writing and briefing skills to senior military leaders. Developed using Perl.

Westford, Massachusetts, United States

Virtual Computer was acquired by Citrix in 2012.Authored and executed white box testing to identify misconfigurations in type 2 hypervisor virtualization technology. Developed automated regression tests using Perl and Bash scripts to ensure previously identified code flaws were not reintroduced to production releases. Managed a diverse physical test range.

Bachelor Of Science, Computer Science

Masters Of Cyber Security And Information Assurance