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Washington, Dc, Us

Washington, Dc, Us

Washington, Dc, Us

Washington, Dc, Us

Led SBA’s cybersecurity and privacy program, as the agency's CISO, across the financial and disaster assistance business lines in support of the U.S. small business community.

Washington, Dc, Us

Washington, Dc, Us

Security Engineering, Architecture, and DevSecOps lead for Office of the Chief Information Officer, spanning 5 contracts, 25 contract personnel, and 4 federal staff. I partner with various stakeholders to develop, test, and apply innovative and unique cybersecurity technologies and approaches for SBA. Adviser to CISO and Program Office leadership regarding security architecture, cloud, engineering, incident response, risk management, training, and PO&AM remediation matters.

Washington, Dc, Us

Responsible for operations, staffing, contracting, and continuous improvement of the Security Operations Branch under the general guidance of the SBA CIO and CISO. Reorganized branch under the Monitoring and Incident Response, Penetration Testing, Vulnerability Management, Security Engineering and Architecture, Threat Hunting, Forensics, and Threat Intelligence functional areas.

First attempt at entrepreneurship and running a business - was responsible for staffing, document management, financial, legal and tax matters. Formed a partnership with e-Learning Service Provider, Tata Interactive Systems, to create cybersecurity and healthcare related courses.

Onsite program manager for Accenture|Defense Point Security contract supporting the Security Exchange Commission consisting of a 16 person 24x7x356 Security Operation Center and 5 persons security engineering team.

Primary onsite liaison between client and Accenture Federal and Defense Point Security for Social Security Administration (SSA) programs. Managed and tracked delivery of security services, utilizing Splunk, McAfee, Nessus, cybersecurity training and Amazon Web Services (AWS) best security practices.

Washington, District Of Columbia, Us

Managed deliverables, hands-on work, and strategic direction for two security operation centers (SOC), pen-testing, malware and forensics, incident management, vulnerability management, security engineering, and threat intelligence teams for Raytheon Foreground Security (2015-2016)/Iron Vine Security, LLC (2017).

Managed deliverables, hands-on work, and strategic direction for two security operation centers (SOC), pen-testing, malware and forensics, incident management, vulnerability management, security engineering, and threat intelligence teams for Raytheon Foreground Security (2015-2016)/Iron Vine Security, LLC (2017).

Primary incident handler for security and privacy events affecting CMS and Healthcare.gov, supporting infrastructure. Spearheaded efforts to reduce Heathcare.gov infrastructure DHS Cyber Hygiene findings by 77%.

Member of Advanced Analytics Research Center as a malware analyst. During my tenure I created custom scripts to automate malware and host-based analysis in order to increase team efficiency. Created custom PowerShell application in order to interrogate and triage Windows hosts.

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Primarily responsible for Splunk Architecture and Engineering and maintaining custom-built IDS and monitoring infrastructure for US-based locations and OCONUS agency sites.

Baltimore, Maryland, Us

Dual role as a Security Analyst and Engineer as need arises to support Financial leader, T. Rowe Price. Adept at responding to incidents, developing open source threat intelligence, and deploying and maintain security hardware.

Reston, Virginia, Us

Responsible for responding to support tickets and maintaining the baseline OS images and applications.

Philadelphia, Pa, Us

Responsible for providing front-line technical support of Comcast products and services to include all of our lines of businesses including Xfinity mobile.

Worked in the Electronics Department helping customers identifying the electronics and technology best suited to needs and budgets.

Master Of Business Administration - Mba

Chief Information Officer Executive Certificate, Information Technology

Certificate, Executive Leadership

Certificate, High Performance Leadership

Master Of Science (M.Sc.), Cybersecurity

Bachelor Of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.), Information Technology

Electrical And Electronics Engineering