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*Conducted comprehensive security assessments of information systems, resulting in a 98% compliance rate with federal policies and regulations.*Developed and implemented security policies and procedures that reduced system vulnerabilities by 50%, mitigating risks to information system.*Collaborated with cross-functional teams to establish an incident response plan, resulting in a 75% reduction in response time during security incidents.*Conducted a thorough evaluation of all Rev 4 and Rev 5 controls in CSAM, resulting in an ATO approval with minimal findings during the agency audit.*Implemented new security controls as part of the system's remediation plan, resulting in a 30% decrease in vulnerability findings during subsequent scans.

Virginia, United States

Technical lead in the Information Delivery Product Division• Evaluated data product delivery tools, methodologies, and processes for feasibility in improving the Office of Financial Management Systems effectiveness and efficiency in meeting the requirements, functions, and services of it automated financial systems. • Evaluated available data management tools, methodologies, and processes for feasibility in improving the OFMS effectiveness and efficiency in meeting the requirements, functions, and services of its automated financial systems.• Lead teams on projects related to the design, development, modification, testing, installation, implementation, and support of new and existing automated financial systems. • Served as a consultant during the planning, requirements analysis, design, development, test, and implementation phases of the automated financial systems.• Monitored the enforcement of IT security policies, principles, and practices for all production systems; participates in activities related to the Certification and Accreditation process as well as the Annual Security Assessment.• Developed and/or provided technical analysis of new and emerging technologies and their implication on the short and long-term financial management systems requirements. • Defined projects/task requirements through appropriate planning, implementations, reporting on, and evaluating projects and tasks.• Applied Agile and/or Waterfall software development methodologies, in management of bi-weekly SCRUMS for USPTO technology system products.• Identified and documented solutions to information security problems/issues and recommending changes to prevent recurrences.

Washington Dc-Baltimore Area

*Technical lead in HHS’ Office of Human Resources (OHR). Manage the Enterprise Performance Life Cycle (EPLC) process for the implementation of new enterprise IT systems.*Examined divisions strategic direction with the Director of HR Systems to determine how to modernize and improve OHR’s efficiency and effectiveness with new IT systems. *Consulted with customers on requirements, design, development, testing, and deployment of automated systems.*Communicated complex technical issues in oral and written formats to technical and non-technical professionals.*Advised and guided management on system requirements. Consult with the Office of the Chief Information Officer (OCIO) team on security implementation requirements.*Review National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and Federal Information Security Modernization Act (FISMA) standards to ensure compliance.*Work closely with the Director of HR Systems on the development and configuration of new and existing automated systems.*Collaborated with the system ISSO to review the Federal Risk and Authorization Management (FedRAMP) Cloud Solution Provider (CSP)/system owner responsibilities and Plan of Action and Milestones (POAMS).*Ensure the cloud system follows HHS’ Security Policies and incorporates role-based access control (RBAC).*Analyze the security and privacy risks of the Software as a Service (SaaS) information system in accordance with the enterprise architecture security framework. Leverage problem solving skills by identifying security issues and recommending changes. *Partnered with the Enterprise Security Services team to receive an Authority to Operate (ATO). Executed a detailed security process and ensured the system met FISMA standards.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Microsoft Azure System Administrator:* Provided systems administration maintaining, upgrading and supporting a multitude ofmission critical applications, virtual servers on Red Hat operating systems.* Ensured system reliability, application, interoperability and performance of virtual machine servers(red hat linux/ubuntu).* Performed Microsoft azure integration activities, working with different technologies and troubleshooting and resolving technical problems.* Experienced setting up administrator and service accounts, maintaining system documentation, tuning system performance, installing system wide software and allocate mass storage space.* Made recommendations to purchase hardware and software, coordinates installationand provides backup recovery.* Developed and monitored policies and standards for allocation related to the use of computing resources.* Patched red hat and ubuntu operating systems and remediated operating system and application vulnerabilities. vulnerabilities.*Partnered with the Information System Security Officer (ISSO) on the integration of the Microsoft Azure cloud system into HHS’ IT enterprise infrastructure.Automation (RPA Principal Program Manager/Developer)*Principal Federal Robotic Process Automation (RPA) developer in OHR. *I utilized Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC) best practices in the development, testing, and implementation of RPA bots.* I built numerous automations for the RPA team that resulted in a cost avoidance of $1,083,425 and saved 23,274 hours to date.* I automated HR system data transfers including importing and exporting data between applications and files.*Coordinated the development of attended RPA bots with government contractors to craft the Process Design Document (PDD) that outlines the business process flow.*Presented benefits of RPA and Intelligent Automation to various Operating Divisions across HHS, in addition to external federal agencies and commercial companies.

Washington Dc-Baltimore Area

Served as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) on the HR information system, HRConnect, and trained 500+ customers on the system. *Collaborated with infrastructure and information security teams to support the development of the Human Resources (HR) Security compliant framework.*Worked closely with information security users and system administrators to resolve system outages and system functionality concerns.*Investigated information system error messages and executed root cause analysis of errors to resolve issues.*Coordinated with HR workforce analytics database administrators to develop reports to meet human capital needs.*Participated in the HR information system user group meetings to discuss system outages, updates, and functionality.*Utilized HR workforce analytics reporting software to extract HR data and produce customized reports.*Researched personnel actions in the National Finance Center database and corrected inaccurate data.*Analyzed methods to troubleshoot data mismatch errors and worked with the customer to resolve issues.*Inputted HR information into centralized personnel action database ensuring accuracy.*Worked with HR placement services and benefits team pertaining to employee hire action processing errors and the implications of the error.*Assisted with the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) audit investigations to collect data and evaluate HR management programs in other Department of Labor agencies and field activities.

Serves as Human Resource Specialist for the Army Corps of Engineers in the Civilian Human Resource Agency, responsible for managing the Offices of Small Business, History, and Chief Counsel human capitol requirements, while interpreting regulatory hiring policy and guidelines. • Serve as technical advisor on Microsoft within local organization.•Developed queries to aggregate date from the Army Corps of Engineers human resource database into AD HOC reports.•Applied knowledge of HR recurrent/staffing application in order to provide user feedback based on application design and functionality. •Implemented knowledge of HR concepts, practices, laws, regulations, policies, and precedents sufficient to provide comprehensive HR management advisory/technical services on substantive organizational functions and work practices•Developed Ad HOC Boxi Object based management database reports through querying database libraries and implementing conditional statements, limits, and filters to pull the data. •Researched database objects and identifiers in order to extract the correct data. Reconciled queries to hard copy reports. • Troubleshoot human resource applications and discovered work around to application errors/bugs.•Conduct research into human resource actions by using multiple human resource computer programs and software application to analyze the recruitment statistical data. •Manage the Offices of Small Business, History, Chief Counsel, human capital initiatives, to include hiring, firing, promotion, reassignment, and award actions.•Re-design the organization webpage by utilizing Microsoft front page in designing new web pages. •Serve as agency liaison in-between the office of small business, history, and chief counsel, in coordinating personnel recruitment initiatives. •Research, analyze, and interpret government human resource policies and guidelines.

Facilitated in the monitoring and evaluation of global payments clients financial transactions on a daily basis, to help minimize the company’s exposure to losses, while enhancing the awareness of potential risk.

Facilitated the development of risk management strategies that balanced risk and reward as a means to achieve growth targets and lending objectives for a $4 billion consumer loan portfolio while providing solid analytical infrastructure and database management expertise to the Chevy Chase Bank portfolio risk management group in the Credit & Policy department *Performed loan product profitability assessments to monitor and evaluate the financial performance of the consumer loan portfolio. *Ensured the timely delivery of financial portfolio performance information reports to the Chevy Chase Credit Assessment Management Department, in order for senior management to develop credit policies that limited the consumer loan portfolio exposure to market risk.*Utilized diverse analytical financial risk models to identify financial loan products that have a higher than average susceptibility to financial losses generated from delinquent loans and loan vehicles. *Developed risk-related analytical metric reports to determine and recommend strategies to limit the consumer loan portfolio to credit risk and losses.*Conducted monthly executive presentations that communicated and interpreted portfolio performance and credit risk reduction strategies to senior management.*Created special reports and policies based on recommendation strategies to mitigate credit risk related to the portfolio.*Spearheaded specialized database management projects requiring the development and implementation of unique database queries into the data acquisition process and the creation of extensive verification processes ensuring consistency between data and accounting reports.

Master'S Degree, Cyber Security, 3.5

Cyber Security

Ba, Business Administration With A Minor In Economics

Activities and Societies: Varsity Crew team, Students in Free Enterprise (S.I.F.E) team leader, President of the minority student.