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University Of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742

Hanover, Maryland, US

• Facilitated effective communication and collaboration among stakeholders, project teams, and leadership to drive consensus, resolve conflicts, and mitigate risks, resulting in improved project outcomes and stakeholder.
• Mentored and coached team members on project best practices, leadership skills, and professional development, fostering a culture of continuous learning and growth within the program team.
• Developed and implemented innovative recruitment process, training, & process implementation plan resulting in a 30% decrease in time-to-fill and a 20% increase in candidate quality.
• Managed full-cycle recruitment process for multiple programs including job profiling, sourcing, screening, interviewing, and onboarding.
• Established and nurtured relationships with external recruitment agencies, universities, and professional organizations to build a robust talent pipeline.
• Implemented applicant tracking system (ATS) enhancements, streamlining recruitment workflows and improving data accuracy, resulting in a 25% increase in recruiter productivity.

Mclean, VA, US

• Zachary Piper Solutions (ZPS), founded in 2011, provides technology solutions to the U.S. government. What began as a single contract with the Department of Defense has grown into a national firm—supporting a wide.
• Researched and analyzed market trends to identify key market gaps and built individual solutions based on unique company needs by communicating effectively to key C-Suite decision makers.
• Provided daily guidance and direction to recruiting teams on best practices for identifying talent, and screen recruiter submissions to job requisitions prior to sharing with clients.
• Built effective business relationships with potential new clients in the Information Technology or Cybersecurity verticals in Federal IT.
• Utilize various Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Applicant Tracking System (ATS), and sales/staffing tools like Salesforce, TargetRecruit, LinkedIn Sales Navigator, ZoomInfo, ZoomEngage, ClearanceJobs, Dice.
• Act as the “face of the company” in the Maryland staffing market.

Linthicum Heights, Maryland, US

• Research, aggregation, and event correlation for Cyber Targeting Analysis Reports (CTARs) analyzing indicators of compromise (IOCs), threats, and targeting of specific networks or network segments in the Defense.
• Conduct all source cyber intelligence analysis in DCISE Alerts, Warnings, Advisories, and daily Cyber Threat Round Ups (CTRs) emphasizing actor technology targeting the DIB and DOD organizations and to identify IA risk.
• Construct and publish Cyber Incident Notifications (CINs) to provide risk management assessments supporting network defenders and managers.
• Develop cyber Threat Activity Reports (TARs) detailing adversary tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs), tools used to achieve objectives, and targets of compromise.
• Create and design Technical Exchange Threat Briefs (TechEx) and Policy and Operations Working Group (POWG) cyber threat briefings about DCISE statistics, high severity CVEs, phishing, ransomware, and APT target trends.

• Secure, operate and defend the Department of Defense Information Network (DODIN) by leading JDOC personnel in the implementation of the DODIN Command and Control (C2) framework through synchronization and.
• Craft and implement daily CTOs Cyber Tasking Orders, directing major and minor actions to the DODIN to conduct Defensive Cyberspace Operations-Internal Defensive Measures (DCO-IDM).
• Facilitate battle stations advocacy on a 24/7 Watch Floor monitoring compliance of 45 AOs across the DoD to include all Combatant Commands, Service Cyber Components, Agencies and Field Activities (CC/SCC/A/FA).
• Actively coordinate and brief senior leadership at the three-star level and provide recommendations for the creation and modification of policy and procedures for the defense of the DODIN.
• Work effectively with internal and external organizations to monitor PONDs, POAMs, SIGACTS, Blue Reports, RFIs, RAMs, and IOCs to comply with incident response managing and reporting.

Arlington, Virginia, US

• Coordinated and managed training during deployment to ensure training requirements were met and ensure mission readiness of SMs spanning multiple states.
• Processed sensitive deployment documents for personnel necessary to take over the mission supporting ARCYBER.
• Developed and briefed mobilization documentation resulting in battalion wide completion of required training tasks.

Arlington, Virginia, US

• Directly supported the execution of full-spectrum cyberspace operations in support of geographic Combatant Commanders and Joint Task Force (JTF) Commanders as directed by U.S. Army Cyber Command.
• Performed as lead operator executing over 179 cyber operations in support of Army Cyber Command.
• Maintained tested and provided technical solutions across a wide range of technologies to meet evolving mission requirements and created SOPs and technical mission documentation for new platforms and capabilities.

Arlington, Virginia, US

• Conducted oral interviews, research, and analyzed data from multiple intelligence disciplines in order to achieve collection objectives.
• Produced finished intelligence reports in accordance with strict U.S. Army guidelines.
• Briefed leadership on collection, intelligence gaps, and recommended future collection requirements.

Leesburg, VA (Virginia), US

• Created, analyzed, and briefed research-based Intelligence Community analytic products, investigative foreign intelligence memoranda, and economic analysis, related to foreign relations.
• Facilitated the detection and deterrence of financial crime by identified key indicators of adversarial finance structures, money laundering, structuring, and illicit financial schemes.
• Conducted cross branch projects to include working with various communities, FBI, USSS, USPIS, DEA, IRS, CID.

Annapolis, MD, US

• Data Analysis, maintained organization, planning, and implementing strategy.
• Developed and maintained relations with clients and established correct interfaces.
• Interact clearly and constructively with all departments to ensure project quality to support cost saving development initiatives and delivery process improvements.

• Researched the disconnect between the utopian ideas promoted at “sustainable” international expositions of the recent past and the dystopic realities of the events.
• Coauthored a paper with Lisa D. Schrenk, PhD. for the ARCC/EAAE 2014 International Conference under the subtheme "Ends: The Dystopia in Utopia and the Final Cause. Forces, Causality, Ideology, Values, Myth."
• http://www.arch.hawaii.edu/arcc-eaae2014/?conference=arcceaae-2014-international-conference

• Scheduled appointments, manage forms, and updated all file and log documentation.
• Integrated new and productive organizational methods to enhance office efficiency.
• Coordinated and reported correspondence addresses for proper delivery.
• Maintained a variety of manual and automated databases to support future projects.

Northfield, VT, US

• Assessed, analyzed, and critiqued student’s research papers and documents.
• Managed inventory of supplies and accounted for all daily correspondence.
• Reviewed data and presented in clear, concise, and organized manner.

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Architectural Studies, Minors, Art, Architectural History, Engineering Psychology

Associate Of Applied Science Intelligence Operations, Military Intelligence, Command Control And Information Operations

Cyber Operators Course, Cyber/Electronic Operations And Warfare

Cissp Certification Training Bootcamp

Adversary Tactics And Techniques, Cyber/Computer Forensics And Counter-Terrorism

Ike Basic & Ike Analyst Courses