At Accenture Federal Services (AFS), we combine the power of Accenture’s global network with deep federal expertise to deliver transformative solutions for space operations, cybersecurity, and secure AI. My role focuses on ensuring our clients stay on the cutting edge of technology while maintaining the highest standards of security, reliability, and mission readiness.As the Emerging Technologies Lead within the cyber capabilities domain, I lead efforts to advance, innovate, and scale cybersecurity capabilities for federal and DoD space operations. I work to help clients modernize their systems and overcome mission-critical challenges through cutting-edge solutions.Key Focus Areas:- Cyber Capabilities for Space Systems: Develop and deploy secure cyber solutions for federal and DoD space systems, including satellites, ground stations, and communications networks, ensuring resilience against evolving threats and space domain awareness.- Innovating with Emerging Technologies: Leverage advancements in AI, automation, and cybersecurity to enhance efficiency and decision-making for space missions.- Strategic Leadership: Drive the growth of AFS’s space-focused cyber capabilities, identifying opportunities and fostering innovation to deliver impactful, client-focused results.- Mission-Centered Solutions: Deliver scalable, secure, and high-performance systems aligned with AFS’s fit-for-federal delivery model, prioritizing mission success.- Cyber Resilience: Mitigate risks associated with space operations and emerging technologies, ensuring secure and reliable operations for federal agencies and the DoD.- Collaboration Across Domains: Partner with AFS’s multidisciplinary teams to integrate human-centered design with advanced technologies, delivering measurable outcomes for defense, national security, and other federal missions.

Role Overview:As a member of the AFCEA International Technology Committee, my role is to drive AFCEA’s mission to foster collaboration, innovation, and excellence across the technology sector. I help connect government, industry, and academia to facilitate information sharing, explore emerging technologies, and develop solutions for complex enterprise challenges.Committee Purpose & Mission:- Enhancing Outreach: Engage with technology communities, promoting discussions on current and emerging technologies to address global mission challenges.- Building Partnerships: Cultivate collaborations across sectors for sharing ideas, research, and best practices.- Solving Problems through Innovation: Create a platform for investigating technology solutions to critical challenges facing government, industry, and academia.Objectives:- Facilitating Networking: Promote collaboration among stakeholders to identify solutions using advanced technologies to address management and mission needs.- Promoting Innovation & Discussion: Encourage forums, symposiums, and conferences to drive tech innovation and foster collaboration.- Providing Strategic Guidance: Recommend strategies and tech solutions aligned with AFCEA’s objectives, integrating them across chapters and committees.- Insight on Technology Trends: Identify emerging technologies to support AFCEA’s SIGNAL journal and digital content, offering expert perspectives.- Supporting AFCEA Initiatives: Sponsor programs that strengthen AFCEA’s role in the tech community and support its growth across government, industry, academia, and non-profits.- Supporting Chapters: Provide chapters with guidance on trends, speakers, and program development to enhance networking and knowledge-sharing.- Managing Technology Awards: Oversee the annual AFCEA Technology Awards, from defining categories and reviewing nominations to selecting winners, recognizing excellence in the technology sector.

About OffSec:OffSec is a renowned leader in cybersecurity training and certification, dedicated to empowering security professionals to enhance their skills through practical, hands-on education. With a mission to build a resilient cybersecurity workforce, OffSec is at the forefront of the industry, providing comprehensive training programs, industry-recognized certifications, and expert consulting services.Role Overview:As a Cyber Workforce Resilience Advocate at OffSec, I am dedicated to strengthening the resilience and capabilities of cybersecurity professionals. In this strategic advisory role, I collaborate with diverse teams to develop and implement robust training and resilience programs that empower individuals and organizations to effectively defend against evolving cyber threats.- Provide feedback on marketing topics and marketing content to ensure fit with market needs.- Utilize expertise to help ideate marketing content topics and provide the relevant content for marketing to leverage and design.- Work closely with the marketing content team to develop relevant webinar topics and ideas that align with market needs and Company’s expertise.- Provide enterprise point of view on usage/viability of topics.- Create and post social media content representing the Company from Consultant’s social media accounts.- Host webinars and virtual events to educate the audience on cybersecurity trends, technical skills, best practices, and the value of Company’s solutions.- Coach the Company’s sales team on articulating the unique value that Company brings to the table and assist in overcoming objections.- Attend and host events, including happy hours and dinners, to engage with customers and prospects in a relaxed and informal setting.- Represent Company at sponsored events such as CISOMeets, Roundtables, 1:1 prospect and customer meetings, and tradeshows to enhance brand visibility.

Strategically help organizations understand, avoid, and emulate digital dance moves.* Strategic business advisor to C-level clients/prospects in enabling their security transformation, including CEO, CTO, CSO, CISO, and CROs.* Lead meetings and workshops in order to understand CISO initiatives and expected outcomes while formulating strategic direction to help address them in the short, mid and long term.* Provide thought leadership and insights in cybersecurity, risk management, offensive operations, hacker mindset, and offensive cyber-strategy.* Partner with the Sales and Solution Architect organizations to translate the outcome of workshops, conferences, meetings, and business strategies into actionable intelligence that enables the design, architecture, delivery, and adoption of Synack solutions* Lead thought leadership discussions at client/prospect round table meetings, executive dinners, industry conferences and other events.* Partner with internal product, engineering, and marketing organizations to act both as a “voice of the customer” back into the organization as well as to be able to have forward-looking strategic discussions with clients/prospects.* Help lead internal training initiatives to direct the Sales and Solutions Architect organizations in overall field direction.* Develop industry conference talks around thought leadership, strategic vision, and tactical operation.* Proposed, hosted, and helped create new industry podcast (We're In! podcast)* Showcase strategic platform utilization in digital video series (Cut To The Chase series)* Maintain up-to-date technology, industry and market knowledge.

I help people create solutions to digital dance moves.

• Conduct network level penetration testing.• Conduct web application penetration testing.• Conduct internal Red Team operations.• Conduct product penetration testing / assessments (WCG, Intel ME, ect..)• Lead, plan, coordinate, and execute operations within a team setting.• Gather open source intelligence (OSINT) to expand operational effectiveness.• Conduct research to leverage potential vulnerabilities on target.• Coordinate with Advanced Threat Detection (ATD) team during Red Team operations to strengthen detection mechanisms.• Author detailed reports for results of operation conducted.• Develop proof-of-concept for all findings identified.• Present findings in greater detail to clients with debrief.• Collaborate with client-facing teams to provide guidance on architecting, securing, and testing deliverables.

- Digital people watcher / emulator of digital dance moves.

• Responsible for identifying, logging, researching, and resolving critical infrastructure vulnerabilities.• Conduct penetration testing, phishing, and social engineering campaigns on company assets.• Collaborate, and assist various teams in implementing, migrating, and developing new technical solutions.• Developed new method for displaying PCI, and SOX related auditing results.• Coordinated, and wrote the SOP on new approach to vulnerability remediation.• Developed various tools for increased productivity.• Developed complex pivot tables to represent vulnerability data in a readable format.• Developed various tracking dashboards regarding outstanding remediation efforts, and wrote the JQL strings to pull, and filter the data. • Wrote various SOPs regarding new processes, and procedures.• Worked with Change Management teams to coordinate system changes, remediation’s, and upgrades to systems.• Responsible for reviewing, troubleshooting, and approving ACL requests.• Participate in an on-call rotation for 24x7 production incident response.• Created Web UI for reporting critical vulnerabilities in an efficient streamlined manner. • Ensure high systems availability by providing proactive Incident Management and driving Critical incidents to resolution.• Personally identified, tracked, logged, and researched over 1,500 tickets.

• Quickly and accurately diagnose technology issues and create robust solutions as needed.• Identify opportunities to improve the process of assessing, testing and performing client repairs.• Help other “agents” to successfully use the range of Geek Squad resources, and tools.• Maintain, repair, and service products aligning with clients “definition of fix”.• Perform data backup and transfers according to client wishes.

• Provide computer, peripheral, phone, vulnerability assessment and network support for 100+ end-users.• Setup, configure and manage all office technology solutions, provide hardware / software installations, and support.• Maintained data security, integrity and recovery ability by performing daily backup operations.• Research, and develop alternate approaches to existing software and hardware solutions.• Develop and maintain system administration, and technical manuals.• Provide quarterly technical training for current, and new employees.• Implement, and maintain security camera server, and Anti-Virus server.• Expected to continuously learn about, and “pitch” the implementation of new technologies due to company growth.

• Easily establish rapport with people of all ages, cultures, and beliefs. • Effectively resolve conflicts by listening and understanding clients “definition of fix”. • Provide excellent customer service and training for clients with technical questions or concerns. • Responsible for troubleshooting a variety of client hardware and software issue. • Provide recommendations as to the repair, or upgrade of technology to clients.

Develop spread-sheets to represent data accumulated during the course of work day. Use spread-sheets together with equipment database to determine if entries are correctly entered. Track down discrepancy's in data and make corrections. Work with UPS tailored software for arriving equipment, dispatching equipment, and planning routes. Develop a system of record keeping that utilizes a combination of UPS software and developed spread-sheets. Help in any computer / software troubleshooting as needed to prevent from entering help desk ticket.• I was tasked with keeping track of over 2,000 pieces of heavy equipment on a daily basis, entering and leaving our grounds, to prevent the loss of millions of dollar’s worth of freight.• I was called in and commended on my work and equipment tracking method from corporate; proclaiming my method of tracking was the best they had seen in over 20 years.

Administrative clerks perform clerical and administrative duties incident to general and operational administration utilizing manual and automated information systems. Administrative clerks must possess knowledge of the Marine Corps Total Force System (MCTFS), and Marine Corps standard word processing and database software packages. Typical duties consist of the preparation of naval correspondence and messages; preparation and maintenance of directives; preparation of travel orders, completion of general administrative requirements such as leave authorizations, identification cards, and preparation and maintenance of command snit punishment books. Other duties performed may overlap those performed by personnel clerks. These include auditing field service records, verifying information contained in unit diary feedback reports/personnel management reports, preparation of discharge and retirement documents, and verifying the accuracy of information contained in the MCTFS databases. Administrative clerks may also be assigned to support the administration of military justice to staff level billets, and to perform duties within a Classified Material Control Center (CMCC), or in the unit's mailroom. MOS 0151 is assigned upon completion of the Administrative Clerk course or upon demonstrating satisfactory performance during MOJT