Utilizes industry leading tools and platforms including, but not limited to, Tenable Nessus, Elastic, Tanium, Service Now (SNOW), as well as other essential tools to manage, advise, and troubleshoot assets for crucial stakeholders. Responds and acts on alerts to remediate and avert vulnerabilities, breaches, and cyber attacks. Communicates and coordinates with private and government agencies to achieve and maintain secure environments while upholding internal directives as well as industry standards and regulation including NIST.

Critical Cybersecurity Analyst to the Vulnerability, Investigation, Protection, and Response (VIPR) team. Performed detailed threat analysis, reducing risk levels to organizational assets, applying the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).• Revised Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) to reflect current processes, eliminate redundancy, & improve response.• Conducted continuous monitoring of new and existing vulnerabilities via Recorded Future, Qualys, as well as reliable open-source and direct vender sites to maintain threat intelligence to avert known, unknown, & zero-day exploits.• Performed threat & vulnerability scans via Qualys, investigate finds, & deliver resolutions to mitigate identified threats.• Mastered ServiceNow platform, establishing procedures to quickly identify vulnerable assets, initiate rapid response, as well as cross-collaboration while expediting in-depth cyber analysis, annotating finding & lessons learned.

Led cyber analysis for threat & vulnerability assessments, audits & analysis for 66 military bases for AFMETCAL command.• Executed risk assessments for 1,200+ Platform Information Technology (PIT) systems, expertly identifying 10,000+ abnormalities, providing mitigation, remediation, & follow-up procedures, significantly decreasing threat exposure.• Adhering to DoD, USAF, and MAJCOM policies, conducted audits on assets to confirm compliance, annotating findings, & reporting analysis to organizational leaders and team members.• Reviewed ATO, POAM, & RMF packages, collaborating with team members, referencing NIST 800-53 and NIST 800-171.

Manager of multi-functional Information Technology Center encompassing Tier I and II operations, supporting the United States Air Force School of Aerospace Medicine (USAFSAM) in Dayton, Ohio.• Upheld access control policies utilizing Active Directory to assign user & system privileges while applying least privilege concepts, ultimately preventing unauthorized access, security breaches or incidents before granting network access.• IT Support SME, overseeing and auditing ticketing database utilizing data analytics to verify compliance standards, analyze complex inquiries, ultimately resolving 24,000+ tickets involving hardware, software, and network inquiries.• Oversaw access to the Department of Defense’s Secure Internet Protocol Router Network (SIPR) utilized to transmit classified information over a secure environment, accountable for $200,000+ in assets, resulting in zero loss or incident.• Designated Information Assurance (IA) Officer, upholding data regulations, initiating process audits to validate the proper procedures to secure data as well as the destruction of data and equipment, ensuring data loss prevention.• Experienced Project Manager, leading significant architectural upgrades while utilizing cross-collaboration with critical entities to plan, install, & configure access points, computer systems, & servers allowing significant personnel increase.• Conducted software testing utilizing Wireshark to critically analyze packet captures to determine network authorization.

Operational lead coordinator of Command & Control in high tempo 24/7 operations center. Conducted continuous monitoring of computer systems and applications.• Upheld compliance of DoD SCIF / SIPR equipment regulations, resulting in zero security breaches, losses, or write-ups.• Deployed technical and physical safeguards on assets, ultimately eliminating any loss of equipment or essential data.• Performed scheduled and periodic audits on classified operating systems while updating user access authorization.• Cross-collaborated with military SOC and Communications organization on audits and configuration of equipment.• Led extensive Disaster & Recovery simulations, improving response times and procedures while identifying barriers.• Established communications with alert teams and other military service entities, providing critical mission updates.• Managed mobility training program, annotating compliance / discrepancies, reporting data to strategic leaders.