Senior Consultant
CurrentI am currently serving as a trainer and coach in the GitHub Partner Program. This involves helping organizations who have purchased GitHub and GitHub Advanced Security (GHAS) understand and use the capabilities of these tools.I worked as a Development and Testing Subject Matter Expert in the Inflectra Partner Program. In this role I helped organizations configure Spira products so that they work effectively within their environments.I served as an Automated Testing Coach for the Department of Defense's Joint Operational Medicine Information Systems (JOMIS) program office. I provided advisory support to the Developmental Test and Evaluation (DT&E) Division, led the creation of the JOMIS test automation guidebook, and made recommendations regarding the use of test management and automation tools.At the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) I led the team responsible for a pipeline built in the Azure cloud. Key pipeline components included Jenkins, SonarQube, Nexus Repository, Nexus IQ Server (Firewall/Lifecycle), and Fortify SSC. I communicated with those outside of my contract and provided a weekly briefing to TSA leadership.I helped TaxAct implement agile, testing, and test automation best practices by writing test cases in TFS, automating them using Postman, C#, and Selenium, and ensuring traceability to stories and bugs. I mentored other Coveros consultants to ensure that the improvements that we rolled out were consistent across teams.As a Senior Application Security Test Engineer at Fannie Mae I developed a threat modeling and automated security testing approach and coached the application development teams to adopt these processes. I also created a suite of reference security tests that were used by developers.I was the Automation Design Lead on a project with Instrumentation Laboratory where I led the creation of a document generation capability written in Python. I provided hands-on technical guidance and performed code reviews.
