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Mclean, Virginia, United States

Leading solution architecture for systems and applications for Capital One, supporting product, design, research, data science and full-stack engineering teams that are focused on building enterprise solutions fostering productivity, collaboration, and efficiency across the Capital One Associate Experience.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Leads the Engineering efforts of the Center of Excellence, responsible for solutions design and development and delivery in the Federal market. Leads the creation of solutions and coordinate go-to-market activities with marketing and sales departments.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Led the Business Development, project delivery and strategic visioning efforts for Paragone's cybersecurity portfolio and related technologies. Analyzed market and customer requirements in the cybersecurity space and developed plans and approaches to solve critical security needs. - Led analysis, solution/proposal development and implementation plans for cybersecurity and IT support requirements. - Developed approaches to leverage Paragone automation technologies for RMF across multiple NIST and commercial frameworks, customized to specific agency/industry challenges and approaches.- Provided Subject Matter Expertise (SME) support at the CIO/PMO level, delivering IT architecture, security and associated management consulting for enterprise implementation and operation.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Providied technical management, and implementation consulting services for data center and corporate customers in Metro D.C. Area- Planned and designed network infrastructure and deployments (including LAN, WAN and Wifi) from office to data center environments.- Supported design, deployment and support of server consolidation and virtualization efforts.- Developed strategies, plans, and implementations for commercial and Federal cybersecurity projects and programs. - Supported business development efforts through marketing planning, proposal development and research.

Arlington, Va

Successful business and technical leadership from concept to delivery of new SEIM software product, producing cyber-security protection and automation for large enterprise networks. Product integrated enterprise-class vulnerability assessment with automated vulnerability remediation, utilizing big data analytics, intelligent agent design, and enterprise database engineering into a Java-based virtual appliance. Led market-focused initiative, providing technical and business leadership as the product director and program manager from concept to successful delivery of an Enterprise Cyber-security product with and initial delivery to large (>500,000 end-points) federal enterprise network. Directed the creation of an agile-based development process and the successful implementation for cyber-security automation product. Implemented innovative use of automated unit and integration tests, increasing software productivity and quality. Initiated and drove the business and development plan for migration of proven security automation to commercial and government clients, through a technology roadmap for product growth.SELECTED ACHIEVEMENTS: Product leadership led to the single highest external R&D investment for product developmentreceived by IDT and resulted in successful delivery and additional deliveries and follow on work. Developed CMMi compliant engineering and management processes that were used as a corporate-wide model for enterprise software development.

Oakton, Va

Organized, established and led a profitable IT design, services and system integration firm with successful delivery in the government and commercial enterprise markets. ITE designed and delivered ITIL-based service management offerings, business process consulting services, as well as expert, complex engineering service support and a portfolio of managed service offerings..• Led the transformation of the enterprise management system of a large (>20,000 users, >3000 servers) enterprise network with international sites, providing proactive system and network management, performance analytics and an integrated ITIL-based service desk. Provided full lifecycle support over 10 years through team of IT architects and engineers. • Provided business and marketing leadership in developing Managed Services/SaaS footprint, from business plan, service branding through collateral development and marketing execution. • Maintained long-term, successful contracts and relations through multiple changes in customer organization, contract vehicles, and enterprise environment. Retained as a key subcontractor through 4 changes of prime contractors because of contract relations, technical expertise and superior performance.• Successful design and deployment of enterprise management and service desk for enterprise customer enabled effective data center upgrade and consolidation, and migration to private cloud processing model.• Development of innovative and successful cloud-services portfolio augmented contract offerings and allowed successful sales of company Product Resales division in 2012.

Fairfax, Va

Progressed from lead technical roles for large support and development projects to program management for a variety of key customers and initiatives, resulting in project success and new customer penetration. Led projects across a diverse customer set of government, foreign and domestic commercial customers.• Managed the system and network management development program for large intelligence agency. Led design and implementation team from requirements, through a prototype into a successful delivery.• Chief Engineer for large scale (>40 Million Fingerprint sets) Automated Fingerprint Information System (AFIS), incorporating cutting edge high-speed networking topologies, blade technologies, data analytics and custom correlation engine development for fingerprint classification and matching.• Started the Design and Implementation group supporting the Treasury Communications System (TCS), the largest civilian enterprise network at the time. Directed design and deployment staff in the hardware design of the Network Operation Center and ongoing design, deployment and testing of network upgrades.• Achieved innovative design implementations and aggressive vendor management to reduce start-up and projected life-cycle costs in TCS network and NOC deployments.• Led the successful technical proposal effort for the AFIS program, winning the first biometric federal contract (>$10M) for TRW and enabling additional programs in this market, including automated fingerprint systems for the UK and commercial biometric business line.

Responsible for technical coordination and execution on R&D and production systems. Developed Sonar and communications systems for Navy and aerospace applications. Provided hardware and software designs utilizing embedded hardware, signal processing, programmable gate array, and structured GUI development technologies.

Responsible for electronic and firmware design and implementation for conventional navigation systems. Responsible for design and technology upgrades for navigation, communications and GIS Plotting systems. Provided equipment technical support to fleet personnel.

Bsee, Electrical And Electronics Engineering

Activities and Societies: IEEE, Benton Engineering Council, University of Florida Symphonic and Marching Bands, Kappa Kappa Psi and Phi Mu.

Msee, Electrical Engineering

Activities and Societies: IEEE