I get to provide advisory services to the gov't customers that provide critical services to all Americans. In addition, I help commercial customers better engage with the government.

Founder of Mind Anvil, LLC. This is my own consulting firm, where I can leverage my expertise to help others. I provide support on FedRAMP and DoD cloud authorizations, federal/DoD contracting, and related information.

Leads Checkmarx's global public sector strategy, planning, and implementation. Work across the company and with external stakeholders to prepare for the stringent requirements of FedRAMP and other compliance regimes. Thought leaders within Checkmarx on all things government including upcoming global laws and regulations. Influences Checkmarx product roadmap to address unique public sector use-cases for application security. Crafts the voluminous amount of documentation required for public sector, and works across the stakeholders to ensure that the company is ready for any audit. Leads discussions with customers, both federal and commercial that have a FedRAMP or other regulated cloud requirement. Prepares the budge to bring regulated offers to the market to include informing the pricing structure to ensure that margin requirements are met.

Leads Devo's FedRAMP development, operations, and authorization activities. Develops system security documentation, and acts as FedRAMP SME for all controls. Monitors or manages broad range of FedRAMP or compliance activities across Devo, and provides guidance/mentoring as required. Created and executed the Devo internal plans to build a compliant FedRAMP SaaS and to prepare the company for audit. Primary contact for all FedRAMP interactions with customers, Sponsor, 3PAO, and multiple contractors.Provide FedRAMP and DoD cloud authorization expertise for other companies within the Insight Partners or Georgian portfolios. Provide senior level training on FedRAMP and mid-level training on how to build and execute a FedRAMP development effort. Led efforts related to production of formal portfolio recommendations to improve FedRAMP and DoD cloud authorizations from a provider perspective.

Federal Product Manager for a cybersecurity start-up. Created corporate federal strategy and roadmap. Created FedRAMP compliant system security plan, corporate policies and procedures, and related documents required to enter the Federal market as a FedRAMP authorized service. Successfully guided company through a FedRAMP Readiness Assessment Review. Crafted federal specific feature requests to improve product’s value to federal and public sector customers. Provided direct support to sales by writing multiple technical proposals in response to federal opportunities. Wrote multiple white papers on how Armis meets both federal and non-federal requirements. Federal thought leader within corporate portfolio; consulted with and trained other portfolio companies on federal strategies. Authored portfolio recommendations for senior government officials on FedRAMP and DoD reform.

Project Manager within Cisco's Customer Experience organization, with a focus on delivering US Public Sector offers. Responsible for Cisco's first FedRAMP+ (DoD Impact Level 5) SaaS offer. Experienced in developing highly regulated offers in a compliant manner. Experienced in developing SaaS and managed service offerings.Fully qualified Services Product Manager within Cisco's Advanced Services organization. Concurrent with obtaining DoD IL 5 authorization, developed the offer model, SKU structure, pricing, negotiated partner agreements, and developed the full go to market strategy. Ensured that the DoD authorized SaaS was prepared to sell once authorization granted.

Project Manager for Cisco's US Public Sector Team. Working to provide quality services to Local, State, and Federal customers.

Senior Technical Program Manager with 20+ years of experience on hardware and software programs. Recognized expertise in system-of-systems integration, team leadership, stakeholder engagement, risk management, and turning dynamic requirements into actual research and development programs.Core StrengthsLeadership - Savant leader actively engaged with the team removing obstacles and enabling them to focus on their work. Built 30+ person Division from scratch to support multi-program integration, enterprise architecture, rapid prototyping, and agile software development.System Integration - Led Air Force’s $800M modernization effort involving the integration of 46+ major applications within a set of global hybrid operations/data centers.Vendor Management - Led requirements development, solicitation, proposal evaluation, and was the Program Manager for efforts ranging from $100K to $12M.Strategic Planning - Led strategic planning efforts for Air Force command and control development, interfaced with multiple stakeholders and established the framework for several major software programs.Enterprise Architecture - Led effort to design SOA DODAF architecture for hybrid ops/data center, actively participated in the design - identified/fixed critical flaw between technical and operational requirements. Worked with Joint stakeholders on standardized DoD architecture.Threat Analysis - Senior DoD threat analyst for major acquisition programs, worked with Program Managers and Intelligence Community to accurately define threats and promote countermeasures. Senior editor for authoritative threat analysis for major DoD programs.Rapid Prototyping - Led data link gateway rapid prototype, project initiation to flight test within 18 months. Led SOA prototyping, initiation to first demonstration within 1 month. Envisioned/coded/fielded Iraqi personnel database within 3 months for Iraqi background investigations.