Jonathan Gerard Email & Phone Number

Patuxent River, Maryland, US

• I continue my 13th year (contracting years included) of support for the NAVAIR Training team:
• Lead CyberSecurity Engineer, leading a team of cyber security professionals responsible for the security posture of ~30 unique, high-availability, high profile domains across the United States to DoD and Navy Standards.
• Developer and QA Tester of programs and scripts written to automate patching, program updating, STIG implementation and more on highly sensitive systems.
• Supports a wide variety of Operating Systems and programs, including Redhat, Windows, McAfee Enterprise tools, Cisco, Palo Alto, Office, Adobe, etc.
• Performs vulnerability assessment of systems with tools such as ACAS, Nessus, SCC, and EvaluateSTIG.
• IA\CS Point of Contact for remote teams across United States. Provides onsite supprt via 10% travel* (until Covid)

Herndon, VA, US

• Continued as Lead Information Assurance Engineer responsible for the security posture of 30 unique, high-availability, high profile domains across the United States to DoD and Navy Standards.

Falls Church, Virginia, US

• Continued as Lead Information Assurance Engineer responsible for the security posture of 30 unique, high-availability, high profile domains across the United States to DoD and Navy Standards.
• Expanded support of Operating Systems and programs, including Redhat 6, Windows 2008R2, Tenable Nessus (ACAS), Sharepoint, and SCAP.
• Transitioned site from DoD's Retina Program to Nessus\ACAS program.

Warminster, PA, US

• Lead Information Assurance Engineer responsible for the security posture of 30 unique, high-availability, high profile domains across the United States to DoD and Navy Standards.
• Supports a wide variety of Operating Systems and programs, including Redhat 4 and 5, Windows XP, 2003, 7, and 2008, Symantec and McAfee Enterprise Antivirus tools, Office, Adobe and more.
• Developer and QA Tester of programs and scripts written to automate patching, program updating, STIG implementation and more on highly sensitive systems.
• Network and System Administrator for team of over 20 members, including the administration of a Windows 2008 server, the team’s Sharepoint website, site backups and all associated IA tasks.
• Manages a full-time IA Engineer to assist in achieving our team’s goals. Takes part in career development with training on DoD security methodology, IA, and script development.
• IA Point of Contact for remote teams across United States. Provides onsite support via 10% travel.

Atlanta, GA, US

• Performed HBSS (ePolicyOrchestrator) configuration and event analysis for a major Navy IA Command Suite, providing support to multiple Navy customer sites in the western United States.
• Part of a 24/7 cyber-security team to respond to security events, viruses, intrusion, etc.
• Responsible for local system Information Assurance tasks including Golddisk, Retina, STIGs, IAVA compliance, patching and QA testing.
• Provided reports and created POA&Ms for open vulnerabilities. This includes updates to the DISA VMS and included issue resolution and/or mitigation plans.
• Documentation contributor for Project CONOPS (Concept of Operations), SOPs (Standard Operating Procedures), and other critical information.

Arlington, Virginia, US

• System Administrator for OPNAV DNS-4o Lead System Administrator (SA) for Navy Operations (OPNAV DNS-4). This includes Windows Server 2003 maintenance, hardware maintenance, STIG, CTO, IA Suite, and IAVA compliance..
• Sharepoint Company Officer \ Webmastero Successful in leading the effort to establish a Corporate-Wide Intranet based on Sharepoint. Current system is now part of RGS culture and is the company Intranet.o Led weekly.

San Diego, CA, US

• (Note: This was a contractor position)
• Developed and conducted test plans for a wide range of scenarios incorporating new hardware and software applications such as Mediaflo (VCast), and Bluetooth capability.
• Learned the basics of CDMA and cell phone technology as well as analysis tools.

Santa Clara, California, US

• (Note: This was a contractor position)
• Coded and maintained a C# ASP.NET website which provided for automation of change requests, code retrieval, software compilation, CD image creation and bug tracking.
• Trained coworkers on CM (Change Management) process, coding, source control, and other applications.

Engineering Level2, Engineering

B.S. Computer Science

High School