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Greater Salt Lake City Area

Greater Salt Lake City Area

Greater Salt Lake City Area

Part of the Future ICBM Program - Ground Based Strategic Deterrent (GBSD) under which BAE Systems augments organic government resources by providing breadth and depth of capabilities for system engineering and integration, risk management, technical assessment, acquisition program management, strategy development, organization and change management.

United Arab Emirates

• Provide expert advice and recommendations to the development team in establishing initial CSOC operational capabilities. Provide day-to-day management of all CSOC personnel identified to meet program objectives..
• Collaborated with the contracted systems integrator to advance and improve the $400 million mission development program.
• Led initiatives to identify mission design shortfalls, which improved system performance.
• Developed and implemented staffing plans, to include work surge requirements.
• Advised CSOC Director in identifying and executing mission requirements.
• Identified skill sets of team members and developed training programs to bolster individual capabilities.

Fairfax, VA

• Primarily responsible for managing the integration of TSA systems into the TSA Security Operation Center (SOC) for continuous log monitoring and log retention. Effectively communicated in both writing and verbally to.
• Decreased project ramp-up time for onboarding new components by 30% through enhanced project planning with customizable sections around engineering capabilities and delivery method.
• Integrated 10 new, medium sized systems, into the existing TSA SOC policies and procedures for operational consistency, which complied with TSA and DHS policies.
• Managed project timelines across multiple teams to ensure tasks were completed according to the master project schedule.
• Worked closely with Director level Government employees and contractors to manage expectations so all stake holders understood the project status.
• Developed 20 analysts and 10 engineers through training on new systems being integrated into the TSA SOC. Show less

Fairfax, VA

• Primarily responsible for logic development within the SEM tool to detect and identify nefarious traffic traversing the customers network. Also responsible for security incident response leadership and fourth-level.
• Developed… Show more Primarily responsible for logic development within the SEM tool to detect and identify nefarious traffic traversing the customers network. Also responsible for security incident response leadership.
• Developed detection mechanisms for existing exploits and Zero-Day exploits improving detection confidence by 25%.
• Reverse engineered malware to determine exploits characteristics.
• Actively monitored, tuned and configured the Security Event Monitoring (SEM) tool in order to identify malicious traffic on the customer’s network, improving newer analysts’ ability to detect potentially problematic.
• Developed and documented processes and procedures for day-to-day tasks, which assisted with standardization, shortened analysis time by 15%, and reduced errors. Show less

Reston, VA

• Promoted to manage and lead the analysis Tiers 2 and 3. Managed delivery of 24x7, real-time network security analysis through detection and remediation of all security related issues. Worked actively with a broad.
• Developed standardized processes and procedures for day-to-day tasks, which shortened analysis time, and… Show more Promoted to manage and lead the analysis Tiers 2 and 3. Managed delivery of 24x7, real-time network.
• Developed standardized processes and procedures for day-to-day tasks, which shortened analysis time, and reduced errors.
• Developed training for all new and existing analysts. This training included assessments of knowledge and placed them in the correct training path and provided the analyst a number of the Security's industry recognized.
• Handled investigations or analysis of complex tickets by working with the appropriate engineers or outside organizations in order to solve incidents and network events.
• Directed staff in tuning requests for firewalls, IDS, SEM tools, event filters, and correlation rules. Monitored and analyze SEM tools for activity/events as per the policy of the customer and external intelligence.

Hill Air Force Base, Clearfield, UT

• Performed daily engineering task with firewalls, proxy servers, and IDS/IPS systems to maintain overall network security from the perimeter by adhering to documented Air Force policies.Key Achievements:
• Sustained security compliance (patches, updates, anti-virus) on the division’s workstations and servers.
• Upheld VPN Concentrators base wide.
• Built and serviced the organizations’ SAN.
• Monitored backup system and ran test restorations.
• Assisted in creating… Show more Performed daily engineering task with firewalls, proxy servers, and IDS/IPS systems to maintain overall network security from the perimeter by adhering to documented Air Force.

Master'S Degree, It Management

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Telecommunications And Business Education