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• Director responsible for the technical and financial execution of contracts. Work closely with corporate Contracts, Finance, and Recruiting departments to meet the needs of all clients and prime contractor requirements. Manage staffing of vacancies, interviews, salary negotiation, staff annual reviews and employee engagements. • Alternate Program Manager and Chief Engineer supporting a prime contract. Weekly interaction with COR, CORTs and support staff. Manages software developers, system administrators, and program analysts conducting research and development.• Proposal manager for cost proposal to add additional LCATs to a government prime contract.• Created MOU for secure space leasing, SOWs for IT and ISSO/M support for commercial client support.• Supported contracts providing ISSE support for Authorizations / (Accreditations) for cloud systems. One of the first client systems to achieve Authorization from client for cloud hosted system. Authorizations met DCID, CNSS, and ICD 503 requirements. • Provided ISSO/E support working closely with the development team to migrate applications from bare metal servers to cloud. This required definition of requirements, resource optimization, and stakeholder management. Updated existing or created new Authorization packages to include: updating SSPs and related artifacts (network drawings, data flow diagrams, CONOPs).• Corporate ISSO/ISSM supporting two secure spaces hosting prime contracts and commercial SOW. Manage the Certification and Accreditation (C&A) / Authorization of networks to include maintaining / updating System Security Plans (SSP) and artifacts, audit reviews, and patch reporting of information Assurance Vulnerability Alerts (IAVAs) applied to the networks. • Project Manager and Security Engineer on multiple commercial efforts conducting gap analysis of customer’s system baselines, management of IT support, completion of Authorizatons.

Director responsible for the technical and financial execution of contracts. Work closely with corporate Contracts, Finance, and Recruiting departments to meet the needs of all clients. Manage staffing, interviews, salary negotiation, staff annual reviews and employee engagements. • Program Manager of a prime contract. Weekly interaction with COR, CORTs and support staff. Manages software developers, system administrators, and program analysts conducting research and software / analytic development.

• Team lead for the Mission Systems Transition (MST) and Special Projects Office (SPO) security teams providing guidance and support to security engineers and project managers working systems through Intelligence Community (IC) Certification & Accreditation (C&A) process.• Provided input to project schedules and assist with monthly updates to MST project managers for their Project Management Review (PMR).• Captured weekly MST accreditation status input in support of the MST Program Management Office.• Wrote security input for Engineering Change Proposals (ECPs), Request for Proposals (RFPs), and Statement of Works (SOWs).

Provided Information System Security Officer (ISSO), Information System Security Engineering, Certification Engineering support as a contractor to the agency.

• Acting director of the Intelligence Enterprise Solutions Business Unit, managed four contracts within the DoD, IC, and private sector with revenue of $2M.• Pursued new business opportunities through Federal Business Opportunities and personal contacts. Acquired one contract for security engineering support for Verizon Federal and worked four additional proposals.• Managed staffing of contracts by developing hiring policies, position descriptions, interviewing and salary negotiation.• Completed personnel appraisals and salary action forms for annual increases and bonuses.• Worked business unit budget with corporate finance staff.• Provided support as an Information System Security Representative (ISSR) documenting security packages (security plans, Concept of Operations (CONOPS), network drawings, floor plans, information flow diagrams, secure space accreditation letters, Security Features Users Guide (SFUG), and manage Plan of Action and Milestones (POA&M) documentation).• Served as a focal point for reviewing and remediation of findings from VAT and CE testing. Managed the process of resolving findings by coordinating resolution through network engineers, system administrators, program personnel and documenting closure of items in the POA&M.• Provided support to NJVC project managers for ECPs that required assistance with Agency Certification and Accreditation process. Reviewed project schedules, SRR, SRD, RFPs and ROMs for security-related input and compliance.• Performed security engineering that provided the accreditation support for ten unique Accreditations worked by the Special Projects division. • Alternate Project Manager for a VoIP pilot project, managed project for eight weeks while primary was out.

• Team Lead for Security Certification and Accreditation (SISCA) Bethesda division, managed work assignment of three security engineers for security testing and review of certification packages for the Bethesda site. Testing consisted of running DISA Gold disks, SRR tool, and Agency security checklists.• Performed security testing and drafting of reports with recommendation of security posture and vulnerabilities identified from testing. Part of the Firewall Review Board, reviewing Firewall Change Requests (Remedy) that encompassed network, system, ports/protocols/services to be used, directive of interface, hours/frequency of use, estimate of bandwidth use, and special configuration needs.

• Managed security of three DoD Unix networks to include server/workstation configuration, security auditing, and system hardening. Wrote the System Security Plan (SSP) and System Security Authorization Agreement (SSAA) for two separate networks.• Reviewed Information Assurance Vulnerability Actions (IAVAs), Information Assurance Vulnerability Bulletins (IAVB’s) Information Assurance Vulnerability Advisories and implemented patches.

Cryptologic Technician Collections (CTR) supporting the US Navy. Provided System Administrator, Analyst, and training support for Windows, Unix, and special projects. Responsible for the Systems Integration Software Laboratory managed Windows and Unix networks.