Azure Engineering Enhancement: Proactively addressing vulnerabilities and driving remediation efforts across Azure Government, Secret, Top Secret, and Agency Level cloud functions.Organization Security Champ Alignment: Successfully established direct support for Security Champs across 38 Organizations spanning 16 Divisions. This initiative increased communications effectiveness by 20% on a quarterly basis over three quarters.Internal communication Messaging (IcM) Alignment: Played a pivotal role in aligning and adopting IcM Emergency Broadcast within Microsoft accomplishing an 81% success rate. This initiative directly supported over 11,000 Service Teams managing 16,000 End Points across Services Metadata Repository and Azure—a remarkable 40% increase over a 12-month period.Mentorship and Coaching: Contributed significantly to the success and growth of our Mission Critical Team. My daily mentorship and coaching sessions have empowered teammates seeking guidance.Advocacy for Disabled Veterans: I represented Disabled Veterans within the CXP Organization and provided a unique understanding of Veterans’ perspectives within Microsoft.

Managed Live Site Health for Global User Base: Oversaw live site health for services and internal infrastructure, ensuring end-point network security, device health, and credential security. Impacting over 490,000 users globally on a daily basis.Established a High-Performing Cleared Team: Pioneered a dedicated Cleared team providing direct support to Azure Government, Secret, Top Secret, and Secured Compartmented Information cloud environments. Our collaborative efforts led to a remarkable 90% increase in proficiency during the remediation process. Enhanced Security Readiness Table-Top Exercises (TTX): Contributed significantly to the establishment of a Security team focused on testing and reviewing the Security Posture and overall readiness of a division level entity. These initiatives played a pivotal role in enhancing the onboarding process for Microsoft’s corporate-level acquisitions. Incident Response Leadership: Directly led alignment and support for the Software and Services Incident Response Plan. My commitment extended to dedicating over 600-man hours to two high-profile incidents directly related to nation-state adversaries.

Principal Advisor to the Director and the CVP-level Leadership: Inherently responsible for Recruitment and Talent Acquisition, I oversaw enlisted, officer, and warrant officer acquisitions. My efforts led to a remarkable 157% increase in accessions and the establishment of the Warrant Officer Direct Accession program.Pioneered the Recruiting Process for the Cyber Direct Commissioning Program: Co-Chaired the creation of high-level pathways for service within the Army Cyber Branch while extending our influence on C-suite executives in the corporate world. The work that I completed has since led to complete adoption by the Department of the Army. Marketing Development and Team Concept: Assisted in the “Sketch Concept’ and Advised the Army Enterprise Marketing Office (AEMO), and DDB Chicago in support of the “What’s Your Warrior” Campaign. The Campaign resulted in an additional 30,000 “army.com” visits on a daily basis.

- Force Integration Personnel Life Cycle Management; - Ensuring proper structure, acquisition, distribution, development, deployment, sustainment, compensation, transition to maintain viable healthy career paths for over 500 personnel Worldwide. -Oversees Talent Acquisition of Cybersecurity Professionals throughout the Department of Defense, to include Sister-Services Cyber Operators in support of The US Army Cyber Branch.

Throughout my 25-year career, I was directly responsible for managing logistics, development, readiness, and sustainment of multi-strength teams providing real-world combat voice and data communications worldwide, ensuring seamless support for US Army Unified Land Operations within an 18-hour notification window. Whether supporting Combat Units, Logistics Units, an Aviation Attack Helicopter Units, establishing Communications Security Equipment standards and Policy support within a Joint Task Force, or aligning critical infrastructure assets in South Korea. My mindset and my goals remained the same, prioritizing the welfare of my teammates, security of the network, and accomplishing the mission. - Directly responsible for the Logistics, Development, Readiness, and Sustainment of a 20 person team providing real-world combat communications for an Aviation Attack Helicopter Unit- Inherently responsible for maintaining a Local Area Network system sustaining over 500 end users. - Responsible for acquiring over 250 missing end-item components while rebuilding a depleted communications team. - Re-aligned logistics support utilizing an Agile PM approach, ensuring that replacement parts, and Spare parts were aligned with a unique timeline generating a 100% up time on critical components

- Directly responsible for the Logistics, Development, Readiness, and Sustainment of 25 operators,analysts, and planners while directly engaged in Defensive Cyber Operations to protect specified missions and assets global information grid infrastructure within South Korea. - Manage key operational processes to include Defensive Cyber operations, system operations, network operations, and information assurance. - Responsible for incorporating an agile approach to change management operations; hardware andsoftware leading modernization efforts of U.S. Networks and Datacenters on the Korean Peninsula.

- Responsible for providing combat voice and data communications in support of US Army Unified Land Operations. - Provided operational analysis to senior leaders strengthening their ability to advise Executive Leadership on operational and training capabilities in support of Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) real-world emergencies.

- Directed 10 civilian IT Specialists and network managers engaged in monitoring, tracking, analyzing, reporting operational activities of 22 Network Enterprise Centers and all Network Operations supporting over 200,000 end-users daily. - Provided logistics, communications, crisis management support to FEMA during multiple natural disasters throughout the United States. - Assisted in the immediate restoration of three critical Federal Datacenters located on the eastern seaboard during the aftermath of Super Storm Sandy

-Led IT team of 20: Managed an Information Technology and Network Management team consisting of 20 personnel. Inherently responsible for providing Logistics, Development, Readiness capabilities, and Sustainment operations for an IT / Network team located more than 30 miles away from direct support in an austere and hostile environment. -Led communication plan development and execution: Directly Responsible for providing Tactical level communications consisting of the following services; Non-classified Internet Protocol Router Networking, Secured Internet Protocol Router Networking, Secured Video Teleconferencing, Non-Classified and Secured Voice Over Internet Protocol, Line of Sight Communications covering a 20-mile radius, and establishing two critical communications links within a joint military environment. -Led customer service plan to ensure high stakeholder satisfaction: Constantly provided customer service to over 500 end users, ten senior level Commanders, and two executives from the State Department. Network Management team was directly responsible for providing constant network connectivity between the Secretary of State and State Department Executives, even providing, Networking Communications On-The-Move, while Senior State Department Executives toured areas of Northern Baghdad.

-Led deployment operations for 110 soldiers: Directly responsible for providing training, support, records management, operations management, and deployment preparation for 110 Soldiers. Once assuming responsibility for an operations office that was failing it was determined that all previous personnel records had not been properly maintained and all 110 individual training files were missing. Within 90 days off assuming this position, Senior Executives established Deployment Preparation as their number one priority. -Ensured Pentagon network and technology goals were met: It took less than one year to prepare and meet all training expectations, operational readiness, and overall readiness for all Senior Executives at not only the local level but also at the Pentagon. However, when completed, the Network Enterprise Technology Commander sent an inspection team to determine the overall readiness and training level completed. When finished it was determined that all Pentagon level established goals had not just been met but were surpassed by at least 50% on average. -Managed daily operations and logistics while deployed in Iraq: When deployed, the tasks of day to day operations took on an entire life of its own. In anticipation of the longest and most signal-centric deployment during Operation Iraqi Freedom, at its time. An additional 100 people were added into the unit one month prior to departure. Upon arrival in Iraq, this would lead to the Daily Operations team with not just monitoring and reporting daily status briefs but also providing logistics support, signal operations support, maintenance support, and all-encompassing needs of 210 Soldiers spanning from Mosul, in the north, to Basrah, in the South.

Plans and Operations Non Commissioned Officer in an Expeditionary Signal Battalion. Supporting The Global War on Terrorism while providing Command Control Communications Computers and Intelligence (C4I) support for the following; US Army Central Command, Coalition Forces Land Component Command, Joint Forces Combatant Commander, Network Enterprises Commander, and other contingency communications commands. Primarily responsible for;Disseminating Network Orders, Compiling Operational Statistics, Processing Requests for Logistics Support, and Interpreting Operations Orders affecting all Signal Operations within the Company. Additionally responsible for the health and welfare of two Soldiers and accounting for over $500,000.00 in Communications Security Equipment.