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Reston, Va, Us

San Francisco, California, Us

Arlington, Virginia, Us

Seattle, Wa, Us

Identifies and solves security problems across a portfolio of 12+ customer engagements in 3+ customer verticals, providing secure environments for AI/ML practitioners to develop and deploy secure Cloud AI/ML solutions in support of government customers. Works with developers, architects, data scientists and machine learning engineers to provide scalable secure environments for DevSecOps CI/CD pipelines using SCA, SAST, DAST, and IaC scanning tools automatically, at scale, identifying security concerns as early in the SDLC as possible. Provides custom tooling to validate ML models and mitigate risks of adversarial attacks. Mentors and develops 8+ junior consultants.

Seattle, Wa, Us

Provides tools for AI/ML practitioners to develop and deploy Cloud AI/ML solutions securely in support of government customers.Works with data scientists and machine learning engineers to provide scalable security solutions for DevSecOps CI/CD pipelines using SCA, SAST, DAST, and IaC scanning tools. Provides custom tooling to validate ML models and mitigate risks of adversarial attacks.Enables secure development and deployment of ML models and inference applications. Provides tools and processes to test and validate security of complex ML models and inference endpoints using automated CI/CD pipelines.

Seattle, Wa, Us

Manages the Information Security program for AWS restricted access regions. Designs automated security solutions to identify, analyze, and remediate security vulnerabilities in millions of production systems. Identifies and measures goals, identifies requirements and dependencies, develops roadmaps and negotiates commitment of resourcing to deliver information security tooling and features to multiple AWS regions cleared up to the TOP SECRET level. Helps development teams navigate external dependencies to maximize efficiency and effectiveness of security tooling development in a continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) environment. Performs on-call Security Engineering duties supporting region security. Creates and uses automated tooling to monitor, investigate and remediate potential security issues within cleared AWS regions. Uses AWS Glue, Lambda, EMR to collect and transform security logs; uses AWS Athena, Sagemaker and Jupyter notebooks to develop and conduct automated analysis.

Leads a CND team responsible for threat detection and analysis to protect the defense information network. Monitor and query Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) tools (e. g., Splunk, ArcSight, McAfee Network Security Manager, etc.) for anomalous activity. Collect, analyze and distribute Indicators of Compromise (IOC) in support of the development and implementation of DOD countermeasures. Coordinate DODIN Operations and Defensive Cyber Operations with DOD cyber components; obtain situation reports, incident response efforts, and obtain information for briefings, presentations, or other situational awareness products used to inform senior leadership.

Manager of the response team of a Division-level signals operations center; Responsible to the Operations Director for orderly and effective daily operations of the Tactical Operations Center during mobilization, deployment, and training exercises. Controls and monitors classified and unclassified information systems, networks, VOIP and communications capabilities for the command. Consolidates, drafts and releases all unit capabilities reports. Communicates with subordinate units and higher comments.

Seattle, Wa, Us

TPM for the Amazon Security Operations Center (SOC). Works with nine global security and engineering teams to develop innovative solutions to complex security problems in an agile environment. Manages achievement of strategic objectives in Threat Intelligence, Threat Hunting, and Incident Detection and Response. Restructured a security event tracking team into an incident detection and response team, developing solutions to incident action items and developing tools to automate well-defined processesIntroduced Kanban to improve tracking and prioritization of projects and tasks; measured cumulative flow to baseline production; increased estimation accuracy of project completion from ±3 months to ±2 weeksCoordinated with the security monitoring team to refine the process by which the operations team absorbed work through automated alarm triggers; decreased alarm on-boarding completion time from 3 months to 1 monthDeveloped a threat intelligence platform with automated threat data ingestion to build robust profiles on threat actors, vulnerabilities, and attack tools and techniques, helping service owners stay abreast of relevant threats on-demand

Arlington, Virginia, Us

Responsibilities:Planned, designed, developed, tested, implemented and maintained information technology systems solutions within the organization. Led a team of 9 in enterprise systems administration, IT support, vulnerability management and incident response for over 20 Windows and Linux servers and 800 clients. Conducted vulnerability assessment , vulnerability management and technical security through active scanning, regular security assessments, and managed security solutions via McAfee SIEM. Wrote, interpreted and maintained information security policies, ensuring compliance with DoD policy. Planned and managed IT projects, tracked project status, and regularly reported health to senior leadership. Defined and managed service level agreements between IT support and external teams. Regularly worked in an on-call capacity. Accountable for technical leadership in the plan, design, development, testing, implementation andmaintenance of information technology solutions within the organization. Provided technical advice and recommendations to the CIO and CEO.Accomplishments:Increased systems performance and reliability over 25% by re-designing, optimizing, and automating the organization’s server systems; developed a system logging solution to automate event logging and collection.Developed, tested and implemented disaster-recovery procedures for the organization, mitigating risk of possible disasters or crises.Successfully defended against a two-week red-team cybersecurity exercise in austere conditions with no compromise of the network or systems; the first time the organization had no security breaches.Developed and refined the IT support operations process; implemented prioritization, optimization, and process-management to increase efficiency by 125%; developed non-proprietary classified systems support system.Instituted automation of the vulnerability management (patching) of all systems at the organization.

Arlington, Virginia, Us

Responsibilities:Attended the Intelligence Analyst Advance Course. Used data, reports, and pattern analysis to build threat models to detect and predict security events. Applied critical-thinking skills to screen, research, analyze and interpret all-source intelligence information. Conducted regional and political analysis to produce complex, detailed written analytical products to enable informed decision making. Conducted daily oral analysis summary briefings. Knowledge of: the Joint Targeting Cycle; intelligence support to planning, execution, and assessment; target vetting and validation procedures; governing authorities for cyber targeting; collateral damage and effects estimation; combat assessment (i.e., BDA, MEA, and RR); target development (i.e., concepts, roles, responsibilities, products, etc.); Intelligence Community (IC), to include members, structure, and associated missions; IC classification and control markings standards; intelligence disciplines; information operations (IO) concepts; Computer Network Operations (CNO) terminology/lexicon; fundamental CNO concepts (i.e., CNE, CNA, CND), principles, capabilities, limitations, and effects.

Arlington, Virginia, Us

(Assistant Operations Officer/AS3)Responsibilities:Planned and managed multiple critical intelligence and collection projects with adaptive project life-cycles in high-pressure, hazardous environments. Coordinated with internal and external teams within the Intelligence Community, as well as international partners, to achieve project milestones. Drove decision-making across projects. Coordinated with customers to gather requirements and manage expectations. Provided health & status updates to senior management. Identified risks and developed mitigation procedures.Accomplishments:Relocated the organization of 300+ personnel to and from a hostile environment in iterative phases to ensure continuity at both locations within budget and deadlines.Developed and implemented a project to educate an international team of 20 on intelligence collection and intelligence analysis processes.

Arlington, Virginia, Us

(HUMINT Platoon Leader)Responsibilities:Led, trained, and evaluated a team of 33 intelligence collection and analysis personnel in multiple locations. Conducted intelligence targeting, planning and collection operations across multiple collection spectrums on various missions and in hazardous conditions. Implemented and improved systems and processes to support objective accomplishment. Developed a supply plan to support forecasted demand. Ensured that productivity, efficiency and safety requirements were met. Accomplishments:Increased organizational and regional efficiency by developing custom-made applications for internal inventory management, saving the organization $500,000.Managed the accountability and maintenance of $7M in equipment with zero loss; resulted in a 6% reduction of fraud, waste and abuse while successfully repairing damaged equipment to save 22% of the annual budget.Managed the professional development of 33 personnel while providing detailed quarterly and yearly evaluation reports, monthly counseling’s and detailed career progression charts for future advancement opportunities.

Arlington, Virginia, Us

Managed left-behind inventory, acquisitions and maintenance for an organization while it temporarily relocated. Primarily responsible for ensuring readiness of the organization upon its return. (Company Executive Officer)

Arlington, Virginia, Us

Led and managed a team of 12 intelligence collection personnel in hazardous conditions. Conducted intelligence targeting, planning and collection operations across multiple collection spectrums on various missions. Responsible for the maintenance and accountability of over $5 million in equipment. Coordinated and supervised information collection, analysis, and reporting.(Multi-functional Platoon Leader)

Arlington, Virginia, Us

Led and managed a team that conducted specialized supply and inventory for a company of 65 employees. Responsible for two employees and over $950,000 of equipment. (CBRN NCO)

Masters, Applied Data Science

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