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Mountain View, California, Us

• Lead advisor for incident response (IR) and proactive remediation services, responsible for organizing and managing IR threat actor containment, eradication, and hardening activities as required for clients.• Managed the cyber security remediation tasks for multiple Fortune 500 clients, through incident response remediation events, encompassing the national critical infrastructures at both a national and international level.• Facilitates the delivery and oversight of smart hand remediation services to overwhelmed clients, ensuring benchmark cybersecurity hardening steps are address during the restoration and recovery periods.• Experienced in leading IR and proactive remediation services for multiple areas of industry and national infrastructure, to include but not limited to, healthcare, energy, federal/state/local government, information technology, non-profits, supply chain, natural resources, finance, and telecommunications.

Mountain View, California, Us

• Lead advisor for incident response (IR) and proactive remediation services, responsible for organizing and managing IR threat actor containment, eradication, and hardening activities as required for clients.• Managed the cyber security remediation tasks for multiple Fortune 500 clients, through incident response remediation events, encompassing the national critical infrastructures at both a national and international level.• Facilitates the delivery and oversight of smart hand remediation services to overwhelmed clients, ensuring benchmark cybersecurity hardening steps are address during the restoration and recovery periods.• Experienced in leading IR and proactive remediation services for multiple areas of industry and national infrastructure, to include but not limited to, healthcare, energy, federal/state/local government, information technology, non-profits, supply chain, natural resources, finance, and telecommunications.

Beavercreek, Oh, Us

• Product Manager and Owner to the Air Force’s largest big data platform initiative, spanning multiple network enterprises and classification levels, and delivering centralized cybersecurity situational awareness (SA) and Mission Assurance (MA).• Responsible for the data collection, management, and health/status for the Air Force’s $66.3M ELICSAR BDP critical to delivering cyber SA for the unclassified / secret / top-secret networks.• Facilitated the delivery of multiple data feeds into unclassified and classified Air Force BDPs to provide cyber SA/MA analytics for the new KC-46 Tanker platform, base critical infrastructures, Air Force gateway Internet access points, and message trace logs.

Geneva, Geneva, Ch

• Responsible for leading the expansion of SGS Cybersecurity Services into the U.S., delivering a five-year business plan to establish North American operations, and orchestrating the recruitment, training and equipping of a team of cybersecurity specialists.• Conducted market assessments of the cybersecurity industry and collaborated with SGS Cyber Labs in Graz, Austria and Madrid, Spain, and delivered the operational requirements for the development of a North American Cybersecurity portfolio roadmap, focused on cybersecurity audits, inspections and certification as well as penetration testing services.• Organized and assisted business development activities with SGS partners and Fortune 500 CISOs to establish relationships as the business began to execute its portfolio roadmap. • Served as an SGS representative for an initiative led by Siemens, known as the Charter of Trust, where representatives from multiple industry leading cybersecurity organizations collaborate to secure data, protect people, companies, and infrastructures from malicious cyber actors.

• Provided operational expertise on current and future information technologies supporting the acquisition of next generation cyberspace capabilities for the Department of Defense’s (DoD) Joint Cyber Command and Control (JCC2) contract.• Provided tactical and operational level cyber operations insight to various levels within the DoD, to include but not limited to the Office of the Secretary of Defense and multiple senior level Combatant Command action officers, in order to refine the capability requirements to fit operator’s critical needs.• Primary subject matter expert for the JCC2 cyber situational awareness pilot program, delivering the means for cyber visibility into stand-alone/segregated DoD mission critical systems, in order to identify threats, vulnerabilities, and operational status. Culminated in building methodologies to aggregate data analytics and align it to mission impacting criteria.

Washington, D.C., Us

• Established one of the Air Force's newest Cyberspace Operations Squadrons and National Cyber Protection Teams (N-CPT) and prepared them for final operational capability, earning a perfect evaluation score.• Successfully led the operational planning/execution of multiple threat hunt missions, protecting various defense systems responsible for critical capabilities, such as the management of $1.6T/year in DoD contracts, defense satellite control, and missile warning.• Served as Civilian Deputy Team Lead, Cyber Crew Lead, and Cyber Operations Planner Lead for a Cyber Protection Team of 30 cyber operators.

Washington, D.C., Us

• Stood up the first-ever Cyberspace Protection Team aligned to US Strategic Command (USSTRATCOM), enabling the unit’s ability to map the command’s cyberspace terrain into a non-technical report, resulting in the identification of its most critical mission system assets required to perform strategic defense. This report enabled leadership to narrow the focus and better prioritize the resources and defense of the key systems, in order to maintain the continuity of operations.• Mission Protect Squad Lead responsible for planning and executing a cyber vulnerability assessment mission of an Air Force missile early warning and satellite tracking system, culminating in a Functional Mission Analysis-Cyber report of the site for USSTRATCOM.

Randolph Afb, Tx, Us

• Led 51 cyberspace security professionals conducting on-site certification inspections for network vulnerability assessments and created plans to address high-risk cyberspace security threats and provide a secure baseline for the Department of Defense’s highly classified networks.• Lead program manager to stand up the Air Force’s 1st Security Operations Center (SOC) for the Top Secret AF-JWICS network enterprise, as the Air Force ISR Agency’s SOC Director of Operations.

Randolph Afb, Tx, Us

• Supervised a six member US/Italian coalition advisor team, developing the Afghan Air Force’s communications unit capabilities with the objective of building a self-sustaining Afghan Air Force.• Provided oversight and coordination of a $6M airfield communications expansion for network, radio, and telecommunications for a state-of-the-art aviation training base complex.• Mentored Afghan Air Force's Shindand Air Wing Director of Communications and Communications Squadron Commander directly assisting them in the management, professional development, and on-the-job training of more than 60 Afghan Air Force personnel.

Randolph Afb, Tx, Us

• Managed 44 Information technology professionals, delivering secure network support and information access to over 2,800 worldwide on-the-road Air Force recruiters. • Functional Director to the organization’s $3M information technology services contract. Reduced antiquated services and scope, and delivered $1.5M in annual savings.• Project Manager for the organization’s $1.8M mobile device integration initiative, delivering the latest tablet and smartphone devices to the recruiter, and enabling real-time access to sales aides and recruiting tools.

Randolph Afb, Tx, Us

• Supervised a six person executive support staff for Communications Systems Dominance (J6) Director, coordinating the communications, administration, logistics, and 2,120 staff actions to support the J6 leadership and the five J6 divisions.• Lead executive manager to the directorate and six direct reporting units and 26 Security Cooperation Offices, for 32 nations across the southern hemisphere. • Facilitated quality control of directorate actions, enabling the headquarters, combatant command, Joint Staff, and interagency objectives.

Randolph Afb, Tx, Us

• Managed a division of 21 military, civilians, and contractors supporting mission critical Cyberspace Defense, Communications Security, and Information Assurance (IA) training/policy/guidance to six direct reporting units and 26 Security Cooperation Offices, managing 32 partner nations.• Primary advisor to the Chief Information Officer / Designated Approving Authority for IA certification and accreditation, earning two consecutive “A” Federal Information Security Management Act reporting ratings and a nomination for the NSA’s Rowlette Organizational Excellence Award.

Randolph Afb, Tx, Us

• Provided USSOUTHCOM command, control, communication, computers, and information (C4I) support in future contingency plans and exercise execution• Lead planner for Exercises BLUE ADVANCE 08 and FUSED RESPONSE 08 • Additional role as the Deputy Chief, Plans and Operations Division

Randolph Afb, Tx, Us

• Supervised 256 communications professionals delivering network, voice, command and control, airfield systems, and information management support to 60K personnel.• Managed a top tier communications organization, consecutively delivering “Excellent” inspection ratings for policy compliance and personnel readiness, three years straight.• Managed $200 million in communications systems through the execution of an 11 million dollar annual budget.

Randolph Afb, Tx, Us

• Responsible for Information Assurance (IA) operations, certification and accreditation, and information operations expertise for Air Force Space Command.• Command representative for AF-level Information Operations (IO) working groups, delivering risk assessments of emerging information technologies and cyberspace defense capabilities.• Led Command’s Threat Working Group for command’s senior leaders, coordinating cyberspace defense activities with the Network Operations and Security Center and the bases’ Network Control Centers.• Command representative to Air Force Doctrine Center’s working group to develop its first-ever IO Doctrine for Cyberspace Operations.

Randolph Afb, Tx, Us

• Lead project manager to assess the network capability and security of missile warning command and control elements of the NORAD and US Space Command Integrated Tactical Warning and Attack Assessment (ITW/AA) system and the Warfighting Support System (WSS).• Evaluated acquisitions, major upgrades, and software releases to determine the technical integrity required to perform warning and assessment missions supporting the United States and Canadian National Command Authorities.

Randolph Afb, Tx, Us

• Team Chief for the Computer Network Operations Flight’s Network Vulnerability Assessments, Red Team/Blue Team mission, and contingency and exercise support.• Conducted cyberspace attack and penetration testing against worldwide Air Force and DoD sites, while providing realistic training and assistance to network administrators, security managers, and organizational senior staff.• Subject matter expert to senior Air Staff General Officers and the USAF’s 2000 Information Technology summit, providing cyberspace security expertise and network enterprise designs for the migration to the Air Force enterprise architecture.

Randolph Afb, Tx, Us

• Managed three teams of 20 military in the real-time operation of a 277 million dollar computer complex comprised of an interconnected system of eight large multiprocessing mainframe computers, two IBM SP2 supercomputers, a centralized database computer, 69 forecast support mini-computers, a satellite data receiving facility, over 150 programmer terminals, and over four million lines of computer code.• Chief decision maker on system hardware and software performance, directly impacting the quality and timeliness of weather support to worldwide DoD operations.• Developed and implemented disaster control procedures for ensuring proper environmental conditions throughout the complex in support of the organization's critical infrastructure.

Randolph Afb, Tx, Us

• Responsible for the Air Force Weather Agency’s software process improvement and process documentation efforts enabling the organization’s ability to produce precise, combat force-enhancing weather products for Air Force and Army warfighters.• Led a five-person team in developing defined processes for the software subcontract management key process areas of Carnegie Mellon University’s Capability Maturity Model concept for organizational process improvement.

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Computer Science

Master Of Science (Ms), Information Systems, Networking Technologies Concentration

Graduate, Air Command And Staff College - Correspondence

Graduate, Squadron Officer School - In-Residence