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Tempe, Arizona, Us

- Drives the Cosmos team, a dynamic multi-million dollar continuous penetration testing service leveraging automation and expert-driven testing, responsible for its strategic direction, operational excellence, and client satisfaction.- Leads the multi-national Cosmos delivery team, coaching and mentoring them to deliver the highest quality of service in a financially responsible manner while delivering at contracted Service Level Agreements. - Championed the advancement of new attack techniques and systematically expanded scheme coverage by leading the team’s development efforts, focusing on automation to optimize efficiency.- Drives Operations, Product, Engineering, and Customer Success teams’ alignment with strategic roadmap objectives, ensuring optimal support for the team and delivering high-quality services to customers.- Establish technical standards and guidance for the team of 50+ personnel regarding tool development lifecycle and execution. Ensured tools developed were supported and productized by the Product and Engineering teams.

Tempe, Arizona, Us

- Pioneered the creation of the Offensive Threat Intelligence service line, dedicated to identifying threat actors within specific industry verticals, tracking their activities, and delivering comprehensive reports to customers. - Orchestrates a team-driven approach, paving the way for continuous improvement in service coverage and maximizing automation capabilities, ensuring our operations are at the forefront of industry standards.- Responds to the latest vulnerabilities reported by security researchers and the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities list. Leads a team of 5 team to develop fingerprinting techniques, at scale, to document and report potentially vulnerable assets to prioritize remediation efforts for customers within 24 hours of vulnerability advisory.

Tempe, Arizona, Us

- Enhanced and innovated the Emerging Threat Response service offering. Led a team of 5 dedicated to researching, responding, and notifying customers of Emerging Threats in the cybersecurity space. Responsible for discovery of vulnerable targets on the attack surface in response to the latest threats.- Aggregated multiple data sources to inform and emulate adversary attack chains against client infrastructure.- Grew and managed a team from 7 to 20 personnel through direct recruiting and hiring. Provided coaching and mentoring to junior and senior operators. Delegated peer training responsibilities to senior operators to grow the team.- Created standards and guidance regarding tool development lifecycle and execution.- Subject Matter Expert - Responsible for risk acceptance decisions. Executed and directed team in technical testing of customer attack surface, while providing feedback on process improvements, documentation, and tradecraft for the operator team.

Tempe, Arizona, Us

- Grew and managed a team from 5 to 15 personnel through direct recruiting and hiring. Provided coaching and mentoring to junior and senior analysts. Delegated peer training responsibilities to senior analysts to grow the team.- Established technical guidance, standards, and best practices to discover customer attack surface through automation and tooling. Correlated many data sources to derive adversary insights about the attack surface.- Trained and mentored team on application fingerprinting techniques.- Created Emerging Threat Response service offering. Responded to over 50 High/Critical severity vulnerabilities. Notified customers of advisories and used fingerprinting techniques to document potentially vulnerable assets to prioritize remediation efforts.- Leveraged REST API datasources to investigate over 4 million targets across the platform. Automated prioritization of targets for further investigation.- Developed tools to automate the identification and reporting of external, client-owned assets.

Tempe, Arizona, Us

- Conducted over 20 client engagements focused on external web application testing.- Mentored and led junior operators on engagements.- Created documentation and guidance standards for a team of 15. Improved communication and reduced errors on client-facing reports across 4 teams.- Developed and enhanced reporting automation, saving hundreds of hours of reporting time annually for the team.

Ft. Meade, Md, Us

- Advised and drove enterprise-wide decisions for cyber security tools and techniques as a Unix Expert and trained groups of CNE operators on cutting-edge tools and methodologies.- Tested and championed multiple proprietary tools and techniques, developed guidance, provided feedback to developers for continued improvement, and advertised proper usage of tools and techniques in order to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of future operations.- Conducted hundreds of computer network exploitation operations to perform and enable collection of foreign intelligence in support of national security and US military requirements.- Devised unorthodox solutions for overcoming technical problems in hardened and challenging network environments.- Conducted formal and on-the-fly training for numerous computer network operators and analysts using real-world and virtual environments.- Investigated malware and performed computer forensics to identify persistence points and capability to evaluate operations security risks.

Randolph Afb, Tx, Us

- Cross-Org Leadership: Coordinated with multi-agency and international partners to craft operations and campaigns in support of joint strategies and national vision.- Commander for a team of 20+ Offensive Cyberspace Operations personnel.- Trained and exercised the execution of personnel against adversary networks to maintain mission readiness.- Briefed mid- and high-level management on the effects following high-visibility computer network operations.- Provided technical expertise to assist in operational and tactical planning for offensive cyber operations for Task Force 3 to gain adversary network access and intelligence to meet national planning objectives.

Randolph Afb, Tx, Us

Directly assisted Commander supporting offensive and defensive cyberspace operations for NSA's cyber focused SIGINT offices. Planed and executed actions for 250+ personnel to conduct 24/7 national intelligence and cyberspace operations.

Randolph Afb, Tx, Us

Finished #2 of 15 students in 1,135 hour/140 training day course. Gained in depth knowledge on offensive and defensive cyberspace operations and planning. Learned about battlefield, telephony, mobile, and space and satellite networks. Solidified information technology fundamentals and cyberspace network threats culminating in leading the course capstone "Fighting through a Cyber Attack"

Aspire, LLC is a Cyber Security Training business to help meet the growing need for cyber security professionals. Aspire, LLC provides customers with training that fits today’s threats and will teach a mindset to prepare for future challenges. Instruction is backed operational experience and tailored to combat an amorphous and ever-growing cyber threat landscape.

Greensboro, Nc, Us

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Computer Science

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