Mathew Lynch Email & Phone Number

Columbia, Maryland, US

Columbia, Maryland, US

• As the ISSO, I work directly with all stake holders to plan and execute on Risk Management Framework (RMF) requirements to gain and maintain Accreditation and Authorization (A&A) through Standard and DevSecOps.
• Ensure security requirements are met during each step of the application development process, from requirements gathering to delivery into production. Manage Plan of Action and Milestones, audit log review and.
• Responsible for developing and maintaining formal Security documentation deliverables such as Disaster Recovery, COOP, Incident Response, diagrams, and manuals.
• Participate in requirements gathering, application demonstrations, sprint planning, code reviews, QA testing, Operations and Maintenance across all projects.
• Facilitate Systems Engineering tools, best practices, policies, and methodologies pertaining to all phases of software development to ensure internal processes are in line with current customer requirements for CI/CD.
• Support business efforts on new Proposals, RFCs and unfunded requirements.

• Stood up an agile help desk and project engineering support teams to organize and track issues and streamline workflows to better capture requirements, establish schedules, internal SLA’s and respond to changing.
• As the AIS administrator, I secured and maintained ATO for new and existing programs according to customer RMF guidelines for all hardware and software. Established security policy, training and incident handling..
• Established and maintained an annual IT budget over $250k. Negotiated contracts for vendor services securing price concessions and additional benefits such as onsite training, warranty extensions & priority customer.
• Mitigated impacts from unplanned outages through implementing “single pane of glass” monitoring by implementation of a fully automated monitoring and alarming scheme for all existing systems utilizing Zabbix monitoring.
• Key Achievements:o Implemented software development products: Jira, Confluence, Fisheye and Crucible with existing SVN and Mercurial repositories. Created workflows for, HR, Security, Purchasing, Helpdesk and.

Reston, Virginia, US

• Lead the architectural design, integration and implementation of Multi-Level Security Engineering (MLS) projects through the full SDLC.
• Directed the System Engineering and Integration support functions of the PL4 Certified MLS Environment
• Set engineering milestones and tasking to a team of seven engineers.
• Stood up an onsite dev and test rails, decreasing baseline defects by 20% increasing customer satisfaction contract performance and garnering higher award fees as a direct result.
• Leveraged the development and test rails to mirror the MLS production network to perform IR&D, ST&E, performance tuning and troubleshooting to address and track POA&M’s.
• Developed functional, interoperability and security test methodologies of new MLS enhancements.

• Administered and designed HPC systems utilizing AIX, 5.2 & 5.3 and Solaris 9 & 10 containers/zpools, Linux on Power, Sparc and x86 architecture with SuSE Enterprise & RedHat Enterprise Linux.
• Captured opportunity savings of $425K by leading effort to deliver a Linux & AIX based data processing solution ahead of schedule.
• Lead the successful deployment of a RHEL Linux HPC capability on SGI UV x86 platforms for development IR&D and DoD/NRO HPC customer datacenter integration.
• Lead the successful deployment of AIX & SLES Linux Operating System HPC implementations on IBM Power 5 & 6 for integration into existing DoD/NRO HPC datacenter infrastructure, providing increased HPC capabilities.
• Identified several defects in Qlogic’s HBA multipath failover driver source code on Power architecture and worked directly with the vendor to resolve the defects and deliver a custom functioning driver.
• Administered Brocade based Storage Area Network with over 900 nodes and near 1 PB of storage.

RHCT RedHat Enterprise Linux 3 & 5 certified, Department of Defense Secret level Security ClearanceSupported R&D network infrastructure for Open Source and Enterprise level operating systems to include RedHat, Fedora, CentOS and Solaris 9 & 10Duties included Automated Configuration Management, installation and configuration, patch management..

Managed UNIX AIX trading platform with 720+ RS6000 globally based servers and 600+ IBM & Genicom wire printers, 1800+ networked laser printers with a 6400+ user base Supervised and performed daily maintenance to include data tape backups, system recovery, NIM configuration & server installations, print server maintenance, proxy maintenance, user.

Leadership Billets held: Fire team Leader, Squad Leader and GuideTwice awarded the Select Marine Corps Reserve Metal, Armed Forces Reserve Medal with “M” device and National Defense RibbonMobilized January 14th, 2002 to January 13th 2003 for Operation Enduring FreedomMilitary Occupational Specialty, 0311 – Infantry, 8530 – Marksmanship Coach

Master Of Science, Information Assurance

Bachelor Of Arts, Biology

Bachelor'S Degree