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Columbia, Md, Us

United States

Responsible for project goals and developing plans and work schedules that will achieve them. Monitors and recruits new staff, review processes, write project reports, identify risks, and provide cost and time estimates.

United States

Leading, scheduling, coordinating, and managing projects and resources, including monitoring and inspecting costs, work, and contractor performance plan. Making strategic decisions and providing leadership and direction to project managers to implement those decisions. Monitoring build progress, develop, and control project schedule and track project milestones, activities, and deliverables, including timeframes and assigned resources.

Columbia, Maryland

LANCER Consulting, LLC is a Security & Privacy Small Business providing Cybersecurity, Information Technology, Audit, Assurance and Professional Services to Government & Commercial sectors

Fort Meade, Maryland

Security Architect (SME), System Engineer, is tasked to produce Security Architecture for NSA in the following areas: Boundary Defense, Authorization Enforcement, ID/Credential Protection, Data Encryption, Assessment and Monitoring, and other techniques. Engineering position entails applying tools and techniques to the Information Assurance goals and requirements to produce deep-dive to be and as is models in variety of functional areas. The system engineer may use requirements decomposition, model comparisons and gap analysis to determine which security functions are missing and which security functions are being addressed adequately. • Applies process improvement and engineering methodologies and principles to conduct process modernization projects.• Assists the Government with the transitioning of existing project teams and the facilitation of project teams in the accomplishment of project activities and objectives• Performs activity and data modeling, developing modern business methods, identifying best practices, and creating and assessing performance measurements• Provides group facilitation, interviewing, training, and additional forms of knowledge transfer

Baltimore, Maryland

IBM Executive Consultant is a Strategy and Risk Assessment leader focused on transformation initiatives that drive revenue growth, sales productivity, service delivery and improved risk management. Activities and responsibilities include: Lead major IBM business transformation consulting initiatives; Define and structure initiatives, manage teams, and work closely with executive clients to ensure initiatives lead to a definable impact and become engrained in the overall organization; Service delivery, responsible for leading and directing the delivery team to ensure that clients are being provided with the what they require and the standards of service are achieved; Use fact-based analytics and strategic insights to help drive cross-business unit initiatives focused primarily on increasing IBM revenues.

Hanover, Maryland

NSA, ISSO / ISSE - IT Security Specialist IV (Senior) Oversees the efforts of the security staff to design, develop, engineer and implement solutions to security requirements. Responsible for the implementation and development of the NSA IT security. Gathers and organizes technical information about an organization’s mission goals and needs, existing security products, and ongoing programs in the MLS area. Performs risk analyses that also include risk assessments. Provide support to plan, coordinate, and implement the organization’s information security. Provide support for facilitating and helping agencies identify their current security infrastructure and define future programs, design and implementation of security related to IT systems. A working knowledge of several of the following area is required: Understanding of business security practices and procedures; knowledge of current security tools available; hardware / software security implementation; different communications protocols; encryption techniques/tools; familiarity with commercial products, and current Internet/EC technology. Provides daily supervision to staff.

Mclean, Virgina

FISMA Evaluations and Audits - Manage evaluations and audits of Federal Intel agencies’ information security programs to determine compliance of security practices with FISMA, NIST Special Publications, OMB Circulars, and agency-specific guidance. These reviews consisted of detailed examinations of the management, operational, and technical controls that comprise agencies’ information security programs. Emphasis was placed on the evaluation of Certification & Accreditation (C&A) documentation (including System Security Plans, Risk Assessments, Contingency Plans, and Security Tests & Evaluations), the effectiveness of agency’s Plan of Actions & Milestones (POA&M) tracking and reporting process, and protection of Personally Identifiable Information (PII) and other sensitive data. The reviews also included preparation of Office of Inspector General (OIG) annual FISMA submissions for delivery to OMB.

Hanover, Maryland

NSA – Security Information Solutions (PeopleSoft Developer) Responsibilities include requirements gathering, application design, development, system analysis, testing, implementation and enhancements for a 100% custom system consisting of 50+ PeopleSoft applications. The system is utilized Agency wide in Security process areas of Access Control, Industrial Security, Foreign Travel, Clearance Processing, Access Management and Industrial Security. Conduct frequent application prototyping sessions with customer to ensure delivered product meets customer expectations and technical requirements. Analyze, develop, and test resolutions for various Change and Discrepancy Requests. Provide technical and functional lifecycle support for delivered applications. Provide support to external Environment Support Team to ensure system is available to customers 24x7 with minimum disruptions. Utilize Oracle/PeopleSoft 8.4 development tools such as Application Designer, PeopleCode, Application Engine, XML Publisher, and SQR. Additional tools and languages include Mercury Quality Center, COGNOS, C, and SQL.

Washington, District Of Columbia

Security & Privacy Services - Federal, Audit Enterprise Risk Services (AERS)Deloitte & Touché AERS helps clients assess and manage risk and opportunity across all levels of the organization, to improve operational performance. Responsibilities include: enable clients to better identify, manage, and mitigate critical risks in the organization by enhancing the integrity of the control systems, processes, and technologies. Risk advisory services include internal audit, control assurance, security and privacy, capital markets, regulatory consulting, and corporate governance.

KPMG sub, Risk Advisory Services (RAS)Conducted FISMA Audits, FISCAM Audits, and network/application penetration/vulnerability testing. Performed Identity Management testing of Password synchronization, Single Sign-On (SSO), Identification & Authentication, Access Management, and Logical Access Controls. Conducted penetration and vulnerability tests, war-dialing and war-driving activities to ensure compliance with Federal IT security standards, laws, and industry best practice. Performed interviews and security inspections of classified and non-classified systems and materials to ensure compliance based on preliminary assessment of General Controls. Performed general and application control reviews of simple to complex IT systems. Prepared audit findings and work papers, in accordance with the Rules of Engagement (RoE), to ensure documentation exists to support the completed audit conclusions. Followed-up on audit findings to ensure that corrective action(s) have been taken.

Master Of Information Systems Management, Computer And Information Systems Security/Information Assurance, 4.0

Master'S Degree, Computer And Information Systems Security/Information Assurance, 4.0

Ba, Psychology

Activities and Societies: University of Maryland, Alumni Association

Certification, African American Studies

Activities and Societies: University of Maryland, Alumni Association

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Clinical Psychology, 3.8