The Chief Security Officer of ORock® Technologies responsible for ensuring the security and compliance of the company’s Infrastructure as a Service and Cloud offerings. ORock® Technologies is a small business IaaS and cloud service provider serving enterprise customers in defense, government, and highly-regulated commercial markets — organizations with the most stringent requirements for security, compliance, and control. A Red Hat Certified Cloud and Service Provider (CCSP), ORock operates a private, encrypted, carrier-grade fiber optic network and a “pure-play” Red Hat open source cloud to maximize performance and flexibility while protecting the most sensitive data and workloads.• Achieved FedRAMP moderate and DoD Impact Level authorizations within 4 months of assuming role as CSO• Developed a 3 month SaaS process to achieve FedRAMP authorizations• Achieved $8 million in revenue within first 4 quarters of operations

Provides strategic business, cybersecurity, and military advice to a startup IoT company on topics ranging from overall business plan, financial projections, Go-To-Market strategies, market segmentation, etc.

Directs the global Information Technology (IT) operations and cyber defense of over 7 million worldwide systems on 15,000 separate U.S. Armed Forces networks across the Department of Defense (DoD). Directs and executes Strategic Planning and the development of IT Strategy and IT Management to safe guard DoD networks.• Planned and executed a $10 million budget for a 24x7x365 Cyber Security Operations Center serving as the focal point for assuring global IT operations, leading synchronized cyber incident response, and safeguarding data integrity• Directly managed USA, USN, USAF, and USMC “special forces” like Cyber Protection Teams (CPT) to conduct security and protection operations of critical infrastructure ensuring confidentiality, integrity, authenticity, and availability of information and information systems pursuant to HIPAA, PII, FAR and U.S. Code• Within 12 months, developed policies and procedures for a newly created organization specializing in Network Management, Cybersecurity, Information Assurance, Management Information Systems, Data Management and Processing, Enterprise Resource Planning, IT Strategy, IT Management, Strategic Planning, and Customer Relationship Management

Provided Army wide governance to 600k soldiers on Cybersecurity and Information Assurance related to doctrine, professional career path progression, individual training requirements, IT certification requirements, material development, equipment purchasing, human resourcing, facilities design, and military construction (MILCON).• Established the U.S. Army's 2016 Cybersecurity strategy providing policy, requirements, strategic planning, strategic communications, system engineering, and capabilities development guidance for IT and IA workforce• Managed the implementation of a $11 million virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) for the Headquarters Department of the Army in the Pentagon and surrounding D.C. metro realizing a $50 million efficiency in IT lifecycle spending• Programmed and budgeted a $180 million project for sensor and big data analytics capabilities to increase cyber fusion of malicious indicators providing early warning of cyber events and correlated incident response• Executed a $20 million training and IT certification budget for IA and cyber personnel around the world to meet mandated training and certifications requirements

Directed crisis and deliberate planning to address emerging malicious cyber activity implementing immediate response actions and enduring counter measures to protect DoD networks.• Directed the first use of a newly established Secretary of Defense delegated cyberspace authority over a DoD agency mitigating 17,000 vulnerabilities and provided mission assurance for a $13 billion operation• Established, trained, and led a new organization of 280+ personnel to direct and synchronize global cyber operations; increased the capacity to plan, track and enforce compliance with directives by 30%

Directed a multi-disciplined joint team of 100+ personnel, executing a $200 million program acquisition budget to engineer and deploy mobile smart phones and tablets for classified and unclassified voice and data.• Deployed Apple, Android, and associated applications while ensuring protection and management through a Mobile Device Manager (MDM) and Mobile Application Store (MAS) infrastructure• Partnered with OEM manufactures, service providers, application developers, and infrastructure integrators to provide an end to end capability that was delivered on time, under budget, and exceeded performance requirements

Managed special access to sensitive comparted information to synchronized cyberspace operations.• Conducted the first authority approval process for USCYBERCOM as a new organization aligning command control for cyberspace execution

Directed the analysis, reporting, response, and mitigations of malicious network activity. Supported the requirements definitions, product design, and engineering of enterprise defenses between the internet and military networks.• Issued worldwide policy directing the banning of use USB drives for the DOD to remove malicious software from over 3.5 million systems• Led the implementation of cyber defense mitigation efforts to protect the DoD against emerging computer virus and zero day exploits across 46 organizations and in over 3500 locations