Lead security advisor for the Security Consortium Network.

- Senior team member on the Cybersecurity Operations Center Team helping mentor SOC analysts.- Administer for Splunk Cloud, Splunk Enterprise Security, Tenable Vulnerability Management, Cycognito Attack Surface Management, and ExtraHop.- Configured custom Splunk Add-ons for creating new sourcetypes and field extractions for different types of log files and sources of data.- Onboarded security tool alerts to Splunk Enterprise Security from data ingestion, normalization using CIM and datamodels, correlation searches, and notable creations.- Automated ingested and pulling custom data to and from Splunk for use with various tool APIs using Python, Splunk HEC Inputs, and Splunk API.- Finished 20th of 77 teams at Boss of the SOC at .conf 2024 and in the top third of teams at .conf 2023.

- Developed python scripts to be executed within AWS Lambda Functions that automate remediation of vulnerable or non-compliant AWS assets and configurations.- Ingested data and ran search queries via the Humio API using python scripts.- Support complex Splunk dashboards displaying metrics about cloud providers for AWS, Azure, and GCP.- Create rapid prototypes for new product features using Splunk or Humio search queries and dashboards.

- Principal security engineer providing professional services to strategic customer accounts using RiskIQ’s Attack Surface Management product Digital Footprint.- Conduct open-source intelligence collections to identify and map out customer DNS infrastructure, IP addresses, 3rd party vendor services, and web applications.

- Lead Tenable architect for designing and implementing Tenable’s vulnerability management products to include Tenable SecurityCenter, Tenable.IO, agents, Nessus, and Nessus Network Monitor.- Responsible for vulnerability identification on one million United States Postal Service devices.- Created Splunk dashboards to provide tracking of vulnerability scanning metrics such as devices scanned, credentialed scans, firewall interference, and scan schedules.

- Leader of four teams comprised of 20 employees and contractors: Cyber Intelligence, DevOps, Vulnerability Management, and Penetration Testing.- Responsible for a budget of $2.4 million covering security vendors, consultants, hardware, and software.- Briefed the CEO and a Cargill Family & Board Member on our M&A assessments capability.- Established a customer centric service delivery model with a “Team of Teams” inspired operating model.- Created new cyber intelligence services to include assessments of potential Merger & Acquisitions, intelligence briefings, country assessments, requests for information, and a global event deliverable.- Implemented patch management as a first line defense for the first time in Cargill and worked with GlobalIT leaders to educate them on their roles and responsibilities.- Successfully brought a key outsourcing partner for vulnerability management into alignment with services outlined within the contract.- Created a DevOps Team and delivered a technology stack of security, automation, & orchestration, ticketing, and knowledge management to our Security Operations Center and Incident Response Team.- Planned and managed an annual budget, staffing, and vendors across all four teams.- Presented to cyber security leaders from other large organizations at an ICEX Accelerator on how to establish a cyber intelligence program.

- Team lead and manager of three team members providing Best Buy with the following capabilities; cyber intelligence, cyber hunt, honeypots, DNS sinkhole, and research.- Responsible for a budget of $650,000 covering intelligence providers, threat intelligence platform, consultants, and team hardware/software. - Lead special projects of a sensitive nature as assigned and worked with EIP teams, Legal, HR, Customer Service, IT Teams, and vendors to meet the objectives of the projects.- Provided information, intelligence, and support to teams within EIP (Incident Response, Security Operations, and Application Security) and teams throughout Best Buy such as Corporate Fraud, Dot Com, Legal, HR, and Executives.- Helped plan and execute the two day Enterprise Information Protection (EIP) Summit to include selecting topics, preparing presentations, and presenting.

- Fiscally responsible for over $2 million of equipment.- Communicated and coordinated with air assets and adjacent units while reacting under high stress situations.- Monitored and managed the welfare, morale, and performance of 19 soldiers while deployed. - Trained soldiers how to use encryption radios, GPS, vehicle computer communication systems.- Analyzed roadside bomb creation techniques and implemented tactics to find them. - Experienced at counter electric warfare and utilization of radio wave jamming devices. - Top Platoon for finding roadside bombs in the Battalion of 800 soldiers.- Awarded two Army Commendation Medals, Bronze Star Medal, Purple Heart, and Combat Infantry Badge.