• Provided the first-ever cybersecurity review of the county's SAP financial and human resources system, enabling the Auditor's Office to identify gaps in security processes.• Reviewed, updated, and at times re-wrote the security policies and guidelines for Auditor IT systems.• Rewrote the procedure to conduct IT audits and reviews for financial IT systems.• Updated and operationalized the objectives, risks, controls, and tests for IT audits within the department's audit management system.

• Supervised a team of 6 business analysts in maintaining the command’s business and functional requirements for three separate processes.• Provided functional management and the customer interface to two program of record information technology systems used to maintain Navy-wide manpower requirements and manpower optimization for all Navy ships and aircraft squadrons.• Led an effort to preserve a recently developed information system from early decommissioning in the midst of the Navy’s transformation of human resource systems, ensuring increased understanding of the system’s functionality throughout leadership which would provide complexities in using a commercial product for a Navy-unique task, allowing the enterprise to focus upon combining obsolete systems.• Served as the primary liaison between the command and the Bureau of Naval Personnel’s Information Technology department.• Established the first departmental training program, to cross-train employees in manpower information systems and functional management duties, removing single points of failure.

• Supervised a cybersecurity team of 13 in the operations and compliance for a network housing over 2 million service members’ personnel records.• Managed the administrators’ employment of McAfee’s ePolicy Orchestrator and Tenable Network Security’s SecurityCenter, and ensured that newly developed systems passed WebInspect and Fortify reviews.• Provided expert interpretation of the Defense Information Systems Agency’s Security Technical Implementation Guide (STIG), and led the command in making risk decisions.• Led the accreditation transition from the DIACAP program to the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s Risk Management Framework (RMF).• Authored the command’s first comprehensive cybersecurity instruction, providing a single spot to determine user and administrator responsibilities for all information systems.

• First Naval Officer to qualify as Command Cyber Readiness Inspection Team Lead with the Defense Information Systems Agency. Led over 30 audits on Navy enterprise and local networks, ensuring compliance with the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s Special Publication 800-53.• Coordinated and managed travel funding for thirty frequent travelers, to support a global mission.• Led coordination with outside agencies to schedule and plan over 40 audits.• Tracked the completion of 60 yearly employee evaluations, and personally supervised over 30 auditors.• Collected, audited, maintained, and interpreted data related to audits since 2011, ensuring that context is applied as senior leadership compared audit scores.• Created, led, and implemented the process to provide risk and vulnerability assignment between shipboard system administrators and the information system program manager, providing a clearer understanding of how the local cybersecurity efforts impact the ship's information system and how much of the score responsibility is assignable to the program of record actions beyond the ship's control.

• Provided professional and expert consultation to the Afghanistan Ministry of Interior Director of Information and Communications Technology and his staff.• Assisted in the transition of the Afghan National Police Microwave Network from coalition control to local control, ensuring a seamless hand-off of a network that connected provincial police headquarters.• Recommended solutions to interoperability problems between the Kabul Harris P25 Trunked Radio Network and the developing MotoTrbo national radio network.• Coordinated frequency management between the Ministry of Interior, Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, and coalition frequency managers.• Served as the Information & Communications Technology (ICT) Directorate's SharePoint editor, providing information management of all ICT material posted.• As an additional duty of the Chief of the Camp Eggers Fire Brigade, coordinated emergency communications between camp leadership and firefighters to de-conflict disaster response. Trained 17 volunteers in safe firefighting operations in a combat environment.

• Led an administrative staff of 6 in the administration of 60 students in a unique program combining on-the-job training and commercial Information Technology and Cybersecurity certifications. Ensured the awarding of over 200 certifications, providing the Navy with trained system administrators meeting DOD 8570 IT Level II requirements.• Supervised over 70 employees, ensuring all Navy standards were met.• Coordinated the emergent deployment of thirty individuals to install cybersecurity software on Navy Networks globally.

Represented the United States Navy in a quarterly program designed to acquaint warfighters with DARPA's research and development capabilities. Assisted in the MAINGATE radio network communications program. Conducted a social media crowd-sourced problem-solving exercise requiring players to work together to find the location of several QR codes throughout the country.

• Coordinated and directed radio and data communications for seven ships, ensuring interoperability to enable operations at sea.• As the Strike Group Information Systems Security Manager, provided oversight of patching and compliance of over 22 networks on 11 ships.• Directed communications for three ships and two shore sites in the Navy’s response to the 2010 Haiti Earthquake.• Led 11 ships in various communications exercises.• Prepared USS George HW Bush and accompanying ships’ communications teams for Middle East deployment.

• Led Operations, Planning, and Maintenance of the Department of Defense's only Iridium Gateway, providing service to over 17,000 subscribers in communications-challenged environments.• Provided leadership in an installation of two carrier-class telephone switches, a Simple Message Service Gateway replacement, and multiple power upgrades, while maintaining a 99.98% uptime for the Low-Earth-Orbiting satellite service.• Revitalized the requirement to build a berm between the Iridium downlink antennas and a new headquarters building to prevent radio frequency interference by presenting the issues to DISA executive management. Recognized by the Commander of DISA-Pacific with a Joint Service Achievement Medal.• Instituted the facility configuration management and configuration control board programs, reducing maintenance risks.

Ensured connectivity and casualty rapid response to the USPACOM portion of the Global Information Grid, providing network and phone coverage to US Military stationed in Japan, South Korea, and Guam.

• Managed the unit-level engineering, navigation, and combat systems training requirements of seven warships, tracking over 200 requirements to prepare approximately 2100 sailors for deployment. As the first person in this position, developed tracking spreadsheets to ensure the commander’s awareness of ship readiness.• As the Anti-terrorism training officer, trained a staff of twenty on individual and working group-level safety from terrorism, kidnapping, and other personally-targeted crime.• As a Staff Watch Officer, managed the operations and protection of seven warships at sea.

• Led 10 sailors in the maintenance and operations of the ship's air conditioning and water generating systems. Ensured the maintenance and repair of the ship's galley equipment.• As assistant to the Senior Watch Officer, single-handedly transitioned an error-prone and time intensive process to develop duty rosters into the Navy’s tool for tracking crew qualifications, ensuring that qualified personnel were assigned to duty stations, there was a path for qualifying new personnel, and allowing leadership to make informed risk decisions when manning qualifications did not support roster changes. • Qualified as an Officer of the Deck, Surface Warfare Officer, and Engineering Officer of the Watch.

• Led 17 sailors in the maintenance and operation of the ship's four gas turbine engines and associated shaft drive trains, and three gas turbine generators, ensuring availability of propulsion systems for operations.• Maintained 24/7 availability of the ship's propulsion and electrical generating equipment through a 6 month deployment in the Middle East.