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Augusta, Ga, Us

Augusta, Ga, Us

Develops content to include testing, exercising, and instruction materials for the Future Operator Readiness, Growth & Enrichment (FORGE 101) technical online course that trains on skills and methodologies associated with offensive and defensive cyber operator work roles.Works collaboratively as part of a multidisciplinary team of instructors, instructional designers, multimedia designers, testing specialists, programmers, and infrastructure support to research, develop, and refine technical, engaging, hands-on training solutions in a virtualized environment to simulate real-world scenarios and other customer-driven requirementsBuilds virtualized networks and machines for exercise and examination purposes using VMWare.

Fort Gordon

Principal advisor to Director of the Cybersecurity Directorate, Georgia.Coordinates across multiple organizations to manage the manpower and training requirements for over 150 cyber-specialized personnel, enabling the execution of cyber operations to prevent and eradicate threats to U.S. National Security Systems

Baltimore, Maryland, United States

Led 400+ personnel team executing Cyberspace and Signals Intelligence Operations.

Baltimore, Maryland, United States

Project manager overseeing training curriculum and training standards for 1,000+ personnel annually.

Baltimore, Maryland, United States

Led over 110 personnel conducting Computer Network Exploitation operations.Performed network analysis in order to identify and assess vulnerabilities to enable and conduct Computer Network Exploitation operationsPerformed malicious software analysis to determine function and persistence

Baltimore, Maryland, United States

Led 22 personnel in developing offensive cyber capabilities supporting U.S. Navy projects.Project Officer for a 10 million dollar cyber capability, executing a $187k budget.Principle technical U.s. Navy representative for 2 Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency project proposal reviews on emerging cyber-warfare technologies.

Team/Tech Lead - led personnel in conducting computer network operations against DoD information systems to identify critical vulnerability and bad practices; developed countermeasures and mitigation strategies to increase customer's security posture against future attacks.Led Red Team boot camp training for 30 personnel; trained staff in new technologies, enumeration, and exploitation techniques, security tools, and penetration testing methodology; identified and resolved information security issues through open-source research, exploitation, escalation, and long-term analysis.Administered training and oral qualification boards for Apprentice analysts; trained on software and hardware analysis to identify risks to network security; reduced qualification time while increasing technical proficiency for new employees.Conducted computer network operations to support global security risk mitigation; analyzed digital network and intelligence data to provide timely technical solutions; provided risk management, network navigation, forensic analysis, and intelligence information collection.

Supervised 5 personnel in the installation, deployment, and maintenance of over 2,600 Windows and Unix network systems. Provided Active Directory and technical network services support for over 2,000 customers.

Performed in-depth network analysis and target research, including protocol and network topology analysis. Correlated and proofed extensive amounts of data while building network maps on targets of interest for national level customers. Trained personnel on analysis tools and techniques.