Robert Amos Email & Phone Number

Greater Pittsburgh Area

• Travel to Production Sites (Globally) to conduct Assessments and Remediation Support
• Provide Cyber Threat Analysis and system hardening guidance for Industrial Control Systems
• Train site Information Security Managers on policy, procedures, best practices, developing mitigation techniques, system hardening requirements, etc.
• Use scanning tool and other cyber security tools and techniques to find critical vulnerabilities in the network infrastructure.
• Provide technical guidance on how to resolve and close out findings and measures that were identified during assessments of the sites critical infrastructure.

Moon Township, PA

• Established and implemented cyber security tools such as Log Rhythm, Cylance, Packetfence and Trend
• Investigated and Resolved Security Incidents and Alerts
• Worked with external auditors to resolve security risk
• Ran Nessus, reviewed results and responded and fixed findings
• Ran the latest patches and updates

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Greater Pittsburgh Area

• Established PNC’s Cyber Security Standards as well as utilizing tracking database called Troux for monitoring and maintaining various products and lifecycles.
• Coordinated RED TEAM activities for simulating and responding to attacks on PNC’s Infrastructure.
• Provided guidance and coordinated security approvals for the Cyber Security Operations Center (SOC).
• Attended Architect review board meetings where I presented Cyber Security Solutions to board members for consideration or approval.

• Develop, Coordinated, Reviewed, and Approved system security plans (MSSPs, Addendums, CONOPS, and SOP’s) in accordance to ICD 503, DCID 6/3, NISPOM, NIST, and FIPS according to the Information Security Standards and.
• Engineered state of the art technologies as well as implementing System Security Standards.
• Developed polices and regulations to address specific controls and operations.
• Traveled to remote locations on behalf of the customer to provide program security guidance for developing and engineering products.
• Other areas of operations involved Physical, Operational (OPS), Informational, Cyber, and COMSEC Security.
• Served as a Cyber Security Engineer developing network/system auditing capabilities.

Chantilly, VA

• Provide Information Security, Cyber, and Engineering support and solutions in the development of Information Technologies from the beginning of its Life Cycle to the end.
• Helped co-write the Agencies Certification and Accreditation (C&A).
• Developed disaster recovery procedures, programs, manuals and preformed ITDR exercises.
• Worked with Host Based Security Systems (HBSS) to monitor against cyber threats and attacks.
• Expert in Hardening all Technologies.
• Identify internal and external threats to the operational environment and establish policies and procedures to mitigate the risk of potential cyber threats such as advanced hacking and eavesdropping technologies.

Reston, VA

• Senior advisor to Enterprise and Industrial government officials and to over 1500 industrial contracting companies on the Certification and Accreditation (C&A) process throughout the United States.
• Developed new and modified existing policies and procedures in order to adapt to the demand and advancement of new technologies, eliminating threats by establishing a secure infrastructure that is cost efficient.
• Traveled, inspected, audited, evaluated, provided information and cyber security guidance and review for over 1500 industrial sites pertaining to their MSSP’s, Addendums, CONOPS, and SOPs.
• Monitored Intelligence threats CONUS and OCONUS to determine the outcome of Operational Readiness.

Herndon, VA

• Lead Information Security Specialist responsible for security engineering architecture designing and deploying a secure, global communications infrastructure that allows government agencies to Communicate and.
• Provided security network and application platforms to leverage the best of Industrial (GOTS) and Commercial (COTS) solutions to create a security engineering environment that is technically feasible, secure.
• Utilized Intrusion Detection and Prevention Technologies for alerting and responding to insider and outsider attacks.
• Participated in Cyber Security Working Groups, CERT Operations, and RED TEAMS training exercises to simulate real time attacks and how employees would respond.

Chantilly, VA

• Managed 64 employees: conducted meetings, training, labor charging audits and approvals.
• Responsible for network-engineering, infrastructure designing, and deploying of secure global communications between Intelligence Community, Industrial Partners, Foreign Assets, and Allies.
• Developed, and Wrote Operational Polices, Procedures, and Regulations for Enterprise, Industrial, and Field Operations.

Herndon, VA

• Managed Network Operations
• Created isolated testbeds to test and evaluate new products by testing compatibility as well as simulating malicious attacks.
• Generated administrator and general user permissions by granting access controls to files and folders based on the need-to-know.

Baltimore, Maryland Area

• Maintained network day-to-day operations, outages, restores from backups, upgrades, and compliancy issues.
• Helped to ensure Y2K compatibility
• Handled Security Incidents and Violations

Norfolk, Virginia Area

• Served with the coalition forces during Operations Desert Storm and Shield as a Veteran of the Persian Gulf War.
• Provided communications and COMSEC between the US and Allied Forces
• Served in Operation Enduring Freedom, Operation Southern Watch, and Operation No Fly-Zone as part of the US and Allied coalition in the Global War on Terrorism.
• Served as the Communications and COMSEC Officer for US joint force training exercises and operations between the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marines.