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Falls Church, VA, US

• Act as the Cyber liaison between Northrop Grumman Engineers, USSTRATCOM Product Owners and tertiary parties when dealing with cybersecurity topics supporting nuclear command control and communication (NC3) systems.
• Facilitates and leads weekly Information Assurance meetings between engineers, product owners, and the customer in regards to configuration and vulnerability management, processes, procedures and policy creation, and.
• Establish, implement, and maintain a secure system baseline using current DoD Information Assurance policies to assure system reliability and accessibility.
• Conduct continuous analysis of information systems using weekly Log and System Audits.
• Create and maintain a secure Continuous Integration /Continuous Development (CI/CD) pipeline that generates vulnerability metrics.
• Quarterly review and refresh of Application Security Development (ASD) STIG with USSTRATCOM NC3 cyber personnel.

Falls Church, VA, US

• Performed duties commonly associated with system administration to include resource and user management, O/S installation, STIG configuration, patching.
• Coordinated cybersecurity system posture with Information Systems Security Officer.
• Completed validation of system security posture ahead of Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DCSA) inspection – garnered Authority to Operate o Reviewed and applied NIST SP 800-53 security controls to certify the.
• Create and maintain a virtualized environment that supports 100+ active developers.
• Implement and maintain Windows and Linux Servers to strict DoD Information Assurance Policy’s through the use of STIGS.
• Developed and maintain a continuous auditing log server to ensure system reliability, compliance, and security.

Falls Church, VA, US

• Performed technical planning, system integration, risk and support analysis for NC3 systems.
• Worked alongside Software Engineers within an AGILE environment.
• Contributed to the creation and maintained support of an Oracle and Apache web applications.
• Participated in weekly sync ups with upper-level developers.
• Successfully supported generating System Security Plan for the Information System and following the accreditation of the Information System by DCSA.

Performed duties associated with Level 1 Specialist Jobs at multiple school locations, this includes but not limited to: imaging computers, managing networks, troubleshooting problems, resolving issues, installation of physical systems/infrastructure/Wi-Fi access points and experience with ticketing systems (Papillion School proprietary ticketing system.

Master Of Science - Ms, Computer And Information Systems Security/Information Assurance

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Cyber Security