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Oklahoma City, OK, US

Kirkland, WA, US

Seattle, WA, US

Arlington, Virginia, US

Seattle, WA, US

Seattle, WA, US

Boston, MA, US

Boston, MA, US

• Led organization’s sensor engineering efforts. Proposed development road map for adding new capabilities and system changes. Revamped project task format; ensuring team is on track to meet engineering goals and.
• Conceived and executed automated infrastructure redesign from Puppet to Saltstack. Reduced operational footprint by 80% while increasing sensor configuration variations and allowing for reliable and concise sensor.
• Architected and implemented replacement of signature matching technology for organization’s sensor infrastructure consisting of over more than 500 sensors. The replacement increased detection capabilities, provided.
• Designed custom metric reporting framework for sensor infrastructure to deliver custom metrics on sensor performance and advanced indicators of potential issues. These metrics are then utilized within Splunk to build.
• Instituted sensor ecosystem’s change management forum to communicate modifications going into the environment to help deduplicate concurrent outages and ensuring scheduled changes do not impact current operations. Zero.

Cincinnati, Ohio, US

• Performed solution requirement gathering, design, implementation and documentation for new features and sensor performance improvements
• Created backup sensor signature distribution solution as a redundant process to update sensor signatures in the event that the primary system falls behind to ensure IDS signatures are being updated within 90 minutes.
• Implemented automated sensor patching cycle, performing group updates on a weekly basis to ensure systems are fully patched and protected against new software vulnerabilities
• Introduced IDS configuration changes and updates to reduce packet drop percentage from 10% down to 3.4%
• Increased leadership insight into sensor performance by developing reporting metrics and content to provide near real time information on sensor critical process up time, throughput, drop percentage and availability of.

• Conducted CSOC IDS monitoring operations for the DOD Agency enterprise to include validation of IDS alerts and coordinated of remediation efforts to eradicate threats.
• Identified discrepancy of internal DNS collection capabilities and developed custom scripts to collect, parse, and forward DNS events to ArcSight and Splunk.
• Technical expert responsible for identifying discrepancies with configuration of IDS technologies including Snort, BRO, ArcSight and Splunk and sensor placement.
• Deployed, configured and customized Splunk installation with event feeds, dashboards, reports and alerts.

• Technical lead for integration and configuration of open source tools to recap IDS technologies. Provided analysis of real-time traffic and resilient full PCAP collection with archival capabilities. Created centralized.
• Gained control of an Intrusion Detection System replacement project, eight months behind schedule and delivered operational capability within 6 weeks.
• Introduced technologies and procedures for rapid deployment and replacement of sensor technologies from initiation to operations down from four to six months to under an hour.
• Introduced reutilization of legacy software for current operation systems saving $250k/yr in support costs.
• Built a custom signature management toolkit to enable per sensor customization that persists through repeated signature and software updates; no longer requiring combing through thousands of rules to modify for a given.
• Created and implemented a server monitoring platform, using python scripts, to routinely check critical processes on over 200 sensors and provide near real-time notification of discrepancies for on-call personnel..

• Established and maintained organizational business continuity plan to include disaster recovery planning, exercise development, vulnerability/risk assessment and mitigation practices.
• Instituted and updated organization job qualification standards lifecycle which includes developing a training plan, references, and qualification methods.
• Managed organizational $300k/yr training and travel budget. Evaluated and scheduled commercial training classes, and managed employee compliance with training requirements to include DoD 8570.

• Fulfilled help desk responsibilities for Government messaging system including user account creation, user trouble tickets and Tier 1 administration of networking equipment.
• Developed new and automated process of tracking work center user account requirements and changing messaging needs.
• Performed business continuity operations including maintenance and replication of redundant systems.

• Team lead for administration and analysis of intelligence data collected to perform up short notice requirements to update signatures, maps, and flight logistic information to customers in the field.
• Authored customized Job Control Language (JCL) scripts to be utilized in the field on deployable mainframe equipment.
• As a technical subject matter expert, utilized organization’s configuration management process to implement, maintain and test approved changes for a deployable mainframe suite. Maintained, distributed, and replaced.

• Engineered, assembled and deployed unique custom system designed to provide mainframe and simulation capabilities in the field
• Composed shell scripts designed to provide an easy interface to perform basic administration tasks such as backup and restoration of system and mission data, deploying new software versions and initial setup and.
• Initiated systems Certification and Accreditation package through the DIACAP process.
• Setup individual logon solution to a unique environment of mixed operating systems by using Samba as the central logon authority.

Master Of Science (M.S.), Cyber Security

Bachelor'S Degree, Network Security

Associate'S Degree, Information Technology