Ryan Dickson Email & Phone Number

Mountain View, CA, US

• Led two monthly working groups comprised of 80+ participants from federal agencies and commercial providers focused on Federal PKI policy management, governance, and technical interoperability.
• Developed web content, briefings, and other technical guidance communications to promote awareness regarding high-risk / high-value discussions and technology changes affecting Federal Identity, Credential, and Access.
• Supported the planning, coordination, and execution of the Federal Public Trust Transport Layer Security (TLS) PKI deployment.
• Oversaw staff planning, forecasting, client deliverable development, and quality assurance for a GSA time and materials contract valued at approximately $3M/year.
• Facilitated collaboration across the General Services Administration (GSA) and Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) Federal Network Resilience teams to prepare federal agencies for the FY21 Federal.

• Led team of five staff in designing, deploying, and maintaining a custom PKI solution consisting of five subordinate certification authorities (CAs) on the secret fabric for 11 Federal customer agencies.
• Designed, documented, and tested over one hundred and fifty system change requests (CRs) to enhance a custom Red Hat Certificate System (RHCS), Red Hat Directory Server (RHDS), and GOTS-based PKI solution utilized to.
• Evaluated and supported integration planning of “second source” smart card vendor technologies for the National Security Systems (NSS) PKI in an effort to increase competition to reduce costs and improve reliability.
• Developed Selenium-based automated regression testing suite, in conjunction with manual evaluation processes, to ensure release of consistently high-quality deliverables for CSP CR installations and to ensure positive.
• Architected innovative, next generation NSS PKI solution “CAMELEON” to support highly flexible certificate issuance in an effort to maximize CSP PA PKI enablement while minimizing development efforts.
• Facilitated preparation of and response to CSP PKI architecture-wide vulnerability assessment & DoD STIG compliance review performed by Sandia National Laboratories.

Mclean, VA, US

• DoD PKI Program Management Office Engineering & Training Team Nov. 2012 - Present
• Supported DoD client as a lead technical trainer, Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) engineer, and policy subject matter expert.
• Independently authored multiple PKI and Public Key Enablement (PKE) white-papers, which enhanced client capabilities and drove efficiencies focused at the issuance of PKI certificates across the Department of Defense.
• Conducted over forty PKI training facilitations to stakeholders from a variety of DoD and Federal Agencies focused on PKI certificate issuance and management, maintaining an average training evaluation above the 99th.
• Led the implementation of National Security Systems (NSS) SIPRNet Hardware token technology at multiple Army base locations across the United States, in addition to providing dedicated on-site support at international.
• Authored three technical deliverables and two guidance documents that offered Army client increased efficiency and situational awareness of the NSS PKI technology. Operation Sentinel – BAH Smart Card Project Aug. 2011.

TEDxPSU was an independently sponsored TED conference (http://www.TED.com). This day-long event brought together innovative and thought-provoking individuals from across the globe to listen and share fascinating ideas worth spreading to an audience of over 1,100 people. In addition to the live audience sitting in Penn State University’s Schwab Auditorium.

Valley Forge, PA, US

Interested in bolstering his business skills after spending the previous three summers working in technical roles, Mr. Dickson joined the Planning and Development Team as a Marketing and Communications Team intern during the summer of 2009. He quickly put his strong IT background to use by identifying and proposing solution to a process inefficiency in one.

Mr. Dickson has a passion for volunteering and was incredibly active in Penn State’s IFC/Panhellenic Dance Marathon, more affectionately known as “THON”. THON is a completely student managed philanthropy that raises money for The Four Diamonds Fund (raising nearly 80 million dollars since 1978), based out of Penn State’s Hershey Medical Center. The Four.

Valley Forge, PA, US

In 2008, Mr. Dickson worked in the Projects Office of the Technology Operations Department. His primary role served as assisting the day-to-day operations of the Virtualization Project Team, but Mr. Dickson quickly became interested the positive environmental impact of the “green” technology his team was working to install. By the end of the summer, Mr..

Valley Forge, PA, US

In 2007, Mr. Dickson joined the Desktop Support Services Team of the Technology Operations Department. His primary role served as managing, documenting, and auditing technology for over 750 clients. During his time in this role, Mr. Dickson learned valuable troubleshooting techniques for a variety of hardware and software configurations.

Mr. Dickson spent the summer of 2006 working in Bristol-Myers Squibb’s primary global datacenter as a member of the Enterprise Systems Operations– PSS Netbackup Team. While on this team, Mr. Dickson re-constructed the Global Enterprise Operations Center Operations Manual, a document used for compliance and auditing of internal backup processes. Mr. Dickson.

Information Sciences And Technology, Information Technology, Information Security, Risk Analysis, And Labor Employment Relations

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.)

Master’S Degree, Cybersecurity

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