Samuel B. Hewlett, Pmp, Cissp Email & Phone Number

Washington, District Of Columbia, US

Herndon, Virginia, US

• Serves as Deputy Program Manager in support of the USAID Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) and Chief Privacy Officer (CPO) to improve the cyber security posture and maturity of the agency.
• Responsibilities include the financial performance of the program and all staffing activities.
• Direct and manage program tasks involving multiple, complex and interrelated cyber security functions.
• Responsible for managing a multi-disciplined team of 26 Cyber Security professionals supporting the CISO and CPO in the areas of Security Engineering and Architecture, eDiscovery and Forensics, Incident Response.
• Develops and presents weekly and monthly program and project status reports to corporate and customer senior management including the USAID CISO and CPO as well as corporate Directors, Vice Presidents and the CEO.
• Conducts regular team meetings to discuss program status with team leads to ensure customer satisfaction.

• Provided program management support to the End User Systems (EUS) Division at the Department of Interior.
• Evaluated the EUS Division project management maturity level using the PMI’s Project Management Maturity Model (PMMM).
• Improved the quality of the project management practices by working with EUS Project Managers to standardize project management methodologies based on PMI concepts.
• Worked with project managers to generate project plans and other project documents.
• Monitored project progress based on the project plans and took corrective actions when needed.
• Provided weekly status of multiple EUS projects to the project team and EUS management.

Columbia, Maryland, US

• Served as Defense Intelligence Managing Director and Solutions for Information Technology Enterprise (SITE) Facilities Modernization Task Order (FMTO) Program Manager supporting multiple customer IT infrastructure.
• Successfully completed the initial start up of the program.
• Responsible for the management of all aspects of the $60M 5 year program with fixed, Time and Materials (T&M) and Other Direct Costs (ODC) pricing components utilizing a multi-disciplined team of up to 60 including.
• Staffing responsibilities included hiring personnel, conducting performance reviews and providing mentoring and career guidance.
• Program responsibilities included formulating program budgets, creating program and project plans, managing the execution of the FMTO program and associated projects.
• Developed and presented various program and project financial reports to corporate executive management and senior customer management.

Falls Church, Virginia, US

• Senior Project Mgr 9/2007 –9/2011
• Supported customer IT infrastructure projects.
• Responsible for all aspects of IT project management including requirements development, project planning and budgeting, site surveys, schedule development and management, cost control analysis and management and.
• Coordinated the activities of implementation staff, managed stakeholder expectations.
• Received a letter of commendation from the Chief of Mission and Customer Engagement for PM work performed during the IT build out of a new facility that supports over 800 intelligence analysts and support staff..
• Participated in various phases of the proposal process including win theme development, technical proposal writing, technology solution development, proposal reviews as well as writing technical responses to Federal.

Falls Church, Virginia, US

• Served as the Operations Manager at the IRS Computer Security Incident Response Center (CSIRC). Responsible for the 24X7X365 operation of the IRS CSIRC with a staff of 32 cyber security analysts.
• Responsibilities included acquisition of new staff, developing staff training plans, reviewing staff. performance, allocating special tasks to staff and scheduling of staff to cover the 24X7X365 shifts
• Reported to senior government personnel on CSIRC operations, including the presentation of a daily morning cyber security status report for IRS senior staff and executives.
• Developed new processes such as a standardized shift change process to improve CSIRC operations.
• Managed the deployment of network security sensors into the nationwide IRS network infrastructure.

Falls Church, Virginia, US

• Senior Network Security Engineer
• Provided network security engineering solutions to the US Patent and Trademark Office and the US Census Bureau.
• Managed and maintained 4 Check Point NG high availability firewall cluster pairs on Sun/Solaris platforms
• Planned, designed and implemented new external connections via the firewalls, and resolved firewall related user problems.
• Worked on the upgrade of the firewalls from version Check Point 4.1 to Check Point Next Generation (NG) with high availability.
• Supported the migration of the USPTO firewalls form the Sun/Solaris platform to the Crossbeam platform

• Solved and implemented highly complex and challenging network engineering problems.
• Integrated TCP/IP, SNA, and Novell IPX/SPX protocols, to co-exist on the same network interface card using NDIS and ODI drivers.
• Designed LAN/WAN solutions for deployment of custom designed hotel management software.
• Installed and configured Cabletron switches for LAN/WAN and remote access.
• Configured OS/2 SNA gateways to access an IBM mainframe via dial-up SDLC link to support IEF development
• Configured OS/2 workstations to access mainframe resources via SNA gateways using IBM Communications Manager/2 3270 emulation.

• Carried out a wide range of system engineering assignments related to sonar sensor simulators and LAN-based distributed signal processing systems.
• Participated on a task force to investigate and evaluate high hardware failure rates which improved circuit card reliability by identifying manufacturing process defects and successfully decreased module failure rates..
• Managed and trained technicians to perform test equipment maintenance and repairs with annual savings of $20,000.
• Performed circuit card, unit and system level hardware and software integration of a sonar sensor simulator with a networked distributed sonar signal processing system and conducted performance and environmental tests.
• Developed, evaluated, approved, and performed design certification test procedures for a sonar sensor simulator and sonar system, and developed hardware specifications for signal processor electronic modules.
• Designed electronic circuit cards (conceptual, logical, and physical design), and performed hardware simulation, debug, test, and integration.

Bsee, Cum Laude, Solid State Electronics, Digital Systems

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