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Herndon, Va

Provide engineering expertise over the complete security technologies opportunity lifecycle, from pre-sales to implementation and services.Evaluate security architecture and security controls to identify gaps, in order to strengthen a customers overall security posture.

Fairfax, Va

-Principal* Founded Infinity System Design and established a business and marketing plan to address operational improvements for new and growing small business needs.* Applied a systems engineering approach to small businesses, allowing them to streamline their estimation/proposal process by developing user-friendly applications and establishing a repeatable and consistent processes.

Baja California, Mexico

-Team Lead* Engineered a prototype tracking, safety, and social networking device used for the SCORE race organization.* Implemented an Open-Source GPS Tracking System (OpenGTS) framework to support tracking and course geofencing.* Coordinated and managed logistics to establish a turn-key-package deal for building an off-road race team that allowed for a safe and successful completion of each race.* Worked hand-in-hand with companies to raise over $50k of sponsorship by promoting small business development and advertisement.

Mclean, Va

-Shift Lead, Information Security Analyst* A core team member that assisted with the founding of the Capital One McLean Security Intelligence Center and, as shift lead, established core day-to-day processes and procedures for escalating and remediating security incidents.* Conducted in-depth tours for senior leadership, board members, and elected officials, showcasing the innovative capabilities of the facility and tools in use by a well established team of analysts.* Proficient knowledge of technical processes and tools, including intrusion detection/prevention systems (IDS/IPS), vulnerability scanners, alert management, and data loss prevention (DLP), implementing workflows to expand alerting response, data analysis, and incident handling capabilities.* Performed deep dive analysis of suspicious network traffic to determine intent and identify possible vulnerabilities.* Developed and implemented highly effective scripts that reduced DLP analysis time by 90%.* Investigated security violations and abnormal data to identify issues and emerging threats that require new security measures or policy changes.* Deployed an enterprise Splunk environment to improve operational intelligence across the corporate network, while assisting developers with requirement development, testing, and implementation of an in-house ELK stack replacement.* Continuous research of cyber security advances to help derive new policies, procedures, and standards that keep the enterprise, associates, and customers secure.

Fairfax, Va

-Technical Lead, Test and Evaluation Management Network (TEMnet) - (6/12 to 9/13)* Designed and implemented a test and video management network used to evaluate the functionality, reliability, and user interface of TSA’s airport security equipment, delivering a Statement of Work (SOW), Basis of Estimate (BOE) and Bill of Materials (BOM).* Re-architected computing environment to meet the customer’s system requirements, while reducing server count by 60%, increasing storage capacity by an order of magnitude, and reducing cost by over 50%.* Mapped the Common Process Framework to the DHS System Engineering Life Cycle (SELC), in order to maintain a Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) approach to an agile system development.* Successfully completed an oral presentation for the Critical Design Review and Initial Demonstration in May 2013.-Lead Systems Engineer, Common Display Systems (CDS) - (03/06 to 9/13)* Led 15-person Production Test Engineering Team on Navy’s CDS program to deliver over 300 systems.* Completed rapid prototype development, benchmarking, and hardware evaluation and selection, producing a ruggedized and powerful common processing center.* Trained and presented an oral proposal for the re-compete of the CDS production contract as the Program Technical Lead.* Identified and implemented system design improvements resulting in cost savings of $300k.* Implemented process improvements for the production systems, which reduced the pre- and post-test time by over 60 percent, saving 10 man hours/unit resulting in $15k/unit in cost savings.-Lead Performance Verification Test Engineer, Acoustic Rapid COTS Insertion (ARCI) - (10/03 to 05/06)* Led system performance verification testing for the Navy’s ARCI submarine program with contract value of $120M and a team of 20 engineers.* Developed and tested object oriented sonar tracking code to deliver system baselines to the customer.

Dahlgren, Va

-Hardware Test Engineer* Performed failure and trend analysis tests for the evaluation of data storage media.* Improved testing efficiency and process to double the output of certified magnetic tape data cartridges per year.* Summer intern: 2001 and 2002.