PenCrimson is a premier cybersecurity consulting and training firm, distinguished by decades of expertise in delivering cutting-edge solutions for both commercial and government clients.With a specialized background in addressing advanced threats that carry national security implications, we approach every challenge with meticulous attention to detail, fully recognizing the critical nature of our clients' data and systems.Our clientele spans a broad spectrum, from small and mid-sized enterprises to complex multi-domain government and corporate entities. We take pride in tailoring our services to meet the specific needs of each client.Our highly regarded training programs equip participants with the skills and knowledge to identify, mitigate, and defend against cyber threats. We prepare students to become respected professionals in the cybersecurity field.At PenCrimson, we employ state-of-the-art proprietary security protocols and methodologies, designed to safeguard your organization from evolving threats—past, present, and future.Additionally, Our company specializes in sourcing industrial properties for government clients, facilitating seamless rental agreements, and providing ongoing property management. We ensure that each property meets the government's operational requirements and compliance standards, offering end-to-end support from acquisition to maintenance for efficient, long-term use.Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business (SDVOSB)

As the Founder and CEO of my private Family Office, I oversee the strategic management and growth of a diversified portfolio across multiple asset classes, including real estate, syndications, equities (public and private markets), credit, notes, bonds, and secured debt instruments. Leveraging my status as an accredited investor, I actively pursue high-reward, high-risk investment opportunities, predominantly within the American markets, while maintaining a smaller allocation to international investments to ensure balanced diversification.Key Responsibilities:Portfolio Management: Develop and execute comprehensive investment strategies tailored to optimize portfolio performance, ensuring alignment with risk tolerance, financial goals, and market opportunities.Asset Allocation: Manage and adjust the allocation of investments across asset classes to maximize returns and mitigate risks, focusing primarily on U.S. markets.Market Analysis: Continuously monitor financial markets and economic trends to identify and capitalize on investment opportunities in real estate, private equity, and public securities.Wealth Growth Strategy: Design and implement strategies aimed at growing net worth, leveraging expertise in secured debt, syndications, and other innovative financial vehicles.Performance Monitoring: Track the performance of investments through advanced financial modeling and analytics, ensuring alignment with short- and long-term objectives.Strategic Planning: Lead the creation of a comprehensive estate and portfolio plan that balances growth, liquidity, and legacy considerations.Skills and Qualifications:Financial Acumen: Expertise in managing and analyzing a broad range of investment instruments, including equities, real estate, and secured debt.Accredited Investor: Qualified to engage in high-value investment opportunities requiring accreditation.

Financial Analyst: Led the creation of proformas to assess the feasibility and profitability of acquisitions, collaborating closely with ODAN Capital's Finance team on deal-related due diligence and asset underwriting. This role involved identifying CapEx requirements specific to acquisitions, conducting detailed scope of work analysis, enhancing ODAN Capital's understanding of surrounding markets, and comparing market data with insights gathered by the Deal Team. Additionally, performed in-depth analyses of submarkets where ODAN Capital operates, focusing on land sale/rental comparables, competitor analysis, acquisition opportunities, and city and property-related due diligence.Transaction Coordinator: Oversaw the smooth and efficient execution of ODAN Capital’s acquisitions and dispositions of commercial and industrial real estate assets. Managed lease and supported the maintenance of ODAN Capital’s portfolio.Director of Deal Team: Spearheaded the creation and management of a team responsible for utilizing various systems and techniques to acquire off-market deals aligned with the firm's investment strategy.Director of Joint Venture/Brokerage: Established a team and framework for generating off-market deals for brokerage transactions. Achieved significant result with the joint venture generating over $50 million in off-market brokerage offers and deals.Asset Analyst: Worked in close collaboration with ODAN Capital’s Finance, Accounting, and Property Management teams to optimize the operational performance of assets, focusing on leasing performance, refinancing, disposition timing, and monthly distributions.Key Achievements: Played a pivotal role in transforming a startup into a successful real estate investment firm with $100 million in assets under management (AUM) within the first year. Contributed to producing over $100 million in off-market deals and securing $200 million from investment groups for limited partnership/joint venture deals.

Surveillance Operator: Experienced in counterintelligence oversight during the construction of USEmbassies and Consulates to ICD-705 Standards.• Compliance Officer: Observed all construction, ensured that work being conducted was correct and inaccordance with Construction security plans (CSP)/ (Division 1) in order to prevent the compromise ofprojects.• Surveillance Detection: Responsible for TSMC via utilizing technical/security devices,Counterintelligence, SIGINT, RF/signal, telephony, network analysis and electronics intelligence andHUMINT to protect Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility (SCIF) and identify soft and hardtargets. Experience with telephony systems to include PSTN, PBS installation and maintenance, andVOIP for US Embassies during construction.• Material Inspector: Provided Quality Control Inspection support for a maintenance support mission.Analyzed appropriate internal/external data and information, which led to improved maintenanceoperations.• Security Team Manager: Developed SOP for Construction security personnel, CSP, training personnel,scheduling and maintaining all DOS required standards, equipment and documents for project.• Site Inspector: Ensure all materials, personnel, packages, vehicles entering the compound wereinspected and followed by Division 1 and CSP. Lastly, preparing for accreditation of SCIF’s.• Duty Security Manager/Instructor: Maintain and control access points, classified material, propertyprotection, supervisor and instructor with local guard force and security forces on OBO site compound.Deployed Department of State and Interagency Training Center security standards and procedures toprotect national security information.

Inspector: Conducted physical security inspections, surveys and vulnerability assessments, serve as technical authority for implementing physical security measures.
• Emergency POC: Prepared documents for accreditation and operation of areas, assist with planning, development and implementation of Emergency Management Plans, assist in operating and implementing to Continuity of Operations (COOP) Plan.• SCIF POC: Reviewed floor plans and diagrams for compliance with Intelligence Community Director (ICD), assist with writing/revising Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) and Emergency Action Plans and assist with the coordination with alarm and access control installation and all associated tasking’s.• Construction SCIF Advisor: Performed proficient working knowledge of ICD-705, demonstrated working knowledge of SCIF construction, including mechanical and electrical, general building construction, conducted and developed comprehensive risk profiles with strong oral and written communication skills and strong time-management skills.• Personnel Security –Recording, accessing and maintain all personnel, whether government or contractors, within JPAS, Scattered Castles and Phoenix.

Construction Security Team Leader/Cleared American Guard, DECO Security Services and NVE Inc— March 4, 2013 to May 23, 2019, OBO Project Netherlands, The Hague / Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan / Islamabad, Pakistan/ Niamey, Niger / Suriname, Paramaribo / Israel, Tel Aviv & Jerusalem / Paraguay, Asuncion / Australia NT (AECOM* SDO- Joint Defense Facility Pine Gap) Inspector: Experienced in ICD-705 Standards compliance. • Compliance Officer: Observed all construction, ensured that work being conducted was correct and inaccordance with Construction security plans (CSP)/ (Division 1) in order to prevent the compromise ofprojects.• Surveillance Detection: Responsible for TSMC via utilizing technical/security devices,Counterintelligence, SIGINT, RF/signal, telephony, network analysis and electronics intelligence andHUMINT to protect Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility (SCIF) and identify soft and hardtargets. Experience with telephony systems to include PSTN, PBS installation and maintenance, andVOIP for US Embassies during construction.• Material Inspector: Provided Quality Control Inspection support for a maintenance support mission.Analyzed appropriate internal/external data and information, which led to improved maintenanceoperations.• Security Team Manager: Developed SOP for Construction security personnel, CSP, training personnel,scheduling and maintaining all DOS required standards, equipment and documents for project.• Site Inspector: Ensure all materials, personnel, packages, vehicles entering the compound wereinspected and followed by Division 1 and CSP. Lastly, preparing for accreditation of SCIF’s.• Duty Security Manager/Instructor: Maintain and control access points, classified material, propertyprotection, supervisor and instructor with local guard force and security forces on OBO site compound.Deployed Department of State and Interagency Training Center security standards and procedures toprotect national security information.

Construction Security Team Leader/Cleared American Guard, DECO Security Services and NVE Inc— March 4, 2013 to May 23, 2019, OBO Project Netherlands, The Hague / Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan / Islamabad, Pakistan/ Niamey, Niger / Suriname, Paramaribo / Israel, Tel Aviv & Jerusalem / Paraguay, Asuncion / Australia NT (AECOM* SDO- Joint Defense Facility Pine Gap) ¥ Surveillance Operator: Experienced in counterintelligence oversight during the construction of US Embassies and Consulates. ¥ Compliance Officer: Observed all construction, ensured that work being conducted was correct and in accordance with Construction security plans (CSP)/ (Division 1) in order to prevent the compromise of projects. Inspector: Experienced in ICD-705 Standards compliance. ¥ Surveillance Detection: Responsible for utilizing technical/security devices, Counterintelligence, SIGINT and HUMINT to protect Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility (SCIF) and identify soft and hard targets.¥ Material Inspector: Provided Quality Control Inspection support for a maintenance support mission. Analyzed appropriate internal/external data and information, which led to improved maintenance operations. ¥ Security Team Manager: Developed SOP for Construction security personnel, CSP, managed personnel, scheduling and maintain all DOS required standards, equipment and documents for project. ¥ Site Inspector: Ensure all materials, personnel, packages, vehicles entering compound were inspected and followed Division 1 and CSP. ¥ Duty Security Guard: Maintain and control access points, classified material, property protection and supervisor control with local guard force and security forces on OBO site compound.

U.S. Embassies in Bridgetown, Barbados, Bangkok, Thailand, and Brasilia, Brazil. ¥ National Level Security Experience: Composed tactical plans to provide armed internal security for DOS Diplomatic Missions and safeguarded the classified material and citizens per ICD 705.¥ Emergency Action Plan Officer: Composed emergency action plans for US embassies. Including emergency situations for natural disasters, intruders, fires, bomb, chemical and biological threats. ¥ EAP Experience: Protected the Embassy and personnel in Bangkok throughout a protest of 2,500 people and a national state of emergency for 3 months. ¥ Tactical Specialist: Responsible for accountability of ammunition, weapons, tactical gear, emergency response plans, and assessing security concerns affecting the operational readiness of the mission. ¥ Training/Instructional Specialist: Training, instructing, teaching and collaborating with foreignnational investigators, local national police and contracting security guards to improve security.Conducted self-defense courses for over 300 civilians. Conducted weapon training for 60 Marines and30 Diplomatic Security Officers.¥ Operations Specialist: Developed, evaluated, maintained and innovated for operating systems, security systems, policies, operational plans, devices, procedures and methods used for safeguarding classified information, equipment, government property and personnel. Over 6000 hours as a Tactical and Surveillance Specialist.¥ Presidential Level Security Experience: Provided armed internal security for the President of the United States mission (POTUS) visit in Jakarta, Indonesia. ¥ Logistics Manager: Responsible for the managing and accounting of the government property, assets verification list property, and Department of State property. ¥ Financial Acumen: Executive controlling financial, administrative, fiscal budget, operational and leadership aspects of the mission. Managed the fiscal budget of $ 1,250,000.00

¥ Section Supervisor: Managed, tracked and inventoried all battalion equipment ranging from temporary base equipment, tents, HVAC systems, generators, communication gear, personal property and radar equipment. ¥ Safety Officer: Ensured warehouse compliance with USMC and Base safety and environment regulations. Ensured Marines were utilizing proper safety equipment (PPE) and utilizing safety measure at all times. Controlled and safeguarded all hazardous material.¥ Order Executive: Ordered and tracked all inventory from Arlington, VA and Germany to Japan operating with STRATIS.¥ Leadership: Managed a team of 30 Marines, coached and mentored junior members ¥ Equipment Accountability: Maintaining accountability of all inventory issued to units in the Pacific region. Accountable for all warehouse supplies including overall customer satisfaction. ¥ Diverse Customer Base: Supported equipment for 4 different companies totaling in 300 Marines and over $3,000,000,000 worth of assets.¥ Customer Satisfaction: Implemented new procedures and systems for improving customer services.

¥ Combat Deployment: Served in Iraq (Operation Iraqi Freedom) with responsibility for convoy security, law and order and threat mitigation. ¥ Negotiations: Daily meeting with tribal elders and leadership, developing and maintaining positive interactions.¥ Environmental Awareness: Patrolled convoy routes for possible threats to include snipers, improvised explosive devices and terrorist activities.

¥ Security Cage Manager: Inventory and responsible for all security cage equipment containing high valued and sensitive inventory items.¥ Forklift operator: Primary forklift operator.¥ Bulk supervisor: Daily inventories of on hand storage of warehouse with over $30,000,000.00 worth of inventory.