Sherri Smith Email & Phone Number

WVOSB. Owner of a boutique consulting firm, specializing in investigative research, social media management, due diligence, and customized OSINT training.

ECS FEDERALTRAINING PROGRAM MANAGER / CAPTURE MANAGER 10/2018 – PRESENT• Identifies future opportunities to pursue, vet teaming partners, negotiate teaming agreements, and participates in technical writing as capture manager for the national security intelligence business unit. • Manage ECS employees responsible for end user support and training USAF, SOCOM, and DIA personnel. Tailors the training session to meet the requirements of the different end customers and unique missions.• Functions as Publicly Available Information (PAI) and Open Source Subject Matter Expert, training material developer and trainer.• Technical and project management support for ongoing efforts, providing analytical support relative to mission-critical solutions to SOF community.• Coordinate with vendors, tools, staffing, and facilities across multiple enclaves to create and maintain a successful schedule. • Spearheads research to ensure training material reflects most current operational methodologies and approaches.• Quality Control. Ensuring all training related material and services are top quality and meet customer requirements and expectations.• Strategy and Planning. Maintain program focus, review significant changes to POI., ensure all trainings are successfully staffed, and logistically sound• Assist other project managers with client relations by providing After Action Reports (AARs) and metrics for program monitoring. Assist in identifying gaps in the curriculum and updating training materials. Follows up with students after the training to provide feedback on questions.• Discover, test, and evaluate emerging PAI collection and analysis platforms for integration into Tool Kit• Collaborate with training staff to develop new methodologies and curriculum for PAI collection and analysis• Collaborate, adapt, and update our training curriculum to have the latest and most up to date tools, techniques, and policies

• Lead trainer for ECS’s PAI toolkit responsible for building training material, coordinating logistics for trainings worldwide, and training US forces and partnering nations • Served as lead instructor for Berber Hunter Tool Kit (BHTK) training courses. Taught overall SUNet core applications and PAI methodology and coordinated and integrated vendor tool-specific training. • Built and continue to grow training material applicable to mission critical problem sets• Train partner nations on PAI methodologies and aided in applying them to real time situations. Worked with translators • Assessed, designed, and developed interactive training content, student handouts, training aids, and practical exercises for all courses• Refined training curriculum frequently leveraging student feedback, interactions during training, and other subject-matter-experts to ensure content was abreast with industry updates and policy changes that affect the field• Liaison between end-users, program management teams, network and development teams, information assurance team, and vendors• Demonstrated Open Source subject matter expertise and practical experience in all aspects of PAI: basic and advanced social media analysis, searching surface and deep web content, search planning and digital/technical awareness, and the use of multiple PAI tools to support mission requirements.• Manage a two-week curriculum, and tailored the curriculum, modules, and practical exercises to meet the demands of a diverse group of analysts with different mission requirements, intelligence backgrounds, and experience levels in the field• Teach Tool Kit users OSINT tradecraft including digital OPSEC and Managed Attribution (MA) as well as how to collect, analyze, and exploit Publicly Available Information (PAI) from a wide range of sources• Work with SUNet engineers to ensure optimal performance of Tool Kit to provide the best user optimal experiences for all students

Ft Bragg, Nc

JOINT SPECIAL OPERATIONS COMMAND INTELLIGENCE BRIGADE – FT. BRAGG, NC Served as the lead trainer for a shop of 60+ intelligence analysts and linguists. Responsible for maintaining awareness of the latest PAI collection and exploitation techniques and technology in both private industry and the intelligence community.• Developed a streamlined training pipeline for a fully operational PAI analyst that has been reviewed by multiple PAI shops across the intelligence community, each with plans to adopt it.• Provided activities summaries and after-action reports on tools and training courses to facilitate lessons learned and develop standard operating procedures. • Served as a mentor to new members, ensuring effective understanding and implementation of operational directives and adaptive utilization of proper tradecraft and technology to accomplish the mission safely and successfully.• Assisted in developing cyber signature reduction tradecraft and procedures for incoming PAI analysts.• Ensure each analyst incorporates risk mitigation and signature reduction techniques into their daily workflow.• Responsible for assessing analysts’ competency and making recommendations on team placement and deployments.• Developed innovative approaches to analyzing PAI and intelligence material for course-ware instruction.• Provide, enroll, and maintain records of training for 60+ analysts.

Ft. Bragg,

JOINT SPECIAL OPERATIONS COMMAND INTELLIGENCE BRIGADE – FT. BRAGG, NC Served as the senior analyst of a team conducting investigative PAI research and social media analysis of multiple datasets in support of mission critical intelligence requirements.• Senior analyst of a team of 5 analysts and 2 linguists focusing on counter-terrorism in North Africa and the Arabian Peninsula.• Deployed for a total of 5 months in support of a special operations unit.• Leveraged multiple PAI tools to develop search planning and facilitated collection, analysis, processing and dissemination of formulated assessments in support of exercises and operations.• Continuously research, analyze, and corroborate all-source intelligence to fuse with PAI.• Responsibilities included providing daily and weekly intelligence products in support of requests for information, practical experience leveraging PAI tools, and mentoring junior analysts through their research and collection plans. • Conduct cyber risk assessments and incorporate mitigation procedures into research plans. • Specialized in online security and cyber signature reduction tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) for protecting an online footprint.• Proficient in PAI and network analysis tools including OpenIO, IntelTechniques, and Babelstreet.

Ft. Bragg, Nc

JOINT SPECIAL OPERATIONS COMMAND INTELLIGENCE BRIGADE – FT. BRAGG, NC SUPPORT TROOP INTELLIGENCE DATA ANALYST (10/2013-07/2014)Served in the data management support troop, integrating and databasing intelligence productions and information. • Read, sort, format, convert, analyze, and track massive amounts of data on a daily basis.• Test software programs and database systems prior to release in the shop.• Responsible for identifying and correcting erroneous data.

4TH OSS – SEYMOUR JOHNSON AFB, GOLDSBORO, NCALL-SOURCE INTELLIGENCE ANALYST

OPERATION ENDURING FREEDOM JOINT TASK FORCE – GUANTANAMO BAY, CUBAFUSION ANALYST / HOC Team (08/2011-02/2012)

455TH AIR EXPEDITIONARY WING, OPERATION ENDURING FREEDOM – BAGRAM AIR BASE, AFGHANISTANCOMBAT INTELLIGENCE CELL (CIC) ANALYST