Direct 70+ team members spanning 3 disparate geographic locations collaborating with GS-15 (Colonel-equivalent) government engineers to create solutions for complex / dynamic environments. Manage 10 direct reports including Software Engineering Leads, Network Infrastructure Leads, SCRUM Masters, and Product Owners. Collaborate with “Red Teams” (i.e., white hat hacker groups) to perform comprehensive penetration testing on systems of national security interest. Write, review, and explain technical documentation for 2 complex system-of-systems. Communicate with government personnel to align system into larger enterprise system-of-systems including contractors on various integration efforts in challenging and dynamic environment. Design and implement long-term strategic plans for future of complex cyber systems. Develop and mentor junior engineers into technical leads. Support business development via customer relationship building, project capture, and proposal writing.

Served as Subject Matter Expert (SME) for a Blue Space Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) platform utilizing advanced concepts of multiple engineering disciplines including networking, software, hardware, cloud, and virtualization. Supported teams with 8 to 12 members on average. Participated in cooperative technical exchange, planning, and design meetings to execute successful integration of standalone systems into enterprise system-of-systems. Maintained continuity of security posture, design principles, and redundancy requirements as system evolved to meet increasingly complex mission needs. Provided system engineering support for security operation center (SOC) system with unique requirements and constraints; SOC was deployed via automation technology which configured 2 racks of equipment in under 6 hours versus 2 weeks of manual installation.

Developed and deployed new features and maintained existing systems directing teams with 6 members on average. Collaborated with GS-14 (Lieutenant Colonel equivalent) engineers to develop acceptance criteria and descriptions of new features. Conceptualized and developed explanatory white papers targeted toward engineers specializing in various technical domains. Planned workflow of technical development in highly agile environment. Managed technical exchange meetings, reviewed shared APIs, and ensured allocation of commitments within capacity.

Developed software framework to ingest structure and unstructured data into a system of incongruent backend databases. Created APIs to search and perform CRUD operations for data within framework. Enhanced and maintained custom query language to generate intelligence from analytic work product primarily focused on identifying assets of interest.